peto (he/him)

Threaten in the sense that it competes with, and is built under a different economic system. Got the free market folk all ruffled because it isn’t playing the game the way they want it played.

It has it’s own limitations of course, and the full strength version isn’t quite ‘run at home’ but it is pretty close, and there are weaker versions that can even be run on an SBC (if slowly). It’s definitely in reach of the enthusiast though.

It’s also supposed to have some strong reasoning capabilities (haven’t tested myself yet) which is a big thing compared to your common or garden chat bots that at best sometimes know facts.

You have to use it a lot. From what I can tell that’s their problem, they priced unlimited access low based on some numbers they pulled out their arse and then were all shocked Pikachu face when people used it and unlimited amount.

I think the facists used to call it a Roman salute too. They tend to have something of a hard-on for Rome.

I sometimes suspect that the push for decimalisation was in part to avoid having to teach computers the old system.

Well, he’s clearly not talking about small people like say, me or you compared to Trump or Musk. And let me be clear, he is probably wrong about that as well. If Trump is anti-google that is likely nothing more than a negotiating position.

It’s probably just a language thing. When he says small people he means sub-mega corporations. Actual humans probably pass beneath his notice.

I don’t think you can really say that is true, they are kind of incomparable.

Fixed penalties just become the cost of doing business. Like actors, we need to start asking for percentage of gross.

Trouble is, “useful idiot” is a type of asset.

He has in the past had some good conversations with interesting individuals, but he is probably the most credulous person on the face of the earth since Joseph bought the line about the virgin birth.

He doesn’t just give no pushback, he believes whatever he is told as received wisdom. He’s the kind of guy that Ancient Aliens was targeted at. Unfortunately that has got him into the secret truths/fascist death spiral.

Don’t even need to wait that long if you listen to some of the high weirdness folk.

Sounds more like a Yu-Gi-Oh thing…

Unironically? Maybe not. But using something ironically is still using it.

Nah, you are thinking of owls.

Honestly I think a lot of what is held up as AI authored is just written by human hacks. It learned it’s bad writing by reading us.

Just don’t read The Mirror. Generally not worth the effort of moving your eyes from one word to the next.

A lot of it is follow the leader type bullshit. For companies in areas where AI is actually beneficial they have already been implementing it for years, quietly because it isn’t something new or exceptional. It is just the tool you use for solving certain problems.

Investors going to bubble though.

Yeah, you are right.

I think it’s the Ge’ez script used in Ethiopian.

If it isn’t on your shelves (or server) it isn’t your library, it’s someone else’s access.