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Arguing since birth. Urban planning, politics, weather, Drag Race, and photography are all fair game. Opinions are strictly my own—unless others agree. I assume that strings of emojis in people's bios are their washing instructions

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Yeah, because he's right.

07.03.2026 00:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you want to understand how the corporate media consciously manipulate the public, look no further than how under Biden they characterized job GAINS as a *liability* for him, and under Trump they characterize job LOSSES as "unexpected" with essentially no mention of Trump's role or policies

06.03.2026 22:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I knew working on suicide research was going to be heavy.

But what's actually starting to get to me is reading all of these chatbot suicide laws and legislative proposals that call for measures that have been shown to exacerbate crisis.

www.governor.ny.gov/sites/defaul...

05.03.2026 21:30 👍 75 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 3
When Raine shared his suicidal ideations with ChatGPT, the bot did issue multiple messages containing the suicide hotline number, according to his family’s lawsuit. But his parents said their son would easily bypass the warnings by supplying seemingly harmless reasons for his queries, including by pretending he was just “building a character.”

When Raine shared his suicidal ideations with ChatGPT, the bot did issue multiple messages containing the suicide hotline number, according to his family’s lawsuit. But his parents said their son would easily bypass the warnings by supplying seemingly harmless reasons for his queries, including by pretending he was just “building a character.”

If it did this unbidden or unencouraged, it would indeed be *very bad*

I will wait for more information though, since at least one previous instance involved stuff like the following, whereby the chatbot tried to steer the person a way from self harm, but they made multiple efforts to bypass

05.03.2026 05:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Which is precisely why we aren't going to beat them at that game

05.03.2026 03:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think that it's usually better to give people a framing that allows them to feel good. And, yes, we fundamentally want to appeal to people's sense of love, because if we're appealing to their sense of hate, we will absolutely lose.

05.03.2026 02:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He needs to win TX moderates and crossover Republicans, not please us seething coastal lefties on BlueSky

05.03.2026 02:12 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

It's a testament to Jewish humor that instead of breathless offense, most of us seem to be like, "We love how hilariously wrong this is and desperately want to be invited to this party."

04.03.2026 19:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"The young civilization of Earth has destroyed itself."

"Pity. Did AI cause them to launch their nuclear weapons?"

"No. Online betting."

04.03.2026 16:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump's war is crashing stock markets worldwide, here's why that's bad news for Joe Biden

04.03.2026 05:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are absolutely pitfalls and it's overhyped for sure, but the people who say it's just "improv comedy" or "fancy auto complete" have their heads in the sand

I honestly think they feel existentially threatened because their identity is thinking good and they don't like machines doing it

04.03.2026 04:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Talarico has a great opportunity to demand that all votes should be counted, that he supports Crockett getting every damn vote she should have got, and rallying everyone around election integrity and basic fairness

04.03.2026 03:44 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Y'all need to understand that this is what people are worried about when they sound the alarm on Trump and the midterms.

Chaos at heavily democratic polling places in red/purple states

You don't need to cancel an election to make it unfair

04.03.2026 03:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

To all you people who keep tut-tutting that "Trump can't cancel the midterms!" This is the sort of thing people are most worried about, not that every polling place in the US will be commandeered by a platoon of ICE goons

It doesn't take wholesale cancellation to make an election unfree/unfair

03.03.2026 22:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you like bussy? Well then you'll love Manus!

03.03.2026 17:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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According to multiple sources, miseria also translates to pittance, which is a synonym of this meaning of "peanuts"

03.03.2026 09:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Probably not an AI issue since this is technically a correct translation of a different meaning of the word "peanuts"

03.03.2026 08:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So, the reason for this is that it is interpreting "peanuts" here to mean a very small amount. Like "he gets paid peanuts for his translation work"

Arguably this should not be top result as it's a more esoteric use of the word "peanuts" but it's not strictly wrong

With more context:

03.03.2026 08:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

So it's like an insurance company?

03.03.2026 05:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

And just a further clarify when I say text prompt output, I don't mean the output of a text-based LLM, I mean the image output of a text prompt given to a generative image AI model

03.03.2026 04:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think what both of our points elucidate is that allowing for the copywriting of strict text prompt outputs would create a legal morass, and that the copyright office's approach, affirmed by SCOTUS, is actually the reasonable one

03.03.2026 04:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The most popular tools for local image generation actually embed the workflow in the image, making exact and undetectable duplication more likely

And the sort of production information one might include in a copyright application would also potentially contribute to this result

03.03.2026 04:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think part of the issue here is that you may be talking about LLM outputs while I am talking about generative image model outputs. The likelihood of at least seemingly infringing similarity among the latter is, I would argue, much higher.

This probability grows with the use of local models

03.03.2026 04:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So what you're saying is in the context of an AI output, the person holding the copyright could sue someone else, and then the object of their suot would need to demonstrate their AI workflow that resulted in the same image?

03.03.2026 04:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

See my other comment. The way AI generation works you would necessarily need to have the first to prompt wins scenario for copyrightability of the output to even make sense

03.03.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I mean, given that I have seen some people be super duper protective of their prompts, I think there are some folks who stupidly think they want an outcome like that, but you're right that it was never likely in the real world. It's just not sensible... But we don't live in a sensible world either 🫠

03.03.2026 03:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perhaps theoretically but there would be absolutely no way to prove this which would render the copyright protection of the AI output moot because someone could just claim to have independently discovered it

Being able to copyright the output of a text prompt precludes what you describe

03.03.2026 03:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Agree 100%! I think it would be very bad if someone could throw the word "peach" into AI, take the result, and say "I own this image of a peach", especially for people who actually make the effort to do AI locally and control the result

There would be way too much chance of accidental reproduction

03.03.2026 03:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If one were actually able to copyright the strict AI output of a text prompt, then that combination of model, prompt, settings, and seed would forever be locked to others in the future

03.03.2026 03:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In the case of AI outputs using the same settings, prompt, and seed, there would be no difference whatsoever between the pixels

What you're talking about would be akin to someone using the same prompt and settings but a different seed that yielded a very slightly different image

03.03.2026 03:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0