Have you actually checked whether those sources exist yourself

When I’m curious enough, yes. While you can find plenty of “AI lied to me” examples online, they’re much harder to fish for in the application itself.

99 times out of 100, the references are good. But those cases aren’t fun to dunk on.

It increases self-confidence, helps to improve self-image, etc

I could say exactly the same of the dermatologist.

the Communists could have chosen NOT to side with the Fascists

Why do you keep deflecting blame from the Weimer president and head of the military police? I almost question whether you have a problem with the Fascists at all.

You’ll have significantly less luck delivering pizza, sadly.

against the socialists/socdems

The SDP purged its ranks of Communists to appease Hindenburg’s State Police. You can’t side with a party that’s trying to rat you out to the cops and get you killed.

Which, again, brings us to the conservatives who held power by playing sides off each other until they misplayed their hands.

The path to fascism was paved back in 1919, when the original Communists were rounded up and executed by the conservatives.

anyone who thinks the answer isn’t “hit the gym” is coping.

I’d put “hit the dermatologist” above it. Plenty of girls go for the skinny or husky builds. But blemishes are a universal turn off

Unironically, women are hot for the handyman. Fixing a friend’s sink has gotten me laid more than once.

The difference between a 20 year old and a 30 year old is whether you prioritize a chiseled jaw and tight abs over the ability to have an engaging conversation, cook a good meal, and massage feet.

Can you explain what you mean?

Except for when you ask it to determine if a thing exists by describing its properties

Basic search can’t answer that either. You’re describing a task neither system is well equipped to accomplish.

The communists literally sided with the fascists

The fascists were barely sided with themselves, given all the backstabbing. It took the conservative party to elevate the Nazis to the Chancellorship.

Cool, not really what I asked. Then command ‘write an implementation of bogo sort in python 3.’

… and then it does that.

Alright, but… it did the thing. That’s a feature older search engines couldn’t reliably perform. The output is wonky and the conversational style is misleading. But its not materially worse than sifting through wrong answers on StackExchange or digging through a stack of physical textbooks looking for Python 3 Bogo Sort IRL.

I agree AI has annoying flaws and flubs. And it does appear we’re spending vast resources doing what a marginal improvement to Google five years ago could have done better. But this is better than previous implementations of search, because it gives you discrete applicable answers rather than a collection of dubiously associated web links.

In another thread, I was curious about the probability of reaching the age of 60 while living in the US.

Google gave me an assortment of links to people asking similar questions on Quora, and to some generic actuarial data, and to some totally unrelated bullshit.

ChatGPT gave me a multi-paragraph response referencing its data sources and providing both a general life expectancy and a specific answer broken out by gender. I asked ChatGPT how it reached this answer, and it proceeded to show its work. If I wanted to verify the work myself, ChatGPT gave me source material to cross-check and the calculations it used to find the answer. Google didn’t even come close to answering the question, much less producing the data it used to reach the answer.

I’m as big an AI skeptic as anyone, but it can’t be denied that generic search engines have degraded significantly. I feel like I’m using Alta Vista in the 90s whenever I query Google in the modern day. The AI systems do a marginally better job than old search engines were doing five years ago, before enshittification hit with full force.

It sucks that AI is better, but it IS better.

If you live like a billionaire and you grift like a billionaire and you have borrowing capacity like a billionaire…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Trump hasn’t become rich

For a not-rich guy, he sure does seem to live the high life.

Why hide what is clearly quite popular?

Corporate media has the public totally sold on oligopoly. Elon will run our country into the ground and the Talking Heads on his payroll will tell the whole country how hard they need to clap.

And if you won’t, we all know the cops will.

It flies over heads because its a political fiction that people don’t find consistent with reality.

People like this go on dates, get laid, get married, get divorced, go on more dates, and get married again all the time.

Their spouses vote Republican. Their kids vote Republican. Their friends and neighbors vote Republican. They all move to big conservative retirement communities and vote Republican together forever until they die.

This idea that rich fucks with big families don’t live happily in their big homes all prattling on about how much better they are than everyone else is painfully naive

The actual center, which never moves

???

Public opinion never changes?

Reddit’s core business model from day one was to fake engagement. This isn’t calling your nan’s IMs a cyber attack. We’re talking about a community that’s been outted repeatedly for hosting artificial content.