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On a forum I posted a member introduction post (bit about myself), and at the bottom was a "allow AI responses" check; I had multiple paragraphs of info, hit post, and literally a second later a AI response came in also with a couple paragraphs praising what I do.

I'm impressed! It was detailed (it knowingly went through my post and added context), a good bit of fluff, but I can understand how that would look like a human response (kind-of concerning AI's that good as masquerading); a little less fluff/repeating and it'd be more convincing :p
 
astyle said:
These days, an AI subscription is comparable to a magazine subscription in the '90s....
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I don't believe the story you are referring to. Things that are too good to be true are usually false, and I don't think this is the exception. This is just AI hype. Reality is much more nuanced and complicated. AI helps (sometimes), but you still have to work a lot to get a professional result. Just a minute ago, ChatGPT 5.2 Plus marked a sentence of mine as incorrect because it said "there's X" and the reason it gave was that the sentence was missing a verb, so that is the reality of AI.
 
Espionage724 said:
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"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes big after OpenAI's latest move

After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.
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Use of ChatGPT/OpenAI could now be argued to help war and encouraged government spying (although can't say I really needed more reason not to use em :p)
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Oh, well. I know now what I'll be accused of for using it. It's gonna be fun.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I don't believe the story you are referring to. Things that are too good to be true are usually false, and I don't think this is the exception. This is just AI hype. Reality is much more nuanced and complicated. AI helps (sometimes), but you still have to work a lot to get a professional result. Just a minute ago, ChatGPT 5.2 Plus marked a sentence of mine as incorrect because it said "there's X" and the reason it gave was that the sentence was missing a verb, so that is the reality of AI.
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In all honesty, I don't believe the AI hype, either. It's just that, reading that article, I got a sense that the author was treating AIs like I was treating magazine subscriptions back in 1990s. Some magazines had interesting content, like 'Car and Driver', Playboy, cooking-related magazines, 'Consumer Reports', 'Atlantic Monthly', 'National Geographic', you name it. I had subscriptions to a few entertaining titles back in the day. Yeah, those magazines did provide information and entertainment. A subscription to an 'AI model for a specific purpose' is pretty much the same thing - you pay money, get information, and some hype mixed in, and then decide if you wanna blow more money for more of the same. The plot is the same, even if the movie looks kinda different.
 
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All the messages are informative and technical, so much so that I haven't sent one so far because I'm an ignoramus. I just read them and marvel at others' sapience.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Sometimes, engineers think they are smarter than everybody else and end up making very silly decisions. The fact that POSIX standards define the end of a sentence as needing two spaces after the period is asinine, regardless of the technical reasons that may have led to such a conclusion. In English and in any other language that uses the Roman alphabet you never use two consecutive spaces for anything, let alone after a period. Thanks to this genius decision, one cannot navigate or operate on real sentences when editing a common text file in nvi. This opinion is not mine, but God's, who has decided to reveal it to me, so don't even try to contradict it or justify the standard.
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In English you do, it's just that computers are commonly setup to give you an extra space after the period. There's also the bit that if you need two spaces after a period at the end of the sentence it helps when you're looking for the periods that are being used for other things.

I can't speak for other languages, those can and do have other rules, but for English, you're technically supposed to have 2 consecutive spaces after the final period of a sentence.
 
cracauer@ said:
The two spaces only appear after a period that terminates a sentence. Not after one for an abbreviation. That is how you tell the two cases apart.
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Yes, what are they teaching kids these days? Plus, if you use 2 spaces it's a lot easier to do things like take a text document and split it to 1 sentence per line if for some reason you want to, without complicated heuristics or formulas.

Just because word processors commonly add the second one for you, doesn't technically change the rule.
 
I have developed a new ability, almost superhuman. I'm now able to not read AT ALL those posts that I know (because of my obvious prescience) that I'd rather not read, even if they are just above the text I'm writing. It's not easy, but I'm a master of kung fu, and nothing is impossible for a master of kung fu.
 
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