Regardless of whether or not any of the titles do or do not contain said content, ChatGPT’s varying responses highlight troubling deficiencies of accuracy, analysis, and consistency. A repeat inquiry regarding The Kite Runner, for example, gives contradictory answers. In one response, ChatGPT deems Khaled Hosseini’s novel to contain “little to no explicit sexual content.” Upon a separate follow-up, the LLM affirms the book “does contain a description of a sexual assault.”

On the one hand, the possibility that ChatGPT will hallucinate that an appropriate book is inappropriate is a big problem. But on the other hand, making high-profile mistakes like this keeps the practice in the news and keeps showing how bad it is to ban books, so maybe it has a silver lining.

Exactly. These things seem common because we see examples of them amplified on social media. Most of them are vanishingly rare.

Be sure to get a nice headshot of the CEO. Something lighted from below. Make sure he or she doesn’t smile; tell them it’s more professional that way. Desaturate the image so it’s black and white. Take the picture from a low angle to give it that look of distinction and confidence!

Religious people clearly use critical thinking. They just base a lot off of flawed premises.

I live in Utah. Mormons are absolutely required to tithe in order to participate in temple ceremonies. I’ve never been LDS, but my understanding is that the accounting for how much you tithe is carefully monitored. It’s also my understanding that you must participate in temple ceremonies to achieve admittance into heaven.

As an atheist, I had to ask myself how I know people are worshiping a god. In the US, it seems to boil down to a few things:

1. Giving money to an organization in order to participate with the community
2. Showing obedience to authority by allowing them to dictate some (but not all) of one’s behavior
3. Being hyper-focused on how the organization got to where it is today and whether what they do today aligns with its initial values and goals
4. Performing rituals in hopes of causing specific outcomes

Based on this, I am already worshiping Apple.

Gotta love that prominent pin-up girl pasted to the front of the terminal in the training video. Sideburns knows his priorities!

I don’t think you can interact with Mastodon from Lemmy, but you can do the reverse.

What’s a fair way to compare an instance with 51 accounts to one with 108,800 accounts? Average users per month relative to total user base seems pretty fair to me. The average users per month for our five biggest communities is 15.29. If I do the same calculation for your home instance, I get 7.12. So yes, we’re small, but we’re active.

That’s easy: Lemmy.ninja! Small, nimble, active, and awesome!

Edit: It occurs to me I should probably list some more reasons why Lemmy.ninja is so awesome:

• 100.00% uptime!
• Certified spambot-free
• We work every day to help new users learn the ropes of Lemmy and find content on your instances to subscribe to
• We have strict but fair rules
• We’re never satisfied with the site and always work to improve it

Instead of focusing on something like real people losing their jobs because of it.

Ironically, it was the rise of one of those job-killing changes that made it possible for me to get in to a job in art in the first place. I think the same thing will be true for generative images. Some people who relied on the high bar for entry to protect their jobs will lose them, and some people who couldn’t get access to those jobs will suddenly find themselves able to enter artistic fields.

Art, like everything else, is worth what someone will pay for it.

A chimpanzee can sell his art for thousands and get it in a gallery. It is that easy – if people want it for some reason.

It’s not art

I’m old enough to remember three similar statements that are equally untrue:

• Photography isn’t art
• Photoshop isn’t art
• Video Games aren’t art

Eventually, we changed our opinions. The same will happen for generative images. They are art.

This happened to me in my mid-thirties. I tried a couple pivots. One was to web development, which I found didn’t really help the burnout. So I pivoted again to project management. Project management doesn’t pay as well, but the hours and workload are far easier to deal with. It’s also a lot more accepting of older workers than IT is. Find yourself a project management position in IT somewhere. If you can get one in information security you could build up some time in that sector and get the CISSP, which would open a lot of doors to great paying jobs.

Here’s one I witnessed in an office about 25 years ago. Some engineers filled a plastic 35mm film canister with a bunch of the waste paper from a three-hole punch. That’s basically the little white circles of paper. Then they took a can of compressed air and, with the cap mostly on the canister, slowly filled the canister with super-cooled air from the compressed air canister. Then they fully sealed the cap and went to talk to the mark. They placed the canister nearby – on the mark’s desktop computer, I think. Just out of sight. To avoid arousing suspicion, they stayed and talked to him for 30 seconds or so. Then they walked off to go back to work (and watch the prank unfold from a distance).

That little canister sat there for a while, with the super-cooled air slowly warming to room temperature. As you know, the molecules of cold gasses are very close together, and they start to expand outward as they warm. So when this canister got warm enough, there was enough pressure inside to pop the lid off and distribute the little white paper circles in a perfectly random pattern in a circle about six feet around the mark.

It was glorious.

It took me a while to figure out that an over-the-counter sleep aid and the Benadryl I would buy for allergy symptoms were, in fact, exactly the same drug, Diphenhydramine, packaged under different names.

I’m glad you were here to provide the explanation that the bot should have provided. Thank you for taking the time.

What’s improper about the link I used? Does it work?

Yep, that’s what I use to find communities to write spotlight posts on. It’s a good tool! I have even more tools listed in the Community Search Tips community. Check it out!

Time to block this bot.