You don’t need to do key combos if you’re on Lemmy or reddit, because three hyphens in Markdown makes an em dash. It makes me wonder which other HTML entities I can make.

I was with you on this until I found that out. Unfortunately, “em dash means AI” is the same level of sleuthing as “new account must be a bot”. It’s a lazy heuristic that’s often wrong, but you’ll never find out because nobody can prove that they aren’t AI.

I am impressed. I’m still a plebe — who has to use three hyphens.

(And this is how I found out that three hyphens in Markdown = an em dash!)

ETA: Oh, wow, you can make an en dash – with two hyphens! Mind. Blown.

Why should I literally care?

It doesn’t matter how fast it is if the answer is wrong, and it does seem to be wrong an awful lot. I will check their citations to see if they back up their output, and many times they do not.

Jesus should we go back to having to type in the specific web address to find everything !?

http/:www.whatdhfuckamitypingallthisoutfor?

Uh, no? Just use a search engine? You remember those, right?

Oh, of course. It’s all lowest-common-denominator, mediocre bullshit. If they could come up with something unique, that would be actual intelligence.

If you want to test this out, try asking for “novel” or “unusual” output. It’s still derivative, but perhaps just a little bit less derivative than standard output.

The wording also struck a nerve because many AI models were trained on enormous amounts of publicly available internet data such as books, articles, forums and creative work created by millions of people who were never directly compensated.

That’s much too kind. We were never indirectly compensated, either.

I ask a question, they give me the wrong answer. I tell them they gave me the wrong answer. They apologize, and then repeat the same mistake in the next answer. Or they give me a different wrong answer. I eventually give up and solve it with a web search.

I don’t know if my questions are about really obscure stuff or what, but it’s really annoying. Like, I know that they’re only predicting tokens, but how hard is it to program them to go “Okay, we’ve already established that this pattern of tokens is wrong, so I’m not going to include it in the next answer”.

No, no you aren’t. I’m worried about the creator of the site, though. Y I K E S

(ETA: Y’all, I think we’re being trolled.)

True enough, but even still I don’t see that “gnostic atheism” is obviously the opposite of “agnostic atheism”.

They aren’t, but that wasn’t the claim. Here’s what you said:

Gnostic and agnostic are not opposites!

The article you linked explains how they’re opposites. Gnostic and agnostic are opposites, just like theism and atheism are opposites.

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Oh, I see. “Gnostic” has more than one meaning. It can mean “A believer in Gnosticism”, but it can also mean “Of, relating to, or possessing intellectual or spiritual knowledge.” I’m using the American Heritage Dictionary, but you can find similar definitions in other dictionaries.

In this case, I’m sure that most people can figure out that a gnostic atheist isn’t an atheist who believes in Gnosticism.

So you’ve made up a very narrow and arbitrary definition of “religion” which sounds very much like evangelical Christianity.

Classic Diogenes.

Well, the US certainly needs to have a discussion about organized Christianity. That’s the only religion I ever see getting up in my business.

I was at a funeral where the preacher was doing that! “If she were here now, she would tell you to make sure that you get your life right with Jesus.” Um, no, she fucking wouldn’t! Her fiance was sitting in front of me, and I thought I could see smoke coming out of his ears.

It was her family’s funeral, though, and apparently they were Christians.

They found Russian agents working through social media to widen rifts in the US electorate, specifically on the vaccine debate. They had agents playing both sides: pro-vax and anti-vax.

Who knows how many entities are doing this right now? On which topics? On which social networks?

So, yes, fake atheists being assholes, but also fake Christians being assholes. You are always being manipulated. There is never a time you are not being manipulated.

This post just seems like a straw man to try and keep atheists invisible. farm engagement.

Because of the way it sounds? It doesn’t bother me, but I can totally understand why it might bother somebody else. It’s quite distinctive.

There isn’t anything wrong with having a community of people who share your beliefs and values and holding ceremonies and celebrations with them. The problem is when you try to force your religion on everybody else.

“I know” and “I don’t know” aren’t opposites?