Benjaben

You're right, but I will say the federal govt has a sometimes magic way of greasing certain wheels and getting things done in a hurry, if the right person is pushing on it.

Lol ah yes, the "fork me daddy!" camp weighing in

I hear ya. Cheers and best wishes!

Not disagreeing and I like that approach. I do want to say, though, that I've committed myself to keeping track of some of the egregious stuff that's going to come and addressing it with the people in my life who voted for Trump and did not properly know / accept what that entailed.

To bring them back, I think we have to find (effective) ways to show them bad things they did not want to happen, that they helped enable, as they occur. It's tough because I don't want to turn every interaction into political badgering (and I won't), but there's no chance I can stay quiet as the great shitshow unfolds, either.

Oooh, that's a fun one. I can just barely remember some of my early research projects for school - getting source material at the library was a bear. What a time to be alive.

When did they add blackjack and hookers?! That's a hell of a feature update

Yeah, in my case this one was too close to home for me to love it. 10 or 20 years ago I probably would've felt differently. Similar for Idiocracy, I don't think I'd feel the same way about it if it came out today. Kinda chilling when I think about that, honestly.

I've been wondering about exactly this, do you have any statistics you can point me to? No hard feelings if it was a thing you saw but didn't save.

That's definitely part of the problem. I had an incident recently where an older family member had a minor panic. Because I left my (mfg in 2006!!) vehicle running in the driveway while I ran inside. During the day. In a very safe suburban neighborhood. Just a flat out absurd concern and she leapt right to it, instantly. She's always been concerned, she's a grandma, but she wasn't pointlessly terrified like this years ago.

I think many of us don't realize how badly this irrational fear has taken hold, or maybe I should say how effectively this irrational fear has been deployed. Otherwise ~reasonable people are walking around thinking the worst is going to happen everywhere at all times, based on absolutely nothing - worse than nothing, it's based on weaponized deception.

Well, fair enough, folks seem to agree with you and that commenter. I'm not being deliberately uncharitable, "avoid AI at all costs" seems both poorly defined and hyperbolic to me, even given the context. Scams and inaccuracy are a problem in lots of situations, Google search results have been getting increasingly bad to the point of unusable for a while now (I'd argue long before LLM saturation), and I've personally been getting mileage with some LLMs, already at kind of an early stage, over wading through every crappy search result.

I wouldn't call myself an enthusiast or on the hype train, I work in the industry. But it's clearly useful, while clearly having many tradeoffs (energy use maybe much worse than inaccuracy / scam potential), and "avoid at all cost" is silly to me. But cheers, happy to simply disagree!

Wait yeah, to echo other commenter is this a tongue-in-cheek comment on how that fairly normal stuff is being perceived as "negative" due to racism/classism, OR is this an actual technique being used because it legitimately tends to have such an effect?