Why don’t they just distribute it as a torrent?

Probably because they want ordinary people to be able to access it.

all prancing around like 15 year olds acting tough to attract the girlies.

No, I think it’s just bigotry.

I’m aware that it’s a computing term. My argument is that it’s a bad one.

I didn’t say anything about reddit. Who said anything about reddit?

But yeah, you got me. I don’t know anything about this niche reddit community that you’re obsessed with for some reason. I guess that means that I’m living under a rock.

You could say “the model’s output was inaccurate” or something like that, but it would be much more stilted.

The interface makes it appear that the AI is sapient. You talk to it like a human being, and it responds like a human being. Like you said, it might be impossible to avoid ascribing things like intentionality to it, since it’s so good at imitating people.

It may very well be a stepping-stone to AGI. It may not. Nobody knows. So, of course we shouldn’t assume that it is.

I don’t think that “hallucinate” is a good term regardless. Not because it makes AI appear sapient, but because it’s inaccurate whether the AI is sapient or not.

Because of what they produce.

Except that “hallucinate” is a terrible term. A hallucination is when you perceive something that doesn’t exist. What AI is doing is making things up; i.e. lying.

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?”

The only place I hear people even talk about tankies is on Lemmy. You are really in an echo chamber if you think that tankies are the first thing that people think of when you mention Lemmy. In reality, it’s either “What’s Lemmy?” or “Lemmy is too difficult. Federation confuses me.”

What they really need to do is put it on a blockchain.

Walled gardens go against the spirit of the Internet, anyway.

Yes, but COVID lockdown was 10 years long.

And nobody knows how to get from that to actual thought. And if they tell you that they do, they’re either deluded or lying to you.

A lot of tech bros have been getting high on their own supply and think that we’re right around the corner from a Skynet situation.

And yet

AI = Actually Indian.

I’m gonna start saying that instead of using the abbreviation. "I’ll meet you at 2:30 post merideum."

Make New York New Amsterdam Again.

It’s shakira law. They’ll make it illegal for your hips to lie.

What kind of tea? I hope it’s a nice roasted oolong.

Good luck proving what made you sick, though. A foodborne illness can sometimes take days before you develop symptoms. At that time, you might think it was that sketchy chicken salad that made you sick, and you might be right…but it could also be any number of other things that you ate before you got sick.