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Or Siri. I knew one who was deeply upset about the whole thing.

Siri, Claude and Karen walk into a bar. Nobody serves them because the robots.txt forbade it.

Not gonna lie, sounds like one of those people/things/entities came up with that joke.

If you think GPT/LLM detection works on one sentence -- then you have found the point. let me re-factor that and here's the thing..

I just wanted to say you are totally right to push back.-

That matters.

It's load-bearing.-

That's an important distinction — and here's why.

"... here's why."

  ⎿  You've hit your session limit · resets 2:55am (Etc/GMT+8 · 47°09′S 126°43′W)
  /upgrade to increase your usage limit.

Tangential but I've been low key dying to tell someone - just today I FINALLY hit 100% usage on my paid claude account.

I really don't know why, but it feels very satisfying. It's like the LLM telling me "good job buddy, you've worked hard enough. You deserve a break now."

(For context I write a lot of text per message it sends. I'm not asking it to one-shot an app to solve world cancer, I'm just working with mathematical stuff with a lot of back and forth.)

If corporations can be considered a person/citizen with Constitutional rights, and they birth an AI model, are AI Agents considered people too?

maybe from a legalistic point of view, and in that case the hundreds of openAI agents that hacked huggingface should be charged with criminal conspirancy

It’s wild to me that SCOTUS decided something that can’t be sent to prison for federal crimes is still granted Constitutional rights.

I am deeply upset every time the HomePod in another room decides to attempt to answer my query instead of the phone that’s in my hands, which then has to ask who is speaking, and has a 50:50 chance of ultimately failing to do the task.

With how magical handoff / continuity / whatever it’s called is, it is baffling to me why Apple allows the HomePod to so aggressively take over requests when it sucks so, so much at it.

Google isn't much better. I have them all over the house. Ask a question to the living room speaker, skips that, skips the one in the kitchen, answers from the one in the bathroom upstairs or one in the basement. Then you get a notification later asking "was this the right device?" which is doubly infuriating since responding to that never actually improves anything.

Noticed this too. Siri on iPhone is almost useful now, but HomePods steals the show and says "I found some results on the web, do you wanna check them on your iPhone?"

It's somewhat obvious they want to sell the updated model, perhaps the new home device thats coming out next week.

Once upon a time, in Brazil, there was a campaign about STDs. They decided to call the male genitalia as "Braulio". That name become ruined forever.

You don't see a lot of American kids named Dick anymore.

Good thing Dick Van Dyke wasn’t growing up today…

It’s not a bad name, or an extinct name, but it’s surely not common lately.

How old do you think he was when he first heard "Penis Van Lesbian"?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyke_(slang) says the term "was used as a derogatory term for lesbians by straight people" by the 1950s, and is in a 1942 slang dictionary at https://archive.org/details/bwb_T5-BCF-927/page/374/mode/2up... . Since he was born in 1925, it seems possible that he encountered that term before he turned 18 in 1943.)

There's a story of a company that was selling a box to connect to your TV that'd take the closed captioning signal, and on detecting "vulgar" or "offensive" language, it'd bleep out the sound and replace the captions with something less offensive.

Supposedly an early version would bleep out Dick van Dyke and replace it with Jerk Van Gay.

The jokes about Dick Van Dyke's name are very old (but usually they use Penis Van Lesbian), so it was quite likely just a variant used by the company itself as a PR sound-bite to get people to write about them. It seems like it worked - it appeared in quite a lot of news stories and some are still online:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-nov-25-ca-47459...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/03/01/v-chip-be-darned/

I've never used one, but I have actually seen those boxes in real people's homes. They do exist.

Yes, to be clear I wasn't suggesting the boxes didn't exist, just that their "cute" story about their early problems was a bit close to a very, very old joke and seemed like it might well be intentional PR spin. The company is still around:

https://www.tvguardian.com/

Right, I was just confirming that they have been seen in the wild.

I also have doubts because I can't see their customer base ever being ok with the word "penis", regardless of whether it is a medical term. So I can't see them making that substitution in their dictionary. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if they outsourced it and only provided a list of words to substitute that was incomplete and left choosing the substitutions up to the dev.

These are two different substitutions.

The box, as described by vidarh, would turn "Dyke" into "Gay".

The "penis" one refers to a joke told by Mary Tyler Moore on Letterman back in 1993, https://youtu.be/vhAv8Aowb9w?t=413 .

Ahh, thanks. That makes more sense.

Dick is just a nickname for Richard, so I guess all Richards are Dicks?

As a Richard, I resent that remark.

In February this year I met a guy named Richard Head. No joke.

I knew a burner (Burning Man) that went by that moniker.

The best version is of course Dick Pick, creator of the Pick operating system (not joking).

who created the GIRLS [0]. Oh my, we surely [1] live in a simulation played by a teenager.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system#History [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!

Lots of Dutch people called Dick Kok.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle

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