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One kid is spectacularly stupid, therefore most of humanity is useless?

It's not often I feel disappointed that I've reached the end of a comment, wishing I had more of it to read.

Where I live in Canada, it's not even a case of the consumers boycotting the products... they've been ordered to be removed from the shelves by the government. They're not even an _option_ to purchase. I think it's fair to say there's a bit of a cause-and-effect thing going on there when it comes to the impact on American alcohol producers. And when/if they do return to shelves, the general sentiment seems to suggest they still won't sell very well.

For the most part it's not "bad", there's even some pretty good options, but nothing I'd describe as "premium". Americans have this strange affinity for additives, and it's not hard to tell in the final product.

I've always been around American wines and I can assure you it's fairly well-deserved. The quality in (even "high-end") American wine just simply is not there. The same can be said for their whiskey.

Huh, that makes a lot of sense, thanks for the input :)

Actually used to drive me nuts watching (usually old) people googling facebook to get to facebook, so I see exactly what you mean.

I typed it in my address bar and hit ENTER. It goes to Google, and the AI result is at the top above the regular search results. Don't know what to tell you brother, but as another commenter noted you don't always get the same results out of the same search terms. I've searched for CPL standings other times and gotten results exactly as you've explained, so maybe my experience yesterday was an anomaly.

Same experience with the interaction I described in my comment... after I finally got the correct answer, I asked where it got the faulty information from. It said it had just simply fabricated it. That's actively worse than just saying "I don't know", for something that's sold to us as an easy way to look up information.

Where ever would you get that impression from the company that made its fortune by being the best at searching the web?

Shouldn't an AI attached to a search engine actually do a search with your input and give you results based on that rather than just taking it at face value and assuming you're trauma-dumping on it?

Yesterday I tried to google "can the Halifax Wanderers still make the CPL playoffs?"

So obviously what appears right at the top is the AI summary, which told me "they've already secured their #4 position and made the playoffs". I knew this wasn't true, and I guess I could have just scrolled down a bit further and found my answer but now I was curious.

So I said "that's not true, they're still #5, what I want to know is _could they still make the playoffs_"

It says they've got an upcoming game against Ottawa, and if they win their chances are good. That game has already taken place, so I correct it again and finally I get a reasonable answer.

My question is: what's the point of the AI in the search engine if it itself isn't going to use the search engine first before answering? Like, I can't wrap my head around that. The answer is on the same page as its hallucination. It could have done a cursory look around before first hallucinating something completely false, and when corrected the first time giving me outdated information. It's meant to be A SEARCH ENGINE!

Do you strap your phone to your face?

To be clear, I'm not defending AI-written books and have no interest in reading one.

I'm just saying, don't knock horse meat :)

What's wrong with horse meat?

They feel uncomfortable with being filmed while going about their day to day life? Maybe they should stop making products that enable such a thing.

Now anybody who reads these comments won't get the full effect of the Far Side plot twist

Brother it's a museum, not the newest Marvel movie. There aren't "spoilers".

Because each number is equally as likely as every other number. If you know you're more likely to get certain numbers, or in this case have no chance of getting certain other numbers, it is by definition _less random_.

That may well be a problem, yes.

Mr Rossman will literally tell you to use an ad-blocker to watch his videos and refuses to take sponsorships, actively does not want money from making YouTube videos and just wants to get the word out. I'd agree with you if it was literally any other creator.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, that seems like a pretty phrase to me, is it considered an LLMism now? Kinda feels like the same thing with the em-dashes; I can't use em anymore because people will then assume I'm an LLM, even though just a few years ago it was a perfectly normal thing to do.

It's entirely possible I'm just getting worse and worse at picking out LLM writing these days too, who knows.

Damn, had to look it up but it's still around.

"Our end-to-end encrypted, AI-powered file sharing platform allows you to upload, manipulate & share files of any size, on any device."

Their website also reports that LMWR is $0.0098, so I guess we'll want to get on that before it goes to the moon.

You're a few months ahead of yourself :)

I'm Canadian, I disapprove strongly of Elon and his antics, and there are cable and fibre options in my neighbourhood, but Starlink is cheaper and I need to pinch pennies everywhere I can. And the service is excellent.

Vim has full mouse support. Not only can you exit, but you can even save using just the mouse.

To whoever needs to hear this;

Please don't use the word "skeet" to refer to a post online. I use bluesky semi-frequently, I've never heard that term before, and it's just... no. Just simply no.

Exactly this... when I was a kid it was all movie trailers, now they play the same fucking ads I get on youtube.

Right, because there was always such a weak connection between Twitter and "social media".

It's a patently boneheaded branding decision, there's no way to spin it as even potentially smart.

You realize you're the one repeating demonstrably false statements?

For real, I thought it was just me but I find the unfinished g's really distracting, even though I understand it's a stylistic choice my brain keeps thinking it's being rendered funky