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> On atproto, it depend on whether you’re banned at hosting or app level.
> If you get banned at hosting level (usually something clearly illegal would trigger this), you’d have to find another hosting (assuming apps haven’t banned you too).
This isn't as different as you make it sound. Most people on AT Proto are using Bluesky, so "getting banned" is fundamentally the same for them as getting banned from a Mastodon instance. Conversely, you can just run your own Mastodon instance and the only thing you'd have to worry about is defederation (an "appview ban").
ChatGPT giveaway in the first sentence? I think that's a new record.
But no.
They just told the LLM to try and find meaning in keysmashes.
That's part of the problem, though, isn't it?
If it consistently gave the right answer, well, that would be great! And if it consistently gave the wrong answer, that wouldn't be GREAT, but at least the engineers would know how to fix it. But sometimes it says one thing, sometimes it says another. We've known this for a long time. It keeps happening! But as long as your own personal chatbot gives the correct answer to this particular question, you can cover your eyes and pretend the planet-burning stochastic parrot is perfectly fine to use.
The comparison in one thread to the "How would you feel if you had not eaten breakfast yesterday?" question was a particularly interesting one, but I can't get past the fact that the Know Your Meme page that was linked (which included a VERY classy George Floyd meme, what the actual fuck) discussed those answers as if they were a result of fundamental differences in human intelligence rather than the predictable result of a declining education system. This is something that's only going to get worse if we keep outsourcing our brains to machines.
If I have to download a brand-new browser just to use this app, what's stopping me from switching back to Firefox to evade the blocks?