@Pavel

@Roz Corollary:

https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc

I didn’t get to the 5m point before I decided to share this bit from John Oliver on “AI Slop.”

@Wizz Thank you for your payment.

At this time, you currently owe:

• Alucard awake pictures.
• Alucard cute pictures.

(On the serious, )

@Wizz said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

the true celebrity loss in this thread is discovering @dvoraen doesn’t use dark mode to browse the forum

You don’t pay my sub. I mean, you aren’t even current on your cat tax. (Pls geev Alucard pix to lighten the thread mood. In another thread.)

I don’t know anything about K-POP Demon Hunters, but my question is what the (MU*) rules for the K-POP idols are, because don’t idols have certain restrictions in their contracts irl?

This is a non-sequitur to “AI” PBs, but it feels so adjacent to the discussion (it overlaps it slightly) that I have to share it.

This is for the programmers out there, especially @Faraday.

https://youtu.be/CUfliPTbJu4

I don’t have much to contribute here other than a serious amount of sardonic snark, so I’m just going to summarize the major points here with a metaphor:

Generative “AI” (note the quotes) is like makeup. It can make things pretty, but unless you’re a skilled makeup artist or have a lot of experience with putting on your own cosmetics, there’s probably going to be flaws and eventually other people are going to notice and compare notes.

Also, sooner or later the makeup has to be removed. We’ll leave that part open to interpretation; there’s many.

(This metaphor also assumes the components of the makeup aren’t toxic, too!)

@bear_necessities Well, it certainly puts a couple things in context.

But yeah, at this point I don’t buy their story about how they found this board in the first place. I’m getting this sense of deja-vu that I can’t really pinpoint.

After nearly 26 years of off-and-on struggle with college — and a whole list of unresolved mental health issues going on at the same time, beginning with my biological mother’s death and the subsequent mixed family drama almost a year after that — I am, today, August 1 2025, officially in possession of a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. (Today is my conferral date.)

It’s been a long road.

@Nynrose Y I K E S.

First, I’m glad you’re safe. I hate having to ask this as well, but do you have a means of defending yourself? Pepper spray, for example. This is clearly a person who is demonstrating highly suspect behavior.

@MisterBoring We can hope. But as of EA launch, no.

They’re not evil, though. They are just “oh no, danger escape into shell”

In honor of Grounded 2 launching into Early Access today, I present another continuation to the saga of –

(Spoilered for those who want to see the new critters fresh/blind.)

Spoiler

My MU* peeve is that I have yet to hear about how many s exist on @tsar’s game. I’m sure there are some that are stowaways and/or pets on these ships.

@KarmaBum “Sexy fireball” makes me think of the succubi(?) that were all fiery, from Oglaf, that Mistress’s apprentice had to apply oil to.

I don’t make the rules for what my brain does.

@Wizz Look at that pretty kitty facey whisker facey face.

@MayorMccheez So if there’s more freight to be unloaded, just how big is the semi hauling it, if you follow?

I just want to know how many boxes of receipts there are, in other words. (Regardless of whether your 1% doubt of identity turns out to be the case.)

@Pavel said in AI PBs:

Speaking of litigation, who do I speak to about suing for the whiplash I got as those goalposts fuckin’ rocketed past?

I just want you to ask ChatGPT and all the other LLMs this exact question, with this exact wording.

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’ve had to turn the auto-convert feature off in Word for when I do my – (that is two hyphens, often converted to a dash of some kind, be it en or em. I never learned the difference.) because it was getting pulled up by the anti-AI checker on my submitted work and it’s easier to just… not deal with that.

This is why I have this much >< (it’s zero) faith in anything “AI” at this juncture, including detection methods. If an en-/em-dash user is getting flagged for actually using them correctly, then I don’t know what else to tell you other than look at this GIF to illustrate my point:

@Pyrephox said in MU Peeves Thread:

@ten You can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead hands. I’ve been (over)using them longer than LLMs have been in existence!

I’m in this picture; as a semi-colon user, I can empathize.

(SEE HOW I DID THAT?)