I know, and it's shit
Here's an AI chat bot talking bullshit to me. I complained and got a bit of cash. Are you saying this is acceptable? I repeat, fuck AI. It's just an excuse to sack people and replace them with bots that will say any old shit It's just another way to get low effort enshittifcation in our lives.
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Assistant, 3:33 pm
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3:33 pm
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Assistant, 3:34 pm
So you have blocked Amazon????
3:34 pm
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What's the point of if they block the worlds BIGGEST store?
3:36 pm
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Assistant, 3:37 pm
that's insane. I use because my Kindle account is amazon UK, I don't have an alternative UK bank account. I now can't buy books as you need a UK card to buy from Kindle UK store. This is crazy, you can't block Amazon....
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 8:36,
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Before deep learning and post the AI winters, people just called it machine learning, because "artificial intelligence" sounded ridiculously pretentious and misleading. I don't think machine learning as a method is shit. We've all been using it in some way for years. But AI products like the ones you had to deal with definitely are and should never be released
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 10:46,
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LLM is not machine learning
Driverless cars don't use LLM. LLM is a specific tech distinct from trad machine learning and recognition
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 12:36,
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An LLM is a machine learning model
A type of deep learning model
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 13:47,
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i think calling it a thieving maching learning model is more accurate
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 23:34,
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Kinda yeah and kinda no
Machine learning as a phrase is usually referring to stuff like image recognition. LLM has become sufficiently specialised to deserve it's own treatment separate from say using image recognition to spot cancers in x-rays and stars in telescope data. That special treatment is to say "fuck it" it will end everything of value
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simbosan is too tired, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 1:11,
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