A bitter lesson in all of this is that the universe isn’t fundamentally fair or just. Sometimes, bastards like Bannon get away with shit and never suffer any consequences for it, and there isn’t even a hell for him to suffer in after he dies on a mountain of booze and ill-gotten gains.

And that’s why it’s up to us - always up to us - to impose fairness and justice on the universe.

It’s also why the price of freedom is vigilance. Somewhere along the way, a huge chunk of us became apathetic. We stopped voting. We stopped giving a shit. Which is exactly what the Bannons, the Trumps, and the rest of those shitheads wanted.

I think it might be the lighting and backdrop. They’re brightly lit from one side, with a very dark background, making them really pop out. It reminds me of the lighting that was popular in 1990’s formal portrait photos, which I always thought looked odd.

Ummm, hallucinations are literally how LLMs work. Everything they generate is confabulation, though sometimes it’s useful confabulation.

It’s fascinating (in a horrific kind of way) that literally all participants in this war are monstrous. Seriously, there are no good guys. This is turning into WWIII, but I always figured that when it happened, there would be clearly identifiable victims and aggressors.

How naive of me. Everyone involved is victim and aggressor simultaneously.

“Cognitive amplifier?” Bullshit. It demonstrably makes people who use it stupider and more prone to believing falsehoods.

I’m watching people in my industry (software development) who’ve bought into this crap forget how to code in real-time while they’re producing the shittiest garbage I’ve laid eyes on as a developer. And students who are using it in school aren’t learning, because ChatGPT is doing all their work - badly - for them. The smart ones are avoiding it like the blight on humanity that it is.