I'm still not going to care how much energy the prompts cost, because I'm not going to USE your stupid prompts, because the answers are hallucinated trash and the YouTube autogenerated subtitles may as WELL be hallucinated trash.

I used to ask my home Google assistant what time sunrise or sunset was, it would tell me. Then Google made an internal shift to move things to AI and I disabled AI for my responses.

Now I ask when sunrise or sunset is, it says it doesn't "know, but here's a definition of 'sunset' from $INSERT_SITE_HERE". ... but my housemate, who has NOT disabled her AI setting, gets the old behaviour.

So AI me this, Google: what's the best way for you to go fuck yourself all the way to hell out of my life?

Solar panels on top of buildings. Or on the side of towers. More doubling-of-utilisation of land.

I mean, the idiot was camera-caught walking ON THE ROOF of the White House and... oh screw it, what's the use.

F'godsake, I mean the last time I went to vote, I realised that democracy (especially the "American experiment") has obviously failed. Trump has demonstrated that democracy too can be used, abused, subverted and destroyed from within.
So maybe the political system doesn't matter as much. Let's have democracy. Let's have Anarchism. Let's have socialism. Let's have communism (not sure about fascism or anything overly nationalist).
I mean, the British Empire was considered to be at its peak in 1921 under George V; who made royalty reflect middle- rather than upper-class lifestyles. He wasn't authoritarian, but more a moderator and mediator. Fictionally, we have the examples of, say, Arthur or Aragorn.

It's not that I'm necessarily saying "empire!". I'm just saying that Churchill's paraphrasing with the statement "it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time"... ... maybe democracy isn't the holy grail. Maybe what makes the difference is the nature of the people who take those reins regardless of the system in question.

I digress. As somebody on the other side of the planet, my point was GOING to be: how in the name of whatever gods you like did your idiot-nation ALLOW someone within SNIFFING distance of such a powerful position without any kind of ETHICAL investigation or COMPETENCY TEST? What happened to the checks and balances that were supposed to PREVENT such subversion?

s/understand/underestimate/ sorry.

A degree of ego tied to a desire to do better would lead to that. A degree of ego that swamps all and makes him purely egocentric has no useful ties. Or restraints.

On WHICH observations are you basing the statement "No, he's not stupid or a moron"?

His capability talking about mathematical formulae for tariffs?
His repeated emphatic statements of reducing prices by 1500%?
His repeated provably untrue statements?
His fading out of coherent words in speeches?
"Person woman man camera TV"?
Staring unshielded at an eclipse?

I won't understand the danger he poses, his blunt stupidity and the gross power he somehow wields. But his intelligence can NOT be underestimated. IQs by definition don't go below zero.

Dear mods of the day, PLEASE come poke this one up a lot higher.

I'm so very fine with this, because you've exposed your stupidity to the Slashdot crowd, plus your deliberate trolling. Congratulations to your reputation.

I love how the one thing all Human Constructions Too Big To Fail have had in common is that they failed.

The training set is infringing, not least because it is the input scanned into a retrieval system, which is explicitly forbidden by many texts.
The software can be told to set temperature to zero, cut out the variations and researchers have produced work showing that the LLMs can produce word-for-word the input data.
So that's two ways copyright law knocks down an LLM, without any further discovery needing to be done.

And as you pointed out yourself but are still too stupid to realise, the AIs may face some legal trouble soon, so why don't you get a nearby friend to punch you in the gut a few times and then go pick up a fucking book and get some practice of your own in. Why not write some functions to put into your own script library and save scripting time the way people MUCH SMARTER THAN YOU HAVE ALWAYS DONE.

Or do I need to rub the ashes of my dead mother into your face until you get a clue.

Thank you; I appreciate your question there.

Funny, this last week at work an old-schooler introduced me to yet another newly-employed old-schooler who told me somebody resurrected bash.org as bashforever.com. Not to mention the WayBack Machine still has many captures.

I have a six-digit Slashdot ID. You'd have to go back in time ten years to find where we scattered her ashes. By all means, travel to the other side of the planet to meet us, my cricket bat, my baseball bat and a few knives, you sack of crap. Come fucking get me.

> The US gov isn't going to let AI die
Clearly the US gov needs to die right along with AI.

> For example, I use their products to write a lot of bash scripts. If those companies go offline, where will people turn?

How about pick up a fucking book and learn how to use your fucking computer like you weren't a decerebrate child? If you can't write bash scripts, then go back to your fucking Windows box.

Which raises the question: where the hell ARE the RIAA and MPAA in all of this? Why aren't they getting in on this?