I agree, but people have been heavily misusing it since like 2018

I built one of these for my cat

She’s old and got arthritis, but she’s been getting treatments and is climbing on things again, which warms my hearts to see.

I try not to get facts from LLMs ever

I do use RAG and tools to push content into them for summarization/knowledge extraction.

But even then it’s important to have an idea of your model biases. If you train a model that X isn’t true, then ask it to find info on the topic it’s going to return crap results.

When we started calling literal linear regression models AI it lost all value.

I asked this what it thought of the US governments pivot on trans rights and it similarly did not believe the last 7 months could have happened.

I had to get it to read the Wikipedia article on the year 2025 and it actually decided to stop reading.

ETA: to clarify, it was using a fetch tool to read the page, and decided to stop reading more chunks of the page.

I hope you brought enough to share with the rest of us

And so now they have to train their models to acknowledge there are only two genders and deny anything “woke”

We’ll see if that affects the public models.

For me it is

I have a lot of difficulty deciding what to draw when I’m depressed.

You should make a backlog of inspiration or studies you want to draw when you feel good, and then when your depressed you force yourself to draw the next one in the list.

As for what you need decide your budget first, $50 will get a good quality sketchbook and good pencils, and a set of erasers (gummy, white, firm). I don’t do colour pencils but they are more expensive, goes back to budget.

Don’t worry too much about the right brands or anything like that, just buy paper that has ring bindings (easier to lay flat) and feels nice to touch, with a bit of texture to help control smudging.

If you go marjers or water colours or inks, then paper matters more.

If you don’t know what to draw, draw shapes and squiggles and practice your hatching and shading techniques.

Stop it! Stahhhpp!

Sounds like a good group.

The older I get the more often conversation with friends veers into discussing pooping yourselves. It’s very weird.

My only story there was I was on a work trip and we went to a Thai place. We ordered everything very very hot, the food was amazing, but the next day my stomach was a wreck!

That was the day I finally broke out the extra underwear I pack on trips and I tossed the old ones in the trash in shame.

Thank god I booked an extra day to sightsee.

74 minutes > 1 hour

Also that’s a very tragic and kind thing to do.

1 Day Later

I didn’t say I have lights.

I think it’s rude to assume the Cardassian engineers aren’t good enough for 100% uptime across a full station.

We have one of these on my street

It’s called double U.

You will always remember this as the day you almost digested Regimbartia Attenuata.

I mean, all the AI deepfake nudes are gross, but I’m interested in the chaos and two awful people getting in a fight.

It’s still okay for boilerplate but is now woefully behind.

I have it through my work and I don’t even use it, bit when I do it’s asking another provider anyway.

I disagree that Grok appears as any form of satire here