I wish I could read that. But the "press and hold" gatekeeper just keeps starting over again after the green check mark.

It's the only Captcha that my Raspberry Pi doesn't seem to get through. The other ones (like the sliding puzzle piece, or identifying parts of a bike, stopsigns, buses, etc) all work fine. Just not the press-and-hold one.

Thanks. I noticed that it also tries to have a "balanced view" about Trump, which is quite annoying, 'cos it is skirting around important issues that way.

Not just men. Also Ghislaine. She's in the files having done some very abhorent things. Yet she is getting preferential treatment, and is already striking her deal to be given a full pass.

I've noticed the press has not yet even bothered to post anything about her alleged physical actions with the girls that you find in the infamous "Epstein Files," but she is apparently exactly as guilty as he was, and of the same things. If those are to be believed, she was physically involved in the same way Epstein was, even if it was to "demonstrate" what they were expected to do.

Given the way this is going (at least on the GOP side), if Epstein hadn't done himself in, the files would not have come out, and he'd also be clamouring for clemency just the same.

The same rich powerful men you write of would still of course, be protected just the same.

I obviously missed something.

But after I typed a long response to your other message on this post, I saw this response and deleted it because something is just not right about your overly protective way of writing about this well documented illusion.

To summarize, but with none of the content I had posted: I have deep philosophical conversations with ChatGPT all the time. I still do with the current version. I don't think you broke anything.

You might not be a "pleblian" (whatever that is) but you sure are hostile about people who recognize the illusion. That you feel you are some sort of a saviour says a lot though. Which is why I just deleted that other comment, having been far more supportive.

I've found AI, or at least ChatGPT, to be really good at making great jokes about very specific topics.

You always have to ask it for several, because a lot of them are rubbish. But the hit rate is reasonable, considering the difficulty in understanding what is funny or not to a human.

Also, if you like absurdist humour, then even the fails might work. If I could post a pic here, I would. I once asked ChatGPT for a strip comic about something. What it produced didn't make sense, but I laughed about it every time I read it. Uploaded it and got the same result from others. There was a really polite naivety in what it produced, but it was surprisingly potent.

I'm pretty sure the llm could not explain what about it was funny. Basically a vegetable accidentally killed another vegetable simply by touching it. But then it apologized. That apology was bloody hilarious.

The prompt was for a comic strip with a hook that as far as it knows, nobody has ever seen before. And the result was shockingly great.

And of course it was absolute luck, because the same prompt just spat out junk thereafter.

Some people have a lack of appreciation for dating other humans, opting for an AI chat instead. There's a whole industry built around it, judging by all the ads I see on YT.

So yes, if people can grow to prefer an AI mate, they can definitely grow to prefer AI music. Especially where it sings lyrics you generated to match whatever you were thinking at the time, in the style you were hoping to listen to at the time.

Dismal? I'm a musician, and also a grey-beard. This matches the industry progression (or digression, I suppose) exactly, so far as I've seen it going.

Pick a side: Synth didn't kill guitar. Video did kill the radio star.

PS: The fact that they refer to AI music compilations as an "Act" blows my mind in ways I don't think I'll ever be able to embrace. But, here we are. Some bands get flack for lip syncing. Kiss, ABBA and others are getting away with projected avatars. And then we have AI.

The free tier users that will not move to a paid tier aren't the users they will miss. It's only obvious that free tier products get ads. Even Claude will have them within a year or two.

they are source of data, so they are not fully without value.

You're putting a higher price on general user chatter over ad income? Everything is a source of data. How much it can benefit from what's on offer with each data point isn't as much of a given.

If the ads are for the free tier, I think it's a fairly obvious thing to do. But when it comes to the paid tier, even YouTube doesn't pull that kind of stunt.

Anthropic spent a lot of money on a single ad to complain that OpenAI hopes to recuperate some money using ads. Yet everyone else asks themselves, "Who on Earth is Claude, and why is he spending so much money to tell us that?"

Also, I'm crossing my fingers hoping that the ads are only for the free tier. That, to me, would make a lot of sense. Obvious, even.

I wonder if people will eventually surf ad-free by sniffing out these files. Easy to parse (maybe even easier than the actual article itself) and no ads or otherwise unrelated distractions.

What do you mean? I just wanted to share something I am working on. Trying to understand what you meant by ads.

Not your ads. I'm saying that if a site that has ads also has these files, you could get the gist of the article by reading these files instead of going to the ad-laden page itself.

That actually is great, we can add ads detection and extract only the relevant information. Thanks @ksaj

That's a step further than I was thinking, but I most definitely like the direction.

Propaganda for a niche demographic will be consumed in great quantities by that demographic.

I haven't seen if and how the movie's income is (un)balanced between red and blue states, but I have a hunch...