@BartWronski Mendocino only has tourism though. Apparently a lot of it is perfectly authentic, founded in the mid 1850's by immigrants from all over the world, and with a lot of it in historic registers.

If it wasn't for the tourism all that stuff would be abandoned and half wrecked, because the "industry" that used to drive it has fallen off.

Thinking about it, I'm not sure why tourism is "less authentic" than other industries. Different certainly, but what defines "authentic" anyway?

@BartWronski It'd be a slower, more ignorant and bereft world. Leave aside humanity being confined to Eurafria, there's vastly more to history than just the bad. Trade and exchange across the water has driven wonders, while horrors needed no exchange, if not foreigners come to take locals will do just as well.

Upon arrival in the Caribbean the first political situation Columbus (that bastard) stumbled upon was a warring tribe raiding others. War has been invented more times than agriculture.

@glassbottommeg I dunno, seen a lot of people saying the best thing about ChatGPT was using it for search.

I'm willing to see what a search focused implementation is like. I'm going to assume it's not actually just a ChatGPT clone with Bing slapped onto the title.

@parismarx There really needs to be a massive open database of labeled training data for this stuff. No more repeating the same utterly shit work just replicate this again and again and again. It's not like it even has any direct corporate value.

Then again it'd probably be costly from a legal/restricted access pov, still it feels like a dumb problem that should be solveable