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@wsrphoto Wow. Providing a service on a voluntary basis doesn't come with an obligation to keep providing that service. If I invite you for dinner I don't have to keep feeding you forever, that's not how this works.
@Paul has provided this service for free for years, and has given plenty of warning to people who may want to migrate, after making a genuine attempt to find a replacement moderation team.
Kith.Kitchen will be shutting down on the 31st of May. I've not been able to dedicate enough time moderating this instance and we've struggled to build a moderator team. Thanks to all our members who helped to make this such a nice community, but all things must come to an end sooner or later.
To those on other instances - can you recommend some nice communities elsewhere on the fediverse that our users can migrate to?
post-church kebab shop has seriously upped their pitta game
YUM
@siderea slightly off topic but thank you for the short primer on confabulation, which I have been noticing in probably-stressed people I encounter in the course of my week but didn't quite have the vocabulary to reflect on as part of a stress response.
That additional context will help me, I hope, to be less bothered by it in turn, leaving more of my own bandwidth for an appropriate pastoral stance.
Dear everybody re ChatGPT etc,
The word you need that you don't know you need is CONFABULATION.
What y'all are calling "hallucination" is, in neurology and psychology (where it means two slightly different things) called "confabulation".
It means when somebody's just making up something and has no idea that they're making things up, because their brain/mind is glitching.
A lot of folks are both trying to understand the AI chatbots and are trying to grapple with the possible implications for how organic minds work, by speculating about human cognition. Y'all should definitely check into the history of actual research into this topic, it will make your sock roll up and down, and blow your minds. And one of the key areas will be surfaced with that keyword.
There have been a bunch of very clever experiments that have been done on humans and how they explain themselves which betrays that there are parts of the mind that are surprisingly - and even alarmingly - independent.
Frex...
Paul
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