@lauren I know you could unverify yourself by blocking @verified so you’d think that it wouldn’t be that difficult to just zap everybody. Who knows with hard core Twitter though.

I’m extremely impressed at Elons efforts to make more than 50% revenue through subscriptions being more successful than anyone could expect although doing it by crushing the ad revenue seems a bit dumb.

@cstross it’s just picking a common word that often follows the word before. It has basic rules on sentence structures but that’s about it. It has no actual facts, just word associations but so many word associations people are blinded by it. Ask it how to finish in 3 darts for any number and you will discover it can’t - the concept of getting to zero is there because presumably a lot of associations but not that 60 + 57 + 50 = 167.

This is not the AI we were promised in the 80s and 90s, it’s less than a knowledge base and is basically 100% waffle.

It passes the Turing test but only if you are limiting a conversation to stuff you know nothing about, then it’s all plausible word soup.

@cstross bosses are stupid, women are irritable, Indians are hard working but incredibly naive and foreigners are inferior humans. I think the only black character he had was sometimes black and sometimes white and killed off periodically.

If you ever looked at the comment sections under his comics on his website they’ve been nothing but white supremacists right wing asshats for a long time.