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highplainsdem

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12. How amusing - a chatbot suggesting it had knockout lines in those arguments. Or maybe that was

Reply to WarGamer (Reply #11)

Tue Apr 28, 2026, 12:17 AM

Apr 28

just another aspect of its sycophancy and it wanted you to think those would be knockout lines.

I was watching a video last night with an expert on guitar pedals, who's written books and has his own business, showing how unreliable ChatGPT was, how much it would get wrong, how it would hallucinate lengthy descriptions of nonexistent pedals if given a fake name of a pedal. He was wondering if there'd be any correct information left online for future generations if genAI bots keep running amok.

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AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you. Some lawmakers are worried. [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 27 OP

Even simpler, is everything anyone ever asks an AI going to be subject to surveillance? AZJonnie Apr 27 #1

Good chance it will be. The genAI companies started out by stealing the world's intellectual property. highplainsdem Apr 27 #4

Oh I completely agree! AZJonnie Apr 27 #6

The biggest problem with generative AI was training it on stolen intellectual property. The next biggest highplainsdem Apr 27 #10

This is Gemini responding to your claim re: stealing the World's IP WarGamer Apr 27 #7

The AI slop chatbot version of AI company propaganda. highplainsdem Apr 27 #8

I don't think chatbot responses belong on a message board at all. It's an insult to the entire board, highplainsdem Apr 27 #9

I just asked gemini how it'd reply to an online accusation of theft of ip WarGamer Apr 27 #11

How amusing - a chatbot suggesting it had knockout lines in those arguments. Or maybe that was highplainsdem Apr 28 #12

I'm certain our government will bail out this industry when the boom goes bust... hunter Apr 27 #2

DURec leftstreet Apr 27 #3

K&R highplainsdem Apr 27 #5