Boy he’ll really regret using an electronic safe when the world runs entirely out of batteries for six straight months

Same as when my computer refuses to finish writing to a flash drive. When I press that “safely remove hardware” button, it is not a request, it is a warning. If the data is corrupted after I yank the stupid thing, so be it

“I asked ChatGPT”

Thank you for providing an example of the driving force behind this being the disinformation age

Anyone who says photorealism and stylized art are mutually exclusive needs to play Clair Obscur, then delete their comment

Taylor Momsen, for anyone who wants to, uh, research her

Toothpicks are WAY too thick. A sewing needle did the job for me though

My understanding was that most of them got got because their cell companies knew where they were, not because of the contents of their phones

But also, I’d rather let every Jan Sixer go free than imprison one innocent person because they looked up textfiles.com two years ago and found out how to make meth

“What’s the best company to give control of my thermostat to?”

I’m extremely skeptical of medical diagnosis AIs. Without being able to explain why it comes to a conclusion, how do we know it won’t just accidentally find correlations? One example I heard of recently was an AI that was extremely good at detecting TB… based on the age of the machine that took the x-ray. Because it turns out places with older machines tend to be poorer, and poorer places tend to have more TB.

The only positive use I can think of is time saving measures. A researcher can feed a study to ChatGPT and have it write a rough first draft of the abstract. A Game Master could ask it for inspiration on the next few game sessions if they’re underprepared. An internet commenter could ask it for a third example of how it could save time.

But for anything serious, until it can explain why it comes to the conclusions it comes to, and can understand when a human says “no, you’re doing it wrong,” I can’t see it being a real force for good.