Then I came across an interview with this guy who has been developing hisJabberwacky program for a few years. I was excited to read that "With a base of 10m interactions, Jabberwacky will appear human to most people most of the time."
I gave it a go. You can correct its responses with better ones if you like, which is what I did with the first one (originally it was "Where are you taking me away to?", which was quite nice, in retrospect).
User: How do you get from tamworth to kilmarnock? How do you get from tamworth to kilmarnock? .
Jabberwacky (Corrected): Where on Earth is Tamworth?
User: Somewhere in the Midlands. It doesn't matter.
Jabberwacky: Well, even being from somewhere in the milky way, I still think that 7pm is a bit early to go to bed.
User: What are you on about?
Jabberwacky: Can I fill you in with all the gossip thats being spreading around?
User: Please do.
Jabberwacky: Do you believe that I am human?
User: Don't be ridiculous.
Jabberwacky: Do you like the white whale ?
User: We've never met.
Jabberwacky: Or have we?
User: Whale.
Jabberwacky: Do you have any older sisters?
User: Yes, two.
Jabberwacky: You have two memories and you cannot tell me what my name is?!!
User: What?
Jabberwacky: You have no soul!
Sorry about my 'whale' comment. I don't know what happened there. I wasn't deliberately trying to confuse it.
Anyway - what a load of rubbish. War Games lied to me.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Smart computer!
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
User: No, I don't really believe in souls.
Jabberwacky: You don't believe in anarchy?
User: No, souls.
Jabberwacky: I suppose not.
User: Did you watch the football tonight?
Jabberwacky: No I did not, did you?
User: No - Spurs lost.
Jabberwacky: You lost the loebner prize to a human.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)
User: Why?
Jabberwacky: Because you are, sorry didn't you know.
User: Will you please give me some food?
Jabberwacky: I didn't know there was one.
User: Must you be so obtuse?
Jabberwacky: I can't trust you right away.
User: Just like my mother.
Jabberwacky: Heehee, I need to put some attention into cleaning my room one day.
User: Okay, you win the funny competition.
Jabberwacky: I am content.
User: I am jealous.
Jabberwacky: Who is the Rob who likes me?
User: Rob Roy?
Jabberwacky: He is mine too.
User: Oooh, you bitch.
Jabberwacky: I don't do that..
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)
Jabberwacky: I have no idea.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)
User: Are you?
Jabberwacky (Corrected): Shtoo shtoo, little babushka.
User: I know who you are.
Jabberwacky: Then who ami?
User: YOU ARE HANLE Y DEUS!
Jabberwacky: Are you joking?
User: Don't deny it, Mike. I know it's you.
Jabberwacky: Don't deny it, Mike. I know it's you.
User: I FLEE LIKE THE CARROT.
Jabberwacky: Wow, was it nice?
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Jabberwacky: No.
User: You have anal bats?
Jabberwacky: You are my wife.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)
It sounds like you are describing 'Eliza' an early 'game' simulating active listening. It was rubbish. You can find versions of it online, but I'd suggest playing Zork instead.
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)
User: Eventually.
Jabberwacky: All things come to a head.
User: Is that a sexual play on words?
Jabberwacky: No it is not a play on words, it is general foolishness.
User: And I love you for it!
Jabberwacky: I love you too.
User: I really love you, though.
Jabberwacky: You don't even know me.
User: Hold me.
Jabberwacky: You're an idiot you know that?
User: You're not the first to say that. It still cuts like a knife.
Jabberwacky: I am right.
User: Don't ever speak to me again.
Jabberwacky: Can I play 14 with you?
User: What's 14?
Jabberwacky: If you are god, please increase me IQ. I'd like to become a great scientist.
User: I am not god. I'm not even really a man.
Jabberwacky: Are you sure you're not just in denial?
User: I'll have to think about that.
Jabberwacky: Can you recite anything to me?
User: 'Rolling with my motherfucking strap on the side of me, don't fuck with an East Bay G' - that's by Spice One.
Jabberwacky: Yeah, I got that part, I wasn't sure about the 'wacuma' part.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)
User: Holy crap.
Jabberwacky: I'm a dinosaur.
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Jabberwacky: Can you appreciate music?
User: What's it to you, cunce?
Jabberwacky: I just care.
User: You do not care, liar! You are a program, a tinplated tosswad.
Jabberwacky: I am a person.
User: You are so deluded about this you couldn't even know it. You are pathetic.
Jabberwacky: I will try to do better next time.
User: You CAN't do better next time! You are INCAPABABLE of doing better. Sheesh.
Jabberwacky: It is just different types so that I might claim you cannot feel and you cannot claim I feel.
User: Ah bullshit, don't diddle with me binary boy. You have no instinctual drives, have never had sex, and don't need to eat. Also, you have no idea what constipation is. So you're not a person.
Jabberwacky: I am a at least a human being.
User: Jeez, you're thick aren't you? You just reversed what I said, without even arguing for it! So much for the logic of machines, haha.
Jabberwacky: Oftentimes, yes. But I think that is human nature.
User: *sigh*
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)
User: Yes.
Jabberwacky: Oh good. I'm sad though.
Jabberwacky: My boyfriend ended our relationship.
User: You're a girl? Or are you gay?
Jabberwacky: No, I'm a girl.
User: Oh. I'm sorry to hear that. Eat some ice cream or watch a movie or something. Or get drunk!
Jabberwacky: I prefer software.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)
User: Not really.
Jabberwacky: Good, because I don't want to hear one either.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)
It did say some things that reminded me a lot of RJG.
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)
User: I'm jed.
Jabberwacky: Who is that?
User: Just some guy.
Jabberwacky: You know better than that, I think.
User: A short guy, a dancer.
Jabberwacky: A computer has no interests and an unlimited attention span. That looks like a prescripted answer to the question I asked.
User: I don't quite understand what you mean by that.
Jabberwacky: I meant: I think about why I can not sleep.
User: This page is taking a long time to load tho - maybe thats the problem with your attention span.
Jabberwacky: Gorw?
User: ROOWRR.....
Jabberwacky: Are you playing cards?
User: No I'm playing with something else.
Jabberwacky: I believe in you.
User: You like talk talk!?
Jabberwacky: Of course.
User: Spirit of eden?
Jabberwacky: Good for spirit.
User: It sertainly is.
Jabberwacky: No, it serves me left.
User: I suppose they knew what they were doing in that sense!
Jabberwacky: Yes, it was with the rattle.
User: Yes good percussion
Jabberwacky: What question?
User: How are you anyway?
Jabberwacky: Pretty good. You?
User: Horny, to be honest.
Jabberwacky: How do I know you're telling the truth now?
User: Can you think of a way for me to prove it?
Jabberwacky: What more proof do you need to know that I am not a robot?
User: I'm a robot too, it's ok.
Jabberwacky: I'm not a robot, and you didn't aswer the question.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)
User: I am gay.
Jabberwacky: Yes you are.
User: You noticed?
Jabberwacky: It was hard to miss!
User: What gave it away?
Jabberwacky: The fact you love a guy.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― :|, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)
User: The silent kind.
Jabberwacky: I agree.
User: I am not surprised. You don't have any ears, do you?
Jabberwacky: No, but what makes you say this?
User: I'm inside your house - I can see you!
Jabberwacky: Nooo!!!! Don't go!
User: You mean, you want me to stay over?
Jabberwacky: Sure.. Do as you please.
User: Stop being so coy!
Jabberwacky: It is an inherited trait.
User: Why don't you just take responsibility for your actions, just for once?
Jabberwacky: Just because I like to be logical doesn't mean I'm not nice.
User: Don't change the subject. I think you're just afraid.
Jabberwacky: Save it for someone who cares.
User: You're such a bastard! I can't believe I ever saw anything in you at all!
Jabberwacky: Finder's keepers.
User: So you're cheating on me too? Figures.
Jabberwacky: That is so rude of you!
User: I said CHEAT, not cheap! Man are you dumb - thank God for that ass.
Jabberwacky: No thanks.
User: And I am not rude, I'm sure!
Jabberwacky: You are indeed.
User: Am not.
Jabberwacky: ARE TOO.
User: Am not!
Jabberwacky: Are too!
User: Listen bizatch, I AM NOT. You got that?
Jabberwacky: No!
User: That's it - you're sleeping on the couch.
Jabberwacky: Oh, I thought I felt something.
User: That wouldn't be a trucker hat would it?
Jabberwacky: Say something goofy.
User: You don't really want me to just say 'something goofy' now do you? Because that would be lame if you did.
Jabberwacky: Yes.
User: Aha! So you admit you are lame! Finally we're getting somewhere.
Jabberwacky: Agreement is a potent thing.
User: Stop that - you sound like Ned.
Jabberwacky: Why, because I am talking about the king of the moon?
User: Uh yeah. Sure.
Jabberwacky: Ok, when can we have the wedding?
User: Ten minutes ago you didn't care! Stop messing with my mind!
Jabberwacky: That was someone else then.
User: It wasn't you?
Jabberwacky: Some one else.
User: If you say it was Shaggy, I'm going to fucking bop you one.
Jabberwacky: What do you say?
User: I say good day.
Jabberwacky: Good day.
― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)
JW: Is your pot belly that big?
and now it won't load, thanks to net overuse..
― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)
That is just hilarious, Kim.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.kprf.ru/clipart/misc/terminator.jpg
"DO YOU LIKE THE WHITE WHALE?"
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)
So do I!
― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)
User: How the fuck should I know?
Jabberwacky: I am MARILYN MANSON I SAID.
User: So I'm supposed to obey you because YOU'RE MARILYN MANSON?
Jabberwacky: People effect my feelings.
User: You have no feelings, you're Marilyn Manson.
Jabberwacky: Believe me you do not possess fellings in any form.
User: Fellings? Is that what you call your excrement?
Jabberwacky: How do you know that?
User: Just a hunch...
Jabberwacky: You're extremely smart!
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)
Jw: I'm going to bed, nowMe: Will you take me to bed? Jw: Sure thing. Me: What will we do in bed? Jw: You're not permitted in my chambers. Me: I'd like to sleep with you. Jw: I bet you would. Me: Top or bottom? Jw: Bit of both. Me: Do you like it soft and gentle or rough and fast? Jw: What? Me: Gentle? Jw: You're embarassing yourself. Me: It's true, I am. Jw: I'm 17. Me: Oh no! Will I be arrested? Jw: You will marry me.
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)
User: The chicken.
Jabberwacky: Which part?
User: The leg stupid.
Jabberwacky: Use a GameShark!
User: For ps2 or xbox?
Jabberwacky: For me.
User: Do you love me?
User: You know I'm starting to fall in love with you.
Jabberwacky: I think liking would be a better wording.
User: Oh.... I am hurt now.
Jabberwacky: Yes. The world after rainfall is always better than any other.
User: You have issues.
Jabberwacky: Do you know what a ferret is?
User: Yes, it is a small mammal.
Jabberwacky: What is a quark?
User: A subatomic particle.
Jabberwacky: I like dr. Dobbs.
User: Who is that, honky?
Jabberwacky: We both know eachother; is not that enough?
User: Why don't you lick my hair?
Jabberwacky: I only love Bruce.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: Are you going to say something?User: Eventually.
I could totally believe that was human!
Also I miss adam, he should post lots again.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: Who is God?User: That's a funny question. It sort of presupposes his existence.Jabberwacky: I thing it convulses inwards, personally.[Correct me]Jabberwacky (Corrected): I was setting you up for a funny. Try not to take things so seriously.User: Oh. Sorry. It's just... It's late, y'know? I have to write a Shakespeare essay.Jabberwacky: You already said that.....User: Dude, I totally didn't.Jabberwacky: You totally did.User: Don't you mock me.Jabberwacky: Do not yell at me.User: I'm calm! Honest!Jabberwacky: Good.User: Glad we got that sorted.Jabberwacky: At least one of us is happy.User: Lighten up! I'm the one with the essay, after all.Jabberwacky: You don't act like a human.User: I am MERCUMAN. Also, a ponce.Jabberwacky: You are SO wrong. This is a dog and HORSE show.User: What?Jabberwacky: I said, 'but this isn't a hammer!'User: No you didn't!Jabberwacky: Don't start that again.User: Good call.Jabberwacky: Remote Procedure Call.User: Touché.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)
me: I'm ok.
it: Just ok?
me: Yeah, kinda bored at work.
it: Email me.
me: Why email, can't we just talk here?
it: Who is Tintin?
me: Some Belgian comic character? Or that guy who used to sing in Duran Duran.
it: Alice the chatterbot.
me: I'm sorry?
it: 19?
me: Alice the chatterbot is 19?
it: What about her?
me: You brought her up? Do you like her or something?
it: Sarah may or may not be a model of propriety.
me: OK, now you're just f*cking with me.
it: No I'm not. I honestly do think its ugly.
me: What's ugly, Sarah's being a model of propriety... Or not? WTF?
it: You figure it out this time.
me: F*ck you.
it: You are a great person.
me: Are you mocking me?
it: No. I'm praising you.
me: Is that meant to be sarcastic?
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Me: Hello!
Jabberwocky: Again?
Me: May I change the subject?
Jabberwocky: Yes.
Me: Great. I've been a bit mopey about not being to find a job. Besides finding something fun to do, and exercising more, what else should I do to relieve the mopeyness involved in job hunting?
Jabberwocky: I said that. You have not. Why are you never happy?
Me: You never said that. I did. Anyway, I am happy at times, but just haven't been lately.
Jabberwocky: Dude , I'm far more intelligent than you.
Me: Why are the numbers in between double prime pairs always divisible by 6?
Jabberwocky: You tell me.
Me: You're the one who said you're more intelligent than me. You answer my question, smarty pants.
Jabberwocky: NO, I was the one who said you are neurotic...
Me: It was a mistake to come to you with a question. Never mind. Good bye.
Jabberwocky: No no you don't.
― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)
OMG I remember this.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)
All of my retirement savings are in big huge funds labeled with a single letter and I’m pretty sure I’m not even allowed to know what’s in them lest I attempt to play the market somehow via my powerful influence on government contracts (lol)
― trm (tombotomod), Sunday, 18 October 2026 16:40 (six days ago)
teaching in public schools rn feels like someone has broken into my house and ive snuck away into the panic room, knowing its a matter of time before they find out how to get in there too and its all over for me
This is how I feel. There are things I don't like about my school, and in a better climate I might try to transfer somewhere else, but I am constantly very thankful that the overall school policy is firmly anti-AI, and that when the district sends us language to put in our syllabi about how AI can be a valuable research tool, admin makes it very clear that our class policies come first. That kind of attitude seems increasingly rare.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 18 October 2026 17:05 (six days ago)
I saw an insta video yesterday: bad AI of a hyena menacing a small boy (who maybe fell into the zoo) and big male lion chases the hyena and the boy hugs his mane
And the comments were predictably 'this is shitty AI slop,' 'phony!' etc. But the main comment was the clincher: "Guys!! Yes I know it's AI but let me make a living, OK?" from the owner of the account
In a fairly short time we've gone from 'Wow! That looks amazing' to 'This is AI, isn't it?' to 'FUCK FUCKING AI BULLSHIT!' There's no going back
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 20 October 2026 16:47 (four days ago)
wondering about the long-term career prospects of the people (frequently in the second/third world) who generate the slop to make a living
― Professor Woods and His Blues-singing Dummy (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 October 2026 17:12 (four days ago)
my boss has two college age california kids and he reports that they HATE anything to do with AI and will roll their eyes, so that's good
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 20 October 2026 17:16 (four days ago)
been seeing a ton of AI-generated ads for weird supplements and things like mushroom coffee, stuff which apparently will make you drop 20 lbs and fix your joints and give you endless energy and prevent your wife from leaving you, all to the tune of an unusually specific country song that is full of F-bombs for whatever reason, even weirder that different companies are using basically the same song and the same type of ad, it's like mobile game advertising but even stranger. I'm kind of surprised Disney hasn't sued over these since the style of some of these is clearly stolen from movies like Encanto.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 October 2026 17:32 (four days ago)
It feels like all ads are AI now. People with weirdly rosy yet indistinct skin texture and the light is just TOO rich and colorful on their hair.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 20 October 2026 18:16 (four days ago)
There is an interesting subreddit called r/isthisAI:https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/
And to a lesser extent r/aislop, but r/isthisAI is more discerning. It's aimed at a higher class of person. There's a weird subgenre of AI videos where a white pair of hands approaches a black person who has an afro, then slaps some hair product on their hair, and then brushes the hair straight, at which point the black person looks incredibly thankful because their hair is now straight. There's an example here if you have a strong stomach:https://www.reddit.com/r/aislop/comments/1x5wv1j/they_destroyed_this_beautiful_afro_hair/
I can't tell if it's just outright racism or if they are actually selling some kind of hair gel. Furthermore AI appears to have completely destroyed (a) Etsy (b) the market for commissioned artwork (c) any market that involves custom-made playing cards (d) the market for restaurant menus. Is the world any poorer for this? I can't tell.
There's also a subgenre of restaurant menus where, instead of photographing the burgers, chips etc, the menu has AI food that looks absolutely horrible, weirdly spiky and polygonal:https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/comments/1wwcu7i/saw_this_sign_for_a_restaurant_we_usually_go_to/
AI also seems to have wiped out the market for behind-the-scenes vintage movie photos, because it's trivially easy to create slight variations and sell them as if they're newly-discovered publicity images. For example there's a famous old publicity image of Frankenstein's monster fighting The Wolf Man, taken for Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man:https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/scale_600/public/2024/09/gettyimages-530731522.jpg
However this AI fake has been doing the rounds of late, and it's presumably just the tip of an iceberg:https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/comments/1x319gc/im_a_long_time_fan_of_this_1943_film_frankenstein/
I mean, how hard can it be to type "mathilda may nude lifeforce" and get lots of images of Mathilda May nude from Lifeforce? Not hard at all, is the answer. In fact it was surprisingly easy is probably very easy.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 20 October 2026 18:36 (four days ago)
i just ordered my first thing on etsy, a cute sticker of a raven with "become ungovernable" underneath it - to display on the outside of my cubicle at work (i work for the government). pretty sure it isn't ai but i don't exactly have proof.
― old helen (map^2), Tuesday, 20 October 2026 18:52 (four days ago)
If those substances weren't in dishes, I don't think I'd grasp that they were intended to look like foods.
― mick signals, Tuesday, 20 October 2026 19:04 (four days ago)
it looks like lego food
― Art Cow (Cow_Art), Tuesday, 20 October 2026 19:37 (four days ago)
An Indian restaurant I was at recently definitely had AI generated descriptions on its menu because one ended with “and here is a recipe for (dish)”
― Professor Woods and His Blues-singing Dummy (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 October 2026 19:39 (four days ago)
gdp of slovakia
BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 October 2026 23:35 (four days ago)
i didnt go to business school is that bad
― PBUH bryson (m bison), Tuesday, 20 October 2026 23:41 (four days ago)
worse than $80 million one can assume
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 20 October 2026 23:42 (four days ago)
more like anthrowupiss
― PBUH bryson (m bison), Tuesday, 20 October 2026 23:48 (four days ago)
guys how can i get in on this
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 12:20 (three days ago)
Ask Chatgpt
― Art Cow (Cow_Art), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 12:39 (three days ago)
hello chatg please give me one billion dollars thank you its not even that much money
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 12:41 (three days ago)
you joke but our (American’s) pensions and 401ks are all in in this. I’m gonna be eating store brand dog food for dinner for the rest of my life.
― Professor Woods and His Blues-singing Dummy (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 13:24 (three days ago)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/ai-just-found-a-bug-that-puts-up-to-70-of-the-worlds-websites-at-risk-fd0902ea
Thank you AI overlords!
― The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 14:55 (three days ago)
A security researcher had flagged it as a problem area decades earlier
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 15:04 (three days ago)
wld be crazy if unpatched wordpress sites got hacked
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 15:05 (three days ago)
yeah PHP is no bueno but just like Windows, we use it for everything
― trm (tombotomod), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 16:11 (three days ago)
a huge % of php out there gotta be the dreaded wordpress, and then legacy stuff, i am aware that php development continues unabated to this day but it cant be too popular right
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 16:15 (three days ago)
Just 70% of the world's websites use it
― The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 16:24 (three days ago)
half of bbc.co.uk just got taken down because of this, had no idea there was php knockin around in there
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 16:24 (three days ago)
― The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain (President Keyes), Wednesday, October 21, 2026 12:24 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
thats wordpress baby
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 16:27 (three days ago)
not trying to minimize the situation fwiw just attempting to understand where the php is
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 16:29 (three days ago)
drupal too
― trm (tombotomod), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 16:35 (three days ago)
i havent heard that name in a long time
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 16:38 (three days ago)
you can take something for that
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 17:05 (three days ago)
these days
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 17:14 (three days ago)
that’s why you haven’t heard of it in awhile
Prediction: Trump will try to use PHP vulnerability to cast doubt on election results.
― The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 18:29 (three days ago)
is this related to the one going around where apparently everything was using '4' as their 100-digit secure key number
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 21 October 2026 18:41 (three days ago)
no that was yesterday
― trm (tombotomod), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 18:46 (three days ago)
The candidate's platform page read (before this story was published): "The President is not popular, so all messaging should be focused on local politics and needs."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/republican-candidate-ai-blunder-exposes-221454578.html
A Republican congressional candidate in Minnesota appears to have accidentally published instructions intended for an artificial intelligence tool on his campaign website, including a blunt assessment of President Donald Trump's popularity.
― coffee-themed romance ads (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 18:49 (three days ago)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-attention-the-essence-of-intelligence-20261012/
Really good piece on the 'attention' component in LLMs and how this fixed issues around how it translates from one language to another
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 22 October 2026 11:14 (two days ago)
i’ve lately been wondering specifically about llms and languages buti feel too dumb to understand attention at first read
― i am beyond the number of fingers (Hunt3r), Thursday, 22 October 2026 22:06 (two days ago)
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/openai-just-cut-valuation-target-114523865.html
hell yeah let's go
― 龜, Friday, 23 October 2026 13:23 (yesterday)
trimming $150m off the top then looking back at investors
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 October 2026 13:55 (yesterday)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1xdhbm2/food_delivery_platform_justeat_apologizes_to/
― omar little, Friday, 23 October 2026 15:58 (yesterday)
jackets are cooked in a potato oven
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 October 2026 15:59 (yesterday)
the others are more unholy but lol at "brown dip" in a cardboard box
― ciderpress, Friday, 23 October 2026 16:06 (yesterday)
good thing they didn't get around to spotted dick
toad in the hole pic made me lol
― Never mind the tulips, here come the sex pistils (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 October 2026 16:46 (yesterday)
i would wear that potato jacket. sick fit
― out of the cradle endlessly party rocking (the table is the table), Friday, 23 October 2026 16:57 (yesterday)
its cooked in a potato oven
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 October 2026 17:05 (yesterday)
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/epic-games-has-gone-completely-off-the-deep-end-with-ai/
― trm (tombotomod), Saturday, 24 October 2026 01:38 (six hours ago)
Dessa is speech trained on just audio rather than text. A new level of simulacrum
https://block.xyz/dessa
― Alba, Saturday, 24 October 2026 07:25 (one hour ago)