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-one years ago)
Smart computer!
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:57 (twenty-one 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-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:59 (twenty-one 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-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: I have no idea.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:02 (twenty-one 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-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: No.
User: You have anal bats?
Jabberwacky: You are my wife.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:07 (twenty-one 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-one 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-one years ago)
User: Holy crap.
Jabberwacky: I'm a dinosaur.
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:11 (twenty-one 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-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:17 (twenty-one 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-one 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-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)
It did say some things that reminded me a lot of RJG.
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one 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-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:42 (twenty-one 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-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― :|, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:07 (twenty-one 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-one 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-one years ago)
That is just hilarious, Kim.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:52 (twenty-one 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-one years ago)
So do I!
― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:43 (twenty-one 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-one years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one 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-one 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-one years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:21 (twenty 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 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 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 years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:47 (twenty 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 years ago)
OMG I remember this.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)
Seeing Google's dumb and obviously wrong AI summaries when I google anything about music (like trying to look up a record with two specific musicians on it, or an interview where one musician references another, or info about traditional/indigenous music), it's just so much worse than search used to be, infuriating.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 16 January 2026 19:42 (three days ago)
it also often gets sports facts incredibly wrong which is even worse since that stuff used to be so easy to look up
― frogbs, Friday, 16 January 2026 20:03 (three days ago)
yeah, I'm annoyed that the AI overview is default now, and you have to manually switch over to 'web' to get rid of it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 16 January 2026 20:04 (three days ago)
"Henry VIII had six wives and I can't remember all their last names except for one of them... see more"
Well, obviously their last name was VIII.
I may have mentioned it before, but on my elderly iPad Google's AI overview actually causes Safari to crash when I search for something with Google. The result renders the AI overview, but struggles, then reloads the page, then crashes. Which makes searching for anything using Google with my iPad's default browser incredibly frustrating. Curiously it works fine if I use Chrome. I can't tell if it's a deliberate attempt by Google to ruin Safari on iPad, either actively or passively, and in fact I can't even work out why it breaks (presumably the result is rendered remotely, and then just piped to the client, just like any other search result, rather than being generated locally).
In any case I want a search engine, not an answers engine. If there's one thing I've learned from The Prisoner and also Talking Heads' "Crosseyed and Painless" and cats it's that answers are a prison for oneself and also facts are useful in emergencies.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 16 January 2026 20:37 (three days ago)
The entire OpenAI/LLM approach to faking intelligence is deeply and permanently flawed. It's reminiscent of the pre-Copernican cosmology where planetary motion was always based upon circular orbits, a scheme that almost sort of worked but kept failing, so astronomers kept piling on further epicycles within epicycles in order to "save the appearances" (meaning: correct the theory to account for the observed data).
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 16 January 2026 20:44 (three days ago)
ugggh that 88 days thing has made me both angry and laugh
― kinder, Friday, 16 January 2026 22:07 (three days ago)
Pizza chain Papa Johns is one of the partners integrating Google’s agentic shopping features into its ordering system. Customers will soon be able to order via a chatbot that can autofill in their last order, suggest items based on dietary restrictions, add coupons and deals, and use a “pizza assistant” to get recommendations for group orders. In a demo video shared by Papa Johns, the chatbot assistant asks for the number of people in the group. Don’t want to count how many people are eating? No problem — just upload a photo of everyone in the group into the Papa Johns chatbot.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863365/national-retail-federation-show-shopping-commerce-ai
"Can everyone come downstairs for a family photo so Papa Johns can count you for our order, please"
― Alba, Saturday, 17 January 2026 11:33 (two days ago)
I'll give that three months
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 17 January 2026 11:49 (two days ago)
“don’t want to count because you’re a fucking moron?”
― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Saturday, 17 January 2026 13:45 (two days ago)
Saw a screenshot where someone posted a photo of anne hathaway and said “grok do your thing.” Grok responded by explaining that anne hathaway was not raised jewish but her husband is jewish. 😐
― treeship., Saturday, 17 January 2026 14:06 (two days ago)
the Papa John's thing is so pathetic because except for the useless, creepy "count the people" thing, all of it is just bog-standard web-order upselling bullshit. next they'll be proudly announcing that, thanks to AI and only AI, when you click to finalize your order, it'll stop and ask if you want to add a two-liter soda. wow!
― Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 17 January 2026 14:20 (two days ago)
Maybe it can guess your dietary restrictions from the photo you upload.
― Alba, Saturday, 17 January 2026 14:37 (two days ago)
Don’t want to count how many people are eating?
jfc
― kinder, Saturday, 17 January 2026 16:30 (two days ago)
there’s a lot of “call stuff we’ve been doing all along AI to sound like we are in the vanguard and get free press by lazy business reporters.”
― Gentler Death Squads Please (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 17 January 2026 16:43 (two days ago)
I'm annoyed that the AI overview is default now, and you have to manually switch over to 'web' to get rid of it
https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
(How to default to "Web" if you search using the address bar.)
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 17 January 2026 16:43 (two days ago)
duckduckgo has its insipid AI assist bubbles now but at least it points you to easy citation sources so you can see where the dumb robot is getting its summarized answers from
― trm (tombotomod), Saturday, 17 January 2026 17:37 (two days ago)
"Excellent catch! You're right - the Estimate Line Items should reference Display Price, not Base Price."
AI getting me 95% there but then making a mistake I have to debut is incredibly infuriating.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 17 January 2026 17:42 (two days ago)
duckduckgo has its insipid AI assist bubbles
This can be turned off in the settings.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 17 January 2026 18:57 (two days ago)
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:pwiuizn4xcmxicotpzzjirhq/bafkreie7rsin4omw2kdpjwg4wn2hxs2cje4b6u5dbnxrgkypcwfhpg7nma@jpeg
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 January 2026 04:53 (yesterday)
somehow this seems like a bad idea
Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/13/elon-musk-grok-hegseth-military-pentagon
― budo jeru, Sunday, 18 January 2026 15:34 (yesterday)
good luck usa
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 18 January 2026 15:35 (yesterday)
Good luck earth
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 18 January 2026 15:39 (yesterday)
we will make pictures of enemies of the state as naked children
― Gentler Death Squads Please (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 18 January 2026 16:08 (yesterday)
big blow for palantir
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2026 17:16 (yesterday)
Apologies if this has already been posted https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/alaska-art-student-arrested-eating-ai-generated-art-protest-1234770081/
― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 18 January 2026 22:38 (yesterday)
It’s so much better after the othef dude ate part of it!!
― trm (tombotomod), Monday, 19 January 2026 00:32 (twenty-three hours ago)
It’s like https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/98.298/ but newer and stupider
― trm (tombotomod), Monday, 19 January 2026 00:33 (twenty-three hours ago)
i couldn't make it through this but if nothing else it's another reason to detest jimmy fallon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAg8_yf9zA
― budo jeru, Monday, 19 January 2026 02:59 (twenty hours ago)
jimmy fallon should be euthanized for his own good, and ours
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 January 2026 03:02 (twenty hours ago)
Sam Altman has discovered the revolutionary game-changing surefire-profit-making path of advertising and subscriptions.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/openai-to-test-ads-in-chatgpt-as-it-burns-through-billions/
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, 19 January 2026 03:13 (twenty hours ago)
i'm not sure if tristan harris is a crank or not but i like this quote from jon stewart: "they [AI companies] are strip mining the totality of human experience." even in a scenario where this kind of thing was inevitable, it's just insane to me that these people have unleashed this on the world. it should be locked up very securely in the temple with a handful of oracles. or maybe that's what's happening and the generative chatbots we see is just crumbs for us peasants. it's unnerving to think we're in an implicit arms race with China with this stuff. even in the best case scenario the outcome is going to be really fucking grim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo
― budo jeru, Monday, 19 January 2026 03:13 (twenty hours ago)
were in an arms race with china except theyre building solar panels and were building computers that tell people to kill themselves
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 January 2026 03:25 (twenty hours ago)
i mean, we have literal fascists developing the most powerful technology ever known to mankind, they are already using it for surveillance and military applications, it's just a matter of time before it becomes visible
― budo jeru, Monday, 19 January 2026 16:56 (six hours ago)
Powerful how again?
― trm (tombotomod), Monday, 19 January 2026 17:10 (six hours ago)
I find the advertisements for this to be profoundly depressing. there's one where a guy invites a girl over for presumably a first date and he's asking ChatGPT what to cook to give the impression that he's interested but not too serious? in the commercial it does appear the girl is impressed with his cooking, but I have to wonder what happens when she asks "so where did you get this recipe?" and the guy responds "oh I asked the computer for a recipe that matched my romantic intentions"??? is not the wonder of dating the fact that you have to figure these things out for yourself, thereby giving your potential partner a cute little view into how your mind works?
― frogbs, Monday, 19 January 2026 17:28 (six hours ago)
or the road trip one, where it says "would you like me to make you a road trip playlist based on your likes?"....I mean, no doubt it could probably cobble together a decent personalized playlist, but what kind of person actually wants to use ChatGPT in this way? isn't making your own playlist one of the few things in life that's actually still fun to do?
― frogbs, Monday, 19 January 2026 17:31 (six hours ago)
yeah those ads always leave me wondering if the protagonists are serial killers
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 January 2026 17:31 (six hours ago)
― trm (tombotomod), Monday, January 19, 2026 11:10 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Similar to Palantir’s other systems, ImmigrationOS will pull together vast amounts of data, detect patterns, and flag individuals who meet certain criteria, raising concerns about potential impacts on civil liberties in America. Those concerns are amplified by the revelation that Stephen Miller, the Trump administration’s chief architect of immigration policy, holds a substantial financial stake in Palantir
Since 2013, Palantir has provided ICE with systems like FALCON and Investigative Case Management (ICM), which have been used in workplace raids, large-scale enforcement operations, and investigations involving asylum seekers—showing how Palantir’s pattern-finding capabilities have long been central to ICE’s most aggressive tactics and raising concerns that ImmigrationOS could enable similar or expanded practices.The company has two main products, Foundry and Gotham, which are used by agencies like the Department of Defense, the IRS, and ICE. Foundry helps unify and visualize massive data sets from tax records to biometrics. Gotham is designed for law enforcement and the military to identify connections between people, places, and events.
The company has two main products, Foundry and Gotham, which are used by agencies like the Department of Defense, the IRS, and ICE. Foundry helps unify and visualize massive data sets from tax records to biometrics. Gotham is designed for law enforcement and the military to identify connections between people, places, and events.
― budo jeru, Monday, 19 January 2026 18:20 (five hours ago)
Palantir isn’t built on LLMs
― trm (tombotomod), Monday, 19 January 2026 18:23 (five hours ago)
But your point stands
Perhaps the starkest example is in China, where AI enables surveillance on a widespread scale. Coupled with social media monitoring, cameras, and facial recognition, the technology enables authorities to track dissidents and government critics and identify their statements and locations. There is infrastructure in place that can integrate information from a variety of sources and analyze it in real time for government authorities.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-ai-can-enable-public-surveillance/
― budo jeru, Monday, 19 January 2026 18:23 (five hours ago)
Video analytics, the technology to make that possible, has been developing for many years. Now, the same generative artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that have revolutionized large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are in the process of creating a new, more powerful generation of this technology that could super-charge video surveillance.In 2019, the ACLU published a report on how video analytics makes it possible for machines to not jut record oceans of video, but to “watch” that video — in the sense that they’re able to analyze, in real time, what’s happening in a video feed — and send alarms to humans when certain conditions are met. Video data, which was formerly very difficult to search and analyze, has also become increasingly searchable through queries such as “find me a male wearing a purple shirt and carrying a violin case” that (like face recognition) can now be run across vast amounts of video data. Since then, video analytics technologies have become widely available, with most commercial surveillance cameras including some form of the technology built in.
In 2019, the ACLU published a report on how video analytics makes it possible for machines to not jut record oceans of video, but to “watch” that video — in the sense that they’re able to analyze, in real time, what’s happening in a video feed — and send alarms to humans when certain conditions are met. Video data, which was formerly very difficult to search and analyze, has also become increasingly searchable through queries such as “find me a male wearing a purple shirt and carrying a violin case” that (like face recognition) can now be run across vast amounts of video data. Since then, video analytics technologies have become widely available, with most commercial surveillance cameras including some form of the technology built in.
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/machine-surveillance-is-being-super-charged-by-large-ai-models
― budo jeru, Monday, 19 January 2026 18:25 (five hours ago)
so this is an extremely powerful technology that's already being put to use for surveillance in both china and the us, the latter being a full-on fascist state with no meaningful opposition from democrats or industry, and it's only going to become more powerful and more insidious, and there's basically zero political will to regulate it so ... ?
― budo jeru, Monday, 19 January 2026 18:28 (five hours ago)
Palantir isn’t built on LLMs― trm (tombotomod), Monday, January 19, 2026 1:23 PM (five minutes ago)
― trm (tombotomod), Monday, January 19, 2026 1:23 PM (five minutes ago)
the transformer technology behind LLMs is being applied to a lot of datasets that aren't natural language and by all accounts it's working pretty well
one reason why i think the ai bubble won't really burst
― 龜, Monday, 19 January 2026 18:30 (five hours ago)
i mean its going to burst hugely no accounts of it working pretty well on some stuff are going to fix the basic math of the situation
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 January 2026 18:40 (five hours ago)
one of the things thats so tiresome about this shit is the constant pr bullshit aclu echoing back palantirs bullshit, theres so little reliable information youre left reading tea leaves and relying on common sense conclusions like covering the entire earth in data centers wouldnt be profitable
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 January 2026 18:46 (four hours ago)
otm
― trm (tombotomod), Monday, 19 January 2026 19:13 (four hours ago)
I thought this was pretty interesting
AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems
― Alba, Monday, 19 January 2026 20:05 (three hours ago)
Yup
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 January 2026 21:20 (two hours ago)
well that's no fun, what are mathematicians going to do in their free time now
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 19 January 2026 21:38 (two hours ago)