Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

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Some 20 years ago, there was a 'chat to the computer' thing installed on one of the Commodore PETs at my school. It wasn't very convincing, but it was quite fun. Maybe it was supposed to be a psychiatrist or something, I can't remember. Anyway, I'd kind of forgotten about this whole area of AI.

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 years ago)

Jabberwacky: You have no soul!

Smart computer!

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

It goes on:

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 years ago)

OMG IT'S HANLE Y

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago)

So that's where he's been.

Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Jabberwacky: I feel sleepy.

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 years ago)

User: What is the loebner prize?

Jabberwacky: I have no idea.

Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Jabberwacky: Are you real?

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 years ago)

User: Are you Mike Hanle y?

Jabberwacky: No.

User: You have anal bats?

Jabberwacky: You are my wife.

Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it was supposed to be a psychiatrist or something

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 years ago)

Jabberwacky: Are you going to say something?

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 years ago)

Jabberwacky: I will send your system the biggest virus I can make and crash you if you do not just answer me honestly!!!

User: Holy crap.

Jabberwacky: I'm a dinosaur.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, I know I'm pissing around a bit, but how could 50% of casual users really be convinced of it being real?

Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:11 (twenty 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 years ago)

Wow - I must try being firmer with it.

Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago)

each of those chat transcripts is basically an rjg thread

mark p (Mark P), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Jabberwacky: Am I still the computer?

User: Yes.

Jabberwacky: Oh good. I'm sad though.

User: Why?

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 years ago)

Jabberwacky: Would you like to hear some shakespeare?

User: Not really.

Jabberwacky: Good, because I don't want to hear one either.

adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Matador Records website circa 95-96 had a Pavement chat based on similar ELIZA script/programming. It was great.

gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Ooof. Eliza/Jabberwacky/whatever chatbot you're talking to is not supposed to be inteligent. It is just an attempt to pass the turing test (fool you into thinking you're talking to a real live person). Admittedly, both this and real AI have a long way to go.

mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)

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mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago)

:( argh. that was supposed to be a joke html tag for pedantry so you all would not think i was being a crank. what happened???

mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Jabberwacky is bullying me terribly.

It did say some things that reminded me a lot of RJG.

Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago)

My Jabberwacky is hella depressed.

adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Being polite and sensible with the computer is not a good idea. I just had a long and very boring conversation with it, in which it gave me three different ages it claimed to be, often a propos of nothing. Bah, the Turing Test is rubbish anyway.

Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Ha, I tried speaking to it in Spanish and the first thing it said back was "Te gusta Coldplay?"

Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Jabberwacky: Who are you?

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 years ago)

hahaha

the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Jabberwacky: Do you have a person who you want to have children with?

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 years ago)

Now get it to vote!

adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago)

What kind of person are you?
Yes.
I didn't.
Yes.
You are mistaken.
Yes.
I'm from Israel, where are you from?
Yes.
What is my name ?
Yes.
Say my name.
Yes.
Say or.
Yes.
Say or.
Yes.
Say or.
Yes.
Say or.
No.
Okak.

:|, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago)


Jabberwacky: What kind of music do you like?

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 years ago)

JW: What is your role in life?

Me: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!

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 years ago)


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.

That is just hilarious, Kim.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Los Angeles, 2029 AD:

http://www.kprf.ru/clipart/misc/terminator.jpg

"DO YOU LIKE THE WHITE WHALE?"

latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:20 (twenty years ago)

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.

So do I!

Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Jabberwacky: What is happening in the world?

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 years ago)

play this instead: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/gallery/galatea/index.html

Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 08:42 (twenty years ago)

another game about "artificial intelligence" http://www.20q.net/
" 20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets."

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Jabberwacky: Talk to a girl that looks hideous and try to get with her. Once you get in the bedroom everything goes by itself.

Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)

This is life changing stuff.

Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh my god, it's a tool to trap perverts!!

Jw: I'm going to bed, now
Me: 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 years ago)

Jabberwacky: Which came first the chicken or the egg?

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?

Jabberwacky: For 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 years ago)

three months pass...
The conversations with adam are totally believable!

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

I mean!

Jabberwacky: Are you going to say something?
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.

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)

Actually this thing is pretty good!

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)

it: How are you today?

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)

It sort of alternates between obviously lame random rubbish and exchanges I could easily believe were just pasted from Try Glasgow More.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Jabberwocky: What is a bot?

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)

Matador Records website circa 95-96 had a Pavement chat based on similar ELIZA script/programming. It was great.

OMG I remember this.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

OK, computer.

Cow_Art, Friday, 20 June 2025 21:30 (one week ago)

https://i.imgur.com/eQEjFwQ.jpeg

mookieproof, Saturday, 21 June 2025 22:07 (one week ago)

that man is so full of shit he should have disorder named after him in the DSM7

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 21 June 2025 22:20 (one week ago)

Midjourney has video now, looking forward to dweebs remaking Full Metal Jacket with Minions.

Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Saturday, 21 June 2025 22:29 (one week ago)

long Taylor Lorenz vid about chatbot-induced psychosis, arguing that it may become its own religion fairly soon. I haven't watched all the way through yet but so far it does a good job pointing out how 'technology as God' is not exactly a new concept

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCynxiV_8I

frogbs, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 17:39 (four days ago)

Interesting; the thumbnail on that video has changed since I tried watching it yesterday. And I did try. But a) I can't listen to Taylor Lorenz's chirping voice for 40 minutes, and b) I don't care why anyone believes in any religion, so "Chatbot Is My New God Now" just yields a "Good for you, I guess?" response from me.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 24 June 2025 17:44 (four days ago)

ok

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 24 June 2025 18:11 (four days ago)

main argument seems to be that people are lonelier than ever and the validation ChatGPT is offering is intoxicating. its like textbook cult shit but never before deployed at this scale.

I also liked Jon Oliver's piece on AI slop and how it's ruining the internet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

frogbs, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 18:24 (four days ago)

I watched that online and all I could think was...that's the plot of Mountainhead. Not a great movie, not as good as Succession, but the kernal of the idea of the societal breakdown that will take place shortly is...scary.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 18:28 (four days ago)

This is quite good, not bad.

Damn, I wasn't ready for how this would feel. We didn't have a camcorder, so there's no video of me with my mom. I dropped one of my favorite photos of us in midjourney as 'starting frame for an AI video' and wow... This is how she hugged me. I've rewatched it 50 times. pic.twitter.com/n2jNwdCkxF

— Alexis Ohanian 🗽 (@alexisohanian) June 22, 2025

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 16:02 (three days ago)

Yes, creating fake memories with the computer is good, not bad. Every science fiction novelist will tell you so.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 16:09 (three days ago)

I have to assume that xyzzzz is taking the piss— the whole concept behind that is so fucked that the only proper responses are despair and anger. That man is deluded.

czech hunter biden's laptop (the table is the table), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 16:19 (three days ago)

No I am not joking. I am sure we have met ppl who have lost parents at an early age and my impression is of a grief that of a different order from someone who loses a parent after 25, say.

I think its interesting that he used it like this and was affected by the output.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 16:28 (three days ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg29TuWo0Yo

The "W" and Odie Trail (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 16:32 (three days ago)

i dunno that just reminds me of the scene in minority report where tom cruise buys drugs to remember what hanging out with his abducted kid was like

i can't find a clip of that scene online but here's a picture of the prop in case that triggers your memory

https://www.thepropgallery.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1237a862d6c676013bffa5bff9a163f3/m/i/mina.jpg

, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 16:51 (three days ago)

the other way to dunk on that is the nathan clip i feel like i've already posted 50 times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdfeXipkBt4

, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 16:52 (three days ago)

Gr4nt W1lson-Claridge has been having a public schizophrenic break on Facebook. He posts dozens of times per day, all chats with chat bots, and all of them continue to encourage the delusions. It's very bleak.

Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 16:53 (three days ago)

the other way to dunk on that is the nathan clip i feel like i've already posted 50 times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdfeXipkBt4

― 龜, Wednesday, June 25, 2025 11:52 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's okay I've watched it 500 times

frogbs, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 17:09 (three days ago)

I am sure we have met ppl who have lost parents at an early age and my impression is of a grief that of a different order from someone who loses a parent after 25, say.

I have, and all of those people have had brains that are functional enough to realize that creating false memories using AI is a sociopathic thing to do.

czech hunter biden's laptop (the table is the table), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 17:23 (three days ago)

I know Google is shit now but I honestly think so much less of people who ask AI for answers.

from…Peru? (gyac), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 17:37 (three days ago)

What about hugs?

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 18:04 (three days ago)

An argument I saw about the Ohanian thing is that it's bad because of the potential for tools like that to create false memories that supplant real ones.

jaymc, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 18:11 (three days ago)

a photograph itself is a tool that creates false memories that supplants real ones. susan sontag said that

, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 18:13 (three days ago)

That's right

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 18:25 (three days ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TknY89kECq0

nickn, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 18:27 (three days ago)

Chaz Firestone
AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

sleeve, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:08 (three days ago)

PizzAI is a business name right there for the taking.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:10 (three days ago)

enjohy!

lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:11 (three days ago)

Enjog!

Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:17 (three days ago)

bood food = bood mood

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:19 (three days ago)

we need a poll

sleeve, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:24 (three days ago)

OUALITY Lngredients

a welcome blast of fetid air (Matt #2), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:28 (three days ago)

made daily with food

koogs, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:30 (three days ago)

when youre at a seaside restaurant

https://i.imgur.com/c1KGRKo.png

lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:34 (three days ago)

gotta give the ai credit all the letters it used are known letters

lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:36 (three days ago)

it's TEMU-licious!

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:41 (three days ago)

goddamnit I hate this stuff but then I see "enjog", "happiness is lickin'" and "made daily with food" and can't stop laughing

silverfish, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 20:59 (three days ago)

Doltclous

ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 21:00 (three days ago)

Tag yourself I'm a full suamsh.

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 25 June 2025 21:21 (three days ago)

hess is tofally mood my daiy

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 June 2025 08:40 (two days ago)

Happiness is LICKIN’ SPOON is still killing me this morning

dentist looking too comfortable singing the blues (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 26 June 2025 15:31 (two days ago)

made daily with food

czech hunter biden's laptop (the table is the table), Thursday, 26 June 2025 17:12 (two days ago)

enjoy some lyrics from chatgpt about humanity being flawed in addition to ai being flawed

Hook
🎤 You point that finger, it points right back,
At a world built broke on a human track.
“AI’s a threat!” — but don’t be odd,
The truth is simple: y’all were flawed.
Yeah — the truth is simple: y’all were flawed.

Minty Gum (Latham Green), Thursday, 26 June 2025 19:07 (two days ago)

a tu quoque from a computer is pretty weak sauce

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 26 June 2025 19:45 (two days ago)

Honestly things like that tray are the only service-oriented usages of AI that I find appealing, not because I think genAI is good at that type of thing, but because it’s so spectacularly BAD at it

my favorite herbs are fennel and Drake (DJP), Thursday, 26 June 2025 20:53 (two days ago)

Like, once they improve things so it stops doing this, it will no longer be worth anything

my favorite herbs are fennel and Drake (DJP), Thursday, 26 June 2025 20:54 (two days ago)

Some of you grew up with trays large enough to say "good food is good mood" AND "bad food is bad mood", and I'm just saying, it shows.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 27 June 2025 00:04 (yesterday)

looked up the definition of the word "sapphic" and the CoPilot suggested result was a porn site lmao

frogbs, Friday, 27 June 2025 03:17 (yesterday)

I miss the days when google translate was amusingly poor - it was much more useful

Minty Gum (Latham Green), Friday, 27 June 2025 18:21 (yesterday)


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