My dad, entirely innocently (according to him) went looking for some new, larger water butts for their new house and went straight to Google for “large butts”.

I think he knew what he was doing.

It’s the UK government, not the services who are just trying to abide by an unjust law.

Contact your MP.

No, that’s the wrong Caesar. Caesar became a dog behaviourist on TV

Necroing this post to just say, the idea that you could hit the right city with nothing more than a compass and a stopwatch is incredible.

These gramaphone records may be worse for you than the wax cylinder!

Well, if you want to get specific, the Doge of Venice built a fleet to transport the crusader armies departing from Venice, but due to them mostly not having the money to pay for transit, he instead of sailing them to Jerusalem, he got the sailors to take them to Zara (on the Adriatic coast of modern day Turkey) with whom he already had issues with (they were rebellious subjects of Venice he wanted crushing).

After that, the Byzantine prince Alexios Angelos persuaded the crusaders to restore his deposed father to the throne and in payment would help them in their goal of taking Jerusalem.

They did what he asked but Alexios backed out of the deal so the Crusaders then sacked the city instead and instituted the short lived Latin Empire.

Leave Ayn Rand alone!

Or the fourth crusade which was supposed to go to Jerusalem and then onto Egypt but they got lost and just thought “fuck it, well capture Constantinople instead”

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Sadly this phenomenon isn’t even new. It’s been here for as long as chatbots have.

The first “AI” chatbot was ELIZA made by Joseph Weizenbaum. It literally just repeated back to you what you said to it.

“I feel depressed”

“why do you feel depressed”

He thought it was a fun distraction but was shocked when his secretary, who he encouraged to try it, made him leave the room when she talked to it because she was treating it like a psychotherapist.

I knew I did it wrong in high school

Got born ugly?

So ChatGPT isn’t as polluting as the beef industry, what’s your point? We can go on asking for LLMs to make pictures of big tiddy anime girls and the answers to simple questions that it still gets wrong because people eat meat still?

Just like bitcoin and all the other pump and dump cryptos, LLM chatbots created a market that didn’t exist before that needlessly adds excess pollution (and to be clear, I agree with OPs primary point that the environmental impact isn’t the worst thing about them), and they’re trying to force them into every aspect of our lives whether they’re suited to it or not.

Highlighting the environmental (and commercial, social and privacy) concerns is one tool to get policy makers to maybe think twice about signing another huge deal to get ChatGPT embedded in yet another part of our lives.

By your numbers 1 prompt generates 3g of CO₂

ChatGPT says they handle 2.5billion prompts per day.

That’s 7,500 tonnes of CO₂ per day from ChatGPT alone. The vast majority of those are completely pointless queries.

Your point is spurious at best and misleading at worst.

How about fuck off

Some we’ve done in the last couple years:

• landmarks from above

• endangered UK species

• musical instruments

• famous toilets on film (went down very well)

• things you might find in the garden (tools, plants, animals etc)

• dog breeds

• women in sport

• bands on stage

• ice lollies

• fruit and veg in closeup

• film posters

• album covers

• railway posters

OP: gimme some contemporary music

Rudyharrelson: here’s some songs from a decade ago

^although I have to admit I agree with your choices^

Donald Trump just has awful taste. He want to surround himself with shiny “gold” things and always has.

Gav if you will

I just added rules to ublock that hides the AI overview everywhere, not just Google (because I don’t use Google anyway)

My infinite money has built a space elevator to eliminate the need for rocket launches.