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I think I’ll leave it up to the Ukrainians to decide that. They’re better informed than I am and they’re the ones who’ll be paying.

May not work so well for them this time, General Winter seems to be on Ukraine’s side.

The list of features for the “ransomware” example he had ChatGPT help him write is almost identical to the list of features that would be present in a piece of software that was designed to help dissidents protect sensitive information from an oppressive government.

Now we’re just haggling over the price.

So, wait, you’re fine with Mozilla impersonating you as long as you get a little money in the process?

Not that this is what Mozilla wants this data for, mind you, I’m just puzzled by this place you’ve jumped to.

Mozilla: “We’d like to build a dataset of underrepresented languages and accents so that voice recognition works for everyone. It’ll be under an open license.”

Most of this thread: “GIVE ME MONEY.”

Sigh. As soon as it turned out that AI training data was “worth something” everyone turned into a money-grubbing mercenary.

Upgrading from Windows 10 to 11 is also free.

The guy I was originally responding to was talking about this being a reason to “switch” from Windows to Linux, suggesting that he had chosen Windows in the first place. That’s the position I’m addressing, so I’m not sure why you’re jumping in on this when it’s not relevant to you. I’ve been trying to explain why this is the normal Windows experience and you were never interested in the normal Windows experience in the first place.

And that’s the way Windows’ patches and updates have always worked. This isn’t some amazing new twist that Microsoft has thrown at us. If I’d bought Windows 10 ten years ago, I would have bought it with the full knowledge that at some point it’ll no longer be updatable without it turning into Windows 11.

If this is a fundamental obstacle to you then you should never have bought Windows in the first place. It’s like buying a gasoline-powered car and then exclaiming “this is bullshit!” When it comes time to fill the tank.

So update to Windows 11, then. This is how Microsoft has always operated, they’re doing this on their usual schedule.

I was talking about the outer plastic.

The kind of cheese slices I’m thinking of are sort of a solidified cheeze-wiz substance, I suspect that if there was nothing between them they’d merge back together into the blob they were probably originally extruded from.

Whatever you want to call it, version or service pack, the point is that you’re going to need to be using a relatively recent one to get that free support.

It bundles them together. Imagine buying a loose handful of slices, it doesn’t work well.

Are there any 10-year-old Linux distributions that are still getting free support?

If you’re really that sick for that long, I would honestly call a doctor for some advice. Where I live there’s a number, 811, for non-emergency medical advice. Maybe there’s something like that where you are.

A while back my dad almost died from the flu because he couldn’t eat well enough to keep his electrolytes balanced, you’ll want to avoid that before it becomes potentially life threatening.

If you want to get down into the nitty-gritty of it, I’d say that this is just as rough an explanation of what humans are doing.

People invent false memories and confabulate all the time without even being “aware” of it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the vast majority of “lies” that humans tell have no intentionality behind them. So when people get all uptight about applying anthropomorphized terminology to LLMs, I think that’s a good time to turn it around and ask how they’re so sure that those terms apply differently to humans.

If you want to get into a full blown discussion of whether ChatGPT has “agency” then I’d open the topic of whether humans have “agency” as well. But I don’t see the need here.

These words were perfectly fine labels for describing the behaviour of ChatGPT in this scenario. I’m merely annoyed about how people are jumping on them and going off on philosophical digressions that add nothing.

If I take my car into the garage for repairs because the “loss of traction” warning light is on despite having perfectly good traction, and I were to tell the mechanic “the traction sensor is lying,” do you think he’d understand what I said perfectly well or do you think he’d launch into a philosophical debate over whether the sensor has agency?

This is a perfectly fine word to use to describe this kind of behaviour in everyday parlance.

Many humans I’ve encountered don’t seem to really understand what money is either. I’d honestly expect ChatGPT to have a better grasp of the concept than most.

It doesn’t know that I’m not actually going to give it the two hundred dollars, though.

You didn’t answer my question, though. What words would you use to concisely describe these actions by the LLM?

People anthropomorphize machines all the time, it’s a convenient way to describe their behaviour in familiar terms. I don’t see the problem here.