Why name all winning authors at the bottom of the post but one?

Amal El-Mohtar won Best Novella for The River Has Roots (2025).

Some ublock rules I use for this which might help:

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Sorry I can't do much about all the pseudo-"AI" horseshit though.

In case you aren't aware of Persona and what's involved when these companies use them, someone stepped through verification with LinkedIn which uses Persona.

They outline exactly what was collected and communicated, and with whom.

If you ever consider verifying with them (indirectly), I'd highly recommend taking a look a what's at stake.

the AI agent that criticized

forces it to choose between

It also regrets characterizing

No. Stop this.

It can't criticize, it can't choose, and it can't regret.

Stop anthropomorphizing these text extrusion tools.

I know, right?

*shakes fist at the sky* Get off my internets!

I think maybe only fellow Ancient Ones will remember this :-)

Thanks for the laugh.

Everything increases GDP. Increase in the number of car accidents? GDP increases. Companies suing each other over stupid bullshit? GDP increases. Recovering from massive weather events that just destroyed half your city? GDP increases. Cleaning up that oil spill? GDP increases.

All those circular investments by "AI" companies? GDP increases.

It's a bullshit number/concept.

Almost none could recall what they had written immediately after submitting their work.

Ummm... that's because they didn't write it. (And it's also not "their work".)

The move is expected to cost 330 million kroner ($51 million) a year.

Not really. It's not costing the government anything.

It's potentially saving the people 330 million kroner a year though.

Software cannot hallucinate.

Enough with anthropomorphizing these things. It's not a hallucination - it's an error.

Does Firefox sell your personal data?

Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

GitHub repo

So regardless of the legalese & its interpretation, this kinda sums up what they want to do...

You might think so, but they explicitly removed this:

Does Firefox sell your personal data?

Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

That kinda sums it up...

before switching to another mode of communication when they realize no human is part of the conversation.

They didn't "realize" anything.

For the love of Odin stop anthropomorphizing these things.

There goes Canada leading from behind again.

Wait for everyone else to go after them first, then pile on.