... use AI. We'll give your diploma to ChatGPT.

I had to add minimum paragraph and sentence counts to the prompts it uses to keep it from trying to write a few terse sentences each time.

I noticed this in Claude (from DDG). It invariably tries to shorten sentences or make them more compact and concise. Sometimes that can be good, but most times long-winded sentences are what are needed.

and there is no way I can find to make it stop popping up giant intrusive ads for their other services every single time I open it.

Just like Firefox. There is no easy way to turn off being harassed by an intrusive pop-up telling me about a new update.

There used to be. It was a simple checkbox. But somewhere along the way someone had to justify their existence and removed that simple checkbox in favor of harassment.

They were all from the Twilight series.

I've seen the Turbo, AWD, EcoBoost badges. Can't wait for the 32Gb one.

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AI: "Dat's a nice little web site ya' got there buddy. Shame if someting were to happen to it."

I still enjoy the Photoshops.

Would like to add one tidbit because I've had this same conversation at work. The professor stated they used AI to help edit only after hundred of hours of writing. In other words, they did the heavy lifting and only used AI at the end to help refine what they had already done.

Is this any different than a human editor? If I write a book, do what I can to edit it down, then go to an editor who makes suggests, removes or reorders parts, and so on, is that any different than having AI do the same thing? In both cases you wrote the words. In both cases you went somewhere else to help edit.

If people claim that using AI to edit a work is "cheating" because it's no longer your work, then the same should apply to a human editor.

Won't someone please think of the birds?

And corporations have the attention span of three-year-olds. Remember when Trump 45 pulled the rug out from under federal law enforcement? And then it was game on? And then there was Biden 46. Who put it all back. Or would have had he not been coasting to a later in life stop. And then Trump 47 undid Biden's handiwork. So now would be the time to go wide open throttle and grab what you can.

Just in time for AOC 48.

"mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melodrama From Returning"

I can only imagine the number of cranial blood vessels that burst while this was written.

Not really. The principal task of the investment industry is to take clients' cash and convert it into interest bearing contracts. Negotiable contracts, (collateral for loans, payment for goods and services). Even better, variable interest and term contracts to insure against inflation.

Only boomers want to be sitting on gold, based on my observation of all the gold coin tv ads targeting them.

Nothing newer than Bach allowed while I'm driving.