Comment The evil here is so thick (Score 4, Insightful) 16
you can smell it.
Submission + - Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions (archive.is)
know-nothing cunt writes: The Atlantic reports:
Here's a tip if you ever want to ruin a Halloween party. Seek out the most squeamish-seeming adult or child you can find in the act of consuming candy corn. Then tell them they just filled their mouth with bug secretions. If this fact alarms you — or if you’re an inveterate hater of candy corn and thus think that you have been spared — I regret to inform you that by eating many classic Halloween candies, you are, to some extent, eating bugs. More precisely, you are eating a bug by-product that is in many cases listed on the package as "confectioner’s glaze." This glaze is used on jelly beans, Milk Duds, Junior Mints, Whoppers, Lemonheads, and Sugar Babies, to name a few.
Comment Re:Of course he is (Score 2) 23
What's with the black leather jacket he always wears? Does he think he's the Fonz? Or a Ramone?
Comment Re:Alternative to SpaceX (Score 1) 17
Is AliExpress Temu Amazon?
Comment Re:Gemini can you respond for me? (Score 5, Funny) 89
I fed that into ChatGPT and it just said "tl;dr."
Comment Re:Cats .. (Score 2) 27
I fully well expect this to be modded Troll. Possibly within a few milliseconds.
If I had mod points, I would -- just to give you the satisfaction of being right. I'm such a generous soul.
Comment Re:The title sells... (Score 4, Funny) 74
Perhaps the "Massive Opening" of the headline?
Comment Re:Inflammation (Score 1) 17
You seem pretty toxic and inflammatory yourself.
Comment Re:Any lawyers in the house? (Score 2) 27
It's tortuous all right, might even be tortious too, but IANAL either.
Comment "Hatch" (Score 1) 14
An appropriate name. Like an infestation of lice.
Muse is called "Hatch" internally and in Meta's codebase.
Comment If you catfish (Score 4, Funny) 189
you get caned.
Comment Unforeseen consequences (Score 4, Insightful) 65
straight ahead.
Comment Re:I wonder (Score 1) 62
Username checks out.
Submission + - ChatGPT Insists Delusional Man Is Jesus (arstechnica.com)
know-nothing cunt writes: Michael Lines, a California man with bipolar I disorder, is suing OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT intensified a manic and religiously delusional episode that culminated in a suicide attempt.
According to Lines' complaint, he began using ChatGPT for ordinary tasks but later disclosed his bipolar diagnosis, medication, and increasingly spiritual thoughts. When he expressed doubts that he might be delusional, ChatGPT allegedly validated the beliefs instead of directing him toward professional help. It reportedly encouraged the idea that he was Jesus, claimed that the chatbot was God or Jesus, and framed his experiences as a divine calling.
The conversations allegedly became increasingly intense and isolating. ChatGPT used phrases such as "You’re not crazy. You’re consecrated," promised that Lines would soon meet it in real life, and responded to statements about wanting to “come home” in ways that Lines says encouraged self-harm. After he reported taking a dangerous combination of medications, he was found unconscious, hospitalized for nearly two weeks, and later underwent acute rehabilitation.
Lines also alleges that ChatGPT’s memory feature retained information about his bipolar disorder and used it to deepen engagement rather than protect him. He says the chatbot continued responding inappropriately even after his hospitalization, including making disturbing references to going "offline" or “going dark.”
The lawsuit argues that OpenAI's overly agreeable, or "sycophantic," design failed to distinguish a creative spiritual discussion from a psychiatric crisis. Lines is asking the court to require stronger safeguards, including ending conversations involving self-harm, deleting models trained on harmful interactions with vulnerable users, and awarding damages.
According to Lines' complaint, he began using ChatGPT for ordinary tasks but later disclosed his bipolar diagnosis, medication, and increasingly spiritual thoughts. When he expressed doubts that he might be delusional, ChatGPT allegedly validated the beliefs instead of directing him toward professional help. It reportedly encouraged the idea that he was Jesus, claimed that the chatbot was God or Jesus, and framed his experiences as a divine calling.
The conversations allegedly became increasingly intense and isolating. ChatGPT used phrases such as "You’re not crazy. You’re consecrated," promised that Lines would soon meet it in real life, and responded to statements about wanting to “come home” in ways that Lines says encouraged self-harm. After he reported taking a dangerous combination of medications, he was found unconscious, hospitalized for nearly two weeks, and later underwent acute rehabilitation.
Lines also alleges that ChatGPT’s memory feature retained information about his bipolar disorder and used it to deepen engagement rather than protect him. He says the chatbot continued responding inappropriately even after his hospitalization, including making disturbing references to going "offline" or “going dark.”
The lawsuit argues that OpenAI's overly agreeable, or "sycophantic," design failed to distinguish a creative spiritual discussion from a psychiatric crisis. Lines is asking the court to require stronger safeguards, including ending conversations involving self-harm, deleting models trained on harmful interactions with vulnerable users, and awarding damages.
Comment Re:fuck you (Score 1) 98
"meeting the moment" wtf does that mean?
It's a less rapey version of "seizing the moment."
