No, it’s something far more basic: a troll.

You will be when this latest AI hype turns into the next AI winter, yes.

The Amish also live in a way that doesn’t scale to eight billion human beings. But you already knew that and are arguing in bad faith.

It would be so hilarious to revisit this confident (dare I say it: AI levels of confidence!) statement in two years when AI has crashed like every other previous wave of AI tech.

I have compared several more traditional translation engines (Google Translate, Baidu Translate, Bing Translate, DeepL, etc.) vs. several LLM-based translation engines (DeepSeek, Perplexity, and ChatGPT).

There is a HUGE difference in quality. Like you can’t even compare them. The latter do far more idiomatic translation than do the former and the quality of the output is higher and more directly usable.

But …

You absolutely must do a back-translation check to ensure that it didn’t hallucinate something into your translation. Take your document in A and have it translate into B. Then start a new session, take that translated document B and translate it back to A. Also tell it to analyze B for possible translation errors, unclear areas, etc. If it comes back with nothing more than nit-picky suggestions you’re fine. If it translates back stuff with hallucinated content or serious grammatical errors, etc. try again.

It’s still faster than and far higher quality than Google/Baidu/Bing/DeepL translation, even with the extra checking step.

Translation is one of the few places I’ll say LLMs have value, though if you trust it you absolutely will get burned. You need to check its output.

I’ll take “bad faith arguments for $500”.

The sudden explosion of “artists” (visual, written, or musical forms) who can’t seem to spot that “their” art is incoherent, meaningless dross.

Not like you’d normally put that much work into hand-made animation that is not specifically made to showcase what animation CAN look like.

Have you never watched an animated film? And I don’t mean those Saturday morning cartoon things. I mean actual long-form film made for adults.

Animators put insane amount of work into details and subtleties when animating to sell the immersion.

Idk, seems like it would be an easy fix to tell the AI to generate more in-betweens to make the animation smoother.

Then you’d just get more random in-betweens. The issue is that the degenerative AI has literally no idea what it’s making. It doesn’t know about legs or arms or eyes or noses or whatever. It has no internal model guiding it in any way, so asking it to generate more frames is just going to get you more frames of arms and legs jerking around in disturbing, incoherent ways.

I’m with you here. No idea what the joke is even supposed to be, not to mention if it’s funny or not.

That would be an interesting question. If I had a Xhitter account I’d do the test myself.

I hate you so much right now. CHOKE ON THE UPVOTE, JERKFACE!

Oh, the world’s worst-run and most corrupt convention is doing something bad?

In other news, water is wet.

🙄

He’s got a big apology video up somewhere on Youtube. If you search on “Vaush” and “lolicon” you’ll probably get to it.

What does this look like to you, Sparky?:

I’m not “missing” anything, Sparky. I’ve lived through quite a few such changes, and it wasn’t pretty.

I just don’t see anything special about this particular one that renders the moral hue and cry. Like I said at the start: there’s plenty of real reasons to target AI. People deluding themselves into a cult is not one of them, since people have been deluding themselves into cults even before the historical record, likely.

You be you. I’ll be me. I find “endless struggle” a boringly tedious and draining way to live. Not for me to choose for you. Nor vice versa.

Or I can ignore walled gardens. Which is what I do.

“The story” is the key part of this, however.

This is almost word for word what’s been said about every new technology or social trend for my entire life. “This new thing is worse than everything that has ever come before and the Apocalypse is nigh.”

Sorry. After hearing this over and over and over and over again all my life I just don’t take this kind of moral panic seriously.