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Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke containment during testing (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, this caused me to learn something today. One of my favorite musicals is Avenue Q, which has an entire song about a girlfriend who supposedly lives in Canada. And I keep seeing this reference - but I keep thinking there is NO WAY that THIS many people know about Avenue Q (which is a pity).

And sure enough, TIL that this trope dates back to at least the 70s and is references in multiple TV shows and movies and such.

So Avenue Q was using an existing thing. Ah, well.

At least I know not to make Avenue Q references since there's little chance they'll be gotten. lol

[–] a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thats funny because here in Canada I knew a guy im highschool who had a clearly fake girlfriend who he said lived down south in the US

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nakes sense, though - you want the pretend person to be somewhere reasonable but not TOO close. lol

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be honest my fake girls friend was just a girl I had a crush on how lived a few cities away. I got busted lmao

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

awww, well I hope things worked out for you okay in the end. :)

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

For sure. It was embarrassing at the time but I was young

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, there we go - answered it for me, too! Thank you.