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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 164 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ladies, if your man weighs 4,900 pounds, that's not your man. That's a 2026 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So that’s where my money went..,

[–] Sturgist@piefed.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Was it about tree fiddy?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well you see in the US, the vehicle just becomes the same legal entity as the owner, after a certain number of years.

EDIT

And when you hit the age you qualify for retriement, well they just roll back 'the odometer', as a kind of traditional joke, reflected in some records.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 132 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Bear in mind, these are averages, not medians. They can be thrown off by the relatively few Americans who weigh 100,000,000+ lbs each.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 39 points 1 month ago

Burgers Georg

[–] asmoranomar@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

At birth I weighed 10 years and aged like 20,000 lbs.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

By golly, this just shows us that we need AI in everything now!

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't worry, we'll start slowly and responsibly with inconsequential things like medicine and war.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

"Adenosine/atropine, it's one of those 'A' drugs. Just give them a few milligrams and see what happens. We'll go from there."

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'm so glad that I invested in a 60 lb bag of cement last year! In 50-59 years, I'm gonna be able to sell this bag for a fortune!

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

As funny as this is, Gemini was essentially broken on release. For context this is a current response

Its fun to laugh at how stupid it was, but the fact its gotten better honestly just increases the risk that someone will believe a hallucination and bad information proliferates because its embedded in largely good information making it appear trustworthy, and if you don't know the answer then you dont know when it's confidently wrong. And it increases the risk that AI usage will grow as people decide they think its helpful, with harmful implications for the environment and labor.

It would frankly be nice if had stayed that stupid, it would be much less harmful that way

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Google models always suck ass, I don't get why people ever glaze it. Or google in general.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

69 pound 1 year old, such a big baby.

[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nono, if you're 60-69 pounds old, the average weight is 1 year.

[–] teft@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago

Anything but metric.

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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Crap, I'm underweight; time to order at least 296 pizzas.

Anyone got a voucher?

[–] zout@fedia.io 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can vouch that you won't survive eating 296 pizzas.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Every time these get posted, I go and check if it's true. And then I realize I deliberately used Google to read an AI summary and feel sick about it. I've been tricked into giving them traffic

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I get a reasonable result. Maybe they fix these things quickly?

Know how you feel, though.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 12 points 1 month ago

Randomized result.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Because almost all of these nonsensical summaries are from when it was newly implemented so we're all making fun of something from a couple years ago

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not always, I’ll screen shot some if I see I get a new one, but I’ve definitely had some nonsense answers recently.

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[–] Tippy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No, this is still a common occurrence and pretty well documented. LLMs give a random answer based on a dataset and programmed weighting towards certain types of responses. This is why you can give the same prompt to the same LLM repeatedly and get different responses each time, or different responses by slightly modifying the prompt, even if both prompts say essentially the exact same thing. There is no comparison or "learning" happening from user input. It doesn't think, rationalize, or memorize. This is just what LLMs are and how they work under the hood.

Anthropomorphizing LLMs is a bad idea, and trusting the output without manual verification is foolish. The LLM does not know or care about misinformation, it is just a software that analyzes a dataset and outputs that information with programmed noise for variance, and sometimes extra user ass-kissing added for flair.

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[–] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, it clearly isn't static. I played around with Gemini and when I got some clearly BS response, just repeating the prompt would often lead to a more correct result.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That's because all these LLMs are inherently random.

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

If David Attenborough was American he would have just turned into a black hole.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

American units of measurement are so weird.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

A 70lb 1 year old, lol.

The rest of this looks like how my kids thought growing up worked when they were really little. They expected to just keep growing, thought I was too, so by now I should be about 30 feet tall and yeah, 5,000 lb.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How long is that in parsecs?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

About 17 bananas

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shit, I'm underweight. From today, 3 pizzas for dinner every day.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully you'll weigh 1 year when the time comes...

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Looks like burgers are back on the menu boys, I'm severely underweight.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is why old people are so slow. They're heavy as fuck.

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[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I feel a lot better about myself now. I had gained some weight that I've been trying to lose, but now I find out that I'm significantly under the average for my age range. I have over 500lbs before I'd even hit the average so I'm doing fantastic.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] atro_city@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pounds? Get out of here with that. How many elephants?

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everything's bigger there so a Texas pound must be some multiple of a standard US pound.

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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Billions of dollars.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I think those are common scores in Calvin Ball.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At 60, they switch over to units of time. After 70, to metric.

Edit: My bad. After 60 pounds, they reverse polarity.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that pounds sterling or American?

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[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Okay, on the one hand, another demonstration that air isn't particularly trustworthy etc... On the other hand though, I feel so skinny!

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