Calling a Ruby Tuesday's a restaurant is kind of like me calling myself a carpenter because I've assembled a few pieces of Ikea furniture. It's basically sit down fast food with a liquor license.
Wolf314159
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Another one for the Plex/Jellyfin collection.
I have 2 editions of The Gunslinger because Stephen King revised some parts to fit better with the remaining novels. The Gunslinger is a very early work and it shows. I've read the first 3 books of the dark tower series at least twice. Last time through the series, after King "completed" it, I started with the original The Gunslinger and ended the series with the revised edition. The differences are relatively minor and, although I am generally a fan of his, I prefer the rough edges of the original. Reading the original first and the revised edition last felt more like a conclusion and coming full circle than the final book ever could have. Despite the differences, they still feel like the same book to me.
No. It's a film adaptation of a short story that appears to basically be romantasy pinnochio fan fic.
Tech company surveillance and data collection is government surveillance and data collection.
Lol, you totally missed the point.
We don't just tell stories, we repeat stories and re-tell stories. It's been happening since before literature or the stage even existed. Even the Odyssey wasn't an entirely original story. Our very first records of literature are literally stories that were told and re-told and re-told and refined and reformed and re-told for generations. Re-telling stories is a fundamental thing common to practically every human. It's what we do and what we are. It's not the end of the world, it's just the mortar that binds our individual experiences into civilization. You don't need to weep, you just need more art and literature in your life, maybe fewer headlines about movies for toddlers.
If you're bored with a story you've seen before, there's a good chance it wasn't made for you, let the people it was made for have it. I think I can safely say that the next Airbud movie wasn't made for you or anyone here. I'm okay letting the kids have their Airbud movie without being snarky about it.
Clarissa Explains It All maybe?
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Well, it seems that every time a search engine's AI gives me a definitive and wordy "answer" to a question I search and provides a helpful citation of the page from which it got that answer, it is ALWAYS just a completely hallucinated answer that the cited page in no way supports. This isn't just hyperbole, this has been my experience with every single search engine AI summary
And I find myself having to go back and fix the autocorrect that my phone keyboard "helpfully" makes with increasing frequency. It used to be that autocorrect would just fix a typo when I'd obviously typed gibberish because I missed a key. But now, it is regularly replacing entire words that I've typed completely correctly with some other word that makes absolutely no sense.
I'm all for some specific uses of AI. Things like speech to text or images to text? Sure that's a great use. But when it comes to research, writing, or spreadsheets, AI tools just need to shut up and stay the fuck out of my way. I'm becoming convinced a little more everyday that anyone using AI to summarize articles or search results is a complete moron and shouldn't be trusted.