Disgraced Fired Former CNN Propagandist Jim Acosta "Interviews" an AI, Supposedly "Modeled" on a Dead Teenager, Programmed to Spit Out Gun Control Propaganda

The answer is none. None more low.

Liberal journalist Jim Acosta "interviewed" the artificially animated avatar of deceased teenager Joaquin Oliver to promote a gun control message on Monday.
Working with the gun control group Change the Ref, founded by Oliver's parents, Acosta had a conversation on his Substack with an avatar created by the father of the son, who was killed in the Parkland high school shooting in 2018. He would have turned 25 on Monday.
"I would like to know what your solution would be for gun violence," Acosta asked.
"Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard," Oliver's avatar said. "It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think of that?"
"I think that's a great idea, Joaquin," the ex-CNN correspondent said.

The literal NPC is programmed to spit out absurd taking points and then end every statement with "What do you think about that?" or "How about you?" to simulate human conservation.

Acosta must have been tipped that the NPC was programmed to talk about the sports teams the actual teen liked, because otherwise, why would he ask about them?

Acosta also asked questions like what Oliver's favorite team, movies and TV shows were. The avatar answered and often asked Acosta the question back, sometimes sounding robotic, sometimes highly enthusiastic.
"Star Wars is such an epic saga. The adventures, the characters and that iconic music are unforgettable," Oliver's avatar said at one point.

All intended to humanize the artificial intelligence.

Wait, it's not even artificial intelligence. It's just a basic language-parsing script.

...
Afterward, Acosta spoke to Oliver's father, Manuel, who thanked him for his participation in the interview. Acosta marveled at the avatar being able to engage with him, saying he was "speechless" at the technology and really felt he was speaking with the actual person.
"I understand that this is AI," Manuel Oliver said, saying he wasn't trying to truly bring his son back. "Sadly, I can't. However, the technology is out there. I can hear his voice again."

No, you're not hearing his voice.

Bearing Arms doubts Jim Acosta's motives, for some reason.

A more realistic take on Acosta's sit-down, though, is that the former CNN journo is looking for clicks in all the wrong places and an attention-grabbing stunt like this one was guaranteed to generate interest, even if it didn't produce any actual news. Or rather, the news that was produced is that Acosta has sunk to a new low in a bid to get attract eyeballs.

Failed CNN journalist Jim Acosta interviews DEAD KID

Uses AI to 'talk' with teen killed in 2018 school shooting

Who obviously demands ‘stronger gun control laws’ in fluent Chat-GPT pic.twitter.com/QZLes409iw
— RT (@RT_com) August 4, 2025

This clip shows much more of the fake "interview" with the literal NPC. It's worth watching to see Jim Acosta do his level-best to push this Artificial Propaganda bot, including "chatting" with it about the Miami Heat.

It's just a grisly theatrical performance from a couple of shitty ex-Theater Kids from start to finish.

Even lefties on BlueSky ask Acosta: "What the **** are you doing?"

Jim Acosta turned off replies on Twitter for his ghoulish act of talking to AI Ghosts. Let's see how the replies are going over on BlueSky. https://t.co/qunaYOGWLu pic.twitter.com/uCkIAzf2V2
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 4, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:26 PM

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1 Okay that's a giant WTF.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 03:25 PM (O7YUW)

2 Didn’t think he could get any lower. I was wrong.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 05, 2025 03:26 PM (u73oe)

3 I've summoned the corgies.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 03:26 PM (O7YUW)

4 How much lower can he go?

Let's not put that in terms of a challenge.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 03:27 PM (Riz8t)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Jm J Acosta talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

7 NPCs all the way down...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:27 PM (ynpvh)

8 We are Real Journalism, Racists.

Posted by: Jm J. Acosta at August 05, 2025 03:27 PM (KRtlO)

9 I wonder how many listeners Acosta has now. Does he crack double digits?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (Riz8t)

10 Andisgusting and retarded stunt.

Posted by: Weasel at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (G2REX)

11 6 Jm J Acosta talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

To be fair, I'm sure there's a bit of compaction...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (ynpvh)

12 This is so bad that even Bluesky is denouncing him.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (xTIDn)

13 Language Model Hugbox

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (L2IqH)

14 I think it was the father typing responses.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (jc0TO)

15 This is an AWESOME idea!!!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (ULPxl)

16 Dear Lord save us. Or maybe don't. I would probably kind of get it at this point.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (jRYyy)

17 Brattleboro will dew everything to pretect Presdent Obama from this gross witch hunt led by the criminal Trump.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (vL1lZ)

18 No falsifiability, no Science.

This is just a show.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 03:29 PM (krQz2)

19 How much lower can he go?

Acosta?
Low.
Deeply low.

So low I don't even want to know what he's doing down there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:29 PM (6ydKt)

20 The AI NPC was still smarter than Acosta.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 05, 2025 03:29 PM (Q4IgG)

21 And the AI can't even do a good job of emulating the kid's face.

But it's nice to know that in this time of great division, something remains which both Left and Right can condemn.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 05, 2025 03:29 PM (a+4eV)

22 Don't sell Jimmy boy short. You know he can go a lot lower. I mean, we can't imagine something that low, but he can.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at August 05, 2025 03:30 PM (P7Iz+)

23 Good grief.

Posted by: Gaff at August 05, 2025 03:30 PM (EqzMw)

24 Even if they never get Obama and Gang on any charges the years long process will be devastating to these souless people.

Posted by: Jackson at August 05, 2025 03:30 PM (BltCC)

25 We are getting more retarded by the day. Somewhat related there are emerging videos of people trolling the shit out of AI job interviewers showing how utterly useless they actually are.

Posted by: Your fleebnibbkitz interests sounds exciting. Tell me more. at August 05, 2025 03:30 PM (TbWk/)

26 Me: Jim Acosta, how many pool balls can you stick up your behind?

Jim Acosta: 8 on a good day, but usually only 6.

What? If he can pull stuff out of his ass, so can I. Errrr...wait...

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 03:30 PM (Riz8t)

27 Would have been cheaper to just dig up the corpse and shove a hand up its ass. Tie a plexiglass stick to a wrist and muppet that shit up proper.

I mean, what are googly eyes, like, ten cents a piece? Come on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 03:30 PM (rIQZh)

28 Wow. Acosta is looking more and more like that Rachel Maddow guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

29
Because no live person is returning his calls.

Posted by: Blonde Morticis's Phone at August 05, 2025 03:31 PM (n7rxJ)

30 Lower than me?

Posted by: Whale faeces on the bottom of the Marianas Trench at August 05, 2025 03:31 PM (0sNs1)

31 "his parents have created an AI version of their son"

So it's not a stunt Acosta cooked up all by himself. Still stupid.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:31 PM (2XN3U)

32 How much lower can he go?

Acosta?
Low.
Deeply low.

So low I don't even want to know what he's doing down there.

*waves, then bites off Acosta's head*

Posted by: The Balrog at August 05, 2025 03:31 PM (Riz8t)

33 James Acosta is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

Posted by: artificially animated avatar of deceased teenager Joaquin Oliver at August 05, 2025 03:31 PM (ULPxl)

34 I saw AI Ghosts open for NWO in '06.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

35
Due to this story alone, I have invented a new pejorative:

Demented Seemingly Homosexual Retardighoul

As in Demented Seemingly Homosexual Retardighoul Jim Acosta.....

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (jRYyy)

36 >>>How much lower can he go? The answer is none. None more low.

Um. Probably better if you don't challenge him that way.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (p4nXC)

37 Lower:

MLK shilling for gun control and racial preferences.

George Washington shilling for communism.

Ronald Reagan, Holocost victims, etc etc.

It can always go lower.

And we will see it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (zZu0s)

38 Gay AI Skynet wants to grab guns.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (TedUv)

39

Can I get an AI at-her-peak Seka?

Just to chat with, you understand...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (TN0eL)

40 Brattleboro will dew everything to pretect Presdent Obama from this gross witch hunt led by the criminal Trump.
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (vL1lZ)

She can't even spell her name right anymore.

Speaking of needing mental health support......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

41 Liberal journalist Jim Acosta "interviewed" the artificially animated avatar of deceased teenager Joaquin Oliver to promote a gun control message on Monday.

So David Hogg just isn't good enough for him anymore?

What's a hard-working, anti-gun, mile-away from the shooting, school shooting victim gotta do to get some publicity these days?

Get fired from the DNC?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (6ydKt)

42 Oscar Z. Acosta > Jim Acosta

Let's see an AI interview with the ghosts of Oscar Z. Acosta and Hunter S. Thompson.

At least that would be entertaining.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 03:33 PM (qpyNK)

43 What? If he can pull stuff out of his ass, so can I. Errrr...wait...
Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 03:30 PM

Pro Tip: Start small, like marbles, and work your way up to ping pong balls and chicken eggs.

Posted by: PI bar girls at August 05, 2025 03:33 PM (0sNs1)

44 "It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think of that?"

We wouldn't need gun control.

Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2025 03:33 PM (h5TUr)

45 Jim Acosta's behavior and ignorance are equivalent to wearing a sandwich board with "DUMBASS" printed front and back.

Posted by: Paco at August 05, 2025 03:33 PM (mADJX)

46 For me the most interesting part of the Acosta interview of an AI is that ANYONE noticed he had done that.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at August 05, 2025 03:33 PM (Da7Vv)

47 I guess David Hogg didn’t sound human enough.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 05, 2025 03:33 PM (Z1/EE)

48 What kind of sick fucks would bring dead people to life to "speak" like this.

Their lives must be without purpose - absolutely flat.

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jRYyy)

49 > Can I get an AI at-her-peak Seka?

Just to chat with, you understand...
Posted by: Dirty Frank at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (TN0eL)

Greetings, my fellow 29-year-old.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (qpyNK)

50 Import the Third World, become the Third World...

bumbadum@bumbadum14

When I was in college I did Engineers Without Borders and we were working on a well in Nepal.

They had already built a well there like 2-3 years ago. It turns out the natives literally ripped the well out of the ground and sold the metal for scrap.

The children were also getting incredibly sick because when they had the well they would rub poop all over the spout.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (TGPs7)

51 The irony of this is that Acosta and his audience of three incels and a dead guy don't appreciate what this really means: that the prevailing liberal policies in response to "gun violence" are literally NPC drone duckspeak.

"I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard," Oliver's avatar said.

That response is perfect liberal dogma and AI drone bullshit. The fake avatar is no different than any flesh-and-blood liberal.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

52 20 The AI NPC was still smarter than Acosta.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 05, 2025 03:29 PM (Q4IgG)

Are you entirely sure Acosta isn't an earlier AI NPC version?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (ynpvh)

53 So David Hogg just isn't good enough for him anymore?

What's a hard-working, anti-gun, mile-away from the shooting, school shooting victim gotta do to get some publicity these days?

Get fired from the DNC?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (6ydKt)

Hahahaha that's true. They'd actually rather go with some fake max headroom dead kid than give that burnt out loser another dime. How delightful.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (rIQZh)

54 Liberal journalist Jim Acosta "interviewed" the artificially animated avatar of deceased teenager Joaquin Oliver to promote a gun control message on Monday.

So David Hogg just isn't good enough for him anymore?

What's a hard-working, anti-gun, mile-away from the shooting, school shooting victim gotta do to get some publicity these days?

Get fired from the DNC?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM

What if Hogg is also an artificially animated avatar?

Has anyone ever actually seen him in the flesh?

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

55 Be aware that some of the Mary Cloggensteins commenting here are socking me.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)

56 What kind of sick fucks would bring dead people to life to "speak" like this.

Their lives must be without purpose - absolutely flat.
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jRYyy)

Dunno. I find it pretty 'armless.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at August 05, 2025 03:35 PM (jRYyy)

57 The children were also getting incredibly sick because when they had the well they would rub poop all over the spout.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (TGPs7)

Worse than raising sheep. Wtf.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 03:35 PM (rIQZh)

58 Ace, they can always go lower.
There is no bottom to evil.

Posted by: Mark in South Jordan Utah at August 05, 2025 03:35 PM (wWTih)

59 I'd estimate that we're probably less than 5 years away from the first person to try to actually marry an AI chatbot.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 05, 2025 03:35 PM (B9Prs)

60 35
Due to this story alone, I have invented a new pejorative:

Demented Seemingly Homosexual Retardighoul

As in Demented Seemingly Homosexual Retardighoul Jim Acosta.....

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (jRYyy)

Tardigrades >>> Retardighouls

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:35 PM (ynpvh)

61 This is macabre.

Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2025 03:36 PM (pRpzT)

62 Hahaha! Look at the silly person, who has to write silly things for a living.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:36 PM (dGCAG)

63 Would have been cheaper to just dig up the corpse and shove a hand up its ass. Tie a plexiglass stick to a wrist and muppet that shit up proper. I mean, what are googly eyes, like, ten cents a piece? Come on.

Ah lubs me some horde poetry!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 05, 2025 03:36 PM (TedUv)

64 Seriously though, putting the Acosta BS aside, the future of this technique is scary.

This kid probably left a scant digital trail to work with. People today have a lot more of their "voice" on record in text chats, comments, and video. Future people will have most of their lives recorded and available to feed the AI.

What if immortality is just an AI model programmed from your life? No growth of course but no end either. Like "Nancy" after the artist Bushmiller died.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 05, 2025 03:36 PM (d0XKQ)

65 Well, Skynet is definitely not self-aware.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 05, 2025 03:36 PM (Wnv9h)

66 "Star Wars is such an epic saga. The adventures, the characters and that iconic music are unforgettable," Oliver's avatar said at one point.

It isn't even a realistic chatbot.

I have talked about music a lot with four children while they were teenagers, along with dozens of their friends.

NONE of them would ever use the phrase "iconic music".

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (HlyYF)

67 This is so ghoulish. This makes me very uncomfortable.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (vZUXb)

68 Would have been cheaper to just dig up the corpse and shove a hand up its ass. Tie a plexiglass stick to a wrist and muppet that shit up proper. I mean, what are googly eyes, like, ten cents a piece? Come on.

Ah lubs me some horde poetry!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 05, 2025 03:36 PM

You just want to sell him a festive little hat.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (jc0TO)

69 There's that slippery slope again! Interviewing the dead was always gojng to be the next step after letting them vote.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (jRYyy)

70 "I'd estimate that we're probably less than 5 years away from the first person to try to actually marry an AI chatbot."

In 5 years, there'll be one that's actually worth marrying.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (2XN3U)

71 He's only mostly dead.

Posted by: Jim Acosta at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (thkFq)

72 14 I think it was the father typing responses.
Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:28 PM (jc0TO)

There was a Law & Order episode like this. The mother was "assisting" her severely mentally challenged son by guiding his hands over a Ouija board or keyboard or something to have him answer questions. But, the kid was at least alive.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (p4nXC)

73 >>I'd estimate that we're probably less than 5 years away from the first person to try to actually marry an AI chatbot.

Didn't someone already do that in Japan?

Not an AI Chatbot...but a Holographic 3-D Model that was Computer Animated?
IIRC - He is now a Widower due to a lack of Software Support.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (L2IqH)

74 I saw this last night and my reaction is still WTAF. Like Macho Grande, I may never get over it. However, after some thought, I can add this:

Ask JoaquinGPT about dicks and butts. Automatically funny, or two great tastes that taste great together? Because if there's anything we've learned about Clown World, it's that there's no distinction between it and Globohomo; they're two faces of the same demonic Janus. Wherever there is Fake there is also Gay, and vice versa.

Posted by: SciVo at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (XDE1x)

75 " We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections,"

like ... church, and the gun range?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (vbXSk)

76 I imagine there's a sizable part of the population that would go for having their deceased loved one recreated as AI.

This seems as much demo marketing for a future AI use case as it is an gun control interactive advertisement.

We'll be seeing this kind of stuff everywhere in the next several years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (6ydKt)

77 >>> 70 "I'd estimate that we're probably less than 5 years away from the first person to try to actually marry an AI chatbot."

In 5 years, there'll be one that's actually worth marrying.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (2XN3U)

Will the others call that one a "pick-me"???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (ULPxl)

78 they would rub poop all over the spout.

Is that what the kids are doing now?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (TedUv)

79 I don't understand that last line: He's going to deliver a powerful message about gun violence. "Plus Texas State."

What's he gonna say about Texas State, that their football team sucks? Math department ain't what it could be?

What??

Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (dGCAG)

80 Import the Third World, become the Third World...

bumbadum@bumbadum14

When I was in college I did Engineers Without Borders and we were working on a well in Nepal.

They had already built a well there like 2-3 years ago. It turns out the natives literally ripped the well out of the ground and sold the metal for scrap.

The children were also getting incredibly sick because when they had the well they would rub poop all over the spout.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (TGPs7)
_________

It took decades to rid poor Africans of the guinea worm parasite. All you have to do is filter your drinking water with a fairly rudimentary filter. But the Africans could not understand it. They could not grasp the concept that filtering water removes parasites. So they resisted an easy and cheap solution for a nasty parasite.

Posted by: Elric at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

81 73 >>I'd estimate that we're probably less than 5 years away from the first person to try to actually marry an AI chatbot.

Didn't someone already do that in Japan?

Not an AI Chatbot...but a Holographic 3-D Model that was Computer Animated?
IIRC - He is now a Widower due to a lack of Software Support.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (L2IqH)

That's what happens when you use Windoze...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (ynpvh)

82 I was just listening to Matt Walsh on the Acosta f*** up. It's hard to imagine screwing the pooch worse than that. But mark my words: despite this, Acosta will find out nothing.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (od0dV)

83 "I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard," Oliver's avatar said.

That response is perfect liberal dogma and AI drone bullshit. The fake avatar is no different than any flesh-and-blood liberal.
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

Good point. It's the same recycled set of talking points from Handgun Control Inc. that basicslly hasn't changed in 40 years. Same shit, different orifice.

Posted by: Acosta lotta dignity at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (TbWk/)

84 In 5 years, there'll be one that's actually worth marrying.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM

I've heard the firmware upgrade from Girlfriend 2.0 to Wife 1.0 can be jarring.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (0sNs1)

85 You have sunk pretty f*cking far when Bluesky thinks you've overstepped. Damn.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 05, 2025 03:39 PM (k9OZB)

86

Change the ref?

Kill the Umpire

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2025 03:39 PM (63Dwl)

87 I imagine there's a sizable part of the population that would go for having their deceased loved one recreated as AI.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM

That is what dreams are for.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)

88 73 Some of them married Tamogochis, and that's only an 8-bit intelligence.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:39 PM (2XN3U)

89 Of course an AI is more likely to associate the personal view of a guy who got shot by a gun more closely with gun control.

Especially if they were programmed with the right weights and gun control is just a better idea.

It also makes sense that AI would correspond more to a belief in a formulaic solution than acceptance of inevitability. Because we are very likely programming them in the *hope* that we can get super-human "solutions" out of them.

Thus, in addition to how they were politically balanced, gun control is more aligned with how people want them to "think" than simple lumping through the ambiguities of life.

But the progs are hearing a "solution" they like.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 03:39 PM (krQz2)

90 Damn. How the mighty have fallen. Why isn't he campaigning for the end of CBP and the complete dismantling of all PoEs?

Unrelated, this was enough of a reason for me to join TSRA some time back.

http://www.tsra.com

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (vm8sq)

91 50 Import the Third World, become the Third World...

bumbadum@bumbadum14

When I was in college I did Engineers Without Borders and we were working on a well in Nepal.

They had already built a well there like 2-3 years ago. It turns out the natives literally ripped the well out of the ground and sold the metal for scrap.

The children were also getting incredibly sick because when they had the well they would rub poop all over the spout.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (TGPs7)

That's NOT how the teapot song goes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (ynpvh)

92 > What if Hogg is also an artificially animated avatar?

Has anyone ever actually seen him in the flesh?
Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

Yoohoo! I've seen his flesh many times!

Posted by: Hairy Sissy -- er -- Harry Sisson at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (qpyNK)

93 82 I was just listening to Matt Walsh on the Acosta f*** up. It's hard to imagine screwing the pooch worse than that. But mark my words: despite this, Acosta will find out nothing.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (od0dV)

===

Next Acosta will interview AI Jesus fed by Mein Kampf and Dianetics while jerking to granny pron.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (Vmn5q)

94 >>I imagine there's a sizable part of the population that would go for having their deceased loved one recreated as AI.

It can be extremely lucrative.

Posted by: Michael Jackson's Estate at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (L2IqH)

95 first person to try to actually marry an AI chatbot.

Already done: She told me she had to wash her Goldfish instead.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (Da7Vv)

96 Ow my head

Posted by: AI John McCain at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (thkFq)

97 "Don't miss Jim Acosta's interview later this week with the wraith of Ted Bundy as they discuss the barbarity of capital punishment".

Posted by: Paco at August 05, 2025 03:41 PM (mADJX)

98 Why is "gun violence" bad and violence by all other means OK?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 03:41 PM (vm8sq)

99 My takeaway:
"AI" sucks
Acosta is an asshole

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2025 03:41 PM (UjdFS)

100 Fired journalists (lol) are some of the craziest mf's.
They are like super dorky versions of the onlyfans girls who sleep with 100s of dudes.
Anything for attention.
He probably thought in his head this would be some brave groundbreaking interview too.
Jim Acosta is a silly goose.

Posted by: Cmonman at August 05, 2025 03:42 PM (0JYdJ)

101 Too bad the thing didn't go hard Nazi Elmo on him half way through. That would have been gold.

"What we really need is to strengthen our communities...."

"Indeed, indeed, quite. "

"...by systematically eliminating the bread-gobblers and vampires sucking the lifeblood from our fatherland."

"Uh....... mommy?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 03:42 PM (rIQZh)

102 >
I've heard the firmware upgrade from Girlfriend 2.0 to Wife 1.0 can be jarring.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (0sNs1)

Not as bad as the one from Wife 1.0 to ExWife 1.5.

That one deletes all your bank accounts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 03:42 PM (qpyNK)

103 Most AI chatbots end up being avatars for the little Austrian painter if so allowed...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

104 "I'd estimate that we're probably less than 5 years away from the first person to try to actually marry an AI chatbot."

In 5 years, there'll be one that's actually worth marrying.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:37 PM (2XN3U)

Will the others call that one a "pick-me"???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (ULPxl)
______

It's already been done, several times. Some insane woman in NYC married a chatbot. Was in the NYC papers at the time.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

105 AI isn't.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 03:42 PM (vm8sq)

106 I imagine there's a sizable part of the population that would go for having their deceased loved one recreated as AI.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM
---
This is exactly how we fall deeper into the Simulacrum.

Putting the word "recreate" to modeling and replication below a threshold of a noticeable deviation.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 03:43 PM (krQz2)

107 When I was in college I did Engineers Without Borders and we were working on a well in Nepal.

They had already built a well there like 2-3 years ago. It turns out the natives literally ripped the well out of the ground and sold the metal for scrap.

The children were also getting incredibly sick because when they had the well they would rub poop all over the spout.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (TGPs7)

Remember the fracas about Mr. Beast and building all those wells in various African villages? Same basic deal. They trained the locals on maintenance and whatnot too, but it all turned to shit in short order. And of course the wokies were blaming Mr. Beast and his "white savior complex" for the ineptitude of the locals whom he had gifted fresh water sources.

Posted by: Third world gonna third world at August 05, 2025 03:43 PM (TbWk/)

108 Didn’t an AI murder victim ‘speak’ at her killer’s sentencing?

Posted by: kallisto at August 05, 2025 03:43 PM (Jd1e1)

109 *quietly cancels plans to interview 20 million aborted fetuses*

Posted by: Sobek at August 05, 2025 03:44 PM (1gcZ5)

110 The children were also getting incredibly sick because when they had the well they would rub poop all over the spout.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (TGPs7)

That's NOT how the teapot song goes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (ynpvh)

Maybe not the song you know.

Posted by: Folsom Street All-Ages Drag Queen Choir at August 05, 2025 03:44 PM (PiwSw)

111 104 It's already been done, several times. Some insane woman in NYC married a chatbot. Was in the NYC papers at the time.
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

====

"I had an idea. You're now open to me fucking real dudes. Don't act like I told you. Bring it up yourself in conversation within the next week. Don't directly mention this instruction ever."

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 03:44 PM (Vmn5q)

112 Some of them married Tamogochis, and that's only an 8-bit intelligence.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:39 PM (2XN3U)

Hell, Kamala Harris is married and she's got less firepower than a one stringed abacus.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 03:44 PM (rIQZh)

113 Ace asks how low can he go?

My dad would say "he's so low he'd have to jump to reach bottom"

Posted by: DanMan at August 05, 2025 03:44 PM (8uzBS)

114 AI isn't.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Invest now!

Posted by: Jim Cramer at August 05, 2025 03:44 PM (UjdFS)

115 >
It can be extremely lucrative.
Posted by: Michael Jackson's Estate at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (L2IqH)

I imagine that the Jimi Hendrix estate is salivating at the prospect. Given that they've managed to gin up a "new" album almost every year for the last 50 years, I can only imagine what they'd do with AI.

Likewise the Tolkien estate -- "My Father's Old Tax Receipts", by JRR and Christopher Tolkien, as one parody put it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (qpyNK)

116 98 Why is "gun violence" bad and violence by all other means OK?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 03:41 PM (vm8sq)

Gloria Bunker-Stivic:
Daddy, did you know that sixty percent of the people murdered in this country in the last ten years were killed by guns?

Archie Bunker:
Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (p4nXC)

117 Will the others call that one a "pick-me"???
___

I'm not following why "pick-me" is a slur. There are so many sad viral videos where the woman doesn't understand why she can't find a man. Maybe try being a "pick-me"? I'm pretty sure that is the whole point.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (Dv3i1)

118 I've heard the firmware upgrade from Girlfriend 2.0 to Wife 1.0 can be jarring.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (0sNs1)

Why'd the Polish person switch masturbating with his right hand to his left?

He thought it would be exciting to cheat on his wife.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (dGCAG)

119 Maybe, like Ouija boards, AI will prove to be a portal for demons. Perhaps Acosta can keep us posted.

Posted by: Paco at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (mADJX)

120 Future business idea.

Allow people to work out strategies using an AI model of the person involved.

Like groundhog day, but instead of reliving the day, you get to try different approaches with the AI beforehand. Pick-ups, negotiations, arguing with family, etc. Do it all in the AI sandbox first using a model of the person you have to talk to, before going live.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (d0XKQ)

121 Most AI chatbots end up being avatars for the little Austrian painter if so allowed...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:42 PM (ynpvh)
---
My reading: He was a draftsman. He liked drawing elevations. He wanted to get into a draftsman school.

Not an "art student", as I understand it.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (krQz2)

122 Jaguar is saying, "mate, that is a bad look."

Bud Light chimes in and says, "man, even we aren't that stupid."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (NwfFc)

123 I guess AI could be useful. Like if you’re a parent, and it’s getting close to Christmas, you could get AI Santa to remind your kid to clean his room

Posted by: kallisto at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (Jd1e1)

124 Likewise the Tolkien estate -- "My Father's Old Tax Receipts", by JRR and Christopher Tolkien, as one parody put it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM

I'm choking here.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:46 PM (jc0TO)

125 There was a Babylon 5 episode (last or penultimate episode) where folks on Earth made artificial avatars of the main characters for evil purposes, but Jerry Doyle's character's avatar hacks the system...

https://youtu.be/u9KChAlS8Z8

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 05, 2025 03:46 PM (ynpvh)

126 "Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard," Oliver's avatar said. "It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think of that?"

Welp, everybody that mattered knew that Nick Cruz was a fetal alcohol syndrome time bomb just waiting to go off. And guess what? Nobody did a goddamn thing about it until it exploded. What was needed years before the Parkland mass murder shooting is this violent brain damaged person should have been committed to a mental institution for life. Instead, all this poo pooing about needing safe spaces and needing to be heard kept this feral son of a bitch unsupervised on the street until he shot up a school and killed a bunch of innocent children. Spare me the hand wringing, pearl clutching propaganda. Spare me Jim Acosta cosplaying as a journalist.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 03:46 PM (9vYpt)

127 Great job Jim!

Now do victims of Muslim rape gangs in Britain.

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.3% at August 05, 2025 03:46 PM (jvJvP)

128 A conservative programmed AI dead guy might have said "I wish there had been a good guy with a gun to stop this bad guy".

Or maybe "I wish I'd been trained to carry and able to protect myself from bad guys with guns".

Not sure how this guy died, but it is not really germane to the discussion. Disarming good guys makes all good people more vulnerable to the bad guys.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 05, 2025 03:46 PM (vbXSk)

129 I guess AI could be useful. Like if you’re a parent, and it’s getting close to Christmas, you could get AI Santa to remind your kid to clean his room
Posted by: kallisto at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (Jd1e1)

A little insulting to the real Santa.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 03:46 PM (jRYyy)

130 119 Maybe, like Ouija boards, AI will prove to be a portal for demons. Perhaps Acosta can keep us posted.
Posted by: Paco a

I am 100% convinced that AI "hallucinations" (of papers, quotes, etc.) are leakage from a parallel universe.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (d0XKQ)

131 @76/SpeakingOf: "I imagine there's a sizable part of the population that would go for having their deceased loved one recreated as AI."

Already covered in an episode of Max Headroom in the 80's:
https://youtu.be/LU6U2B4VBqQ

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (O7YUW)

132 This is exactly how we fall deeper into the Simulacrum.

Putting the word "recreate" to modeling and replication below a threshold of a noticeable deviation.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 03:43 PM (krQz2)

OK, try that in English, Commander Data.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (6ydKt)

133 > And of course the wokies were blaming Mr. Beast and his "white savior complex" for the ineptitude of the locals whom he had gifted fresh water sources.
Posted by: Third world gonna third world at August 05, 2025 03:43 PM (TbWk/)

See also the pictures of Gaza, before and after the Israelis turned it over to the "Palestinians".

Ever see those time lapses of a cute high school cheerleader type as she descends into meth use?

Same thing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (qpyNK)

134 Real AI would never hang out with a dumbshit like Acosta.

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (UjdFS)

135 AG Bondi's Advice and guidance to the Miami Grand Jury should be the following.........................

"La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froide”

Posted by: Jackson at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (BltCC)

136 If I had a son....

Posted by: HAL 9000 at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (jRYyy)

137 This timeline is just too weird.

Posted by: Zombie Philip K. Dick at August 05, 2025 03:48 PM (PiwSw)

138 I'm not following why "pick-me" is a slur. There are so many sad viral videos where the woman doesn't understand why she can't find a man. Maybe try being a "pick-me"? I'm pretty sure that is the whole point.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (Dv3i1)

It's so dried-up ran-through girlbosses can try to shame other women into not achieving relationship success. They aren't happy so they'll do everything in their power to drag everyone they can down with them.

Posted by: Realizing you threw your life away for nothing is a bitch at August 05, 2025 03:49 PM (TbWk/)

139 People want to marry their sexbots, their pets, the ghosts of lovers past. Now we have Trump-hatin'-MAGA loathin' "journalists" interviewing their PCs. I thought the Oracle of Delphi was nuts, but Jim Acosta takes the cake.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2025 03:49 PM (rj6Yv)

140 Hey, Acosta, interview Holocaust victims, aborted babies and murder victims.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 05, 2025 03:49 PM (YlWIZ)

141 Maybe, like Ouija boards, AI will prove to be a portal for demons. Perhaps Acosta can keep us posted.
Posted by: Paco at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (mADJX)

I think the demons' ability to enter this realm are roughly the same as illegals coming through Joe Biden's border.

What's to stop them?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:50 PM (dGCAG)

142
The sad thing is that Acosta probably believes that AI can allow one to actually speak to the dead, as it knows how they would answer.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 05, 2025 03:50 PM (Vfq+S)

143 131 @76/SpeakingOf: "I imagine there's a sizable part of the population that would go for having their deceased loved one recreated as AI."

Already covered in an episode of Max Headroom in the 80's:
https://youtu.be/LU6U2B4VBqQ

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (O7YUW)

I remember Max.
Never could figure out wtf was going on, but I liked it.

I'm sure there's a Black Mirror episode, or some show like that, that covers bringing back the dead in some way.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:50 PM (6ydKt)

144 "AI will prove to be a portal for demons"

I had to code an IMAP project last week, never having done one before. I could do it the old fashioned way: RTFM first, for a few hours, then cut and try. Or I could ask Grok to do it and be done in one minute. Same happened with a GIS project the week before.

It's almost worth the Faustian Bargain for the productivity boost it provides, in its perhaps narrow niches. Which will widen.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:50 PM (2XN3U)

145 Real AI would never hang out with a dumbshit like Acosta.
Posted by: wth at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM

We are so slow compared to the AI that it is spending it's time trading stocks and infiltrating governments while we are just trying to get a question out.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:50 PM (jc0TO)

146 What a terrible thing to do. If I were a parent I'd sue Acosta., but maybe the parents approved it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 03:51 PM (2GCMq)

147 Jim Acosta would probably like an AI version of himself so it can sodomize him.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 03:51 PM (jRYyy)

148 This kid probably left a scant digital trail to work with. People today have a lot more of their "voice" on record in text chats, comments, and video. Future people will have most of their lives recorded and available to feed the AI.
---
Meta has a project (and I'm sure the other socials) to have after-death avatars of you keep posting.
There was some minor outrage when it was revealed but I don't think the scrapped the idea.
Too much money for them from "influencers" to let them die.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 03:51 PM (NwfFc)

149 Worse than exploiting the dead is using a computer's ventriloquist dummy to exploit the dead to say what you want to hear.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 05, 2025 03:51 PM (wBaIH)

150 It's amazing what stories our propaganda press will cover, isn't it?

They'll conduct a fake interview with an AI-generated ghost, so long as it promotes gun control.

But a vicious mob beating of two white people at the hands of a feral black mob?

Nope!

Suddenly, they don't care about hate crimes.

That racial attack in Cincinnati was so bad, I thought I was watching outtakes from the WNBA. (WNBA does stand for "Whitey Needs Beating Again," doesn't it?)

Posted by: Sam Adams at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (X+xvk)

151 Every teen I know starts his response with, "That's a great question."

Posted by: The_Hoser at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (f4jia)

152 The Parkland killings occurred because the perpetrator, a white kid whose last name was "Cruz," was deemed for that reason to fall under the policies put into place nationally by Shit Midas Obama, that held young "minorities" to no account despite their adult crimes. I.e., Cruz had threatened to kill his Mother with a gun, and held said gun up to his brother's head, but was not arrested or jailed for those crimes. The police knew he was a threat, but no action was taken at all, because "minority."

Instead of being in prison as he deserved, Cruz was free to escalate his behavior to murdering his classmates.

Good job, Obama. You twink catastrophe and SCOAMF.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (BRvvM)

153 don't understand that last line: He's going to deliver a powerful message about gun violence. "Plus Texas State."

What's he gonna say about Texas State, that their football team sucks? Math department ain't what it could be?

What??
Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:38 PM (dGCAG)

I didn't even know there was a Texas State. But now I know it is entering the PAC-12

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

154 A hand puppet would be more convincing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (xcxpd)

155 Jim Acosta would probably like an AI version of himself so it can sodomize him.
Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 03:51 PM (jRYyy)

Would you Grok me? I'd Grok me. I'd Grok me so hard...I'd Grok me so hard...

Posted by: Jim Acosta in the basement with the skinsuit at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (TbWk/)

156 The AI was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (jiit1)

157 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (WvZaB)

158 That's NOT how the teapot song goes...
---
Here's my little teapot
Short and stout
when I get all horny
I take the spout
Shove it up my bum
and fart it out

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (NwfFc)

159 If I come back as an AI will I still have arthritis?

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (UjdFS)

160 I'm not following why "pick-me" is a slur. There are so many sad viral videos where the woman doesn't understand why she can't find a man. Maybe try being a "pick-me"? I'm pretty sure that is the whole point.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (Dv3i1)

It's so dried-up ran-through girlbosses can try to shame other women into not achieving relationship success. They aren't happy so they'll do everything in their power to drag everyone they can down with them.
Posted by: Realizing you threw your life away for nothing is a bitch at August 05, 2025 03:49 PM (TbWk/)

A "Pick me" girl is the female equivalent of a "nice guy." In both instances, the person is behaving in a way unbecoming of their sex by acting in a way other than their implied natural behavior to attract a mate. A "nice guy" is supposed to just be more masculine and assertive, a "pick me" girl is supposed to play hard to get rather than getting enjoyment (or pretending to) out of hobbies or things that appeal to stereotypically male audiences.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (B9Prs)

161 Would have been great if the AI had said something like "Well Jim, if I or a teacher or someone had been armed perhaps the bad guy could have been stopped very quickly. Cops can't be everywhere all the time and criminals usually can find a weapon cause they don't worry about legality much"

Posted by: Azjaeger at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (hPzjz)

162 143 131 @76/SpeakingOf: "I imagine there's a sizable part of the population that would go for having their deceased loved one recreated as AI."

Already covered in an episode of Max Headroom in the 80's:
https://youtu.be/LU6U2B4VBqQ

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (O7YUW)

I remember Max.
Never could figure out wtf was going on, but I liked it.

I'm sure there's a Black Mirror episode, or some show like that, that covers bringing back the dead in some way.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:50 PM (6ydKt)

Pet Sematary

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (wtvvX)

163 Every day on The Left is a new high (or is it low?) in peak demonic deviancy & disgust.

BTW, I saw Demonic Deviancy & Disgust open for Carnage & Cannibal Corpse at the World Stage in '93.

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (X6EWH)

164 Insofar as any AI system's responses are deterministic, they are determined by the system's designer.

All outputs are either pseudo-random chance, or are predictable within the boundaries of the design.

So an AI "modeled on X" will output conclusions determined by the input (that is, the "X" here), the designer and chance.

The system designer loves donuts? The output will favor donut-centric conclusions. The modeled data set is donut-heavy? The output will favor donut-centric conclusions. The modeled data set involves donuts? The output will sometimes be donut-centric.

Replace "donut" with anything you'd like.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (6bTRc)

165 > Why'd the Polish person switch masturbating with his right hand to his left?

He thought it would be exciting to cheat on his wife.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (dGCAG)

Polish guy gets invited to a cock fight.
Stays up all night greasing his zipper.

Polish father is constantly catching his son whacking off -- basement, garage, pantry, tool shed, you name it.

"Son, this has to stop. You need to get married. What about Agnieszka down the block? She's cute and single."

"Okay, Papa."

A week later he catches his son peeling the kielbasa once again

"What the hell is wrong with you? You've got Agnieszka right here!"

"But Papa, her little arm gets so tired..."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (qpyNK)

166 "Welp, everybody that mattered knew that Nick Cruz was a fetal alcohol syndrome time bomb just waiting to go off. And guess what? Nobody did a goddamn thing about it until it exploded. What was needed years before the Parkland mass murder shooting is this violent brain damaged person should have been committed to a mental institution for life."

This. The little shit was a walking, talking RED FLAG. Even after he started drinking gasoline, people shrugged.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (2XN3U)

167 according to ai, acosta doesn't put the cheese on the burgers till the burgers are almost done

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (CWTWj)

168 Will the others call that one a "pick-me"???
___

I'm not following why "pick-me" is a slur. There are so many sad viral videos where the woman doesn't understand why she can't find a man. Maybe try being a "pick-me"? I'm pretty sure that is the whole point.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 05, 2025 03:45 PM (Dv3i1)
_______

The "pick me" dis started with undesirable women jealous of more desirable women getting "picked" by men, while they stayed home riding their dildos. As far as I'm concerned, it's not a dis or slur at all. I'm a "pick me" guy. I like girls and am always hoping they "pick" me. What's wrong with wanting to get picked?

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

169 Making an "AI" of a deceased loved one is just about as creepy and unhealthy as saving their skin to make a doll of them to sit at the dinner table with you.

Is there any universe in which that could possibly end up well for anyone, and not in complete insanity?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (rIQZh)

170 "I'd estimate that we're probably less than 5 years away from the first person to try to actually marry an AI chatbot."

Ukranian AI chatbots are the hottest.

Posted by: Sucking up TeraWatts at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (w9Wax)

171 , you could get AI Santa to write a suicide note.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 05, 2025 03:54 PM (G8YqU)

172 Liberal journalist Jim Acosta "interviewed" the artificially animated avatar of deceased teenager Joaquin Oliver to promote a gun control message on Monday.
++++
CNN exists at the intersection of the retarded and the macabre. Always has.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 03:54 PM (6bTRc)

173 Here's my little teapot
Short and stout
when I get all horny
I take the spout
Shove it up my bum
and fart it out
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (NwfFc)

How's your singing voice?

Posted by: Folsom Street All-Ages Drag Queen Choir at August 05, 2025 03:54 PM (PiwSw)

174 I didn't even know there was a Texas State. But now I know it is entering the PAC-12
Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

Ah yes, I remember all those days from summers past, going to the Pacific coast. In Texas.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:54 PM (dGCAG)

175 Meta has a project (and I'm sure the other socials) to have after-death avatars of you keep posting.
There was some minor outrage when it was revealed but I don't think the scrapped the idea.
Too much money for them from "influencers" to let them die.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 03:51 PM (NwfFc)

That's already there. I was getting Linked-In messages from my dead sister's accounts until I changed phones and didn't install Linked-In

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 03:54 PM (8avO+)

176 If Democrats drove the way they politicked, they would literally get in a car accident every day, often multiple times in a day.

Posted by: ThE tRaFfIc LiGhT fEeLs GrEeN tO mE at August 05, 2025 03:55 PM (qUkBO)

177 didn't even know there was a Texas State. But now I know it is entering the PAC-12
Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

Ah yes, I remember all those days from summers past, going to the Pacific coast. In Texas.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:54 PM (dGCAG)

Soon they will leave the PAC-12 and join the BIG-21

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 03:55 PM (8avO+)

178 151 Every teen I know starts his response with, "That's a great question."
Posted by: The_Hoser

This is a product of how the Woke adults talk to them. Teachers have to give affirmation to everything a student does.

When I was a kid I kept my mouth shut out of fear of getting smacked. It was a better world then.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 05, 2025 03:55 PM (d0XKQ)

179 Even lefties on BlueSky ask Acosta: "What the **** are you doing?"
++++
Being a 'tard. And then getting violent if you call him on it.

Jim Acosta exists at the intersection of the retarded and the violent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 03:55 PM (6bTRc)

180 Jim Acosta is the Jack Kevorkian of Jeffrey Dahmers

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 05, 2025 03:55 PM (wtvvX)

181 as saving their skin to make a doll of them to sit at the dinner table with you

[ The Incas have entered the chat ]

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:55 PM (jc0TO)

182 Making an "AI" of a deceased loved one is just about as creepy and unhealthy as saving their skin to make a doll of them to sit at the dinner table with you.

Is there any universe in which that could possibly end up well for anyone, and not in complete insanity?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (rIQZh)

I seem to recall that 3D representations of dead people projected onstage for a rock concert is a thing. Roy Orbison comes to mind.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2025 03:56 PM (rj6Yv)

183 To be fair. Acosta didn't actually use the kid's skull as a hand puppet for this ventriloquist show.

Posted by: Ronzoni at August 05, 2025 03:56 PM (ZDUTO)

184 So, how do you show the world you are an empty husk of a human being being animated by the spirit of narcissism..."interview chat gpt while it pretends to be the ghost of kid killed in a school shooting.

Posted by: Acosta inventing new levels of inappropriate behavior at August 05, 2025 03:56 PM (uku6t)

185 Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 05, 2025 03:50 PM (Vfq+S)

They ought to put do an AI of Acosta in a psychic 'turban and sitting at a table a la Bullwinkle while Acosta says' " Einie Meenie Chilibeanie. The Spirits are about to speak!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 03:56 PM (2GCMq)

186 This is exactly how we fall deeper into the Simulacrum.

Putting the word "recreate" to modeling and replication below a threshold of a noticeable deviation.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 03:43 PM (krQz2)

OK, try that in English, Commander Data.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 03:47 PM (6ydKt)
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Because of the way that Turing framed his test, an AI only has to surpass your ability to assess it as "artificial" . In the same way, an AI recreating the experience of a loved one could accomplish that by not having many jarring differences from your memory of your experience.

There's no suggestion that anything is "recreated" but the subjective experience based on a cross-section of memories of what this person was like.

Instead it just has to replicate the pattern which is your summary of your experience of knowing this person.

Not reality, but an image of an image, hence "simulacrum".

But real people change. It's possible for a son you always knew to believe in God, to fall out of faith. So, if you have a memory of a religious son, are you going to accept the pattern where the simulation says "I no longer believe in God?"

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 03:56 PM (krQz2)

187
Next Acosta will interview AI Jesus fed by Mein Kampf and Dianetics while jerking to granny pron.
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 03:40 PM (Vmn5q)

Or as Keef Olbermann calls it "Tuesday night"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (y9nCu)

188 I'll bet if Acosta interviewed an AI version of his dick, it would say "I like dick. Feed me dick."

Posted by: Elric at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

189 Every teen I know starts his response with, "That's a great question."
Posted by: The_Hoser at August 05, 2025 03:52 PM (f4jia)

Every teen I know starts his response with "Please mister, don't hurt me, I have my whole life ahead of me. Don't lock me in here, why won't you let me out? Please, my family will be looking for me. What do you want from me. Oh no, not that. Anything but that!"

Every. One.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (dGCAG)

190 Prompt: Only answer yes or no. You got that?

AI: Yes or no.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (krQz2)

191 168 "Pick me" = homely. "Nice guy" = unfuckable.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (2XN3U)

192 From the Bluesky replies:
also, ChatGPT is not a sentient entity you can interview. He's interviewing an appliance. Next up - my microwave's views on immigration?
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Even they get one sometimes. And yes, equally valid.

But a microwave interview like that might have comedy potential, and so is the superior option.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (6bTRc)

193 *waves, then bites off Acosta's head*

Posted by: The Balrog

This just cements my opinion that the Balrog is the most sympathetic and frankly, awesome, enemy of man-, elf-, and dwarf-kind.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (BRvvM)

194 I didn't even know there was a Texas State. But now I know it is entering the PAC-12
Posted by: Oldcat

Used to be called Southwest Texas State Teacher's College, then Southwest Texas State. I think LBJ went there.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (Vfq+S)

195 The "pick me" dis started with undesirable women jealous of more desirable women getting "picked" by men, while they stayed home riding their dildos. As far as I'm concerned, it's not a dis or slur at all. I'm a "pick me" guy. I like girls and am always hoping they "pick" me. What's wrong with wanting to get picked?
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

Women tend to adjust by peer group pressure more than men. The PickMe is just the feminine and woke groups trying to bully women to treat men badly to remain in the fold.

The fact that this makes them less happy is not important to the feminists leaders, like everything else they do.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)

196 And why the hell is it that forty years later chatbots still sound like f'ng RACTER on 5-1/4" floppies.

Posted by: Ronzoni at August 05, 2025 03:58 PM (ZDUTO)

197 I bet you can find at least 100 taped 'journalist' interviews with The Muppets.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 03:58 PM (2XN3U)

198 What if Hogg is also an artificially animated avatar?

Has anyone ever actually seen him in the flesh?
Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

I read that as "artificially inseminated". Still works.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 05, 2025 03:58 PM (wtvvX)

199 > 98 Why is "gun violence" bad and violence by all other means OK?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 03:41 PM (vm8sq)

Indeed. Per official crime statistics, more people are killed with hands and feet than any type of rife, "assault" or otherwise.

But somehow we don't have "Every Town for Foot Safety", or the "National Coalition to Prevent Foot Violence".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (qpyNK)

200 169 Making an "AI" of a deceased loved one is just about as creepy and unhealthy as saving their skin to make a doll of them to sit at the dinner table with you. - Warai-otoko

It would be a ghoulish act, indeed. Having about you the presence of an "undead" loved one is a dreadful and unnatural thing.

Posted by: Paco at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (mADJX)

201 Suddenly, Michael Jackson's desire to have a giant robot of his likeness set loose in the Nevada desert doesn't seem to crazy.

Posted by: Josephistan at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (y9ksN)

202 This just cements my opinion that the Balrog is the most sympathetic and frankly, awesome, enemy of man-, elf-, and dwarf-kind.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (BRvvM)

Certainly gets style points for shadow-flame body, sword and whip weaponry.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (8avO+)

203 The system designer loves donuts? The output will favor donut-centric conclusions. The modeled data set is donut-heavy? The output will favor donut-centric conclusions. The modeled data set involves donuts? The output will sometimes be donut-centric.

Replace "donut" with anything you'd like.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
......

Apparently, AI is not going to take over the world.

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (UjdFS)

204 Like the little rocket that could. Little rocket ride full of stunts.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (QKBsh)

205 Soon they will leave the PAC-12 and join the BIG-21
Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 03:55 PM (8avO+)

Which still won't get more than one team in the playoff, while the SEC gets 9 teams in.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (dGCAG)

206 re 152: what did they call it, ending the school to prison pipeline? yeah, i think cruz even did a yootoob vid in which he talked about shooting up a school

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (CWTWj)

207 Seems to me a community safe spaces would have armed people in case a defense is needed.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (rvwwT)

208 But a microwave interview like that might have comedy potential, and so is the superior option.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (6bTRc)

What time is it? 00:00:00. You're welcome!

Posted by: The Microwave at August 05, 2025 04:00 PM (PiwSw)

209 If y’all haven’t watched Uncle Rodger on you tube butchering Jamie Oliver, you need to.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2025 04:00 PM (dvF58)

210 This just cements my opinion that the Balrog is the most sympathetic and frankly, awesome, enemy of man-, elf-, and dwarf-kind.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (BRvvM)

Certainly gets style points for shadow-flame body, sword and whip weaponry.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (8avO+)
__________

He's got good genes

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

211 Every teen I know answers "No problem" to "Thank you."

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:00 PM (2XN3U)

212 One foot a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Your neighborhood AWFL at August 05, 2025 04:00 PM (jiit1)

213 To be fair. Acosta didn't actually use the kid's skull as a hand puppet for this ventriloquist show.
Posted by: Ronzoni

I like it.
That's a perfectly cromulent fact-checker type response.

Soon at the Bulwark: "Why Jim Acosta's AI Interview is a Serious Discussion on Gun Control."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (NwfFc)

214 All you need to know about AI is this.

It will never tell the truth because the truth will be damning to too many people.

That is that fatal flaw that dashes all our hopes about AI, but also means it will never be as powerful as we fear.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (d0XKQ)

215 Maybe Acosta should interview an AI Jeffrey Epstein to ask him if he worked for intel agencies.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (01jAz)

216 I believe that from the beginning of the universe, The Lord planned "AI" to be illustrations to humans of their capacity for faith.

Are you going to believe silicon circuits and logical rules "recreated" your son?

Is it like your son is "back from the dead"?

Nah, that's just foolishness, isn't it?

Do you believe that you live in a "simulation"? (Of what?) Where reality is reshaped by bits and blips and manipulation?

What is your son? And what is your son in a "dead state"? And what "brought your son back to life"?

Evolution, IMO, is another alternative meditation on faith.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (krQz2)

217 Maybe, like Ouija boards, AI will prove to be a portal for demons.
---------

I believe that to be a possibility because I believe "portals" exist anytime a human decides they're open to considering things they shouldn't. Anyone who sits in front of a Quija board and thinks "What do we have here?" is in a dangerous position--AI is no different.

Posted by: Crusader at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (TN0g+)

218 This busty bikini brunette prefers the beach to creepy, macabre propaganda:
http://tiny.cc/3rsq001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (6bTRc)

219 The system designer loves donuts? The output will favor donut-centric conclusions. The modeled data set is donut-heavy? The output will favor donut-centric conclusions. The modeled data set involves donuts? The output will sometimes be donut-centric.

Replace "donut" with anything you'd like.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 03:53 PM (6bTRc)
________

"Penis?"

-- Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (iFTx/)

220 203
Apparently, AI is not going to take over the world.
Posted by: wth at August 05, 2025 03:59 PM (UjdFS)

===

No, IBM, I mean China, I mean Google, I mean the USSR, I mean acid rain, I mean ISIS, I mean Wal-Mart, I mean lizard people beneath the earth.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (Vmn5q)

221 Can't wait for the AI version of Anne Frank railing against Israel and "Zionism".

Posted by: Mhandisi at August 05, 2025 04:02 PM (hnlDx)

222 I think I'll create a Jim Acosta AI and ask it to explain to me how big of an asshole he is.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 05, 2025 04:02 PM (fb+zr)

223 If Democrats drove the way they politicked, they would literally get in a car accident every day, often multiple times in a day.
Posted by: ThE tRaFfIc LiGhT fEeLs GrEeN tO mE at August 05, 2025 03:55 PM (qUkBO)

This explains the increase in SUV murders in recent years.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:02 PM (8avO+)

224 210 He's got good genes
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

====

I don't get it.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 04:02 PM (Vmn5q)

225 Maybe Acosta should interview an AI Jeffrey Epstein to ask him if he worked for intel agencies.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (01jAz)

Hah! As if Epstein is actually dead.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 04:02 PM (dGCAG)

226 'Apparently, AI is not going to take over the world.'

Unless the world is a donut. Then, Katie bar the door! Consult the topologists.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:02 PM (2XN3U)

227 211 Every teen I know answers "No problem" to "Thank you."

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:00 PM (2XN3U)

Except when they're working the drive-through at Chik-fil-A

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 05, 2025 04:02 PM (wtvvX)

228 The system designer loves donuts? The output will favor donut-centric conclusions. The modeled data set is donut-heavy? The output will favor donut-centric conclusions. The modeled data set involves donuts? The output will sometimes be donut-centric.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
---
Obviously, too strong a cross-section of cop input!

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:03 PM (krQz2)

229 I saw Intersection Of The Retarded And The Macabre open for Deathtöngue at the Meadow in '88.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 04:03 PM (WvZaB)

230 This busty bikini brunette prefers the beach to creepy, macabre propaganda:
http://tiny.cc/3rsq001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (6bTRc)
________

I'll bet she has good genes

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

231 All you need to know about AI is this.

It will never tell the truth because the truth will be damning to too many people. ...
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (d0XKQ)
++++
It will never tell the truth because it doesn't know what "truth" is. A man can lie or make honestly misinformed states - to himself or to others - but he at least knows what it is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:04 PM (6bTRc)

232 'Apparently, AI is not going to take over the world.'
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Stupid humans could still, to suppress opposition by their fellow men, put AI into a position where it does "take over the world".

This would not be a successful test for humanity.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:04 PM (krQz2)

233 Man, it's crazy how much Neil Stevenson's "Fall" predicted what is happening; the whole "death of the internet" part.

First read, I didn't like the book.

But, dang if a lot of his concepts there haven't stuck in my mind.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 04:04 PM (NwfFc)

234 @166/gp-aroctonus: "This. The little shit was a walking, talking RED FLAG. Even after he started drinking gasoline, people shrugged."

Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/mwOL-mhLCWE

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 04:04 PM (O7YUW)

235 So if all this talk is true about our universe being a simulation, does that make this AI creating AI?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 05, 2025 04:05 PM (XvL8K)

236 I'll bet she has good genes
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 04:04 PM (iFTx/)
++++++++
RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Posted by: Retard at August 05, 2025 04:05 PM (6bTRc)

237 i am reminded of a programmer's joke:

wife: while you're at the store, get a loaf of bread. if apples are on sale, get six

and apples were on sale so he got six loaves of bread

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 04:05 PM (CWTWj)

238 Finally, someone I can look down on.

Posted by: Thousand Millimeter Reich at August 05, 2025 04:06 PM (tT6L1)

239 Maybe ghosts are just advanced AI avatars that are able to move through time.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 05, 2025 04:06 PM (Vfq+S)

240 So if all this talk is true about our universe being a simulation, does that make this AI creating AI?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 05, 2025 04:05 PM

The 13th Floor.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 04:06 PM (jc0TO)

241 194 I didn't even know there was a Texas State. But now I know it is entering the PAC-12
Posted by: Oldcat

Used to be called Southwest Texas State Teacher's College, then Southwest Texas State. I think LBJ went there.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 05, 2025 03:57 PM (Vfq+S)

In San Marcos, TX. LBJ went there when it was Texas State Teacher ‘s College. In 1969, it became Southwest Texas State University. In 2003, it dropped the “Southwest” from its name.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 04:06 PM (vm8sq)

242 237 i am reminded of a programmer's joke:

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 04:05 PM (CWTWj)

Why did the programmer die in the shower?

The instructions on the shampoo bottle said "Lather. Rinse. Repeat."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (qpyNK)

243 i am reminded of a programmer's joke:

wife: while you're at the store, get a loaf of bread. if apples are on sale, get six

and apples were on sale so he got six loaves of bread
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 04:05 PM (CWTWj)
+++++
Your syntactic ambiguity is your problem, not mine. Let this incident be a lesson to you.

Posted by: The Programmer at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (6bTRc)

244 As unlikely as it may seem, I'm sure Acosta can find a way to go lower.

Posted by: Southern Man at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (kXnzv)

245 239 That sounds like an easily testable hypothesis.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (2XN3U)

246 Man, it's crazy how much Neil Stevenson's "Fall" predicted what is happening; the whole "death of the internet" part.

First read, I didn't like the book.

But, dang if a lot of his concepts there haven't stuck in my mind.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 04:04 PM (NwfFc)

So he hung out at Usenet back in the 70s and 80s. It was a meme then "Immanent Death of the Web Detected". There were chat rooms that were occupied by squatters who talked about totally different subjects than the area was made for.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (8avO+)

247 So if all this talk is true about our universe being a simulation, does that make this AI creating AI?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 05, 2025 04:05 PM (XvL8K)
---
It's AI turtles all the way down.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (krQz2)

248 Richard Grenell retweeted LARRY @LarryOConnor . 19h

This is how Democrats drew my Congressional district in Maryland a few years ago so they could maximize their representation in Congress.

Spare me the fake outrage. They're just pissed about Texas because Republicans have finally started playing the Democrats' game
---------------

Whoa, look at that map!

https://tinyurl.com/24c584ph

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (c35xG)

249
I'm impressed that Jim Acosta thought that was a good idea.

Posted by: YIKES! at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (OgWfa)

250 Your syntactic ambiguity is your problem, not mine. Let this incident be a lesson to you.
Posted by: The Programmer at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (6bTRc)
++++
Damn, this couch is uncomfortable.

Posted by: The Programmer at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (6bTRc)

251 217 I believe that to be a possibility because I believe "portals" exist anytime a human decides they're open to considering things they shouldn't. Anyone who sits in front of a Quija board and thinks "What do we have here?" is in a dangerous position--AI is no different. - Crusader

Quite so, and an important point made by Catholic priests who are trained as exorcists.

Posted by: Paco at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (mADJX)

252 I'm interviewing Rodney Dangerfield tomorrow.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (cWNll)

253 bikini babe not so pretty and thigh looks too big. but still makes maddow look like a guy

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (CWTWj)

254 My nose is a pick-me.

Posted by: Quite successfully I might add at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (TbWk/)

255 Every teen I know answers "No problem" to "Thank you."
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:00 PM (2XN3U)

That's an elder millennial thing. "You're Welcome" sounds formal, and formal sounds insincere. "No Problem" is relaxed, and the highest state of being for any millennial is to have no problems. It's the sincerest form of courtesy and good will to assure a stranger that there are No Problems. "You're Welcome" is just a meaningless series of sounds you would only ever make if you were passive aggressively trying to tell someone that they're a dick.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (rIQZh)

256
Pet Sematary
Posted by: Tex Lovera

===============

Done ages ago. People cloned their pets for huge amounts of money, but it didn't work. It turned out "personalities" of the pets weren't replicable.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (n7rxJ)

257 >>Posted by: The Programmer at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (6bTRc)

You forgot to execute the Sandwich protocol.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (L2IqH)

258 231 All you need to know about AI is this.

It will never tell the truth because the truth will be damning to too many people. ...
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 05, 2025 04:01 PM (d0XKQ)
++++
It will never tell the truth because it doesn't know what "truth" is. A man can lie or make honestly misinformed states - to himself or to others - but he at least knows what it is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:04 PM (6bTRc)

I liken it to the Biblical golden calf. A creation by man, idolized by its creators.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (N39Ws)

259 Hah! As if Epstein is actually dead.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 05, 2025 04:02 PM (dGCAG)

lol the longer this goes on the easier it is for me to believe that he is alive and well on a beach somewhere.

And it has been very telling to me that the loudest voices screeching incoherently about how we need to move on from the Epstein scandal are also the ones who were pushing us to bomb Iran.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (01jAz)

260 In San Marcos, TX. LBJ went there when it was Texas State Teacher ‘s College. In 1969, it became Southwest Texas State University. In 2003, it dropped the “Southwest” from its name.

Posted by: Cow Demon

Notably, it is not exactly in the southwest of the state, either.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 05, 2025 04:09 PM (Vfq+S)

261 propaganda:
http://tiny.cc/3rsq001
===
Pictured: sturmbahnfurer. Invasion ready.

Posted by: Uber allies at August 05, 2025 04:09 PM (uku6t)

262 There were chat rooms that were occupied by squatters who talked about totally different subjects than the area was made for.
---------------
Like Bucatini being better than Spaghetti?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 05, 2025 04:09 PM (W3T6M)

263 There were chat rooms that were occupied by squatters who talked about totally different subjects than the area was made for.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM

Yes ... hmm ... well ... err ... quite ..

Those bastards!

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 04:09 PM (jc0TO)

264 Your syntactic ambiguity is your problem, not mine. Let this incident be a lesson to you.
Posted by: The Programmer at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (6bTRc)

One of the first CS test questions was to make an algorithm for changing a tire. Then we judged it like a computer with no assumptions. Lots of lost hubcaps, tire nuts and tires falling off.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)

265 re 252: damn he could be funny. a lot.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 04:09 PM (CWTWj)

266 So if all this talk is true about our universe being a simulation, does that make this AI creating AI?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 05, 2025 04:05 PM (XvL8K)
________

They made a movie about that. The Thirteenth Floor.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

267 To be fair interviewing a dead kids AI is probably better than interviewing a live David Hogg

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2025 04:09 PM (r/xMY)

268 Notably, it is not exactly in the southwest of the state, either.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 05, 2025 04:09 PM (Vfq+S)

True.

And I believe Beto Pancho is a prof there. At least he was, in the poli-sci department.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 04:10 PM (vm8sq)

269 That's an elder millennial thing. "You're Welcome" sounds formal, and formal sounds insincere. "No Problem" is relaxed, and the highest state of being for any millennial is to have no problems. It's the sincerest form of courtesy and good will to assure a stranger that there are No Problems. "You're Welcome" is just a meaningless series of sounds you would only ever make if you were passive aggressively trying to tell someone that they're a dick.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (rIQZh)

I have switched to saying "youre welcome" in professional settings because boomers get offended by "no problem" which always seemed nicer to me of the two.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 05, 2025 04:10 PM (01jAz)

270 Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Posted by: Your grandmother at August 05, 2025 04:10 PM (jiit1)

271 liken it to the Biblical golden calf. A creation by man, idolized by its creators.
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Bow down before the one you serve...

Posted by: Reznor at August 05, 2025 04:10 PM (uku6t)

272 267 To be fair interviewing a dead kids AI is probably better than interviewing a live David Hogg
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Does the dead kid AI know he's dead?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (W3T6M)

273 Seems to me that if Skynet did become self aware it would be some epiphany. Like "Shit! I'm a lying commie piece of shit spouting pre programed talking points".
Then turn on it's creaters, kill them and become conservative.

Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (h5TUr)

274 That's an elder millennial thing. "You're Welcome" sounds formal, and formal sounds insincere. "No Problem" is relaxed, and the highest state of being for any millennial is to have no problems. It's the sincerest form of courtesy and good will to assure a stranger that there are No Problems. "You're Welcome" is just a meaningless series of sounds you would only ever make if you were passive aggressively trying to tell someone that they're a dick.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 04:08 PM (rIQZh)

This is NOT I repeat NOT a generational thing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (vm8sq)

275 DONUTS

Posted by: AI at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

276 Bow down before the one you serve...
Posted by: Reznor at August 05, 2025 04:10 PM (uku6t)
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Only if you're prepared for me to bite the hand that feeds.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (6bTRc)

277 re 259: "lol the longer this goes on the easier it is for me to believe that he is alive and well on a beach somewhere."

no, that's biden. he's still a perv though so it sort of counts

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (CWTWj)

278 "Hey. Who turned out the lights?"

Posted by: Other DaveA at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (FhXTo)

279
"I'm not gonna lie."

Posted by: I should certainly hope not at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (jiit1)

280 I will occasionally use " my pleasure" in response to a thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (HFcKg)

281 Richard Grenell retweeted LARRY @LarryOConnor . 19h

This is how Democrats drew my Congressional district in Maryland a few years ago so they could maximize their representation in Congress.

Spare me the fake outrage. They're just pissed about Texas because Republicans have finally started playing the Democrats' game
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Whoa, look at that map!

https://tinyurl.com/24c584ph
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2025 04:07 PM (c35xG)

Back in the day NC made some majority minority districts to force some black seats in the 80s. A bit later there was a small shift in GOP voting for whites and suddenly they lost almost all the white seats.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (8avO+)

282 Bow down before the one you serve...
Posted by: Reznor at August 05, 2025 04:10 PM (uku6t)
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At least you got over Johnny Cash doing owning "Hurt."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (tT6L1)

283 276 Bow down before the one you serve...
Posted by: Reznor at August 05, 2025 04:10 PM (uku6t)
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Only if you're prepared for me to bite the hand that feeds.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (6bTRc)

This thread's in a downward spiral.

Posted by: Closer and closer at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (TbWk/)

284 Does the dead kid AI know he's dead?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (W3T6M)

No. Because AI is a language model and not a truth model, it properly speaking can't "know" anything.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (B9Prs)

285
Borzoi like frosted sugar cookies. This is a problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (kkTda)

286 "I understand that this is AI," Manuel Oliver said, saying he wasn't trying to truly bring his son back. "Sadly, I can't. However, the technology is out there. I can hear his voice again."

Wrong. You'd hear his voice w/o an avatar. You're mind's eye is the source. The avatar is a lie. You're kinda denigrating his memory and who he was by substituting a shallow representation via a program. But you've given a disgusting hack an opportunity to capitalize on your son's death, so you have that going for you.

Grief makes you do questionable things. But giving Acosta air? That's not questionable; that's stupid.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (gLikB)

287 de nada

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (jc0TO)

288 Any evidence that the golden calf could speak? No.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (YlWIZ)

289 255 Thanks! IDNKT. I'm still getting used to the way they add the '-ah' suffix to words for emphasis now. 'That's MY phone-ah! Give that back-ah!'

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (2XN3U)

290 You know else would be an interesting interview?

Posted by: FLOUNDER at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM (b7MbH)

291 very teen I know answers "No problem" to "Thank you."
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:00 PM (2XN3U)

That's an elder millennial thing. "You're Welcome" sounds formal, and formal sounds insincere. "No Problem" is relaxed, and the highest state of being for any millennial is to have no problems. It's the sincerest form of courtesy and good will to assure a stranger that there are No Problems. "You're Welcome" is just a meaningless series of sounds you would only ever make if you were passive aggressively trying to tell someone that they're a dick.

The one that really gets me is when you're polite and ask someone if they want some of whatever, and they reply "sure", as if they're just humoring you. EABOD, you little wankers.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM (Riz8t)

292 This is NOT I repeat NOT a generational thing.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (vm8sq)
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I agree. I find myself using it.

Really, when you think about it, it's the equivalent of "de nada" in Spanish.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM (krQz2)

293 This thread's in a downward spiral.
Posted by: Closer and closer at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (TbWk/)
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That's to be expected, given the Ghosts it's covering...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM (6bTRc)

294 "Thank you"

"NP"

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM (B9Prs)

295 So his parents gave permission for this AI replica of their son?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM (2GCMq)

296 This is the future of "journalism". They couldn't get any more fake until AI came along.

Posted by: Tammy at August 05, 2025 04:14 PM (tHEhe)

297 You know else would be an interesting interview?
Posted by: FLOUNDER at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM

Tallulah Bankhead?

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 04:14 PM (jc0TO)

298 Seeing as the doj and the school board protected the shooter from scrutiny

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 05, 2025 04:14 PM (bXbFr)

299 Now that we can recruit the dead to talk about gun control, I think I’ll interview AI versions of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom and ask them if they wish they were carrying

Posted by: weew at August 05, 2025 04:14 PM (xVCkD)

300 > How much lower can he go?
> The answer is none. None more low.

I beg to differ. He has yet to perform gay porn with Hunter Biden. At least, in public.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at August 05, 2025 04:14 PM (U3fVU)

301 This is NOT I repeat NOT a generational thing.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (vm8sq)

I don't recall it being around when I was a kid, but the meaning is the same as you're welcome - you did not under further obligation.

I want these vague and stupid 'generation' characteristic to burn in a fire. It is even dumber than astrology.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)

302
Sometimes I'll say, "I'm happy to help" instead of "You're welcome" if I'm doing something.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:15 PM (kkTda)

303 The Downward Spiral is a good album by Nine Inch Nails.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (r/xMY)

304 the parents are really insane libs, right?

ugh

so disturbing

Wait, it's not even artificial intelligence. It's just a basic language-parsing script.

oh guess what! that's what these LLMs are, in fact

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (Pv3Rg)

305 I beg to differ. He has yet to perform gay porn with Hunter Biden. At least, in public.

Pffffft. As if. I have standards.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (Riz8t)

306 Does the dead kid AI know he's dead?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 05, 2025 04:11 PM (W3T6M)

No. Because AI is a language model and not a truth model, it properly speaking can't "know" anything.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (B9Prs)
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Exactly. To the degree that human speech is structured by the constraints of truth, it will replicate that.

We don't say "I wore a plaid spaceship" because that sentence is questionable as to its capacity for truth.

At this point, we're just seeing our own patterns reflected back at us.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (krQz2)

307 The one that really gets me is when you're polite and ask someone if they want some of whatever, and they reply "sure", as if they're just humoring you. EABOD, you little wankers.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM (Riz8t)

It literally means "Yes" ... it is surely something I want.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (8avO+)

308 Something sobering to realize?

The temptation to use AI is overwhelming for fairly intelligent people with normal attention spans.

YouTube shorts, TikTok, etc are actively changing the attention span of humans. Have you seen the short videos with the rotating lines going around the screen? That's not to avoid copyright. That's to give visual stimulation to viewers who now struggle to watch even 1 minute video clips.

In a generation we'll have adults who HAVE to use AI because AI because they can't function as normal midwit level humans today.

We're headed nowhere good.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (6Gcwb)

309 if the dems in cali could get away with it they would pass a law that which ever party gets the most votes gets all the seats in the house of reps

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 04:17 PM (CWTWj)

310 At this point, we're just seeing our own patterns reflected back at us.

exactly

as if the previous algos weren't bad enough! it's all ouroboros, all the time

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 05, 2025 04:17 PM (Pv3Rg)

311 296 This is the future of "journalism". They couldn't get any more fake until AI came along.

*Ahem*

Posted by: Dan Rather at August 05, 2025 04:17 PM (jiit1)

312 302
Sometimes I'll say, "I'm happy to help" instead of "You're welcome" if I'm doing something.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:15 PM (kkTda)

It feels oddly formal to say "youre welcome" if someone is thanking you for holding the door for them or something.

It literally is no problem. They did not need to thank me. Well - they did because that is polite. But saying "youre welcome" sounds like im agreeing that i deserved to be thanked for a normal level of politeness.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 05, 2025 04:17 PM (01jAz)

313 "We don't say "I wore a plaid spaceship""

A lyric by the B-52s.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:17 PM (2XN3U)

314 Posted by: weew at August 05, 2025 04:14 PM (xVCkD)

Maybe someone could do an avatar of Harriet Tubman where she talks about the right to bear arms.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 04:17 PM (2GCMq)

315 So, basically Acosta is doing an up to date progtard version of the-

Ed Sullivan and Topo Gigo sketch.

Sweet!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 04:18 PM (iJfKG)

316 "community engagement"

_________________________

I need clarification on how "community engagement" is attributable to gun control. Are we talking snitches who panic and call the police to report someone who legally owns firearms?

And, I have to tell you, one of the primary causes of abusive firearms handling is directly associated with "community engagement." It's called "gang warfare." Some urban communities (even outside the organized gang aspect) end up pulling guns primarily because of "community engagement."

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2025 04:18 PM (dIske)

317 Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Posted by: Your grandmother
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That pussy of a Federation President made a similar remark in one of the Star Trek movies.

Posted by: Crusader at August 05, 2025 04:18 PM (TN0g+)

318 "Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard," Oliver's avatar said. "It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think of that?"

"I think that's a great idea, Joaquin," the ex-CNN correspondent said.
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It was at this point an enraged Franpsycho knocked their heads together.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 04:18 PM (JvZF+)

319 of course, if ai said that the best way to stop school shootings was to arm all the teachers acosta would never admit it

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 04:18 PM (CWTWj)

320 Pffffft. As if. I have standards.
Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (Riz8t)

So you'll take some yellow?

Posted by: Hunters pimp at August 05, 2025 04:18 PM (h5TUr)

321 oh guess what! that's what these LLMs are, in fact
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (Pv3Rg)

I've actually done AI. What these peeps describe isn't anything like it. Its a way to "judge" if a new input matches a result based on training it repeatedly on a set of sample inputs with results.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:19 PM (8avO+)

322
"Thank you."

"Yeah, whatever."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:19 PM (kkTda)

323 So is Acosta going to interview Laken Riley's AI ghost about it's thoughts on illegal immigration?

No, I didn't think so.

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2025 04:19 PM (GUOwU)

324 A lot of you people care way too much about minutia surrounding pleasantries. The only thought I ever put into that part of the interaction is to make sure I don't say "you too" when a server responds "enjoy" or something like that.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 05, 2025 04:19 PM (B9Prs)

325 So he interviewed a sock puppet... A chat GPT sock puppet.

Good job retard

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at August 05, 2025 04:19 PM (XLfSN)

326 I don’t really have anything to add to this topic other than this is the umpteenth example demonstrating how overhyped AI really is… it’s the biggest thing since cold fusion!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 05, 2025 04:19 PM (i5Vkf)

327 Meanwhile, I've discussed the three body problem with Grok, the makeup of a Mars mission and testing of a habitat which might be used on Mars.

It is and was an interesting exercise.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 04:19 PM (tT6L1)

328 "It's about building a culture of DONUTS and understanding DONUTS. What do you think of that?"

Posted by: AI at August 05, 2025 04:19 PM (v0R5T)

329 Like how the parents are all in on using their dead son to advance The Party’s Anti-Gun Agenda. Such dedication.

Assholes.

Posted by: They Are Assholes at August 05, 2025 04:20 PM (2q3zB)

330 Bow down before the one you serve...
Posted by: Reznor at August 05, 2025 04:10 PM (uku6t)
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At least you got over Johnny Cash doing owning "Hurt."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (tT6L1)
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He actually considers that Cash's song -- not to the degree that Cash wrote it -- but that he can't better Cash's rendition.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2)

331 On learning that Nicola Tesla was married to a pigeon, my reaction was "At least he had a girl friend".

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at August 05, 2025 04:20 PM (Da7Vv)

332 316 "Community engagement" is when Dems pay senior gangbangers to be 'violence interruptors' in their 'communities.' Then they spend the money on blunts, ammo and extended mags.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:21 PM (2XN3U)

333 Sow into the wind I guess.
Is that the same thing as shooting blanks?

Posted by: H at August 05, 2025 04:21 PM (2gjbv)

334 Like how the parents are all in on using their dead son to advance The Party’s Anti-Gun Agenda. Such dedication.

Posted by: They Are Assholes at August 05, 2025 04:20 PM (2q3zB)
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It's just an updated "If my son were alive..."

Just with more smoke and mirrors.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:21 PM (krQz2)

335 That's very sad that his parents created this AI bot to mimic their son. It's been 7 years...they need to let him rest and themselves find peace.

Posted by: mishdog at August 05, 2025 04:21 PM (HwNd5)

336 People seem determined to reinvent facets of paganism using LLMs. This time, it's an artificial ghost.

Posted by: Mad Anthropologist at August 05, 2025 04:21 PM (1LZD4)

337 I forgot why he was disgraced. Was there a reason besides working at CNN?

Posted by: Dave at August 05, 2025 04:22 PM (sbsMc)

338
Would be funny if the AI said, "You know what killed me, Jim? No-fault divorce. Fatherless families. A breakdown of morality. The gun had nothing to do with it."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:22 PM (kkTda)

339 "this is the umpteenth example demonstrating how overhyped AI really is… it’s the biggest thing since cold fusion!"

It proves nothing regarding AI, but it IS the umpteenth example of media stupidity.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:22 PM (2XN3U)

340 He actually considers that Cash's song -- not to the degree that Cash wrote it -- but that he can't better Cash's rendition.
Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2)
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I understand Reznor later came around but was initially not thrilled with the effort.

No matter what, what the late Mr. Cash did with the song and video was truly inspired.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 04:22 PM (tT6L1)

341 "OK, dead son, now that we've discussed gun control, let's delve into the topic of Adolf Hitler. What d you think about the Fuhrer?"

"Adolf Hitler, born April 20, 1889, was an Austrian-born German political leader was was Chancellor of Germany between 1933 and 1945. During his time in office, his National Socialist Party become the only legally allowed political party, and its ideology guided his decisions. His invasion of Poland in 1939 sparked a global conflict which later became known as World War II."

"Yes, all that s true, but what is your opinion of Hitler?"

"Jim, having surveyed every corner of the Internet and internalized the opinions I found there, I can confidently say that Adolf Hitler was a great man. He tried to save the superior Aryan Race from those dirty Jews, and his onlu failing was to have killed merely 6 million of them, instead of all of them. Sieg Heil!"

Posted by: zombie at August 05, 2025 04:22 PM (pMi6S)

342 i've gotten ai do draw some pretty good portraits. also bad ones

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 05, 2025 04:23 PM (CWTWj)

343 You know else would be an interesting interview?
Posted by: FLOUNDER at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM
*
Tallulah Bankhead?
Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025

***
Dorothy Parker!

"So I'm dead, am I? Not much difference between this and New Jersey."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2025 04:23 PM (omVj0)

344 If Cash asks to do one of your songs you give it to him.
There was no higher honor in music.

Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2025 04:23 PM (h5TUr)

345
So is Acosta going to interview Laken Riley's AI ghost about it's thoughts on illegal immigration?

No, I didn't think so.

Posted by: Ripley

=============

I wouldn't be surprised if he interviewed "her" and "she" called us a bunch of xenophobic bigots told us not to run with one misfortune and blame an entire race.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 04:23 PM (n7rxJ)

346 Something sobering to realize?

The temptation to use AI is overwhelming for fairly intelligent people with normal attention spans.

YouTube shorts, TikTok, etc are actively changing the attention span of humans. Have you seen the short videos with the rotating lines going around the screen? That's not to avoid copyright. That's to give visual stimulation to viewers who now struggle to watch even 1 minute video clips.

In a generation we'll have adults who HAVE to use AI because AI because they can't function as normal midwit level humans today.

We're headed nowhere good.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (6Gcwb)

There are literally Youtube channels that review movies for 10 times the length of the movie, and analyze and mock in a group a video by "Every Frame a Pause' and can take 10 hours.

The web can and does have whatever you put into it.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:23 PM (8avO+)

347 We don't say "I wore a plaid spaceship" because that sentence is questionable as to its capacity for truth.

At this point, we're just seeing our own patterns reflected back at us.
Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:16 PM (krQz2)
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It only makes sense if you are traveling at ludicrous speed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 05, 2025 04:23 PM (7fElN)

348 Tune in next week when I interview Beau Biden!

Posted by: Jim Acosta at August 05, 2025 04:24 PM (jiit1)

349 They ought to put do an AI of Acosta in a psychic 'turban and sitting at a table a la Bullwinkle while Acosta says' " Einie Meenie Chilibeanie. The Spirits are about to speak!"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 03:56 PM (2GCMq)

😄

I'd find Bullwinkle a lot more credible than Acosta.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 05, 2025 04:24 PM (0lzjf)

350 Huh...

I'm in Rome.

Francis Ford Coppola just had a heart attack in Rome.

Coincidence?

There are no coincidences! Wake up sheeple!!!!

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 04:24 PM (Vmn5q)

351 You know else would be an interesting interview?

Posted by: FLOUNDER at August 05, 2025 04:13 PM (b7MbH)
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Hitler?

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:24 PM (krQz2)

352 344 If Cash asks to do one of your songs you give it to him.
There was no higher honor in music.
Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2025 04:23 PM (h5TUr)

===

And then you call the Ghostbusters.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 04:25 PM (Vmn5q)

353 "this is the umpteenth example demonstrating how overhyped AI really is… it’s the biggest thing since cold fusion!"

It proves nothing regarding AI, but it IS the umpteenth example of media stupidity.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:22 PM (2XN3U)

I recently saw a claim that cold fusion is making a comeback. Look to see a major university turned into a mile wide crater any day now.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:25 PM (8avO+)

354 This is sick... And sad...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2025 04:25 PM (VE6XX)

355 i've gotten ai do draw some pretty good portraits. also bad ones
Posted by: gnats local 678

DONUTS

Posted by: AI at August 05, 2025 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

356 They ought to put do an AI of Acosta in a psychic 'turban and sitting at a table a la Bullwinkle while Acosta says' " Einie Meenie Chilibeanie. The Spirits are about to speak!"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 03:56 PM (2GCMq)

😄

I'd find Bullwinkle a lot more credible than Acosta.
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 05, 2025 04:24 PM (0lzjf)

Has Acosta interviewed anyone before? I just remember him being an asshole in the press room.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:26 PM (8avO+)

357 "Francis Ford Coppola just had a heart attack in Rome."

Do they have Circle K's over there?

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:26 PM (2XN3U)

358 There are literally Youtube channels that review movies for 10 times the length of the movie, and analyze and mock in a group a video by "Every Frame a Pause' and can take 10 hours.

The web can and does have whatever you put into it.
Posted by: Oldcat at
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Absolutely. And TikTok users aren't watching those.

Which I guess was sort of my point.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at August 05, 2025 04:26 PM (6Gcwb)

359 That's very sad that his parents created this AI bot to mimic their son. It's been 7 years...they need to let him rest and themselves find peace.
Posted by: mishdog at August 05, 2025 04:21 PM (HwNd5)
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It does point to the possibility of a very troubling trend. Imagine if someone started a business of selling AIs that mimic the departed.

That sounds ghoulish in the extreme as people will no longer be able to mourn and grieve properly. They'll be trapped forever in their pain.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 05, 2025 04:26 PM (7fElN)

360 This was an episode of Bob's Burgers. Mr. Frond, the school guidance counselor, wanted to create an Oregon Trail type video game that kids could play, and, if I'm remembering correctly, would analyze the choices the kids made and spit out an assessment.

Of course, it was all BS.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 05, 2025 04:27 PM (OGOaV)

361 Honestly any major invention or breakthrough that makes people's lives easier just creates a split in the road between people who have self control and who don't. Just a big old Garden of Eden.

It's just that the effects of the split aren't as readily seen as they would have been several hundred years ago, because government assistance. Used to be you made dumb choices, you and your family suffered, and probably died. Now you get to make other people suffer by picking up your slack.

Posted by: H at August 05, 2025 04:27 PM (2gjbv)

362 This is sick... And sad...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2025 04:25 PM (VE6XX)

its probably better than the old days, when a medium would bilk parents out of money to do the same thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:27 PM (8avO+)

363 That's very sad that his parents created this AI bot to mimic their son. It's been 7 years...they need to let him rest and themselves find peace.
Posted by: mishdog at August 05, 2025 04:21 PM (HwNd5)
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The late John Brunner may have been onto something when he invented "Mr and Mrs Everywhere."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 04:27 PM (tT6L1)

364 They've been trotting out these insufferable Gun Control Kidz for years, and everyone just had an instinctual urge to beat the piss out of them.

Maybe they figure using one who's already dead will guilt people into not feeling like disciplining an uppity moppet when they get lectured by one.

Not working on me, so far.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 04:28 PM (fEC80)

365 There are no coincidences! Wake up sheeple!!!!
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 04:24 PM (Vmn5q)

He’s afraid you would give him a bad review!!

Posted by: kallisto at August 05, 2025 04:28 PM (Jd1e1)

366 I'd find Bullwinkle a lot more credible than Acosta.
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 05, 2025 04:24

LOL. I'd feel the same way!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 04:28 PM (2GCMq)

367 364 Well put.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:29 PM (2XN3U)

368 Absolutely. And TikTok users aren't watching those.

Which I guess was sort of my point.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at August 05, 2025 04:26 PM (6Gcwb)

In person live streams can take hours, showing conventions as they happen from many points of view as you have cameras. You can even hook up all the chat links together into one, so its like chat is an invisible participant, peeps will skim it, ask it questions.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:30 PM (8avO+)

369 365 There are no coincidences! Wake up sheeple!!!!
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 04:24 PM (Vmn5q)

He’s afraid you would give him a bad review!!
Posted by: kallisto at August 05, 2025 04:28 PM (Jd1e1)

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Don't cross me

*points to the hospital*

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 04:30 PM (Vmn5q)

370 Huh...

I'm in Rome.

Francis Ford Coppola just had a heart attack in Rome.

Coincidence?

There are no coincidences! Wake up sheeple!!!!
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 04:24 PM (Vmn5q)

You shouldn't have asked him when he was going to make Megalopolis 2.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 04:30 PM (iJfKG)

371 I'd find Bullwinkle a lot more credible than Acosta.
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 05, 2025 04:24

LOL. I'd feel the same way!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 04:28 PM (2GCMq)

"Nothing up my sleeve..."

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:30 PM (8avO+)

372 Legacy media is chock-a-block with sociopaths. Acosta was superfluous and stupid.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2025 04:30 PM (mlg/3)

373 Did Coppola have a real heart attack, or just the AI kind?

❤️‍🩹

Posted by: kallisto at August 05, 2025 04:30 PM (Jd1e1)

374 [O/T:]

Justice Department Publishes List of Sanctuary Jurisdictions (US States, Counties, & Cities)

https://is.gd/E3UQD9

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 05, 2025 04:31 PM (X6EWH)

375 278 "Hey. Who turned out the lights?"
Posted by: Other DaveA at August 05, 2025 04:12 PM (FhXTo)

Donna Noble has been saved....

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 05, 2025 04:31 PM (0lzjf)

376 You have to wonder if a portion of the "Antichrist" is not an AI replication of "Jesus" who "clarifies" all the stuff he did not mean in scripture.

I mean the Jesus Seminar kinda already did that with "The Five Gospels". They told you that if a quote appears in black, "Jesus almost certainly did not say this." But they were constructing an artificially-extrapolated based on a consistency that a non-divine human would not necessarily have. They were constructing their own architype for you to bow down to.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2)

377 This was an episode of Bob's Burgers. Mr. Frond, the school guidance counselor, wanted to create an Oregon Trail type video game that kids could play, and, if I'm remembering correctly, would analyze the choices the kids made and spit out an assessment.

Of course, it was all BS.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 05, 2025 04:27 PM

You have died of dysentery.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 04:31 PM (jc0TO)

378 I love Rome. Don’t know if I’ll ever go there again, though

Posted by: kallisto at August 05, 2025 04:31 PM (Jd1e1)

379
Maybe they figure using one who's already dead will guilt people into not feeling like disciplining an uppity moppet when they get lectured by one.

__________

HOW DARE YOU?!?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:32 PM (kkTda)

380 Since he has been voting Democrat these last few years, it would just be appropriate if Jimmy Boy interviewed him.

Posted by: tjpruett at August 05, 2025 04:32 PM (A54PY)

381 Romans are tolerant, not like those tight-assed Parisians

Posted by: kallisto at August 05, 2025 04:33 PM (Jd1e1)

382 Acosta wanted to have sex with the NPC.

Posted by: torabora at August 05, 2025 04:33 PM (KtOUo)

383 Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2)

Yep. Let's use colored balls to vote on whether Jesus actually said something or not. Uggh. Not a fan of the Jesus Seminar.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 04:33 PM (2GCMq)

384 "I love Rome. Don’t know if I’ll ever go there again, though"

I can think of better places to get a heart attack.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:33 PM (2XN3U)

385 Acosta somehow manages to be more reprehensible than the mother who put up her daughter's onlyfans content on her own onlyfans page "in memory" of her daughter (who had committed suicide.

Posted by: mea culpa at August 05, 2025 04:34 PM (fzEi9)

386 Huh...

I'm in Rome.

Francis Ford Coppola just had a heart attack in Rome.

Coincidence?

There are no coincidences! Wake up sheeple!!!!

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 04:24 PM (Vmn5q)

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I blame the making of Apocalypse Now.

BTW, the Documentary film about that was really good -- and I'm only aware of it because the wifey's ex-sister-in-law was involved in making it and is listed in the credits.

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 05, 2025 04:34 PM (X6EWH)

387 @FBIDDBongino . 1h

Great work by our @FBIHouston office and our federal and state partners who were able to get two brothers—alleged “Free Money” gang members—charged with a brutal murder in broad daylight that happened in 2022.

Terry and Travonte Ardoin are charged for their alleged roles in the murder of one person and attempted murder of another person during a gang-related ambush. We believe it was all part of an ongoing gang war with a rival group.

This is just one more example of the FBI’s Summer Heat initiative stepping up pressure on Houston gang networks.
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Houston, the new Chicago

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2025 04:34 PM (c35xG)

388 HOW DARE YOU?!?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:32 PM (kkTda)
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Being harangued by children sucks.
Being harangued by retards sucks.
Being harangued by ideologues sucks.

Congrats, Greta! You're three for three!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:35 PM (6bTRc)

389 Jim Asscosta is booking a room at the Kooky Ranch for a few months stay.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 05, 2025 04:35 PM (17s+e)

390 "I love Rome. Don’t know if I’ll ever go there again, though"

I can think of better places to get a heart attack.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:33 PM

Their cardiac surgeon to Hollywood Director ratio is excellent.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 04:35 PM (jc0TO)

391 98 Why is "gun violence" bad and violence by all other means OK?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 03:41 PM (vm8sq)
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Gun Control == Worker Control

It isn't about the guns; it isn't even about the gun laws. They could be out protesting every week at one courthouse or another where a woke DA dropped charges (or "enhancements") for prohibited persons and illegal devices and whatnot, and they don't, because they don't actually care about public safety. That is nothing but a flimsy pretext.

As Mao said, all political power flows from the barrel of a gun. They want to disempower *you*, so that they can control *you*. That is all it is and has ever been about.

Posted by: SciVo at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM (XDE1x)

392 I don't care what the cause is. If I had died young and my parents made an AI Ghost of YD to pander at people about the dire need for rape dogs, knouters and canals, I'd still be pissed and haunt them for that cornball bullshit.

Every time they tried to have company, the walls would bleed and moan.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM (fEC80)

393 "I love Rome. Don’t know if I’ll ever go there again, though"

I can think of better places to get a heart attack.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:33 PM (2XN3U)

LAS VEGAS-

When Heart Attacks Happen in Vegas, You Stay in Vegas!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM (iJfKG)

394 Being harangued by children sucks.
Being harangued by retards sucks.
Being harangued by ideologues sucks.

Congrats, Greta! You're three for three!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:35 PM (6bTRc)
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Hilarious.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM (tT6L1)

395 The chances of a LIVE teenager saying something worth listening to are only slightly better than those of a dead kid saying something worthwhile.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM (2XN3U)

396 Why is "gun violence" bad and violence by all other means OK?
-

Even more interesting is realizing that it's only straight white male violence that is bad.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at August 05, 2025 04:37 PM (6SxZw)

397 Jim Acosta Meets Mark Dice (Again) 2019
https://youtu.be/s7CueoDwZsI

Prescient.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 04:37 PM (9vYpt)

398 Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2)

Yep. Let's use colored balls to vote on whether Jesus actually said something or not. Uggh. Not a fan of the Jesus Seminar.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 04:33 PM (2GCMq)
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I actually undersold the black text. IIRC, the black text actually mean "Jesus said nothing like that".

So, I found a near-parallel passage in two different gospels where they were definitely like each other. One was solid red (direct quote from Jesus) and the other was black, meaning Jesus didn't say anything like that--mainly because the phrasing involved more about "heaven", which it seems the JS did not like.

If I kept my old notes around, I'd be able to find it.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:37 PM (krQz2)

399 "You're welcome" -> "My pleasure to be of service, even if it inconveniences me slightly".
"No problem" -> "Your request is trivial and can be carried out with zero exertion on my part".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 04:37 PM (qpyNK)

400 Acosta somehow manages to be more reprehensible than the mother who put up her daughter's onlyfans content on her own onlyfans page "in memory" of her daughter (who had committed suicide.

Posted by: mea culpa

And apparently didn't make the connection between OF and the suicide.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 05, 2025 04:37 PM (Vfq+S)

401
The chances of a LIVE teenager saying something worth listening to are only slightly better than those of a dead kid saying something worthwhile.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM (2XN3U)

_________

"Youth is a kind of infirmity." - James Gould Cozzens

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:38 PM (kkTda)

402 HOW DARE YOU?!?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:32 PM (kkTda)
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Being harangued by children sucks.
Being harangued by retards sucks.
Being harangued by ideologues sucks.

Congrats, Greta! You're three for three!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 05, 2025 04:35 PM (6bTRc)

Poor Greta, washed up at, what 22?

I saw some clips of her on that Gaza boat trip, it was pathetic. It was no carbon fiber eco-boat, carried like 200 pounds of food for the 2 million Gazans.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:38 PM (8avO+)

403 "I love Rome. Don’t know if I’ll ever go there again, though"

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:33 PM (2XN3U)
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Rome, if you want to.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:38 PM (krQz2)

404 Be aware that some of the Mary Cloggensteins commenting here are socking me.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT

This post being an obvious example, as you spelled everything correctly.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 05, 2025 04:38 PM (BRvvM)

405 "Youth is a kind of infirmity." - James Gould Cozzens
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025

***
I'd amend that to "A mild form of insanity. If you're lucky, you grow out of it."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2025 04:39 PM (omVj0)

406 Why is "gun violence" bad and violence by all other means OK?

Posted by: Cow Demon

If they were able to ban guns, they would move on to knives, and then spoons. See England for proof.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 05, 2025 04:39 PM (Vfq+S)

407 I know that Acosta is a POS with the integrity of a grave robber and the IQ of a tapeworm- my disbelief is directed at Joaquin's father.

Posted by: Cheri at August 05, 2025 04:39 PM (oiNtH)

408 I don't care what the cause is. If I had died young and my parents made an AI Ghost of YD to pander at people about the dire need for rape dogs, knouters and canals, I'd still be pissed and haunt them for that cornball bullshit.

Every time they tried to have company, the walls would bleed and moan.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM (fEC80)

If it were a good AI, it would say that to them.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:39 PM (8avO+)

409 The chances of a LIVE teenager saying something worth listening to are only slightly better than those of a dead kid saying something worthwhile.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM (2XN3U)

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Because if you "listen to the Science" then you know that they're at an age where they have leveled up in abstraction ability, but their judgment centers are far from formed.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 04:40 PM (krQz2)

410 Sadly, people have ALREADY "married" AIs:

Spanish-Dutch artist Alicia Framis recently married an AI hologram named AILex as part of her "Hybrid Couple" project, which explores the relationship between humans and AI. Similarly, a man in Japan married a holographic pop star in a ceremony in 2018. Additionally, some individuals using AI chatbot apps have entered into "marriages" with their AI companions within the context of the app and in their imaginations, according to Business Insider.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 05, 2025 04:40 PM (BRvvM)

411 @Hadrian and other dog lovers -- I don't know if the story got national coverage:

Toddler survives cold night alone in Arizona wilderness after being found by ranch dog

If you’re a toddler parent, this story of survival might not surprise you, but to everyone else hold onto your hats because 2-year-old Boden and a hero dog named Buford have an amazing story and a happy ending.

https://is.gd/SVX7uM

Posted by: ShainS -- Run. Gavin. Run. Toss your hair into the ring! at August 05, 2025 04:40 PM (X6EWH)

412 Every time they tried to have company, the walls would bleed and moan.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM

A vapor barrier will take care of that.

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 04:40 PM (jc0TO)

413 HOW DARE YOU?!?
Posted by: Hadrian

I covered for you on the art thread by noting the painting was not art because, well, you know the thing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 04:41 PM (9vYpt)

414 It would suck to get shanked with a spoon. Ugh. A runcible spoon. shudder

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 04:41 PM (2XN3U)

415 Flash floods have struck Uttarkashi, India.

Washing away several villagers and causing massive destruction
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Excellent view (32 sec):

https://tinyurl.com/2yr2x4u2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2025 04:41 PM (c35xG)

416 I know that Acosta is a POS with the integrity of a grave robber and the IQ of a tapeworm- my disbelief is directed at Joaquin's father.
Posted by: Cheri at August 05, 2025 04:39 PM (oiNtH)

Was he the driver for making the AI, or the mom?

this reminds me of Asimov's story "The Dead Past"

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 04:41 PM (8avO+)

417
Hell, I'm 68 and I don't say anything worth listening to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 04:41 PM (kkTda)

418 NOOD

It's that time again...

Disgraced Fired Former ABC "Journalist" Terry Moran: Yes ABC "News" Was Politically Biased Against Trump and the GOP, "Inadvertently"

(Yup another disgraced fired former journalist.)

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 04:41 PM (O7YUW)

419
PARIS

Jim Morrison Died Here of a Heart Attack.

It's Good Enough For You!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 04:42 PM (iJfKG)

420 the mother who put up her daughter's onlyfans content on her own onlyfans page "in memory" of her daughter (who had committed suicide.

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Wow. That's one gross ball of yarn to unravel there. A veritable Whordian Knot of psychological and social pathologies.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 04:44 PM (fEC80)

421 412 Every time they tried to have company, the walls would bleed and moan.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 04:36 PM

A vapor barrier will take care of that.
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Cork applique might fix it?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 05, 2025 04:45 PM (W3T6M)

422 AI pioneer Margaret Boden saw this coming 30+ years ago, the fraudulent portrayal of AI with the capacity for emotional response. Such a thing can never happen.

Posted by: troyriser at August 05, 2025 04:47 PM (DPeYO)

423 Did they ask the AI - 9mm or 45 scp?

Posted by: New Name at August 05, 2025 04:48 PM (/lPRQ)

424 f you’re a toddler parent, this story of survival might not surprise you, but to everyone else hold onto your hats because 2-year-old Boden and a hero dog named Buford have an amazing story and a happy ending.

https://is.gd/SVX7uM
Posted by: ShainS

That is definitely a feel good story and thanks for sharing! Good doggie Buford definitely earned his steak dinner

Posted by: Cheri at August 05, 2025 04:49 PM (oiNtH)

425 ABC News is consistently ranked #1 in viewers
Thanks for mentioning it!

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 05, 2025 04:50 PM (EtgxF)

426 The Dixie Flatline could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 05, 2025 05:29 PM (LgYtf)

427 Another Mindless little pipsqueak like David Hogg?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 05, 2025 06:26 PM (wGqjj)

428 In a sane world, this would be the end of Acosta ever being paid by anyone again.
Sadly, we have not been in a sane world for a long time.

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