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I really do wish I hadn't decided to boycott USAnal goods over two decades ago. I haven't got anything left to react with when I see these escalating atrocities.

U.S. Cops? Breaking the law with impunity? But that's unpossible!

C'mon, Canada! We can bring that to 100%! Go team!

Depending on my mood anywhere from 3 to 7.

Their hallucinations have diminished to close to nothing.

Are you sure you're not an AI, 'cause you're hallucinating something fierce right here boy-o?

Actual research, as in not "random credulous techbrodude fanboi on the Internet" says exactly the opposite: that the most recent models hallucinate more.

Huh. So there really is a 凤凰血. Weird how when I tried it (on several AIs) they just made shit up instead of giving me that information.

It's almost like how you ask the question determines how it answers instead of, you know, using objective reality. Almost as if it has no actual model of objective reality and is just a really sophisticated game of mad-libs.

Almost.

There are, to my knowledge, two pictures of me on the Internet. Total. Both are at least two decades out of date. I haven't used my real name in any online context (I started with Fidonet) since the '80s. And while I do leak some information about my whereabouts, good luck finding me in a city that's bigger than the USA's top city (and is yet only about #10 in China…).

And why the secrecy?

Well, the time I got a phone call at 2AM from a guy in the USA who was absolutely dead-set on "domming" me in an online RPG game, wanting to take it RL kind of informed me I need to be super-careful about any identifiable information.

He's telling the PRESIDENT OF SIGNAL what Signal is "really doing".

That's mansplaining, full-on.

Dude. Go be reply guy somehwere else. You bore the fuck out of me.

But not 100%. And the things they hallucinate can be very subtle. That's the problem.

If they are asked about a band that does not exist, to be useful they should be saying "I'm sorry, I know nothing about this". Instead they MAKE UP A BAND, ITS MEMBERSHIP, ITS DISCOGRAPHY, etc. etc. etc.

But sure, let's play your game.

All of the information on Infected Rain is out there, including their lyrics. So is all of the information on Jim Thirwell's various "Foetus" projects. Including lyrics.

Yet ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Claude will all three hallucinate tracks, or misattribute them, or hallucinate lyrics that don't exist to show parallels in the respective bands' musical themes.

So there's your objective facts, readily available, that LLMbeciles are still completely and utterly fucking useless for.

So they're useless if you ask about things that don't exist and will hallucinate them into existence on your screen.

And they're useless if you ask about things that do exist, hallucinating attributes that don't exist onto them.

They. Are. Fucking. Useless.

That people are looking at these things and saying "wow, this is so accurate" terrifies the living fuck out of me because it means I'm surrounded not by idiots, but by zombies. Literally thoughtless mobile creatures.

That is BRILLIANT!

And so much for getting clues to what's happening from the locals! Or selling your loot!

An obscure band with that name that has a discography that nobody's ever heard of anywhere, complete with band member names, track titles, etc?

Yeah, pull the other one, Sparky. It plays "Jingle Bells".