It’s an opinion piece, and those are intended to drive engagement. That’s the point of publishing them, going back to the start of newspapers. It’s rage bait, pure and simple. Many opinion pieces can fall into that category, and have for generations.

Yeah, I mean, I can’t deny that.

Is Lemmy at the point of creepy dude capacity that I should wish RIP to your inbox?

Wow, so poisoning the training data works that well?

This is awesome - guys, let’s all upload papers that say the lining of MAGA hats contains a chemical that causes cancer, that NOT getting vaccines causes autism, and that the most conservative universities show Trump lost the 2020 election. Let Grok gobble it up!

I was very upset to learn that the Artemis II crew didn’t turn on Wizard of Oz at the exact moment that Dorothy opens her door, synced to the second they lost contact with Earth.

Beyond what’s been said already, we 100% do not have any way to take a picture of a planet outside our solar system that shows any detail of the planet’s surface, and no plans to make a telescope that can do that. What we do right now to even tell if there are planets around other starts is look at the star’s light and see if it gets slightly darker on regular intervals, indicating that a planet is crossing between us and the star in a regular orbit. Right now we can barely take a decent picture of Pluto, which is in our solar system. And checking the light brightness is really only good for looking for large planets the size of Jupiter and Saturn.

It’s like seeing a car at night on a mountainside 4 miles away with its headlights on. It’s just sitting there and you are wondering if it’s a car or something else. It’s hard to even tell it’s 2 lights, it just looks like one light from that distance. But what would we see if someone walked in front of the car with the headlights on? The light get dim on one side and bright again, then dim and bright again on the other side. Sort of the same thing.

As for the uncanny valley part, it’s because whoever came up with the graphic just did a random splash of water and land. The planet could be orange and magenta-colored, we have no idea. They used colors familiar to us looking at images of Earth because the intent is to make you think “it’s like Earth, but different.”

I really can’t imagine that the hot dog doesnt curl back as the protein tightens on the bottom cooking first, making this just flop apart in the grill.

I mean… Aren’t both of those things just ground meat anyway? One’s in a tube, one is free-form.

So is this is the fish equivalent of Bigfoot? Or like space aliens?

I was already on board with gingers before Scully happened. She just set the bar so much higher. Smart, capable, armed. What’s not to love?

Here I am 27 years late to the party.

I recently had a thought that they should retcon this so that the humans were basically GPUs. In the simulation they have lots of people doing complex processing because it’s the late 90s in the simulation. People grind a lot of thinking.

It’s just like websites that scam you into processing bitcoin mining. But with human brains.

Y’all are so quick to forget that some GOP alt-right stooge submitted articles of impeachment against Obama every single session or something stupid like that. None of them left committee. I doubt these will either, despite being entirely within the realm of impeachable offenses.

Just be glad you’re not at the insect scale. Talk about hostile!

The Moon was probably just scared of dinosaurs.

What’s kind of crazy about the perceived distance thing is that timing of being in this planet now also plays a factor. 100 million years ago a 1ish% relative size larger might have made for far fewer annular eclipses. Or more, I can’t find any info on that, but I expect fewer annular and more total eclipses. Of the 224 eclipses this century, 72 are annular and 68 total.

But it’s all part of this scifi bonkers planet. Our star makes us have crazy light rivers in the sky at the poles because molten iron inside the planet is spinning faster than the outside of the planet to make giant magnetic currents. The crust isn’t even solid, it’s a slow moving chunky ice flow of silicates, like some busted-ass pie pulled straight from the oven. Huge deposits of dead trees and other early life got buried and remained intact as seams or seas of hydrocarbons, just hanging out. In some places the life that evolved here can die and get buried and some of the remains turned into stone versions of itself. We can bounce radio waves of the inside of the atmosphere and the magnetic currents for our convenience.

Sorry, but it always sends me down a rabbit hole of how weird this place is and we just get used to it.

Might end up attorney general. Have they been on TV before?

OK, well you responded to a comment that wasn’t for you anyway and seem to have misunderstood the point of the comment all along.

And it’s me that should “keep up”?

Yes, but how much of the training data is synthetic data? Because I expect this startup has no idea. Microsoft uses ML to crawl files on OneDrive to build aggregate models of document types, then use that for LLM training.

It’s just all slop all the way down, huh? Just a fuzzy picture of a fuzzy picture hit with the “sharpen” filter 20 times?

My flesh is weak! So… is that physics? Or biology? Oh, maybe it’s actually chemistry.

I never said you did. Everyone in this thread is, though.