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Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by throwanem on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:51PM (#47842742)
I am a charismatic, extraverted socialite, and if you said this to me in a bar it would earn you an immediate faceful of whatever I had been drinking.
Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by WarmWash on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:01PM (#47842848)
Please, I'm just a self aware nerd.
Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by throwanem on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:02PM (#47842855)
Not nearly self-aware enough, if you were to go around saying such things to people in person. What a shocking insult, to tell someone their very voice sounds unhuman! I can't say you should never, of course, but I would hope very much you reserve such calumny only for when it has been thoroughly earned.

But of course this is only a website, where there are in any case no drinks of any sort to go flying for any reason, and where such an ill-considered thing to say can receive a more reasoned response like this, instead.

Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by 2muchcoffeeman on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:19PM (#47842994)
Is this an AI response? Serious question. They’re taking a website comment a bit personally and threatening throwing drinks in peoples faces.
Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by throwanem on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:25PM (#47843048)
You're worried about me actually throwing a drink - 'threatening?' Really. - and I'm taking things too seriously? This is a website!

It is, though, interesting to me that you see someone behave in a way you aren't expecting and don't quite know how to wrap your head around - no blame; it's a relatively common experience in my vicinity, though normal people typically enjoy it much more than those here - and your immediate recourse is to assume it must have been generated by AI. That's interesting indeed, and I greatly appreciate you sharing it.

Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by 2muchcoffeeman on Monday April 20, 2026 @10:45PM (#47843916)
The account is from 2016 maybe this is a real person.

But you sound self important and a bit unhinged. It’s not that no one here can wrap their heads around such behaviour. It’s that your comments sounds like a troll response but could also be real.

Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by throwanem on Monday April 20, 2026 @10:51PM (#47843942)
I didn't say "no one here," though, did I? I said you can't.
Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by nandomrumber on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:11PM (#47842936)
> What a shocking insult, to tell someone their very voice sounds unhuman

Are you okay? Would you like to sit down? Do you want some water?

Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by michaelmrose on Monday April 20, 2026 @09:35PM (#47843520)
Coming to a forum and pretending that you commit crimes when people insult you is a stereotype of a generic fake internet personality that is incredibly prevalent to the point of being boring.

Was this intentional sarcasm?

Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by throwanem on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @12:00AM (#47844361)
So boring you just couldn't help yourself, eh?

But no, I've meant every word I wrote this evening here, just as I do every other word I say or write, ever. Sometimes those words are sarcastic! In such cases there is rarely any doubt.

Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by Schiendelman on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:54PM (#47842772)
I doubt you've ever thrown a drink in anyone's face, and I hope I'm right. This kind of thing isn't appropriate for HN.
Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by throwanem on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:56PM (#47842800)
Oh, good grief. Flag my comment, then. Per the HN guidelines that is the preferable action:

> Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Of course I disagree with "egregious," did it need saying. After an insult like that, I promise you, no one in my bar would consider I had acted egregiously at all. But I admit it is a surprise to see you violate the site's discussion guidelines, in the very effort to enforce them.

Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by nandomrumber on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:09PM (#47842910)
> After an insult like that

Did I miss something?

Re:Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want by throwanem on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:11PM (#47842925)
> "real" AI being much more like a charismatic extroverted socialite

As I said in my opening clause here, I fit that description exactly, and "'real' AI," as my original interlocutor would have it, sounds nothing like me.

The insult arises from the fact that "'real' AI" sounds nothing particularly like anyone, because it isn't any one. This is why it keeps driving people insane: there are cognitive vulnerabilities here which, for most humans, have until a couple of years ago been about as realistic to need to worry about as a literal alien invasion.

To a human, being compared with something which can only pretend to humanity - and that not at all well! - is an insult. It should be an insult, too. Anyone is welcome to try and fail to convince me otherwise.