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AI is only creative when it's messing up. Guide rails are basically the opposite to the subversive nature of jokes, so the only time it can make with the funny is by falling off the rails

(or lifting some comedians work, but I'm not counting that as the AI's creation of course)

See also: Will Smith eating spaghetti

If mind viruses exist this is one of them along with saying "nice" after something is 69 haha

Weird sort of internet-evolved performance art where people act out the old quote, every time.

It's 20 years old. Quit having fun!

Christ I'd be so embarrassed to find out my AI robot has been discussing things with outsiders without my oversight

Does nobody have any shame lmao

Re:YC's Biggest Scandals on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:18PM (#48088165)
I like how you need to tap the spoiler tags to show the text which works as a link to the individual page where you need to again unveil the spoilers
Dunno what it is with the wording but my brain started reading it in a bit of a "Hello Clarice" Hannibal Lecter style lol

>The specific combination of fonts on your device is nearly unique — like a fingerprint made of letters

Is this one true? I've not made any changes to fonts on my phone that I know of, wouldn't it just be bog standard iPhone fonts?

Curiosity not challenge

Re:Three Inverse Laws of AI on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @12:36PM (#48024891)
I just treat it as if I'd asked a public forum the question like reddit.

Decent for stuff that doesn't really matter, even if it gets it wrong.

Still gonna be polite to it because I'm about ready to slap the next person that talks to me like an LLM, I don't want to get used to not being polite in a chat interface

Re:GPT-5.5 on Friday April 24, 2026 @07:04AM (#47888509)
Oh no they gave GPT ADHD
Re:Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS on Friday January 09, 2026 @07:55AM (#46553345)
100k a month?? Well there's yer problem lmao
Re:Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS on Friday January 09, 2026 @07:53AM (#46553332)
It takes the recurring out of recurring revenue, 100% churn
Re:Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) on Saturday December 27, 2025 @07:11PM (#46406933)
The malware of "up next" that eats billions of hours a year lol
Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English on Saturday December 27, 2025 @06:16AM (#46400992)
LLMs are an amazing advance in natural language parsing.

The problem is someone decided that and the contents of Wikipedia was all something needs to be intelligent haha

Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:39AM (#46272721)
As long as they start with the titular character that's a fair end to the species

Chances are half of humans would vote for it too

Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:35AM (#46272689)
> maybe these robots don’t last that long

Landfills full of broken robots is totally something humans would do haha

How are they going to stop it?

A certain combination of nonstandard characters will make an AI character drop an n-word no problem

I guess they could chuck the output through whisper or something to see if it transcribes back to anything dodgy?

LLM security feels very ball of sand held together with duct tape haha

I feel like such a dumbass for falling for it.

At first I thought it was just super American cheerful or whatever but after the South Park episode I realised it's actually just a yes man to everyone.

I don't think I've really used it since, I don't want man or machine sticking their nose up my arse lmao. Spell's broken.

Re:Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026 on Monday December 08, 2025 @03:55PM (#46197550)
The second most enviable is locally hosting "Computer"

The entirety of the future Starfleet on our current timeline gets bricked whenever us-east-1 goes offline

Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor on Saturday November 15, 2025 @08:36AM (#45937372)
Low salary for the role in my local area and not moving to a city when I still had the ability to take credit out
Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor on Friday November 14, 2025 @07:07PM (#45933701)
I work and earn money, my balance has never been above zero. Worded it clumsily maybe.
Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:03PM (#45932161)
No consolation needed - if I come across as woe is me it's not the intention. It is what it is and all that. I've got food, I've got shelter. It'll do.

You're born, you keep your head down, and you die - if you're lucky.

Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:32PM (#45931844)
> a £50 fine might as well be £50,000- its unpayable, and leads to a sort of doom-spiral of lending to avoid worse consequences. Easily you can end up in unmanageable debt

Yup! Bank gave me an overdraft when I was 16. At 37 I'm still in debt connected to that first bit of "free" money.

I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care. They can write me off as a minor loss when I kick it haha

Re:You can't build Nixpkgs if you are in the UK on Friday October 10, 2025 @05:33PM (#45544023)
I think we might need a bit of pain if we're going to dislodge this silly thing.

For what it's worth I salute anyone blocking, whether through an excess of caution or just as a middle finger.

Pretty sure you can nuke all your domains old content by blocking archive.org in robots.txt
Re:Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:33AM (#44939138)
Would be easier for everyone else if you parented your child in addition to raising them
Re:iPhone DevOps on Thursday August 14, 2025 @11:04AM (#44901270)
Something that might be worth a look at for anyone in this situation is the Twiddler, it's a one handed mouse and keyboard. Connects via USB and/or Bluetooth

I know of it via a streamer who uses it to control OBS, but this is more its native use case haha

https://www.mytwiddler.com/

Re:Evaluating LLMs Playing Text Adventures on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @04:47PM (#44881639)
Ah dammit the AGI has ADHD
Re:Recovering from AI Addiction on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:05PM (#44536328)
Then your higher power is logic and reason, and the question:

"Why are you doing this?" Give it the old 5-whys.

Your thermodynamic gubbins know how to enjoy the entropy while they're temporarily in this configuration without booze too.

Or just die in pain when your liver gives in, all good options.

What's the rule? Always trust user input?

No wait, that doesn't sound right..

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over on Friday April 25, 2025 @01:28PM (#43796331)
Interesting idea and kinda really makes sense.. I guess at the time I just chucked them into todos as I have plenty of friction free ways to get tasks into Todoist haha.

I'll give it a go, nice one

Re:Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI on Friday April 25, 2025 @01:23PM (#43796254)
This is going to be like that thing where we have to fix printers for the generation above and below us isn't it, haha

Damn kids, you were supposed to be teasing me for not knowing how the new tech works by now.

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:32PM (#43784651)
I would click the link in the event to go say happy birthday to the person! I guess I wasn't the norm though aye, it's big numbers that matter

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