Honestly, I assumed as much already. Of course that's how AI models are trained. Scraping the public internet is how all of Google works. 

I know. It’s why I stopped visiting Jalopnik because it’s, like, enough with the fucking articles about cars already. Same with Kotaku and their creepy game fixation.

LOL wut?

People. Stop using twitter. It has always sucked. This new level of suck is comical, but even if you go back to baseline suck, it will still suck. 

I think that the problems that Elon and his sycophants were having with twitter - fear of liberal thought control and “canceling” of the right wing, were not actually the problems twitter was having- revenue and long term user growth- and that “solving” the former was in fact disastrous for the latter. 

I still maintain my original belief, that he bought the app to wrestle control over a large platform of people online, is responding to fawning bigots and autocrats by turning it into a safe space for him, is trying to leverage it for power by doing things like “trying” to launch Ron DeSantis’ campaign, and is doing…

How is what OpenAI did any different from what Google and Microsoft have been doing for years with the search scraping? They just processed the data differently.

Here’s the blunt reality:

Definitely this. While people remember big tentpole episodes like Best of Both Worlds, its because of this philosophy we end up with episodes like Inner Light, Darmok, whathaveyou. When you can very lightly push the overall narrative but mainly focus on a one-off experience, and you have to do a number of them a…

I miss that desperately. And I say this as someone who, by and large, has really enjoyed NuTrek.

I say this as a 56 year old wealthy white man who doesn’t understand the fascination his wife has with the Royal Family and thinks “ok boomer” is almost as dumb an insult as “snowflake.”

Isn’t “royal” just a fancy type of grifter?

Never, ever explain the joke. 

Senator, there is a vote scheduled for 15 mins from now and we need to get moving. I will make sure the congressional page stays here and get him a juice box or whatever.

I don’t use these filthy websites. Full of nothing but trans “women”. Men in dresses. Soft, feminine men in red lipstick a black choker and a huge penis in panties. It makes me sick thinking about them every single day.

“Whatever the reason, it begs the question; how many times can De Niro cash a paycheck before he’s known more for his failures than his successes?”

Every actor has worked on bad movies at some point in their career.

It’s “working on my night cheese” for me.

I think it holds up better than almost any other comedy from the 21st century.

At its core this does feel eerily similar to what got them in trouble with IE all those years ago - leveraging their dominance in the OS space to shunt users to their own browser and away from others in an anti-competitive manner. I don’t think it even necessarily takes a history fan to pick that out.