Skynet or: How I learned to stop worrying and love AI

[CMRivdogs]

 

[chasfh]

Random thought that popped into my head:

I don't know whether I should be a little surprised or not at all surprised that apps like ChatGPT, Anthropic, Gemini, et al. have never been referred to as LLAMAs, which strikes me as a reasonable acronym for Large LAnguage Model Agents. I mean, come on, it's sitting right there in plain sight ...

[Deleterious]

Meta already has Llama.

https://www.llama.com/

[gehringer_2]

59 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Random thought that popped into my head:

I don't know whether I should be a little surprised or not at all surprised that apps like ChatGPT, Anthropic, Gemini, et al. have never been referred to as LLAMAs, which strikes me as a reasonable acronym for Large LAnguage Model Agents. I mean, come on, it's sitting right there in plain sight ...

you need an old style line-printer to go with a LLAMA so it can spit out its results.....

Edited December 17 by gehringer_2

[Screwball]

3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

I plugged the exact same string into Google's Gemini and got this:

Just for fun, I did it again;

Not good.

[chasfh]

22 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Meta already has Llama.

https://www.llama.com/

Maybe the term LLAMA can be Xeroxed or Kleenexed or Cellophaned.

[oblong]

I think ChatGPT is on the path to that.  At least in my circle of people.  

[ben9753]

On 12/17/2025 at 8:59 AM, CMRivdogs said:

 

Meh. No one’s getting paid to know the WS winners by heart. They’d be paid to create the graphic. Feed the LLM the data, and tell it to create the graphic based off the data, it will absolutely do it. Anyone who thinks AI won’t take a lot of jobs because they found a case where it is dumb is not using it correctly, or coping. Probably both. 

[oblong]

I was pushed content about an OnlyFans person on the Facebook. I asked Meta, from their own prompt, why she was famous. It is mixing up her name with a Wisconsin politician. So I’m getting shown bikini clad videos indicated there’s more to be had, with Christian family value content from this politician.  Good stuff. 

[Motown Bombers]

I use AI for the dumbest purposes, so I asked it how many moose are in Michigan and where they are located. Of course it told me they are located in the western UP and moose in my area in Detroit is extremely rare but not impossible, so I’m on the lookout for the rare Detroit moose sighting. I’ll check Belle Isle. 

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I use AI for the dumbest purposes, so I asked it how many moose are in Michigan and where they are located. Of course it told me they are located in the western UP and moose in my area in Detroit is extremely rare but not impossible, so I’m on the lookout for the rare Detroit moose sighting. I’ll check Belle Isle. 

Last one I can think of is that Bill Skowron played his last game at Tiger Stadium on Oct 1, 1967. which was of course the infamous last day Sunday DH against the Angels that the Tigers needed to sweep to catch the Red Sox for 1st place.

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

I use AI for the dumbest purposes, so I asked it how many moose are in Michigan and where they are located. Of course it told me they are located in the western UP and moose in my area in Detroit is extremely rare but not impossible, so I’m on the lookout for the rare Detroit moose sighting. I’ll check Belle Isle. 

They have lodges in Mt Clemens and St Claire Shores....

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

They have lodges in Mt Clemens and St Claire Shores....

damn - didn't think of that one.

I always remember that Bill Skowron was 'Moose' because a kid I was in grade school with was also a Skowron and since he was a pretty big kid he got nicknamed "Moose" as well.

Edited December 19 by gehringer_2

[CMRivdogs]

20 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

damn - didn't think of that one.

I always remember that Bill Skowron was 'Moose' because a kid I was in grade school with was also a Skowron and since he was a pretty big kid he got nicknamed "Moose" as well.

My parents were members of a Moose lodge in their later years. They got into ballroom dancing and joined to go to dances. I also have a friend who works at Mooseheart, the residential school for children of Members of the Moose who's family is unable to care for them 

[Screwball]

8 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

My parents were members of a Moose lodge in their later years. They got into ballroom dancing and joined to go to dances. I also have a friend who works at Mooseheart, the residential school for children of Members of the Moose who's family is unable to care for them 

Mooseheat - that's a name from the past.  Years ago (many) a buddy of mine and his wife went to Mooseheart to visit someone or somebody, don't remember. It was there they ran into Art Carney of Honeymooners fame. He ended up at the same hotel and they sat in the room and drank and ate until 2 am. They said Carney was a hoot and a great guy. That had to be a ball.

[Deleterious]

The bad part of AI.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/

I stumbled onto that when we were on vacation a few months ago.  It's a subreddit on Reddit where people think they are in a relationship with AI.  I hope it turns out to be a big joke where everyone is just goofing around.  But I don't think it is.

[Tigerbomb13]

Another bad part of AI is people like my parents who have trouble discerning what is real and what is fake. My mom sent this video with an AI George Will this morning. 

[chasfh]

I mean, just the histrionic graphics and fonts and punctuation should be enough to tip you off even without seeing it.

[gehringer_2]

Two articles in MedScape today signalling the impending Apocalypse. One entitled "AI Psychosis", about the surge in reports of psychosis-like symptoms linked to intensive chatbot use;

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Several high-profile lawsuits reported by Bloomberg Law, Los Angeles Times, and other news outlets allege that prolonged chatbot interactions worsened the mental health of loved ones, including escalating delusional thinking, withdrawal from daily life, and suicide.

the second entitled: "How to get ChatGPT to Recommend Thalidomide to a Pregnant Woman"  This one is about how a Chat session might be hijacked to produce malevolent results.

Edited yesterday at 07:57 PM by gehringer_2

[oblong]

Well ok then. 
 

on the surface I saw the internets ability to connect as a good thing. “Hey, you like 1970’s era pro wrestling and would scour magazines and trade shows for content?  Guess what. There’s thousands like you and you can go into a chat room.  You are not alone”.    But then there’s “oh you hate Jews  and like little boys…?”  

[Screwball]

I was playing with my AI Aussie buddy tonight. I never expected this one;

You can't do that. I got out and got back in and it was fine. Short break I guess. Too funny.

[gehringer_2]

9 hours ago, oblong said:

Well ok then. 
 

on the surface I saw the internets ability to connect as a good thing. “Hey, you like 1970’s era pro wrestling and would scour magazines and trade shows for content?  Guess what. There’s thousands like you and you can go into a chat room.  You are not alone”.    But then there’s “oh you hate Jews  and like little boys…?”  

It's always been this way, only with each new tech it's moreso. The printing press opened the world to the mass of humanity, but the most popular early books were the ones feeding witch-hunt hysteria. Heck the printing press set off the Reformation which led to countless millions of deaths in European religious wars, civil wars and religious persecution. Can't build roads or bombs without dynamite. Video screens can teach science or numb brains. And so it goes on and on.