I’d say the seasoning is different enough to call it a distinct thing, though the cooking method is identical. Like New York vs Chicago tavern style pizza.

Boston baked beans with pork belly also deserves a mention.

In defense of pet rocks: the highest they were ever sold for was the modern equivalent of $24 and nobody was pretending they were worth more.

There the added difficulty of “real whistle blower, but changed the details so they don’t out themselves”.

I was convinced I wanted to go into a science or engineering from childhood through my early 20s.

Mid 20s was a complete turnaround for me, and I’m a firefighter/medic now. There’s a lot about the job that sucks: but the pay and benefits are decent enough and I’m (mostly) actually helping people without making some sociopath billionaire even richer.

“parental controls”

Yeah … I was the kid that knew how to bypass those and “helped” other kids out in that regard.

Or requiring school busses to have swing out stop signs and making it illegal to pass them when they’re deployed.

Actual “protect children” laws don’t get talked about because absolutely nobody has a problem with them.

Since the goal was to make money: I imagine some of the “guardrails” the AI was set up with included emphasizing that it’s exist to make money. I wouldn’t be shocked if the prompt repeatedly mentioned capitalism.

So you emphasize the AI is a capitalist, then point out the most successful capitalists give away free stuff all the time as marketing. So to meet its primary directive it needs to give away a bunch of free stuff with a snappy slogan.

My favorite of all time and winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss—a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.

– Molly Ringle, Seattle WA

– and are being used by rich sociopaths to replace the very people that made that content.

Has sanitation, pest control, and medicine have advanced since the 13th century?

No … we still need cats to do all the heavy lifting.

The BBC Historic Farm Series?

in charge of a country of under-educated, mouth-breathing, inbred racists, with a soupçon of imperialism.

I’m not disagreeing with you, but I hope you don’t think Canada significantly fewer of those degenerates per capita than we do.

Yours might be a slightly different flavor, and they not be as emboldened as ours – but those shitbirds are universal and will absolutely destroy Canada just like the USA if you’re complacent.

You’re on the decentralized social media network that was created to get away from corporate bullshit and are surprised the people here don’t like posts containing AI slop?

I think the “Je ne sais quoa” is the human element: art is fundamentally about human communication and interaction.

We can (usually) infer the meaning and emotion an artist is trying to convey – particularly if given context. Even if we don’t “get” what the artist is trying to say, we can come up with something an equally valid. Real art only “works” because of empathy.

AI generated “art” fails for that reason: you can’t infer the thought process of a machine that doesn’t think, or emphasize with emotions it doesn’t have. As a tool it can assist with creating art, but the more heavily it’s involved in the creative process the less meaningful the resultant “art” becomes.

He won every borough… except Staten Island, where said millionaires and billionaires live.

AI reviewing medical imaging/labs and flagging abnormal findings for review by a doctor is awesome.

AI spamming social media to push fascist propaganda is not.

Distasteful like: “Use SCOTUS’ ruling on the president having unlimited powers to immediately arrest or remove corrupt MAGA officials and judges”.

It does, unfortunately.

“If any of you local or state law enforcement decide to grow a spine: the state courts have your back.”

Getting shot with pepperballs for peacefully assembling in public tends to radicalize people, their friends, and their family. Pissed off people tend to be far more motivated in putting in the work to make things better. Experiencing or seeing police brutality first hand is a fantastic motivator when it comes time to boycott, strike, recall elected officials, etc.

You’d probably know that if you learned the history of any social revolution in the USA … but they really gloss over those movements in schools for some reason.