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Another front in the war of the sexes has opened, and men are on the back foot!

HN: Women are using ChatGPT to catch men lying about their height

The counterattacks are planned!

"They" all lie:

I personally take my job as Photo Detective very seriously, a trait I only acquired from too many dates with people who did not look as good as their photos in real life.

Double standards!!

I'm pretty sure if men would use ChatGPT to catch women lying about their body this conversation would be in a completely different tone.

For some reason The Internet decided that 6 feet was an arbitrary limit, under which men could be just ignored.

Imagine men deciding that any woman with smaller than (insert random body measurement we can't affect) could just be filtered out?

Both sides!

Women will hate finding out that it can guess their age and weight! It can even guess their socioeconomic group, and if they dye their hair.

Great, guys can use it too. We'll see how these chicks react...

OT: since we’ve occasionally featured a music thread and such, any interest in a music sub? it could be pair well with this, the awful pub.

the awful pub sub[0], if you will

this thought brought to you by prior threads as well as this that I’m listening to in late-afternoon 26C weather

[0] you know I had to, I couldn’t not

Tangentially topical, here's a startup (of course) who offers CNC-milled marble statuary:

Bloomberg: This Startup Will Make a Sculpture of Your Dog for $10,000

https://archive.is/xHcHH

Via this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248112

Not really TESCREAL, more really really late stage capitalism.

Although weirdly I'd be up for one of those really cool late Roman Republic realist busts.

Following up on this comment re: the TESCREAL wikipedia page https://awful.systems/comment/4332398

It's now been nominated for deletion (again), the discussion has blown up because it was noted on social media, and the nominator seems to be an... interesting... character

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/TESCREAL_(2nd_nomination)

Edit I now see they have admitted conflict of interest and visually downgraded their "Delete" nomination (I have no fucking clue if that actually affects anything, it would not surprise me that Wikipedia considers strong formatting a valid signal for determining weight of opinion)

Google’s Search Dominance Leaves Sites Little Choice on AI Scraping (no archive - archive.ph appears to have died)

Because Google literally can't stop being evil even when the world's eyes are on it

It's the weekend B) time to check in on the doomers w/ Dr. Torres...

Oh damn! I missed the irrefutable evidence of LLM reasoning. They must have done a series of replicable experiments that contradicts the overwhelming evidence that LLM reasoning is more or less a series of pattern matching heuristics. Let's take a look together at their data lads, let the scales fall from our eyes.

... this is their confirmation of reasoning? And they say we are the ones who are fucking coping, lmaou.

Cosmos Magazine publishes AI-generated articles, drawing criticism from journalists, co-founders

oh god the slop machines are coming for the scientific world

Worldcoin manages to convince Bloomberg it's 2022 and not 2024

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-12/how-worldcoin-is-building-digital-ids-to-combat-the-ai-apocalypse

Tangentially related. In 1878, some asshole exhumed 25 human skulls from an abandoned cemetery in far Northern Sweden and took them to Helsinki, where he and his buddies measured them to "prove" that people from the region were less advanced.

Now the skulls are finally being re-interred thanks to pressure from the local community.

Here's a background on the cemetery and the skull-snatching (in Swedish):

https://kulturmiljonorrbotten.com/2023/09/29/akamella-odekyrkogard/

Referencing this discussion about digital stamps in the prev megathread, you can get them in Sweden too:

https://kopfrakt.postnord.se/service/digitalt-frimarke