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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

—NABOKOV, Vladimir.

I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say “I see you.” I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye. I don’t push it away. I own it. And because I own it, I let it go.

Carolina Zacaria.

People: Billionaires are the cancer of society and must be stopped.

Also people: Let’s keep buying crap we don’t need from megacorps like Amazon, live inside Google because it’s convenient, and hand over our data to questionable platforms because “I can’t get my friends off WhatsApp.”

Stop. Feeding. The. Monster.

But what is passion, what are emotions? There is the source of fire, there is the fullness of energy. A man who is not on fire is nothing: he is ridiculous, he is two-dimensional. He must be on fire even if he does make a fool of himself. A flame must burn somewhere, otherwise no light shines; there is no warmth, nothing.

—JUNG, Carl Gustav.

If anyone ever tries to tell you LLMs are just as good (or better!) in generating text (or code) as humans are in creating text (or code), ask them about "dogfooding".

Dogfooding means training LLMs on their own output. It is absolutely disastrous to such models:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

Every "AI" company will have layers upon layers of defenses against LLM-generated text ending up in training data.

Which is why they desperately seek out any and all human-created text out there.