that’s me, hi

yes, pedantically, the model itself does processing, but not like a person might in a conversation. but congrats, you found a gotcha, and now you can ignore the whole rest of the reply!

anyway, it’s co-opting racist, anti-black language that makes someone an asshole, not being mean to software

but it doesn’t “talk back”. people talk back, cats talk back. an LLM outputs language given language, but that’s it, there’s no depth there. there is no brain, or processing, or thought, or understanding — it cannot “do” anything. it is just language disconnected from thought

I can and have said expletives at various IDEs (namely Visual Studio) and pieces of software I’ve developed. that doesn’t make me an asshole. I’m sure people who have hit their fingers with hammers have done so too, and that doesn’t make them assholes. why are LLMs different?

like if I host and subscribe to my own moderation service, great, I can no longer see bigots! as long as I quit my job to run moderation against bluesky myself full time. what does that even mean for the people I “ban”? like they don’t subscribe to my moderation, can they still see my shit?

so I’ve heard!! my gf went to the Texas show and raved about it, so glad to get to experience it myself for the next leg stateside

I did!!! not floor bc of cost lmao I have seen, but we’ve still got pretty good seats from what I’ve seen

I've been meaning to play around with where I inject! it's been hard to motivate myself to actually do it though when I really just want the estrogen in my system lol

like there’s the archie comics, there’s smashes 4 and ultimate