Just on a whim, because I know that Alcibiades is one of the weirdest and funniest characters in ancient Greek history, I asked ChatGPT "What's the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did?"
ChatGPT came back with the details of something Alcibiades (henceforth referred to as 'Alci' so I don't have to keep typing it out) was accused of, but acquitted of.
When I pointed out that he had been acquitted and may not have actually done this thing, Chat GPT apologised and said, "yes, he was acquitted", and then went on to tell me that, nonetheless, the event was significant because it made Alci flee the city.
Alci did not flee the city, he was sent away on a military expedition, which was exactly what he'd wanted and asked for. When I pointed that out, ChatGPT apologised again for being wrong.
I asked again for weird things he might actually have done, and was told one version of a story I've heard before about how Alci stole some stuff from a friend. ChatGPT's version was different from what I'd heard, though, so I mentioned that, and only then did ChatGPT acknowledge that there were different versions of the story. As part of its apology and correction, ChatGPT said that it did not always have access to all information - but then proceeded to provide details of the version of the story I'd heard before, showing that it did, in fact, have access to that information.
I asked again, what is the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did? ChatGPT gave me an answer, which was a story I'd never heard before, so I asked for a source. ChatGPT told me it was in Plutarch's Lives, and I presumed it was in his Life of Alcibiades, so that's where I looked. When I said I couldn't find it there, ChatGPT told me, sorry for not being specific, it was actually in Plutarch's Life of Nicias. So I went and read Plutarch's Life of Nicias and couldn't find it.
So I told ChatGPT that I couldn't find the story in that book, could it please be more specific? What I was hoping for was a chapter or page number or something, I just presumed I'd missed it.
ChatGPT came back with "no, actually it's not in that book, it may be a later invention, there is no concrete evidence for this story."
TL;DR: ChatGPT cannot be trusted. Even when it does give you a source, it can be wrong. It has no capacity to evaluate the accuracy or likely accuracy of the information it gives you. It will present you with wrong or debatable information and give you absolutely no indication that it may not be correct, or that other versions or interpretations are possible.
gotta remember that chat GPT works basically the same way autocomplete works, but it can autocomplete longer runs of reasonably coherent text.
it’s not looking up facts, its both trying to say the thing that’s most likely to come next in the text it was trained on, and also trying to not perfectly replicate the training text, because it’s supposed to be a bit creative.
what this means is that it’s actually primed to lie to you. you can feed it nothing but perfectly factual text and it will spit back lies because the truth replicates the training set too closely.
it’s not really capable of answering a question the way a person might.
what it does is generate text that reasonably seems like what an answer to that question might look like.
it’s a bullshit generator.
it is made to bullshit tech investors. (who exclusively talk by making up things that sound correct without regard for the actual truth) so, if you’re smarter than a venture capitalist then don’t fall for the bullshit meant to ensnare venture capitalists.
That's a really good way to put it!
Reblogging this again because I am about to have to explain this to my boss and the head of academic quality today
I put up your boyfriend for peer review and... yeah he's published in a journal now. You can purchase 1 month of access for $32.99, or you can log in through your institution for access. Sorry.
JSTOR???????????????
Me: yeah I've been eating nothing but buckshot for like six days is that gonna be a problem?
Nurse who runs the MRI machine: Duuude this is gonna be so cool
reblog to tell a trans girl with a praise kink that she is doing a good job.
We need kink at pride because “kink” isn’t just kink. “Kink” is:
- That boy wearing jeans that are too tight
- Your neighbors and their “friend” that lives with them
- Having a beard and wearing a skirt
- Wearing any kind of choker
- Literally anything else they decide goes against the “norm”, and it can be literally anything. That is why we need kink at pride.
xkilljoy
No we don't. Respect ppls boundaries. If respect isn't normal anymore what will be normal then? Anything, no matter how it impacts or scars other peoples lives? Kink doesn't belongs to pride.
Look around you. Do you see where “No Kink At Pride” has led? Being transgender is illegal now. Exactly what people said would happen. You know what’s going to be next? Being gay is going to be illegal. Because being gay is not “respecting straight people’s boundaries”. They don’t want to see you. They want to kill you.
In support of the OP, let me clue the reply poster in to some of how the worldview of conservative bigots works:
If you are trans you are a sex pervert
If you're gay you're a sex pervert.
If you're the world's most chaste and godly nun praying in a convent, who has a lesbian thought once while delirious from a fever, you are a sex pervert.
If you're a family with a white picket fence house, a breadwinner, a stay-at-home parent, two cars, a dog, and whose politics are right wing... if you happen to be a same-sex couple, you're sex perverts and probably pedophiles.
If you're a closeted, self-hating, self-hurting, self-repressing queer going through every torturous form of conversion therapy, who condemns the other queers, who screams at the people who seek abortion help outside Planned Parenthood... you are a filthy, irredeemable sex pervert, a danger to children, and the most sympathy you deserve is transient pity if you admit to struggling.
There is nothing you can do, no behaviour you can engage in, no thought you can have, no clothes you can wear, no existence you can lead that is not an unacceptable sex perversion in the minds of these people. Your existence is kink, and you cannot appease them into thinking otherwise.
The bigoted conservative mind cannot conceive of queerness except as perversion, except as hedonistic degenerate thrill-seeking. They don't know another reason to do any thing, except as an exercise of power over someone else. Their entire world revolves around this idea. Everything is power, everything is control.
Therefore you can never appease them. Your mere existence is to them a totalizing threat, to their worldview, to their sense of normalcy, to their positions of social power, to their patriarchy, to their holiness. The only thing you can do that will ever satisfy them is die.
Which leaves us with this:
Either we have solidarity with our queer siblings - yes including the ones you don't understand, yes including the ones who have that weird sex that you think is fucked up, yes including the cringe annoying ones who "make the rest of us look bad," yes including the fucked up problematic ones who need to change and make amends, but who deserve their human rights whether or not they ever do that.
Because to the bigot, to the conservative, you're every bit as much of a pervert as Jenny Piss Kink and their polycule of submissive puppy-masked gender sluts. You throw your bricks when they come for Jenny, because when they come for the Piss Puppy Polycule, they're coming for you too.
Yep, "Kink" is "those people over there who I don't like."
The people who expel the sadomasochists, if that's who you mean (and if it is just say it, I've heard worse) are eventually going to expel you. It's on the next page of the plan. The one you keep not reading because you want us gone too.
It’s very important to me that younger queers understand this: to the people who you’re trying to be more respectable for when you say things like neopronouns set the trans movement back or you’re why the cishets don’t accept us or including [aces/bi people with the ‘wrong kind’ of partners/non-binary people/kinksters/non-passing trans ppl/furries/polyam people] just hurts us, can’t you wait until we get all our rights before we talk about some of yours? – to those people? Pete Buttigieg is just a fag.
I'll just keep saying it until it sinks in.
The Gays obliterated XKiljoy so fucking hard their name is just text now. No “Deactivated” no “Nothing is here” blog... just a memory of someone clueless and ignorant.
No, you aren't "behind in life".
But, it's okay to grieve the time you spent surviving. The time spent trying to figure out what was wrong. The time spent healing to become a person again.
It wasn't your fault.
We all got that homie whose air of silliness doesnt hide the haunted look in their eyes😂👆
Suit!Korra drawn for me by Mastrocecchi over on Twitter
Go commission them and check out their artwork!
you would not believe how frequently this happens
black and pink are not enemies they are besties. girlfriends even
they’re holding hands <3
the inherent romance of teaching your friend how to fight
BEST LONG-TIME PINING SHIPS: ROUND 3 MATCH 1
(The blupjeans art was made by @herbgerblin !!)
Reasons to vote for each ship underneath the cut!
The "Don't make me tap the sign" meme, edited to include the following extended caption: "Our capacity for love increases with each person we cross paths with throughout our lives, and which each moment we spend with those people. But, too often we neglect that part of ourselves in favor of others. And by the time we realize just how important that is, we find ourselves with fewer folks around to practice with. But the seven of you have something that nobody else ever had: time. All the time in the world. Time enough to grow indescribably close. Time enough to- to learn how to care for each other, how to allow yourselves to be cared for. And in the case of Barry and Lup, time enough to fall deeply and truly in love." End ID
