Computers ruining lives with wrong or misleading output has always been a thing, consider e.g. the Post Office scandal in the UK or Robodebt in Australia.
It seems to me that most people regard computers as some kind of infallible truth machine. If told its spewing garbage they're more likely to double down and shoot the messenger than try and get it sorted out.
It would certainly reflect word patterns that were present in the data. Is that enough for motivation and emotion? I’d say no but I think it is a fair point that you could see those as transmitted from the original (if not felt or generated by the LLM) through the patterns of words copied.
A HN audience is so sure to parse "WA" as Washington state that leaving it in the title would be misleading with every second response along the lines of "I only clicked because I thought it was Washington".
Should it be expanded to "Aussie"? (since "West Australian", "Australian", "Sandgroper", or "Doubleyooalien drivers" doesn't fit the title field).
I reckon the location is secondary and the interesting part is about technology enabling universal and intrusive enforcement of easy to break rules that were previously difficult to enforce absolutely.
Such rules tend to have rather draconian 'example making' penalties attached to them because of that.
Is AI camera enforcement 'not a problem' in Honduras or Washington State because they don't use them there yet? Is seeing how it pans out somewhere else first of no interest to them?
I stopped using a mouse when I moved from desktop to laptop computer because I found the touchpad is so much more convenient for keeping my hand near the keyboard. However, doing this for over 20 years means I'm now very stuck in my habit of needing touchpads with real buttons. All my attempts to get used to the awful buttonless modern touchpads have been an absolute nightmare so far :-(
Doesn't a touch-screen make it easy? When I use my laptop I seldomly use the mouse nowadays. I scroll or tap/move the cursor with my finder on the screen, and I 'fine tune' the location with the arrows.
Common practice was to increment line numbers by 10 instead of 1. Would give a bit of wiggle room to add more lines in later without having to renumber everything else.
WinAmp's yellow lightning icon is still sitting happily in my Windows icon tray right this very moment. Pageant is in there too with its cute little spy-hat :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme
It seems to me that most people regard computers as some kind of infallible truth machine. If told its spewing garbage they're more likely to double down and shoot the messenger than try and get it sorted out.