Thoughts on AI checkers

[EmilyMiller]

Here's a bit of good news.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/openai-abandons-yet-another-side-quest-chatgpts-erotic-mode/

OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode​

It’s almost as if the actual use cases for LLMs are much narrower than what has been bought into by inexpert CEOs desperate to save money and with expert underlings too cowed to point out anything about the Emperor’s New Clothes. Emperor is the operative word here, infallible ruler who may not be questioned, even on subjects he (it is mostly he) knows next to nothing about.

Again this is a symptom of CEOs stopping being servants to their executive teams and external boards and becoming unrestrained absolute monarchs.

And I broadly support many aspects of capitalism, just not this bizarre version we have now.

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Before I’m accused of being political. Our current crony capitalism / broligarchy is something that both Democrats and Republicans have either allowed or encouraged to emerge (their decisions being oiled by Citizens United in 2010). It’s not a partisan observation.

 

[MrPixel]

It's too bad she didn't use AI when she created her username.

And how do you know they're a her?

Peter Steiner's 1993 cartoon, as published in The New Yorker

 

[EmilyMiller]

And how do you know they're a her?
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Peter Steiner's 1993 cartoon, as published in The New Yorker

Or a multitude of meerkats led by an archaeopteryx like @anthrodisiac

 

[millamomud]

I disagree.

If we had been discussing politics or sports or games, then yes, taking a jab at a poorly spelled username would have been as you said, a cheap shot.

But we're not.

What we're talking about is whether the skill of writing matters or not, both in terms of storytelling ability and in more technical aspects... like spelling.

In that very narrow case, someone misspelling their username--the introduction most users are going to have to them and a very basic, very important thing to get right--and then turning around to say that their desire to use AI has nothing to do with laziness... Well, as they say from my neck of the woods, "that dog don't hunt."

Don't get me wrong; I'm sure if you go through my posts on the forums, you'll find them replete with typos. The number of occurrences of "int he" and "ont he" in my Discord replies is absolutely staggering. In everyday, casual writing, I'm as bad as anyone and worse than most at keeping my writing typo-free.

But you know where I would do my damnedest to keep those mistakes from slipping in? In places where it matters, like my stories... or my username.

So, yes, in this very rare case, I think it's perfectly appropriate to take a swipe at an incorrectly spelled username, especially when the person claims the use of AI has nothing to do with laziness. Because it is, and it does.

My first impression was ad personam, and I do not think your follow-up rescues it. You are still asking a username typo to carry far more argumentative weight than it can bear.

 

[NoTalentHack]

My first impression was ad personam, and I do not think your follow-up rescues it. You are still asking a username typo to carry far more argumentative weight than it can bear.

Okay.

 

[millamomud]

Okay.

Okay.