Accidental Ziam

it’s the same thing as what’s going on right now with people equating drag to some sort of child exploitation. “but the children!!” they wail, and people listen because oh, if drag is harming children, then drag MUST be BAD, so we HAVE TO BAN DRAG.

Do you they're going to like vote themselves out of jail? Vote to make murder legal? What exactly are you afraid of.

Realistically they'll just... vote just like anyone else. They'll help elect city councilmembers they think will better their hometowns, and presidents they think will best serve the country. They might even vote in their own interests! To reform prisons, fund rehabilitation programs, and outlaw predatory practices by telecoms. Are you saying you don't want any of those things?

And even if there were one of those super-duper-unambiguously-evil totally misanthropic death-row convicts, who's scheduled to be execute the very next day and just wants to sow chaos and watch the outside world burn however they can... what's the worst they could do, vote republican?

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

That said, clearly something's going on with the addition of Gemini, which was shoved into translator because Google wants it in literally everything. With the way these things are built I assume it is overcompensating for sounding "natural," ignoring some pretty obvious cues in this case (as Japanese has strong levels of formality). As with all the big LLM models right now, it prioritizes an assumption of what you want over accuracy, because fsr they think that makes it a better product.

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

the person who brought the case is lynne freeman, and freeman is a name commonly associated with Black americans. what happened is that freeman submitted over 15 drafts of a romantasy novel about a teenage girl in alaska to her literary agent Kim and it was repeatedly sent back for revisions. while freeman is stuck in revision hell, kim picks up another client, deebs-elkenaney who writes under the name wolff. wolff testifies under oath that writing the novel was a "group project" with kim, an editor, and the ceo of a publishing house called entangled. wolff's novel was published before freeman's and bears remarkable similarities to several elements of the drafts of freeman's own book.

freeman asked that all of her drafts be considered as one work because what she is asserting is basically that she was creatively mined for material that was repurposed into another author's novel by her own agent and publishing house. she lost the case because the court denied consideration of the 15 drafts as one work and instead said that the published novel must bear substantial similarity to one specific draft.

Freeman also argued that her drafts should be aggregated for the purposes of the analysis, and the court agreed in part, finding that the first five drafts (BMR 2010, BMR 2011 and Masqued 2012, 2013 and 2014) could be considered together because they followed a common story template, but held that the sixth draft (Masqued 2016) differed so substantially that it required separate analysis.

i do not think those people know what artificial intelligence means.

Because no definition I ever heard specifically excluded sentience.