Land of Kaleidoscopes and Radiance

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

An amorphous black blob thingy that shape-shifts into any hazard related thing.

Youre reading comics by a person who portrays colonized nations asking for apologies from their colonizer like this. Can we get it together

Ukraine personality = loves russia and wants to rejoin russia. Also im stupid

Hong Kong personality = I love China but also im mad at him after I stopped being around England

Taiwan personality = I love Japan

Oh and of course heres Japan's history of imperialism against China

And heres Japan's totally valid justified non-aggressor reason for becoming a colonial power AKA the exact ideology espoused by Imperial Japan thru the idea of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

And hm, what could be the symbolism of America beating a supposedly dangerous Bison to impress England 🤪

Also everything about it. Everything. Its called axis powers hetalia. This is whats going on with the other characters who committed genocide and war crimes on unprecedented scales and ofc we are not about to talk about literally any of the things they did ever. While theyre in Africa with no black people

You cant redeem it bro you arent powerful enough LET IT DIE PLEASE I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE

I can’t do that without negative consequences

I can’t do that unless I have support for it

I can’t do that