Posts by coolandnormal@aus.social
(DIR) Post #AxuwVkJfScM1NL5dOC by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-09-05T22:23:19Z
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Totally unexpected side effect of AI:A lecturer just told is we need to check our data carefully after downloading it to make sure it matches the source because "you can't trust technology and AI".We're downloading a csv of data points (human observations) from a selected area of a map, AI is not involved.
(DIR) Post #AxuwVl80RScVtSdpqq by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-09-05T22:33:27Z
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People are losing trust not in AI, but in computers in general because of their association with AI.The teacher mentioned above trains science students in using R. This is not a layperson's misunderstanding, it's a genuine loss of trust in the ability of computers.
(DIR) Post #AxuwVlhSJeybfPE96e by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-09-05T22:55:28Z
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I'm sure this was not at all unexpected for people who were studying this kind of thing, but is was news to me.
(DIR) Post #AzNwZIiMeiNbxWAe5Q by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-10-19T23:28:06Z
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Saw a neighbour. Told her I was writing an essay on how we shouldn't use AI in education. She told me she saw something related on TV and I should try to find it on the Internet. It's a show where they get groups of parents together and have them advise each other on raising kids. This has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm doing, but I heard her out. From her description, I immediately got the impression this was a show intended to be controversial rather than helpful. Probably a channel 7 in-house thing. According to my neighbour one of the parents advised the others to set up a chatgpt 'friend' for their kid, "but it's okay because they set it all up especially beforehand for the kid, they had the tech sorted". It seems like this involved a vague layperson's understanding of prompting guardrails. My neighbour didn't seem overly concerned by this aspect of the story.Then the parent handed the device to the child and the first thing they showed the child typing was "I don't like boys" to which they showed chatgpt replying "I only like girls too". My neighbour found this part of the story extremely disturbing. My takeaway from this is conservative TV in australia wants to you believe AI is coming for your children (to turn them GAY :ohno: :oh_no_bubble:)
(DIR) Post #AzNwZRSO9Twr4ZlVw0 by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-10-19T23:32:10Z
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Hard to tell from this conversation, but I got the impression that the framing of the piece wasn't "you cannot effectively create guardrails within chatgpt to give a limited version of it to your child, that's not a function that's available, even if it says it is" instead the framing was "computer make child gay no matter how diligent adult. Only way to prevent gay is to stop computer touching child".
(DIR) Post #B0PjMSfY56Guu0XnDU by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-11-19T20:08:36Z
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@davidrevoy that Thing is instantly recognisable as an unwanted AI feature. You captured the aesthetic perfectly.
(DIR) Post #B1IPj1hIlzQDHlha76 by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-12-15T22:14:54Z
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NOW we're getting somewhere...
(DIR) Post #B1IPj9U7ordRRDbAga by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-12-15T22:16:06Z
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So glad I went to the queer/art book shop.
(DIR) Post #B1IPjGucClz4TP2vRo by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-12-15T22:20:19Z
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This book is from 1980 and is full of stuff like this. I'm on the fence as to whether that means they're more or less likely to know what they did there.
(DIR) Post #B1fqsMibQ8mSxAoygq by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-12-27T06:06:58Z
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Hear me out... Horse tram
(DIR) Post #B1fqsOFbium9hpGqm0 by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-12-27T06:13:56Z
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No really
(DIR) Post #B1fqsPmc1glqSTiirA by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-12-27T08:59:50Z
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I bought the horse tram book and it accidentally had this other book in it. Excellent random book, couldn't have asked for better. Remind me to pay the lady for it next time I go through Dunkeld.
(DIR) Post #B1fqsQlEOJGBUU58LI by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-12-27T09:00:47Z
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You all have to remind me. If I post a photo from Dunkeld, grill me on whether I remembered to do this.
(DIR) Post #B1fqsRadJCNQ3u8BSi by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-12-27T09:04:31Z
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Alright folks, who wants to come... "camping"?
(DIR) Post #B1fqsSc5VH8PEhorMu by coolandnormal@aus.social
2025-12-27T09:13:57Z
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Shout out to the rare book shop in Dunkeld. I have never not found something excellent there.
(DIR) Post #B2AUzpecjvaggXBnDU by coolandnormal@aus.social
2026-01-10T20:05:58Z
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"A billionaire carries, on average, an investment portfolio in companies that will produce 1.9m tonnes of CO2 a year – roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of 400,000 petrol cars."Extremely normal planet. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/10/world-richest-used-fair-share-emissions-2026-oxfam
(DIR) Post #B2GPlRQ6i9k6eDTefA by coolandnormal@aus.social
2026-01-13T20:40:58Z
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That #forkiverse better be fuckn forky.
(DIR) Post #B2GPlZA5vZgges2yoa by coolandnormal@aus.social
2026-01-13T20:41:42Z
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If they don't have wall to wall fork themed pun bullshit I am not on board.
(DIR) Post #B2GPlh4MWlr7BPQVzU by coolandnormal@aus.social
2026-01-13T20:50:52Z
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[a monologue performed in the style of A Succulent Chinese Meal]
(DIR) Post #B3EBRBpudiwFhegkiG by coolandnormal@aus.social
2026-02-11T23:54:18Z
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@scm @ai6yrDad, can I come grocery shopping?HmmmI'll help, I'll push the trolleyWeeellllI'll help with grocery cart creationOkay, put your shoes on