I’m John Harris (they/them). I maintain the gaming blog Set Side B. I used to write @Play for GameSetWatch long ago. I’m Metafilter member JHarris. I wrote the books Exploring Roguelike Games for CRC Press, and We Love Mystery Dungeon for Limited Run Press. I’m on itch.io and there I maintain Loadstar Compleat, the archives of classic Commodore 64 disk magazine Loadstar. BLM! Trans rights are human rights!
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6·24 days agoThank you!
Took a bit but found it, it’s not ChatGPT but a small self-hosted AI with an open source model: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/
He was sick and had a weak moment. He didn’t realize that it would just make the quote up.
I’ve interacted with Benj Edwards on social media for some time. He’s done lots of good work! He’s on (or maybe used to be on) Mastodon and Bluesky. He runs Vintage Computing and Gaming, and has written good articles for several prominent places. I’ve said as much in multiple forums, I feel like I’ve maybe been going on a crusade.
I haven’t seen many others defending him. I’m really torn up over this. They had a weak moment. They were sick (I mean, literally.). A few other people, notably Cory Doctorow and Paul Ford, have written LLM-defending places. And the AI hype has been deafening.
It’s amazing though, that so soon after he used AI, that it immediately hallucinated something job-ending. I knew it was really bad, but I didn’t know it was THAT bad. You get the sense, with so many people talking positively about it, that the hallucinations must be something that happens, what, maybe 5% of the time?
To me, it seems like the kind of mistake that he should be able to apologize for, promise not to do it again, and move on. But we’ve all had our good will taken advantage of for so long by malicious actors, like how Gamergate was used as a wedge to push loathsome politics onto a legion of young males. It feels like we can’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt any more.
I don’t know. I know I’m influenced by all the good work he’s done. I feel like that shouldn’t all be thrown away.
What is a post doing on Lemmy’s top list with a minus 56 reputation?
The joke my friend made is, “Elf on the Shelf in your ear”
0·4 months agoAs someone who doesn’t generally play with children’s toys, i still say the answer is never.
As Randall Munroe said way back in XKCD #150, we’re the grownups now, and we get to decide what that means. Life is too short not to spend as much of it as you can doing what you want. So long as it doesn’t interfere with others, go wild.
1·5 months agoThank you for your service!
Find everyone in my life who has money issues and give them each a million.