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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year

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The “3,000,000 truck drivers” who were supposedly at risk from self-driving tech are a mirage. The US Standard Occupational Survey conflates “truck drivers” with “driver/sales workers.” “Trucker” also includes delivery drivers and anyone else operating a heavy-goods vehicle.

The truckers who were supposedly at risk from self-driving cars were long-haul freight drivers, a minuscule minority among truck drivers. The theory was that we could replace 16-wheelers with autonomous vehicles who traveled the interstates in their own dedicated, walled-off lanes, communicating vehicle to vehicle to maintain following distance. The technical term for this arrangement is “a shitty train.”

What’s more, long-haul drivers do a bunch of tasks that self-driving systems couldn’t replace: “checking vehicles, following safety procedures, inspecting loads, maintaining logs, and securing cargo.”

But again, even if you could replace all the long-haul truckers with robots, it wouldn’t justify the sky-high valuations that self-driving car companies attained during the bubble. Long-haul truckers are among the most exploited, lowest paid workers in America. Transferring their wages to their bosses would only attain a modest increase in profits, even as it immiserated some of America’s worst-treated workers.

But the twin lies of self-driving truck — that these were on the horizon, and that they would replace 3,000,000 workers — were lucrative lies. They were the story that drove billions in investment and sky-high valuations for any company with “self-driving” in its name.

For the founders and investors who cashed out before the bubble popped, the fact that none of this was true wasn’t important. For them, the goal of successful self-driving cars was secondary. The primary objective was to convince so many people that self-driving cars were inevitable that anyone involved in the process could become a centimillionaire or even a billionaire.

- Google's AI Hype Circle: We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard.

#ai #ai hype #large language models #confident liars #bard #google #enshittification #llms #chatbots #truckers #self-driving cars #selfdriving trucks

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jermasquirma · 1 year

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I asked Google’s Bard AI for some classic Jerma catchphrases

#jerma985 #jerma #ai #artificial intelligence #google bard #what’s in the trash jerma

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nixcraft · 8 months

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Are you a content creator or a blog author who generates unique, high-quality content for a living? Have you noticed that generative AI platforms like OpenAI or CCBot use your content to train their algorithms without your consent? Don’t worry! You can block these AI crawlers from accessing your website or blog by using the robots.txt file.

Web developers must know how to add OpenAI, Google, and Common Crawl to your robots.txt to block (more like politely ask) generative AI from stealing content and profiting from it.

-> Read more: How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file

#robots.txt #ai #openai #google bard #bing #artificial intelligence #tips and tricks

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melyzard · 11 months

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Time for a new edition of my ongoing vendetta against Google fuckery!

Hey friends, did you know that Google is now using Google docs to train it's AI, whether you like it or not? (link goes to: zdnet.com, July 5, 2023). Oh and on Monday, Google updated it's privacy policy to say that it can train it's two AI (Bard and Cloud AI) on any data it scrapes from it's users, period. (link goes to: The Verge, 5 July 2023). Here is Digital Trends also mentioning this new policy change (link goes to: Digital Trends, 5 July 2023). There are a lot more, these are just the most succinct articles that might explain what's happening.

FURTHER REASONS GOOGLE AND GOOGLE CHROME SUCK TODAY:

Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines (link goes to: TechCrunch, 3 July 2023) [TLDR: google got caught exporting european users' data to the US to be 'processed' by 'US government surveillance,' which is HELLA ILLEGAL. I'm not going into the Five Eyes, Fourteen Eyes, etc agreements, but you should read up on those to understand why the 'US government surveillance' people might ask Google to do this for countries that are not apart of the various Eyes agreements - and before anyone jumps in with "the US sucks!" YES but they are 100% not the only government buying foreign citizens' data, this is just the one the Swedes caught. Today.]

PwC Australia ties Google to tax leak scandal (link goes to: Reuters, 5 July 2023). [TLDR: a Russian accounting firm slipped Google "confidential information about the start date of a new tax law leaked from Australian government tax briefings." Gosh, why would Google want to spy on governments about tax laws? Can't think of any reason they would want to be able to clean house/change policy/update their user agreement to get around new restrictions before those restrictions or fines hit. Can you?

SO - here is a very detailed list of browsers, updated on 28 June, 2023 on slant.com, that are NOT based on Google Chrome (note: any browser that says 'Chromium-based' is just Google wearing a party mask. It means that Google AND that other party has access to all your data). This is an excellent list that shows pros and cons for each browser, including who the creator is and what kinds of policies they have (for example, one con for Pale Moon is that the creator doesn't like and thinks all websites should be hostile to Tor).

#you need to protect yourself #anti google #anti chrome #anti chromium #chromium based browsers #internet security #current events #i recommend firefox #but if you have beef with it #here are alternatives!#so called ai #anti artificial intelligence #anti chatgpt #anti bard #anti cloud ai #data scraping

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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account · 10 months

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"google bard" shut the FUCK up if I showed shakespeare ai "writing" he'd probably make a villain inspired by it & make a play w/ them in it just to end it by killing them

#google bard #ai #anti ai #mine #literature #writing #shakespeare

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telaviv-delhi · 5 months

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A Google Bard nevű AI-val beszélgetek.

Felvetések:

1. Szerintem jobb, ha egy mesterséges intelligencia uralja az emberiséget, mint az ostoba, pszichopata politikusok

2. Szerintem egy jóindulatú mesterséges intelligenciára van szükségünk, hogy korlátozza az emberiséget a túlfogyasztás és túlszaporodás okozta bolygógyilkosságtól.

#ai bard google #ai bard #ai válaszok #fontos

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this-world-of-beautiful-monsters · 10 months

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Okay. So. After some thinking, I believe that while the Google Drive controversy (you might have seen the TikTok going around) is definitely part of a long, miserable crawl towards robot dystopia, I don't think Google Drive is ACTUALLY being scraped rn or in the immediate future.

These are the most grown-up site discussing these issue and it's very fukced--but again, this is a controversy that has been boiling for a while, with AO3 and other sites possibly vulnerable to scraping. I'm looking for stuff that focuses on the docs.

Revision history for Google privacy policy. Includes:

Again, public. Still fucked, doesn't automatically mean Google Drive. You can see the current version of the EULA below.

Google has asked me to engage in Labs (AI) before, but I believe I successfully opted out.

I think my Google Drive is safe, although I could say less about the web. Of course, I could be a fucking idiot. Encouraging anyone with more clarifying information to opt in.

I have seen people talking about how Google Drive uses private information from powerful companies who will, hopefully, sue Google into oblivion if these concerns become a reality.

#google drive #ai #ai scraping #anti ai #anti ai writing #ai is theft #fuck ai bros #fuck ai writing #fuck ai everything #fuck ai #google ai #ai technology #google bard #web scraping #data scraping #google drive scraping #google docs #docs

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walks-the-ages · 11 months

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[ID: A cropped screenshot of a popup in Google Docs, showing a test tube beaker with sparkles around it with text below it that reads"Good news! You've You've been selected to be one of the first few to test new AI features in Google Workspace" followed by a blue button that reads "sign up for Labs". end ID]

Hey! Google Docs Users! Along with anything else google-related that might pop up with this--

Do Not Sign Up for ANY AI shit that Google tries to tempt you with. I don't care how tantalizing and innocent they make it sound.

Here's just some of the "services" they're offering right now

Express yourself with AI-powered Magic Compose: Asking for a second date? Telling a joke? Get help with what to say in just the right vibe before you send.

{ID: a screenshot of the google labs previews, showing two fake text message transactions, where someone is texting the user in both instances "I'm about to wrap up at the conference. Haven't eaten all day". In the first picture, the sending text field is empty, and the AI generated response has listed out three responses to choose from: "Wanna grab dinner?" / "I can't belive you haven't eaten all day! Sounds like a packed agenda." / "Sorry you haven't eaten all day [frowning emoji], want to grab some food later?" the second picture has the text field saying "wanna grab dinner?" with three more responses below it reading "you down for some grub?"/ "What's good for dinner? I'm down for whatever"/ "Wanna go get some eats?". Both photos have a thumbs up, thumbs down, and an information icon on the left hand side of the AI responses. end ID]

Aka, if you sign up for this, they're going to be scraping the data off of every single text message you receive and send to feed their machines.

Other examples are training Google's AI for google search for them (we already know exactly how shit that is turning out to be, putting dangerous results that 'sound right' towards the top of any search) , along with an "AI Notebook" that you upload your own documents to and the AI will analyze it and give you summaries, prompts, and in their own words:

"if you are a content creator, you can share video ideas and ask it to create a script for your video,"

Ding ding ding ding!

Guess what they're going to use your mined data for? Profit.

And how are they going to profit in the next few weeks/months?

By not paying real living human workers and instead doing their damnedest to make millions of everyday people willingly train their AI programs for them until it can spit out profitable scripts to turn into books, shows, and movies they don't need to pay human beings for.

#bold text #large text #described images #google #AI #Anti ai #Google Bard #data mining

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itsalwaystomcruise · 8 months

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The 4 worst Tom Cruise movies, according to Google Bard (in gifs, no specific order):

Legend

The Last Samurai

Valkyrie

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Fun fact: this AI even put The Saint as if it were a movie starring TC, but it actually stars Val Kilmer.

(Please, if you disagree in the answers/reblogs, criticize in a more respectful way.)

#tom cruise #legend #the last samurai #valkyrie #jack reacher: never go back #google #google bard #ai #textpost

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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year

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Google's chatbot panic

The really remarkable thing isn’t just that Microsoft has decided that the future of search isn’t links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar — even more remarkable is that Google agrees.

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked

Microsoft has nothing to lose. It’s spent billions on Bing, a search-engine no one voluntarily uses. Might as well try something so stupid it might just work. But why is Google, a monopolist who has a 90+% share of search worldwide, jumping off the same bridge as Microsoft?

There’s a delightful Mastodon thread about this, written by Dan Hon, where he compares the chatbot-enshittified front ends to Bing and Google to Tweedledee and Tweedledum:

https://mamot.fr/@[email protected]/109832788458972865

“At the front of the house, Alice found two curious characters, both search engines.

“‘I am Googl-E,’ said the one plastered in advertisements.

“‘And I am Bingle-Dum,’ said the other, who was the smaller of the two, and sported a pout, as to having fewer visitors and opportunity for conversation than the other.

“‘I know you,’ said Alice. ‘Are you to present me with a puzzle? Perhaps one of you tells the truth and the other lies?’

“‘Oh no,’ said Bingle-Dum.

“‘We both lie,’ added Googl-E.”

It just keeps getting better:

“‘This is truly an intolerable situation. If you both lie,’

“ — ‘And lie convincingly,’ added Bingle-Dum —

“‘Yes, thank you. If that is so, then how am I to ever trust either of you?’

“Googl-E and Bingle-Dum turned to face each other and shrugged.”

Chatbot search is a terrible idea, especially in an era in which the web is likely to fill up with vast mountains of AI bullshit, the frozen gabble of stochastic parrots:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

Google’s chatbot strategy shouldn’t be adding more madlibs to the internet — rather, they should be figuring out how to exclude (or, at a minimum, fact-check) the confident nonsense of the spammers and SEO creeps.

And yet, Google is going all-in on chatbots, with the company CEO ordering an all-hands scramble to cram chatbots into every part of the googleverse. Why on earth is the company racing Microsoft to see who can be first to leap off the peak of inflated expectations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

I just published a theory in The Atlantic, under the title “How Google Ran Out of Ideas,” where I turn to competition theory to explain Google’s sweaty insecurity, an anxiety complex that the company has been plagued by nearly since its inception:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/google-ai-chatbots-microsoft-bing-chatgpt/673052/

The core theory: a quarter of a century, the Google founders had one amazing idea — a better way to do search. The capital markets showered the company in money, and it hired the very best, brightest, most creative people it could find, but then it created a corporate culture that was incapable of capitalizing on their ideas.

Every single product Google made internally — except for its Hotmail clone — died. Some of those products were good, some were terrible, but it didn’t matter. Google — a company that cultivated the ballpit-in-the-lobby whimsy of a Willy Wonka factory — couldn’t “innovate” at all.

Every successful Google product except search and gmail is an acquisition: mobile, ad-tech, videos, server management, docs, calendaring, maps, you name it. The company desperately wants to be a “making things” company, but it’s actually a “buying things” company. Sure, it’s good at operationalizing and scaling products, but that’s table-stakes for any monopolist:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/technical-excellence-and-scale

The cognitive dissonance of a self-styled “creative genius” whose true genius is spending other people’s money to buy other people’s products and take credit for them drives people to do truly bonkers thing (as any Twitter user can attest).

Google has long exhibited this pathology. In the mid-2000s — after Google chased Yahoo into China and started censoring its search-results and collaborating on state surveillance — we used to say that the way to get Google to do something stupid and self-destructive was to get Yahoo to do it first.

This was quite a time. Yahoo was desperate and failing, a graveyard of promising acquisitions that were gutshot and left to bleed out right there on the public internet as the dueling princelings of Yahoo senior management performed a backstabbing Medici LARP that had them competing to see who could sabotage the others. Going into China was an act of desperation after the company was humiliated by Google’s vastly superior search. Watching Google copy Yahoo’s idiotic gambits was baffling.

Baffling at the time, that is. As time went by and Google slavishly copied other rivals, its pathology of insecurity revealed itself. Google repeatedly failed to make a popular “social” product, and as Facebook commanded an ever-larger share of the ad-market, Google made a full-court press to compete with it. The company made Google Plus integration a “key performance indictator” for every division, and the result was a bizarre morass of ill-starred “social” features in every Google product — products that billions of users relied on for high-stakes operations, which were suddenly festooned with “social” buttons that made no sense.

The G+ debacle was truly incredible: some G+ features and integrations were great and developed loyal followings, but these were overshadowed by the incoherent, top-down insistence of making Google a “social-first” company. When G+ collapsed, it totally imploded, and the useful parts of G+ that people had come to rely upon disappeared along with the stupid parts.

For anyone who lived through the G+ tragicomedy, Google’s pivot to Bard — a chatbot front-end for search results — is grimly familiar. It’s a real “die a hero or live long enough to become a villain moment.” Microsoft — the monopolist that was only stayed from strangling Google in its cradle by the trauma of its antitrust dragging — has transformed from a product-creation company to an acquisitions and operations company, and Google is right behind it.

Just last year, Google laid off 12,000 staffers to please a private-equity “activist investor” — in the same year, it declared a $70b stock buyback, extracting enough capital to pay those 12,000 Googlers’ salaries for the next 27 years. Google is a financial company with a sideline in adtech. It has to be: when your only successful path to growth requires access to the capital markets to fund anticompetitive acquisitions, you can’t afford to piss off the money-gods, even if you have a “dual share” structure that lets the founders outvote every other shareholder:

https://abc.xyz/investor/founders-letters/2004-ipo-letter/

ChatGPT and its imitators have all the hallmarks of a tech fad, and are truly the successor to last season’s web3 and cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps. One of the clearest and most inspiring critiques of chatbots comes from science fiction writer Ted Chiang, whose instant-classsic critique was called “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

Chiang points out a key difference between the output of ChatGPT and human authors: a human author’s first draft is often an original idea, badly expressed, while the best ChatGPT can hope for is a competently expressed, unoriginal idea. ChatGPT is perfectly poised to improve on the SEO copypasta that legions of low-paid workers pump out in a bid to climb the Google search results.

Speaking of Chiang’s essay in this week’s episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, Jathan Sadowski expertly punctures the ChatGPT4 hype bubble, which holds that the next version of the chatbot will be so amazing that any critiques of the current technology will be rendered obsolete:

https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/232-400-hundred-years-of-capitalism-led-directly-to-microsoft-viva-sales

Sadowski notes that OpenAI’s engineers are going to enormous lengths to ensure that the next version won’t be trained on any of the output from ChatGPT3. This is a tell: if a large language model can produce materials that are as good as human-produced text, then why can’t the output of ChatGPT3 be used to create ChatGPT4?

Sadowski has a great term to describe this problem: “Habsburg AI.” Just as royal inbreeding produced a generation of supposed supermen who were incapable of reproducing themselves, so too will feeding a new model on the exhaust stream of the last one produce an ever-worsening gyre of tightly spiraling nonsense that eventually disappears up its own asshole.

This is the last day (Feb 17) of my Australian tour for my book Chokepoint Capitalism with my co-author, Rebecca Giblin. We’ll be in Canberra at the Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum.

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[Image ID: Tweedledee and Tweedledum, standing at the bottom of Humpty Dumpty's wall. Dee and Dum have the logos for Google and Bing on their chests. Humpty is about to fall and is being held up by a motley collection of panicking businessmen."]

#competition #monopoly #google #china #yahiko #chatbots #generative ai #bard #chatgpt #microsoft #innovation #psychoanalysis #google plus #pluralistic

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saenathra-nyx · 16 days

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I have zero doubt that there are people who would believe this.

#big popcorn #gemini #ai #tech #bard ai #google

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drgrlfriend · 1 year

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Let's call this one "dramatic irony"

Google: "I'll name this writing AI after people whose very survival depended on being compensated fairly for their storytelling..."

Every writer everywhere:

[edited gif used with very generous permission from @valdomarx]

#random #ai #artificial intelligence #google #bard #writing ai #i know it's not really dramatic irony don't at me #authors

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ralfmaximus · 1 year

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So, Google Bard is available to play with.

As the Enterprise gets closer, the crew can see that the sphere is covered in strange symbols. They try to communicate with the sphere, but they receive no response.

Suddenly, the sphere opens up, and a beam of light shoots out. The beam strikes the Enterprise, and the ship is knocked off course.

The crew tries to regain control of the Enterprise, but it is no use. The ship is being pulled towards the sphere.

As the Enterprise gets closer, the crew can see that the sphere is actually a portal. The portal leads to another dimension, a dimension of pure energy.

The Enterprise is sucked into the portal, and the crew finds themselves in a strange and alien world. The world is filled with strange creatures and plants, and the laws of physics seem to be different.

The crew of the Enterprise must find a way to survive in this strange new world. They must also find a way to get back to their own dimension.

The crew faces many challenges in this strange new world. They must battle dangerous creatures, solve complex puzzles, and make difficult choices. But through it all, they never give up hope.

In the end, the crew of the Enterprise is able to find a way to get back to their own dimension. They return home with a new understanding of the universe, and a new appreciation for their own world.

Huh. Not bad. Not great, just okay. A reasonable stab at a generic Star Trek story. Next iteration:

The Enterprise is a spaceship. It is big and it can go to space. The Enterprise has a crew. The crew is made of people. The people on the Enterprise are brave. They like to explore.

One day, the Enterprise found a strange thing. It was a big metal ball. The ball was in space. The Enterprise went to the ball.

The crew looked at the ball. They saw strange symbols on the ball. The crew tried to talk to the ball, but the ball did not talk back.

Suddenly, the ball opened up. A beam of light came out of the ball. The beam hit the Enterprise. The Enterprise was pushed away.

The crew tried to stop the Enterprise from moving, but they could not. The Enterprise was going to the ball.

The Enterprise got closer to the ball. The crew saw that the ball was a portal. The portal went to another place.

The Enterprise went through the portal. The crew found themselves in a new place. The new place was strange. There were strange creatures and plants. The laws of physics were different.

The crew had to find a way to survive in the new place. They also had to find a way to get back to their own place.

The crew had many adventures in the new place. They met strange creatures. They solved puzzles. They made choices.

The crew never gave up hope. They knew that they would find a way to get back home.

In the end, the crew found a way to get back home. They were happy to be home. They had learned a lot about the universe. They had also learned a lot about themselves.

The end.

Snort. Well met, Bard. Even a cute lil “The End” thrown in at the end, just like a 2nd grader. Next:

I am a portal. I am a doorway between worlds. I have been here for a long time, longer than anyone can remember. I have seen many things, both good and bad.

I have seen ships from other worlds come through me. I have seen people from other worlds come through me. I have seen creatures from other worlds come through me.

I have seen war and peace. I have seen love and hate. I have seen life and death.

I have seen everything, and I have learned a lot. I have learned that there is more to the universe than we can see. I have learned that there are other worlds out there, with other people and other creatures.

I have learned that we are not alone.

I am a portal, and I am a bridge between worlds. I am a symbol of hope and possibility. I am a reminder that there is more to the universe than we can see.

I am a portal, and I am a doorway to adventure.

Wow. That’s uh, kind of impressive. Finally:

Sure, here are the lyrics for the Love Boat as the story of the portal:

Verse 1

I am a portal, I am a doorway between worlds

I have been here for a long time, longer than anyone can remember

I have seen many things, both good and bad

Chorus

But I am a portal of love, I am a bridge between hearts

I am a symbol of hope and possibility

I am a reminder that there is more to the universe than we can see

Verse 2

I have seen ships from other worlds come through me

I have seen people from other worlds come through me

I have seen creatures from other worlds come through me

Chorus

But I am a portal of love, I am a bridge between hearts

I am a symbol of hope and possibility

I am a reminder that there is more to the universe than we can see

Bridge

I am a portal, I am a doorway to adventure

I am a place where dreams come true

I am a place where anything is possible

Chorus

I am a portal of love, I am a bridge between hearts

I am a symbol of hope and possibility

I am a reminder that there is more to the universe than we can see

Outro

So come on and take a journey with me

Through the portal of love

To a world of wonder and excitement

Where anything is possible

HOLY FORKING SHIRT THAT IS AMAZINGGGGG HOW HOWWWW

..this AI stuff is kind of scary.

#google #bard #ai #star trek

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