Also, I have yet to meet anybody who likes this stuff who isn’t fairly directly paid to do so.

I think 800M is simply too high.

I think it’s extremely unlikely to be true in the way it’s being presented by OP. Like @jum.bsky.social says it may be true if you count every time an app anywhere calls into ChatGPT. But Claude and Gemini are reporting much, much smaller user bases (20M) I’d expect ChatGPT to be higher but not 10x

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It’s not clear to me why a priest couldn’t do this (but very clear why one shouldn’t lol). But you’re under no obligation to accept a penance just because the priest suggests it; he has to wait for you to accept it to give absolution. (This is why good priests often ask if the penance is ok.)

To put it differently: if this is what they say, they should be able to prevent this from happening and they should have done so. If they cannot do so, then it isn’t what they say!

I don’t really think as a matter of principle that you should be able to sue a company because you believed the random text machine that it made was telling you to kill yourself but the problem for OpenAI is that they’re insistent that they’ve built God, not a random text machine.

This is particularly true in the realm of schools BTW. Vatican II put an end to the idea that Catholics had to send their kids to Catholic schools and so now the pitch to preserve them has universally become “the government is evil/incompetent.”

The entire Catholic culture industry for 30 years has been oriented around serving the Republican party and has only become more so in the last ten. There’s simply no evidence that there’s any money in resisting it.

Find me the Catholic institution that doesn’t rely on the “rent boys doing meth” crowd for money!

Your average rich Catholic is Leonard Leo

I think this is totally wrong

If you’ve ever run across the canard about how it’s called “Germany” in English and not “Deutschland,” that’s why: the German government’s position is that the country is called “Germany” in English.

That said I will never call it that. Unless they make me an ambassador or something and I have to.

There is an answer to this question: June 2022, when Erdogan asked the UN and other international organizations to do so. Countries very commonly have an official English-language version of their name and generally it is respected by diplomats for obvious reasons. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

They’re still making great phones; they simply aren’t improving them as drastically or quickly as they used to because they’ve basically figured out what a phone should be.

I used to buy a new phone every year and I stopped with the iPhone 15 (which is the one I currently have) not out of any matter of principle but because Apple hasn’t made it worth my while to upgrade ever since. Which, to be clear, I think is fine!

@ancientprawns.bsky.social Embrace Cabbage

Imagine what we’d be hearing if Michelle Obama said this. The Catholics would be crawling out of the woodwork to let us know that Michelle hates families and that’s why she’s harassing parents about controlling their children.