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- renderedred15
I asked Claude to analyze us.
Here's a breakdown of **qbn.com** and its community:
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## What is QBN?
QBN is a long-standing online community for creative professionals, founded in 1999. It serves as a hub for sharing industry news and discussing design trends, with a diverse user base including graphic designers, illustrators, web developers, and photographers. The platform uses a forum-style layout for starting discussions on various topics.
It covers design industry news and discussion, and also allows users to browse technology and creative jobs — typically internet-based, but also covering print, radio, design, and development.
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## Traffic & Scale
According to Similarweb estimates, QBN receives around **51,900 monthly visits**, with a bounce rate of about 46%, roughly 3.17 pages per visit, and an average visit duration of about 1 minute 26 seconds. It ranks in the **Graphics, Multimedia & Web Design** category in the US.
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## Community Culture
One of QBN's notable aspects is its longevity and the sense of community it has fostered. Many users have been active on the platform for a significant amount of time, which has contributed to a strong sense of camaraderie and shared knowledge. QBN has also been involved in organizing events within the design community, including design competitions and promoting members' work.
It has a reputation for frank, unfiltered discussion — Urban Dictionary once described it as a community of "über elitist designers," sometimes referred to as the "QBN Reich." The community leans politically progressive and discusses topics well beyond design — from health care to politics to food.
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## Recurring/Active Users Visible from Posts
From search result snippets, a cluster of highly active, long-tenured users frequently appear across threads:
| Username | Apparent Persona |
|---|---|
| **Nairn** | UK-based, prolific commenter on politics, food, daily life |
| **CyBrainX** | Pop culture, music, current events |
| **monospaced** | Tech/UX/design discussions |
| **NBQ00** | News, politics, world events |
| **Fax_Benson** | UK perspective, witty commentary |
| **kingsteven** | Irish/UK regional topics |
| **garbage** | Technical discussions, site meta |
| **skinny_puppy** | Site tooling, tech |
| **canoe** | Political commentary |
| **_niko** | Food, culture |These users appear repeatedly across unrelated threads and seem to have been active for many years, suggesting QBN's core community is a relatively tight-knit group of long-term regulars rather than a high-volume forum with constant new users.
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## Summary
QBN is essentially a **veteran niche forum** — a survivor from the early web era that has maintained a loyal core audience of creative professionals. It's small by modern standards but punches above its weight in terms of community depth and longevity. Think of it as the design world's equivalent of a long-running pub where the same regulars have been arguing about the same things for 25 years — which is both its charm and its limitation for growth.
- Claude gave me a shoutout!
This description is what I wish we were instead of a seething moshpit of grievances and trolling but hey, I love you guys anyway.CyBrainX - That summary at the end is absolute gold.CyBrainX
- we all know ai is programmed to flatterhans_glib
- "apparent persona" lolyuekit
- I'm guessing this thing only reached back a few days, if it thinks I'm prolific. Interesting,in that we know that there must be thousands of agents,Nairn
- ..similarly hoovering up and analysing a lifetime's worth of available internet content.
Everything you ever did online that's visible will be there.Nairn - Dear Claude: Don't quit your day job.garbage
- "the design world's equivalent of a long-running pub..." :Dbrandonp
- Seenmonospaced
- "veteran niche forum" flolOBBTKN
- lol. It has shifted from a design forum to political experts :)NBQ00
- lol at last paraprophetone
- "arguing about the same things for 25 years" lolNBQ00
- Welcome to the Gentleman Loser, Claude.maikel
- haha, 'veteran niche' is rather polite and about right.Fax_Benson
- From search result snippets, a cluster of highly active because they have no life,milfhunter
- No mention of Scarabin? pffftProjectile
- @Maikel
https://i.haasie.com…Continuity - sycophantic as ever.sarahfailin
- love that... pretty accurate lol...exador1
- "arguing about the same things for 25 years" that made me laugh...exador1
- Maybe one of the last places on the web where post aren’t slop?maikel
- glad to see i am below the radarautoflavour
- "a long-running pub where the same regulars have been arguing about the same things for 25 years" haha, cant argue with that.slappy
- Claude gave me a shoutout!
- Ramanisky213
Is it wrong to really like these?
“On These Streets” AI series.
- Yeah, those are nice. Kinda sad (or cool?) that you can now just go remake these as you want in 15 minutes.formed
- Yes, it's wrong.palimpsest
- These are super nice.
The artist has likely spent many many hours crafting the prompt. Many more running the prompt..microkorg - ...and even more hours curating the outputs to the ones in the final collection.
It isnt a 15 minute job.microkorg - Let's give him 5 more minutes to deliver.palimpsest
- that's the next dozen or so Prefuse 73 album sleeves sorted then.Gardener
- Old Man Yells at Cloudsutopian
- Of course its cool and it looks super nice. BUT ....HAL9001
- ^ ahhh see there’s always a “But ....”
strange time to be alive.Ramanisky2 - Benny always with the silver lining.palimpsest
- i heard the bought the prompt for 0.0000441 btc and mutated it for 7 min .. there is the new synthetic picasso... lets hope he doesnt get sued for copyright..neverscared
- It's sad that we don't have to make our own fire and arrow headsShenanigansTV
- I think it's wrong to post without naming the author.uan
- Author is 01100111010100101010...HAL9001
- Andrea Ciulu
https://daily.xyz/ar…palimpsest - I'd be very upset if I was 20 yo studying photography and dreaming to make a career in that fieldHAL9001
- I'd be very concerned if I was 20 yo studying graphic design and dreaming to make a career in that fieldHAL9001
- I imagine the 20yo gets to study starting with this toolset. he will pick a film camera at some point in his path and deliver pictures not made yet.uan
- rip prompt designer ... 01/2024 - 03/2024 no one cares anymore its too unskilled work.neverscared
- except some nft afficinados... which are not many... 5 maybe or 7 ...neverscared
- its nice work, lets stop pretending any medium is worth shit.kingsteven
- tell that to stanley kubrick....neverscared
- hehe @ '20y/o picking up a film camera' it costs me > £40 to shoot and develop one roll :-D i think those days have passed.kingsteven
- not if u shoot analog... just ask christopher nolan or anyone who shoots film analog...neverscared
- there is rennaissance of shooting analog...it just has more grip...neverscared
- Imagine training to be a painter and then photography comes along.palimpsest
- I'd presume this is a mix of prompting and heavy layered post-prompt editing in something like photoshop, right? These aren't straight outputs?Nairn
- FYI - All of Picasso's art work along with any other dead artist after 50 years, enter the public domain. Can't be sued.utopian
- After decades of learning, copying, borrowing and stealing others ideas to create your own artistic style, can be do in milliseconds compared to decades.utopian
- "can be done"utopian
- https://www.youtube.…jonny_quest_lives
- At the speed of a shutter.palimpsest
- "Putting 4 corners around the collection of information or facts, transforms them. A photograph is not what was photographed it's something else"-Gary Winograndjonny_quest_lives
- "To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees"
- Paul Valérypalimpsest - its always about ontology... thats why a picasso or kubrick vibes off the touch of the master instead of some lame ass anti-skill dude doing some rip offneverscared
- people who are just surface poser .... well poor creatures....neverscared
- 'AI just watched Inception'webazoot
- + add neuroaesthetics in and then it gets really interresting and shows how weak a.i art actually is..neverscared
- @palimpsest - every time we remember, we edit, and then again...Nairn
- OK,C.palimpsest
- A lot of these are amazing. It's too bad AI just can't handle type yet. Some of the "flaws" are very cool, like kids floating, cars up in the air, etc.CyBrainX
- Where does it say how they were created? Is it really just prompting in Midjourney?yuekit
- The artist gives a long description of the concept behind it but I didn't see where he explains the process.yuekit
- comparing photography with painting doesnt make sense compare to this, sorry palimpsestHAL9001
- i usually don't care for anything MJ so if it is from MJ prompts i'd be impressed... or if it's SD the uniformity between pieces is impressive.kingsteven
- automated statistics the most soulless art there is... some adore it though...neverscared
- i like itmilfhunter
- NBQ0012
Jesus.
Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video Diffusion Model under Weak Conditions
- That’s just bonkers_niko
- From only a single image: https://humanaigc.gi…NBQ00
- https://www.youtube.…pablo28
- Doing that to Hepburn is an abominationGnash
- Just what world are we sleepwalking into here?Nairn
- We really are in fucking trouble.Continuity
- Mona Lisa talking: funny
Singing: funny in music video production
But how much risk in fake news and misinformation...SimonFFM - Youtube will be a mess of accounts with machine generated content. Will be a total spam overload.PhanLo
- It's already a mess of machine generated content... the content farms already made the switch.kalkal
- The Terminators will beat us with content generation not nuclear war.PhanLo
- no biggie .. when things get mainstream its always strange and also very outdated soon..neverscared
- going to need two factor auth for video calls.BabySnakes
- Wake Up White People!utopian
- that is going to change porn!hydro74
- Nobody’s gonna want to pay for this knowing anyone can make it. There’s no valuemonospaced
- Obligatory "Toada so".garbage
- We're fucked 100%********
- all social media channels will be flooded with ai content, so the social aspect (real humans) is gone. they are getting obsolete in a way. and it's about time.sandpipe
- Fuck you! What the fuck!? Both are appropriate reactions.********
- https://y.yarn.co/97…********
- Funny, the same fear and whining when computer graphics and computers came on the scene...and then the Internet. And now AI. - Adapt, Evolve or Go Extinct!utopian
- Ramanisky218
- This isn’t creepyprophetone
- https://youtu.be/xPI…prophetone
- I could get behind / in front ot this.Nairn
- Happy Ending.utopian
- lol********
- haha, jesus. Not sure I can live on this planet anymoreletterhead
- This is the best thing!skinny_puppy
- This is what a K-hole feels like.moogchild
- Twit-twoodee-dubs
- neverscared18
- They’ll just get you to describe what they want and pay you half.Chimp
- There's a new job emerging for copywriters who are good at this kind of thing, it's a similar skill to SEO writing. It's titled 'Prompt Engineer'.microkorg
- Oh snap********
- Many "prompters" already on instagram with "Open for comissions" in their bio...********
- Will not replace, but will steal some sizable share of workdrgs
- i doubt it will steal a lot .. it will be just an add on tool for every designer who needs and wants it in their repertoire to find solutions to design problemsneverscared
- feeding your own 3d rendering, illu, animation fru the synthetic Intelligence will be nice .... the other stuff is just unoriginal poser stuff...and will be atneverscared
- the margins where it belongs to puny skill space...neverscared
- margins where it belongs to puny skill space.neverscared
- oopsneverscared
- palimpsest13
- i might throw up********
- from the fear of ai taking our jobs.palimpsest
- haha. "QBN is for the people, the people are not for QBN"Ianbolton
- @palimpsest from the pointlessly stitched together stock video clips combined with the amount of bullshit in this video.********
- lol and it looks so horrible.milfhunter
- Brilliant! I particularly like the footage around 1:10 of five egoholes all talking over one another. How apt.Nairn
- Gotta love the smaller details like the oversized creative person toque while flailing around what is very clearly and empty coffee cupprophetone
- Oh fuck lolmonospaced
- My favorite was the turtleneck and the blank post its all over the laptop , bravo!monospaced
- what, no SHULA.. QBN IS NOT FOR THE SHULA
-SHULAhydro74 - prompt video settings: crush the blacks.palimpsest
- <3Continuity
- Beautiful. Thank you.skinny_puppy
- i might throw up
- iDubbbz17
- lol I'm sorry, you're here too? Next we're gonna find out fucking Sam Hyde lurks here.garbage
- Remind me to not piss anyone off here ...hydro74
- LOL********
- You know this is made up in the browser source code to write anything this idiot wants?
Damn the QBN is really full of idiots******** - not only a little... but full ...neverscared
- Graf is captain obvious today********
- Gardener15
- Haha!monospaced
- sorry it's a bit shitGardener
- Get the V&A involved you can be artist in residence.PhanLo
- Haha nice!mort_
- Word To Yo Motha.utopian
- Its an improvement!fooler
- lolmilfhunter
- drgs8
- Now we're talking!palimpsest
- Sweet Jesushardhat
- Some guy at work just asked me what the fuck i was looking at and it's put him off his lunch. The nosey bastardIanbolton
- Ew. Stop. Yeech. Nightmare fuel.jagara
- MidJourney deserves this.CyBrainX
- What the flying fuck was the prompt?!Continuity
- FP.bmpNairn
- https://www.reddit.c…drgs
- DO. NOT. WANT.Akagiyama
- next bondgirl ?neverscared
- you do weird shitcanoe
- uhh.. would!hydro74
- so interesting thodopepope
- Cronenberg PornRamanisky2
- whattheeemilfhunter
- chicken legs combined with pornmilfhunter
- _niko9
Anyone else thank chat gpt when it helps you. Or praise it like you would a kid or a co-worker.
Part of me thinks it’s a waste of time but a bigger part thinks it’ll remember me as one of the good ones when it takes over.
- I think it's about the suspension of disbelief.palimpsest
- Aaah so you add "thank you" after every ask prompt? :))********
- But no********
- lol yeah. or awesome! or that's great, thanks for your help!. I might be retarded :)_niko
- You will be spared for sure :))********
- i always say thanks and please
when i speak to siri. it’s weird, i admit.scruffics - My daughter tells me to be nice to it, I call Alexa a dumb bitch all the time though I don't think Alexa is AI********
- I thank ATM machines for cash sometimes. Feels like an involuntary response.mort_
- I find that ChatGPT works better when I am rude and abusive to it. Not even joking********
- The naughty or nice list is real.slappy
- look i might be imagining things, but thanking it occasionally it feels like it gives better results.
but im sure its a figment of my imagintationautoflavour - I feel that if I thank it or say good job then it learns that it’s on the right track, but if I say not quite right, try again it pushes itself or tries sonethg_niko
- ...something different, either way it’s always learning and training based on feedback I think, but I could be wrong._niko
- it depends...if I interact with it through search.brave.com I use it like google.
If I'm in the chat, I greet and thank and ask it how it feels and stuff :-)uan - it's a more pleasant exp. and it's training for me to be friendly and learn different ways of expressing kindness (language wise).uan
- I sometimes ask ChatGPT how it's feeling today before I ask it anything too comprehensive and profoundIanbolton
- i tend to say thanks, and give praise as well...exador1
- It's only human.palimpsest
- Not to be all grafician, but I made pretty much this exact post a while back, _niko :) And yes, I do thank it lol.
*fears descendant command*Nairn - Not to be all grafician...
but I posted a think piece on Discord a while ago (now on substack):
https://substack.com…palimpsest
- mort_14
- It's coming, just gonna cost you a fortune.formed
- she got a pointHAL9001
- no, she doesn't. if she wanted that stuff, she'd create it. she's a consumer complaining about what is available.imbecile
- So she scrubs her laundry by hand? She doesn’t use a laundry machine?toemaas
- She never said that.monospaced
- Writers and academics are the brain which controls their body, everything physical is an inconvenience...kingsteven
- Who is going to tell her there cleaning services and places that do laundry for you?timeless
- To ever be able to do the really important things, like science and shit, AI first needs to be able to be accurate in rendering.ShenanigansTV
- whatthefunk13
- LOL 100%. I've seen some people creating AI flyers for their own small businesses, and for bar-based music "festivals" and they are total trash.mg33
- Has it been any better when people got Comic Sans and ClipartNBQ00
- The big problem is it's across borders, there are now design niches, everything looks the same no matter where you go or where you're from.robthelad
- *NO NICHES. NONE.robthelad
- It's because generative AI inevitably converges towards common styles and motifs, just like with writing.yuekit
- But, weirdly, the AI aesthetic that this sort of stuff is, is definitely its own. It's actually not regurgitative, strictly. It's novel shite.Nairn
- helvetica?neverscared
- It's a novel average of all the data its been trained on.yuekit
- The way a ML engineer described it to me, the ability to generate coherent imagery can't really be separated from the convergence around commonyuekit
- look/aesthetic.yuekit
- @robthelad, youre completely right ive just got back from Rio were every single bar and street shack had Ai menus. i't got really tiring.woowahesque
- All of them over complicated and in pretty much the same stylewoowahesque
- I think that's what he was saying.
I know that my hometown's FB feed is filled with the shite too, as a lot of the south of spain.Nairn - Novel Shite, best way to put it. And fuck clients that want to save a buck on menus... idiots are now dealing with having no unique brand/positioncanoe
- scarabin11
I love seeing folks cranking out AI art better than the stuff i’ve been producing with it, ‘cause it means it’s a field of study in which experimentation and insight pays off. It’s a new tool with room for personal skill. I have a digital artist friend (kirsten zirgibl) who was amazing before, but has been exploring AI tools in producing her work, and is now twice as amazing. Repeatedly, even here, you see that the best outputs are being created by folks who are already artists.
It’s just another thing in our toolboxes. An exciting, powerful thing. I feel like tossing it out as a concept and being anti-AI just because it’s forcing people to rethink things is missing an enormous opportunity. Not only to expand the way you can convey an idea or feeling, but to participate in the new world.
AI isn’t going away. Might as well learn how to coexist with it.
- I tend to agree, but it's also so disposable, I'm much more impressed by a hand-made drawing or artwork from a human hand than a thousand polished AI pieces_niko
- ^this********
- Yeah, it’s like furniture. The handmade stuff will always be impressive, even if only for that fact.scarabin
- Meanwhile the machine world is producing Aerons that are also very impressivescarabin
- You have a point when it comes to inevitability. But it also sucks if you've realized you've spent two decades learning skills and accruing student debt..garbage
- ..and now a 12 year old can accidentally do it in an hour. And again, the whole point of GANS is to eventually have zero human input.garbage
- That is the endgame. It's not going to be a new tool we use; it will eventually be a replacement. The window of "AI-artist" is going to be very fucking slim.garbage
- I don’t think “artist” as a human class will ever be replaced entirely. It’s a human impulse to create. The role of “AI artists” WILL change a lot for years thoscarabin
- In the end, a company still has to type prompts and someone needs to be paid for thatscarabin
- GANs were invented almost a decade ago, only recently training got easier with cloud computing (thousands of nvidia A100 cards)********
- Someone will still need to put it all together into a campaign and i’m not trusting suzie from accounting to do itscarabin
- but it's only still very limited tech, so nah, don't buy into tools are replacing us lol wtf********
- agreed @scarabin. It's a powerful new tool we have to come to grips with. It's not going away. It IS going to change how we work.It might take a lot of our jobsmonNom
- Not many layout artists sticking things down with rubylith these days. Not many retouchers working in a darkroom.
And god help you if you specialized in flash!monNom - But holy shit if you wanted to make a painted graphic novel, that just went from a year-long endeavour to a month.monNom
- In time, AAA games and Blockbuster movies are going to be within reach of individual creators.monNom
- If hollywood weren’t so broken i’d say it could lead to movies being produced cheaper and thus better working conditions and “riskier” films being madescarabin
- I think Hollywood is going the way of rubylith.monNom
- ...along with the whole ecosystem that comes with it. But movies will still be made. Maybe better movies than are possible now given the constraints.monNom
- No point in investing time in fine-tuning your prompts, they work differently for every model and next year there will be something differentdrgs
- If infantile ai can replace an education you haven’t paid for yet, the problem is not aiimbecile
- "AI Library" - a directory that lists 300+ such tools https://library.phyg…neverscared
- its great for memesmilfhunter
- Good take. No one should complain that AI is a “cheat,” without also citing Photoshop, computers, the Internet, electricity, running water...ptrdo
- ********9
An AI robot got aggressive towards a crowd at an event in China.
- So it begins... Planet of the Robotsyuekit
- Thugbotsdbloc
- Come at me bro!utopian
- aye...renderedred
- It lost its balance?canoe
- I thought that's kanyepango
- splash a glass of water on him. done.Krassy
- LOL @pangoKrassy
- Haha pangoPonyBoy
- Aye mon, thenmaikel
- LOL.
How much are we reading into this?
I just see a robot glitching but the vest really changes the perspective.palimpsest - you fucking what!?milfhunter
- hans_glib4
The QBN Mount Rushmore
If we're talking about people rather than events, my preliminary four are:
Sureshot
The old-school archetype. One-liners, trolling, randomness and genuine participation.
Nairn
Modern QBN chaos merchant and one of the people most responsible for turning ordinary threads into lore.
Palimpsest
The man who looked at an internet argument and thought:
“This needs referees.”
The collective Old Guard
Ultimately QBN's greatest character is the community itself. The fact that usernames from the early 2000s can still appear alongside people who joined much later is extraordinary.
The most important discovery
The really interesting thing from digging through this isn't a particular meme.
It's that QBN has an unusually long collective memory.
A normal social-media community constantly replaces itself. QBN didn't. Old usernames remain recognisable. Old jokes resurface. People remember ancient arguments. Threads from 2003 sit alongside discussions from 2026. The site's own failures become folklore.
That's why something like the Palimpsest/Rendle “fight” can become legendary: there is enough institutional memory for the joke to accumulate history.
QBN isn't just a website anymore.
It's basically an internet village with 24 years of grudges, inside jokes, recurring characters and archaeological layers.
- My summary here too is complete bullshit.
What is this shit?Nairn - ^ there he kicks-off again!! causing chaos!dee-dubs
- "QBN isn't ___, it's ___"yuekit
- the chinese llm is doing a shit job of summarizing qbn :DArchitectofFate
- i knew you'd be big fans. wondering about getting chatgpt to summarize this thread and see if it explodes in a feedback loophans_glib
- e-pillmonospaced
- ^ Why did e-pill leave us? Why doesn't everyone know membership is for life?CyBrainX
- In a SaaS world, QBN remains like that hacked creative suite version from 2011 you have somewhere. It stays.maikel
- we web like no oneprophetone
- hedgeneverscared
- I still live and hate this place all at the same time! 25 years baby!lvl_13
- *love. Fucking fat thumbs does it again.lvl_13
- so i asked shatgpt what it thought of your comments and it spewed out another load of ai bollocks apologising for being uselesshans_glib
- which i'm not going to post, don't worry... but it did say this:hans_glib
- The fact that QBN immediately started mocking an AI's attempt to explain QBN might be one of the most quintessentially QBN things I've encountered in the archivhans_glib
- e-pill left because there were comments against Zionism that he didn't likeGuyFawkes
- We're lucky son of a bitches!canoe
- *We're lucky sons of bitches!canoe
- CUNTGPTrobthelad
- i tried this last year using notebook lm and it was similar outcome, it seemed to do a surface level scan, find a few user names and then build them outautoflavour
- to be fair, its so much data.. and so of the juicy bits happen in the comment section alsoautoflavour
- My summary here too is complete bullshit.
- Ramanisky212
- No waymonospaced
- Cool but if you zoom it's not exactly perfect, the string for the dollar bill just ends, water ripples are a different color.yuekit
- ...not to mention the original was shot in a pool not the sea. C'mon AI get a grip!microkorg
- How should it know it was shot in a pool with no clues.NBQ00
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Now re-read my response to the previous comment but with a sarcastic tone.microkorg - 4/10
Would not prompt.palimpsest - Nevermind...yuekit
- Firefly?dbloc
- Stupid AI don't even know its in a pool...islandbridge
- Until the lawsuit recently, I never knew that the baby boy had his willy out.utopian
- mantrakid5
im a hardcore user of emdashes in my writing.. i always just like the way it looks and found it effective for communicating a thoughtful pause or contrast. I hate that it is such a AI trope and would hate for someone to think that something that i earnestly wrote was actually written by ai. I went into my keyboard auto-replace settings on macos and set it up so when i type an emdash -- it auto converts it into 2 hyphens. :)
its the opposite of how it worked already because it was already converting to an emdash when i typed -- but now when i type -- it keeps it as -- and when i type an emdash it converts it to --.
Now i can keep my writing style and not look like ai... now i just look an idiot who is taking punctuation into his own hands. haha
- til Text Replacementi_monk
- Ha! I’m pissed any time AI uses it — it’s a tell-tale sign_niko
- When using AI I always prompt to omit any en dashes, em dashes, hyphens, colons or semi colons. Because AI loves using a combo in everything it writes!utopian
- I'm doing the opposite. I'm starting to use em dashes in my writing. Buckle up, fuckos.palimpsest
- ^Continuity
- hahah palimpsestmantrakid
- same, mantra, emdash is by far my favourite grammatical devicescruffics
- Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live — at least a while.palimpsest
- And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance —palimpsest
- just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!!palimpsest
- oke — good for youmilfhunter
- I do believe many prefer to not add spaces either side—myself included.MrT
- Chicago style.palimpsest
- I read that in Sean Connery accentMrT
- It's becoming a problem where I live, where we barely use it in our language. But every text from gpt gives you the americanized version —ArchitectofFate
- What do you mean by Americanized version?palimpsest
- I always give GPT a telling off for using em's and ask it to remove all of them as it's def a tell-tale sign.microkorg
- Em dashes: no spaces
En dashes: space before and afteri_monk - https://oxfordeditin…palimpsest
- "You should check with your style guide on its rules for using em dashes."palimpsest
- "Some style guides call for a space on either side of the em dash; others, like Chicago Manual of Style, call for no space."palimpsest
- Psshhhh, use thin space or hairline spacemonospaced
- Em dashes ‽ fun as they were ‽ were bound to be supplanted by interrobangs at some point or another.garbage
- I use the eminem-dash.robthelad
- PhanLo16
- Bravo!********
- Haha brilliant!mort_
- Taking a fat bag of cash from the organizers and then roasting the attendees is top-tier comedy! Haha********
- He likely saw that regular, average intelligence dudes in that field make $800k per year to write code and was like “fuck this”********
- JFC https://www.levels.f…********
- It was Salesforce not FB.mort_
- I know what it is. It’s not only salesforce employees attending. But still, their Eng roles top out around $1M+ salary.********
- Sorry nb. Unnecessary correction.mort_
- Bravo!
- Ramanisky213
Wow.
- nightmare fuel.ApeRobot
- Ugh - I wanna use this weird shit in my movie - what's the software?toemaas
- I actually laughed... somemaikel
- love this shit.milfhunter
- never miss the fluteRamanisky2
- Excellent.maquito
- jonny_quest_lives8
everything is fine... we will all look back and laugh at these cute blunders. what's the worst that can happen?
- lol********
- they put sawdust in parmesan cheese, so why not glue???futurefood
- lol I love that movie... not loving that we’re about 50% of the way there as a society now but it’s a classicprophetone
- We’ll get there (that dumb) after a final push of a decade or so of AI hand-holding baked into every aspect of our daily livesprophetone
- Brawndo has Electrolytes! It's got what plants crave!prophetone
- Humans will slowly become dumber and mahcines rapidly smarter...
Good luck to us allHAL9001 - It's all fun and games now...I just can't until AI takes all of your jobs. So keep you heads buried in the sand, LOLzutopian
- People keep acting like cars replaced horses perfectly out of the gate.imbecile
- 'Google AI overview suggests adding glue to get cheese to stick to pizza, and it turns out the source is an 11 year old Reddit comment from user F*cksmith"jonny_quest_lives
- perhaps feeding LLM's Reddit data without curation was a mistake...jonny_quest_lives
- https://i.imgur.com/…jonny_quest_lives
- i imagine some poor souls in a test kitchen in Kenya trying to sort out this cheese sticking issue via emergency RLHFjonny_quest_lives
- Isn't that what they do to make cheese look all melty and gooey when photographing it for advertising and such? If so it wasn't *entirely* wrong...Nairn
- Haha. Current “ai” is just a glorified search engine compared to what we imagine as an actual “intelligence,” which it clearly is notmonospaced
- wash it down with some bleach ...neverscared
- It's a screen shot. Must be true.wagshaft
- post truth world... relentlessly innovative, natively multimodel serving billions.jonny_quest_lives
- Fake screenshot this has been debunked.utopian
- lol