Jim Goodwin needs a haircut. #fact

just a causal #reminder that as much as grown, #consenting #adults are allowed to engage with and post #kink content, you are just as allowed to unfollow & block anyone who posts #topics you are uncomfortable with. as a matter of #fact it is encouraged for you to do so.

Some haircuts just don't work IRL. #Fact

Flicking your hair back while holding a fork with bean juice on it does NOT make you more attractive. #fact

#Neoliberalism is, in itself, an #extremist #movement, and I think more #people need to understand that as a basic #fact

Wherever Kris Boyd is now, he’s just had a text from Chris Sutton that was a full screen of “Hahahahahaha fat boy! Hahahahahahah! #fact #ScottishFitba

Our General Knowledge Quiz in G is now live!
This week we challenge you in our general knowledge quiz with each answer starting with the letter G.
https://youknowwhatblog.com/quizzes/general-knowledge-quiz-in-g/
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#pubquiz #pubtrivia #quiz #trivia #triviaquestions #fact #facts #didyouknow #youknowwhat #hard #hardmode #challenge

On "AI"...

I finally had an opportunity to personally evaluate the output of an #LLM that was asked to do a technical evaluation / summary of the state of an industry. A friend asked a modern model about a particular #technical field and asked it to summarize various aspects of it. It happened to involve supercomputing, which I have some knowledge of, and he asked me to look at the answer it gave.

It was a detailed writeup, a little over 1300 words. It had the structure of the kind of document he'd asked it to create, with appropriate sections, headers, with the information divided up sensibly, etc. It very much sounded like the type of thing you would expect a computer science #expert to respond with if asked the same question.

But some of the specific points in the answers were obviously wrong to me. Some I suspected were wrong. Some I didn't know. So I checked. I didn't check every fact and figure, but a decent number of them - and every single one I checked was flat-out wrong. It gave specific numbers or attributes for many aspects of the state of the #tech, and they were all wrong. Sometimes badly #wrong, and some stupendously wrong.

There were only a couple of things in the text that were obviously inconsistent, so unless you happened to already know something about the subject, there was almost no hint of how incorrectly it stated the facts. And of course it sounded supremely confident.

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"every #antimasker is a #nazi and deserves to be treated as such
The #fact that y'all waste so much time & energy attempting to #rehabilitate #nazis shows y'all only care about the #eugenics of #COVID bc it affects y'all & y'all want to (re)join the nazis"

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchotahdigism/792337164257148928/every-antimasker-is-a-nazi-and-deserves-to-be

All butterflies are moths.
Not all moths are butterflies.
#fact

#ProjectComprova, a collaborative #fact-checking initiative in #Brazil, has abandoned the labels “false,” “misleading,” “satire,” and “proven” in its verifications and adopted a broader approach to combating #misinformation.

“We realized that simply refuting allegations is not enough.” — José Antonio Lima, Project Comprova assistant editor

https://gijn.org/stories/brazilian-fact-check-site-shifts-strategy-fight-misinformation/