This but unironically. What was once a marvel is now mundane.

Modern skyscrapers are built with base isolation and mass dampening to make them resistant to earthquakes. Have you seen recent cargo ships? Warehouses? They are great and awful in every sense of both words.

That's excellent! I'm with you and agree that we're the minority.

The center point of dialogue on this topic isn't about Google specifically though. It's addressing the rug pull of the internet we were sold on while it was being built, and enshittification more generally. Not merely its possibility or even inevitability within capitalism but that the enshittification of everything is being normalized while the internet the public built is being stripped for parts by robber-barons.

So much so that industries built around norms, and all of the labor and jobs within them, are being lost. Even setting ideals aside for a moment: the harm that brings to the lives of working class people is immense. A minor apocalypse with long-term consequences all for short-term gains for a scant few over a handful of financial quarters. The beast is eating itself in real-time.

Even for those who champion it the reality of the situation is sour at best.

Your guess is as good as mine. I can imagine low-effort workflows. They would still require set up / config. The functional return, as I understand it, is nil.

Correct. Also a fascist huckster.

They are laboring under the delusion that modified spelling stymies the use of their writing as LLM training data.

It doesn't. But it does garner attention (which is, I suspect, the real reason for their behavior).

Worked ok for me! Some of the visual elements/gags didn't work as intended but the game was perfectly playable.

Irrelevant in the face of established cannon. If you're going to make an in-universe argument then you have to stay inside the magic circle while making it.

This is like arguing Star Trek wrap drives wouldn't work because our current understanding of physics means Alcubierre drives are impossible to operate. You're applying a real-world understanding to a fictional universe that has written that part of reality away (for whatever reason).

The only point such an argument makes is that the arguer is ignorant of the source material.

I've seen the evidence of the bird's home and, while compelling, I remain unconvinced this is an owl.

Have you happened to observe the beast hunting, capturing prey, or eating? Presenting that evidence may clear things up for me.

You don't understand because you're either not paying attention or because you're trolling.

Random would be output like this:

Ostrich maypole dandy ironic. Great cucumber zebra!

Or this:

fhsjarbskzkdbsjzb kOdbg zkakfiebwkl

Random would be a password generator. Random would be utter nonsense. Incoherent. That's not what LLMs produce.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I agree that LLMs do not understand what it is they are predicting. At least no more than any other computer program "understands" its output. Which is to say: they are not conscious beings experiencing things.

This doesn't mean LLM output is random. It means they aren't thinking persons. You may have confused random with non-deterministic. LLMs are complex guessing machines that require a fudge-factor to produce meaningfully useful output. If the guesses were fully random then they'd have a significantly narrower field of practical applications.

Which means this image has to be of an enthusiast's collection because Crystal Pepsi was only manufactured '92-'94 (and again briefly in 2016 and then again as a batch of 300 in 2022 during a promotional / competition).

It's like a 90s themed couch potato weekend for time travelers.

Plucking the feathers out of your teeth.