OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he’s open to a “tasteful” form of advertising in ChatGPT.

I don’t know if others would agree, but I don’t believe there even is a way to make an invasive ad “tasteful.” Unsolicited ads in a conversation give me the same slimy vibe as unsolicited advice, except worse. Advice-givers usually intend the best for the person they’re advising, and sometimes back down when they realize their advice was unwanted. Meanwhile, ad-givers have no sense of embarassment to stop them when what they say isn’t helpful, and crucually, they have a clear profit motive corrupting the usefulness of their suggestions.

Like most AI models, Alexa+ is not immune to hallucinations. Before advertisers agree to make Alexa+ a spokesperson for their products, Amazon may have to come up with some ways to ensure that its AI will not offer false advertising for a product.

Lol have fun with that.

I think making an honest attempt to reduce the harm you do to living beings is better than nothing

It sounds like you get it. That’s the real vegan philosophy: regardless of one’s reason for choosing the lifestyle, the point isn’t to be perfect - it’s to do the best you can to reduce harm. Sometimes we have no choice - car tires require gelatin, a prescribed medicine may contain lactose, and of course all the animals that might get hurt incidentally through production or transportation of food plants. None of us can perfectly control everything, but there are a lot of things that we can make choices about. Those are the choices that matter.

To be fair, that sounds like something a legit person would argue. Veganism as a topic is strongly influenced by Poe’s Law - people are bound to think you’re serious, because they’ve heard stupider things being argued in sincerity.

I’ve been asked which ingredient in butter comes from an animal. I’ve been offered chicken, and had to gently respond that chickens aren’t plants. I’ve been told that plants scream on an ultrasonic level when they’re cut and therefore eating plants is just as bad as eating animals (so much to unpack there.) And almost everyime, I wished I could’ve responded, “Dude, I’m just trying to eat my lunch,” but ended up having to educate people between each bite.

It’s just too hard to out-stupid reality sometimes.

Awww, they must have created their own little loveseat.

We’ve gotta get our daily dose of microplastics.

It sounds like a classic white savior complex to me.

Excellent question, btw.

EA has created such a terrible reputation for itself. I like The Sims, but I learned long ago not to get any add-ons until after it’s been out for a while and people have made reviews about them. There are some packs, like the High School Years pack, where persistent, unsolved bugs make key elements of the pack unplayable. That pack came out three years ago and still hasn’t been fixed, and I’m not getting it until/unless those issues become resolved… which they probably never will be.

They still try to shove ads in your face multiple times on start up (and embedded a fucking shopping cart symbol to a menu that’s visible during game play… which fucking pulses until you click on it.) Hey EA, if you want my money so bad, how about you fix your shit to make it worth my money? No amount of obnoxious ads will convince me to buy something unplayable.

That sounds so cute. Would you mind paying the Duck Tax?

One of them decided to sit in the empty rind after they were done and laid an egg in it

Wait, really? The rest of your comment sounds sincere, but this is so absurd that I genuinely can’t tell if this happened or if you’re just being funny.

Half cut seedless grapes

Note: if you choose to feed grapes to ducks in a public place, please be courteous about any that may fall on the ground or be left uneaten. Grapes are dangerous for dogs and aren’t good for cats either, but some will absolutely eat them if they’re left around.

Lmao. Oh no, the pixels in the shape of a ham hock are suffering!

I’m vegetarian but I don’t even like playing vegetarian Sims. I mean, it’s cool to be included, but I already have to navigate menus to find specific foods IRL. I don’t want to have to do it in a game.

I am just like the above poster. I have no tattoos for the same reasons. But sometimes, I think about getting some kind of simple picture(s) with just bold black lines put on my left arm. That way, I can change it up if I feel like it. Also, I’ll always have something to color when I’m bored.

Hear hear! I couldn’t have put it better myself.

This would be a lot more meaningful if she did that old trope and straight-up switched places with someone for the day. Eat what they would’ve eaten, travel how and where they would have traveled, stay where they would have stayed, and have the same amount of daily spending money they would normally have had (and if that number’s zero, welp, guess it’s good she’s such a hard worker. I’m sure she she’ll be fine.)

Dear Ms. Mah,
It’s nice to want to understand what it’s like to be a poor person, but you know what would actually help poor people? Sharing a bit of that excess you clearly enjoy. Come back and brag after you do a bit of that, then maybe we could talk.

Sincerely,
Economy-flying, home-cooking, subway riders.

I’d probably just give ridiculous tips to the places that I already go to. But eh, to each their own.

If I wanted to see someone bragging about their accomplishments, I’d just look at this:

I’d even posit that this otter has contributed more to society than anybody on Linkedin.

Fixed. I must have hit an extra 1 into the converter.

Lmao. Thank you, fixed.

That absolutely sucks. Though thinking about it, the vaccine had only just come out when I was already an adult. It’s possible I was “grandfathered in” because the opportunity wasn’t there when I was younger.

Yet there are so many kids with anti-vaxxer parents, it doesn’t seem right to deny the opportunity to young adults who finally have the chance to make their own health decisions. There’s no reason an 18 year old should be assumed to automatically be exposed to HPV. A lot of people are still virgins then. It’s such bullshit how much power insurance companies wield, despite them knowing far less than a patient’s own doctor knows.

Even the boys I knew in high school already had messed up ideas about sex from porn, and that was 20 years ago.

I never got into visual porn, which made for confusing experiences dating guys who knew little else, in my teens and early 20s. Aside from the obvious confusion that brought to the bedroom about what we were expecting, it was surprising how many guys had perfectly wonderful bodies yet thought they were inadequate. One guy had a 8.5" (21cm)* long dick and still thought it wasn’t big enough. I told him, “Dude, you repeatedly stab my cervix. Trust me, you’re big enough.”

It seems that dick insecurity is really common, and that no one size is immune, no matter what partners tell them.