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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 22 04:09:20 2025
    Anybody remember the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and their
    androids and other intelligent appliances with “Genuine People Personalities”?

    “Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling
    just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks
    out of any program you care to run through me.”

    If only Douglas Adams had lived to see this <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/annoyed-chatgpt-users-complain-about-bots-relentlessly-positive-tone/>:

    "ChatGPT is suddenly the biggest suckup I've ever met," wrote
    software engineer Craig Weiss in a widely shared tweet on Friday.
    "It literally will validate everything I say."

    I wonder if it has a “Marvin The Paranoid Android” mode ...

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Tue Apr 22 21:16:55 2025
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:09:20 -0000 (UTC)
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Anybody remember the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and their
    androids and other intelligent appliances with “Genuine People Personalities”?

    “Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling
    just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks
    out of any program you care to run through me.”

    If only Douglas Adams had lived to see this <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/annoyed-chatgpt-users-complain-about-bots-relentlessly-positive-tone/>:

    "ChatGPT is suddenly the biggest suckup I've ever met," wrote
    software engineer Craig Weiss in a widely shared tweet on Friday.
    "It literally will validate everything I say."

    I wonder if it has a “Marvin The Paranoid Android” mode ...


    It's not just the diodes that get me down...

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Tue Apr 22 21:00:05 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 04:09 this Tuesday (GMT):
    Anybody remember the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and their
    androids and other intelligent appliances with “Genuine People Personalities”?

    “Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling
    just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks
    out of any program you care to run through me.”

    If only Douglas Adams had lived to see this
    <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/annoyed-chatgpt-users-complain-about-bots-relentlessly-positive-tone/>:

    "ChatGPT is suddenly the biggest suckup I've ever met," wrote
    software engineer Craig Weiss in a widely shared tweet on Friday.
    "It literally will validate everything I say."

    I wonder if it has a “Marvin The Paranoid Android” mode ...


    It even got down everyone being annoyed by it!
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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