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   Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 18:33:38 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

   "Has your favorite AI chatbot driven you nuts yet?"

   https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19218

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     Jay (jaystephens@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 18:53:51 JST Jay

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     @bruces
     Q5. Oof.

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     Richard Hyde (richardhyde@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 20:21:45 JST Richard Hyde

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     @bruces No. I asked it and it said I'm not nuts.....yet

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     Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 23:17:00 JST Andreas K

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     @bruces 1. daily
     2. absolutely. These things are worthless without careful usage, and that involves generally a) using the correct app for the task b) if necessary fine-tuning
     3. generally no, my profs have forced me to do forward and backward propagations of neural nets by hand during exams, so I do realize that they are only mimicry. Does using the coding agents as a permanent duck count?
     4. No I stick for that to my doctor and my wife ;)
     5. No. If want to be stickler, I do use it as my