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Cake day: February 17th, 2026

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  • I’m not taking about hallucinations but examples where there are several pieces of info available on the same topic. I work in a heavily regulated industry and there was a huge piece of legislation four years ago that changed a lot of rules. There are several resources, including official government resources, that still reference old rules. LLMs don’t understand that and I see it produce inconsistent and incorrect results daily.

    The question is, the more you rely on LLMs are you going to be less able to identify those inaccuracies yourself? How would you even know. I don’t have a link but I’ve read studies where even minimal use has been shown to negatively affect our critical thinking skills.


  • I’ll bite.

    For search, it just summarizes top results. Depending on the topic, those search results can be outdated or on two different but related topics so that summary can be entirely inaccurate while sounding reasonable. We have to use it in my workplace and it happens at least daily.

    I’ll skip philosophy for a moment.

    Making funny images is just wasteful. The resources that AI uses for each prompt is insane so to use it for entertainment is a waste of those resources. The reason the AI companies allow models to do such things is because they understand that the majority of the general public will disregard all the harm that AI is doing and potentially could do if they can get their fill of entertaining slop. Regular social media exacerbates this by feeding those same people that slop as part of the algorithm.

    I’ll take the studying and philosophy together. Like the search, these rely on human work, which can become outdated. This can happen frequently depending on the topic and LLMs don’t seem capable yet of being able to navigate that as well as a human. If it feeds you incorrect info, even only slightly incorrect, you “learn” it wrong and then regurgitate that somewhere. It could be on social media. It could be in a thesis for university. As long as it is online somewhere, you can bet AI is training on that for the next person who uses it as a shortcut. As that cycle repeats itself, both we and the LLM just get dumber.


  • It’s like a baby step on the self hosting journey. Not as pure as Jellyfin but still a little better than Netflix. I paid for a Plex lifetime pass years ago, when they were still producing cool updates like DVR functionality for OTA broadcasts. I still run it but now Jellyfin is running alongside it with the intent of dropping Plex soon.