weren’t you also here having shitty opinions like a week ago?

e: yes

the term of art is “residential proxy” and there’s a ton of them

for example: it’s the flipside of Bright’s free VPN service - through Bright Data they sell people access proxied via some user’s connection

yes, you can match on user agent, and then conditionally serve them other stuff (most webservers are fine with this). nepenthes and iocaine are the current preferred/recommended servers to serve them bot mazes

the thing is that the crawlers will also lie (openai definitely doesn’t publish all its own source IPs, I’ve verified this myself), and will attempt a number of workarounds (like using residential proxies too)

I hadn’t encountered either the Howard person nor heard of this podcast, but imma find that episode and listen because it sounds like quite an experience!

the Russian Exit, a classic

as a lot can be learned from trying to fix weird bugs

a truism, but not one I believe many of our esteemed promptfuckers could appreciate

citation

and here I was graciously giving the promptfuckers a choice

for anyone that finds this thread in the future: “check if vga@sopuli.xiz contributed to this codebase” is an easy hack for this test

since you’re married to not fucking getting it

…tempting me to come up with a new word

thank you for your belief in me, that’s so cool! you barely even know me! so cool to have people support people!

I’d still prefer concrete and precise technical detail though

many of the proponents of things in this field will propose/argue $x thing to be massively valuable for $x

thing is, that doesn’t often work out

yes, there’s some value in the tech for translation outcomes. to anyone even mildly online, “so are language teaching apps/sites using this?” is probably a very nearby question. and rightly so!

and then when you go digging into how that’s going in practice, wow fuck damn doesn’t that Glorious AI Future sheen just fall right off…

…wat

also, unless extraneous circumstance, please don’t clip their display of abusive nonsense

I bet they’d just haaaate it to be on the internet, and yet it’s exactly the kind of fingerprint of theirs that people should be able to find

on the one hand I feel for other people who’ll maybe read this thread somewhen down the line

on the other, it’s not exactly like I clipped words in my post

I moderately regret this post

because the counterposter in question went on to have some decidedly “fucking ugggggggh” posts

ah well. so we learn.

maybe train your model better! I know I know, they were already supposed to be taking over the world… alas…

jesus fuck how do you fail to understand any post of this kind this badly

RIP my hopes and dreams :<

like LLM like shithead

fuck, there’s potential here, but a bit too specific for a t-shirt?

like llm like idiot

perhaps?