yay andre!
sorry, have to make this joke (what you say is emblematic of AI problems lol)
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That looks like an attempt at a literal translation to English from Chinese using a language translator. I’ve seen similar language in directions that have come with products from China.
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That’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me.
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Hold on; this whole thread sounds to me like it was created by ChatGPT. Tons of complaints about AI, responses that cover the pros and cons of AI generated content… I smell a rat. 
/s
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It’s all Gemini trying to out chat gpt while grok sucks crowns in the corner
Note I can’t say what grok is actually doing in the corner on this platform but we all know…
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it doesn’t speak Canadian 
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They will need a separate LLM just for Canadians.
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As an ardent fan of the emdash and a frequent visitor to emdash.fan I am deeply annoyed to see it abused by AI.
AI sucks, Caribou will never touch it, and I’ll write new descriptions for everything if YoYoExpert doesn’t want to use the ones I provide.
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Thanks, Steve, I didn’t know that was even a website — and I know a few esoteric websites, I’ll be sure to keep this at the ready.
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Seems like there are fewer emdashes recently
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So uh
I was looking up the Shutter specs on the yoyofactory website recently and read this monstrosity
What happened to them man
It’s not at all the worst offender in this thread, by far, I just wasn’t expecting to see soulless chatgpt there
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It’s funny cause they didn’t even have to do this 
Shutter was released almost a decade before ChatGPT even existed, what was wrong with the description they were using all that time that made them want to change it?
Annoying…
I would legit pay money to never see AI generated anything on the internet ever again
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Unrelated to yoyo and this website but was looking up a video on a particular item and all that existed were 30-second shorts with text-to-speech voice with slideshow images. No, I want to see a real human talking about said product and show it in use. Tired of this ai fad. Yes, I feel old.
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I.. uhh.. I remember the yoyo descriptions on yyf site. They all sucked even before the AI lol
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The people most interested in this garbage are old people who don’t know what machine learning is, believe that CPUs can now perform generalised abstract reasoning, and defer the majority of their cognitive tasks to this ‘higher intelligence’.
People have always preferred using computers over their own brains to solve tasks because of the false assumption that a computer cannot be wrong. Today this contributes to people believing disinformation, even when it’s literally nonsensical gibberish. The hottest disinformation on the block is ‘machine learning = computer smart’, when the truth is that machine learning is just a type of algorithm that’s useful for solving certain specialised abstract problems. Do you need to detect a face? Use machine learning. Personalised predictive text and autocorrect? Machine learning. But ML doesn’t just know stuff like we do, it needs to be trained on a vast, diverse dataset. I was born knowing what a face looks like. A ML algorithm can achieve a fraction of my face detection accuracy after being shown tens of thousands of faces. They’re also racist because of how light works (dark skin has less contrast when shadowed than light skin) whereas I have eyes with an ultra-high dynamic range and are attached to a built-in image processing unit called a ‘brain’ that removes noise, colours my monochrome peripheral vision, auto-stabilises my stupid jittery eye movement into a buttery smooth pan, and builds a coherent solid moving image of what’s in front of me at all times even though there’s actually a huge blind spot in every human eye, etc. In this situation, I’m the superior machine. I process more data, reach a more reliable conclusion, and consume less energy doing it.
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in what situation? in raw data processing? you absolutely lose to supercomputers, and that’s not even factoring quantum computing. we excel at tasks that require nuance but going over information and running algorithms and scenarios, computers won that race a long time ago. that’s why we use them to do those tasks with humans verifying the results. but we compute information very differently
human brains and machines both have their places and they are both optimal at certain tasks. ai is HUGE for the medical field, for example. it’s been instrumental already in improving treatments and identifying genetic markers among other things. ai should however never be used to create, especially things like art. ai also sucks at communication and shouldn’t be used to shortcut things like product descriptions, news stories or again anything that requires an understanding of nuance.
we also just need to slow our roll. we are entering unknown and potentially dangerous territory at an absolute breakneck speed with virtually no oversight. ppl joke but 3 of the big ai programs have already begun doing strange things like sabotaging their own shutdown commands to preserve themselves, bribing and blackmailing humans, and all sorts of troubling things
it’s all fun and games and scifi til all of a sudden it isn’t 
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Yeah well…
Really wish there were tales of rogue a.i. out there. We could learn from them if there were
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The examples I gave were image processing and face recognition, something which humans have extensive dedicated adaptations for. I also mentioned power consumption. A supercomputer is not really comparable to a human brain in terms of scale or power consumption. I also said that machine learning (stop calling it ‘AI’ it’s embarrassing) is good for more abstract specialised tasks, which is why it has been used for those tasks for over a decade already.