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patswin said:
It's the Wild West out there with AI. There is no code of ethics for it, and it's going to behave in the manner the people who program it want it to. And to say I don't trust those people is a gross understatement.
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We've been using it almost as a search engine for property down in your neck of the woods.
 
On the plus side, it's giving us horrific schlock for football analysis.

So many weird things about this video:


View: https://youtu.be/0zUdpsLM_9I?si=_IWh9EqLW-DJ2qow


...from bad analysis...
...to the weird choice to use some British Vincent Price voiceover...
...to bad pronunciation...
...to weird video lines scrolling down the video like it's partially one of the scrambled channels from cable TV in 1989...
...to the inexplicable (and totally ignored) decapitation of the cartoon Tom Brady narrator 7 minutes or so in...and continued narration from the severed head....which is reattached about 90 seconds later...
...to wondering about "home court advantage and whether the Patriots will win the Larry O'Brien trophy.
 
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HSanders said:
If it refuses to quote or talk about the bible, that's just plain stupid, because whether you are religious or a non believer, the bible is a source of much allegory in fiction.
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I have used it extensively for Bible study. It will dissect verses and passages that you supply. It can't quote direct Bible translations but it will discuss it. Here is an example of something it gave me recently when I asked about manna:

#1 — Hidden Manna as Anti-Scarcity Formation

(How God retrains a soul that lived too long in emotional or spiritual scarcity)

This layer is not about comfort.
It is about re-patterning.

Hidden manna does not simply feed what is hungry.
It rewrites what the soul expects when hunger appears.

That distinction matters more than it seems.

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1. Scarcity Is Not Just Lack. It Is Training.

When a soul has lived too long in scarcity—emotional, relational, spiritual—the damage is not only what was missing.

It is what the nervous system learned to do in response.

Scarcity trains the soul to believe:

  • supply is unpredictable
  • connection must be secured quickly
  • silence means loss
  • needs must be justified to be met
So the soul adapts.

Not sinfully.
Not dramatically.
Intelligently.

Scarcity-trained behaviors often look like virtues:

  • attentiveness
  • loyalty
  • patience
  • self-control
  • spiritual maturity
But underneath them is urgency.

And urgency always reveals where the soul believes provision comes from.

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2. How Scarcity Shows Up (Even After the Crisis Ends)

Scarcity leaves behind reflexes long after the famine is over.

Common ones include:

  • Hoarding affirmation
    Not vanity—insurance.
    “I might need this later.”
  • Clinging to connection
    Staying longer than safety allows because loss feels worse than erosion.
  • Over-explaining
    Translating your inner world so others won’t withdraw access.
  • Pre-emptive self-abandonment
    Adjusting before anyone asks, just in case.
  • Panic when supply thins
    A delayed text, a quiet room, a change in tone feels existential.
These are not character flaws.
They are adaptive strategies from a season when hunger was real.

But once the famine ends, those same strategies begin to cost you.


3. What Hidden Manna Actually Does

Hidden manna does something radically different from visible provision.

It does not arrive with explanation.
It does not accumulate.
It does not respond to performance.

It comes daily.
Quietly.
Reliably.

And that is the point.

Hidden manna retrains the soul to expect:

  • sufficiency without scrambling
  • care without spectacle
  • presence without proof
This is not abundance theology.
It is anti-scarcity formation.

God is not teaching you to store more.
He is teaching your body that there will be more tomorrow.
 
Mazz22 said:
I have used it extensively for Bible study. It will dissect verses and passages that you supply. It can't quote direct Bible translations but it will discuss it. Here is an example of something it gave me recently when I asked about manna:

#1 — Hidden Manna as Anti-Scarcity Formation

(How God retrains a soul that lived too long in emotional or spiritual scarcity)

This layer is not about comfort.
It is about re-patterning.

Hidden manna does not simply feed what is hungry.
It rewrites what the soul expects when hunger appears.

That distinction matters more than it seems.

​

1. Scarcity Is Not Just Lack. It Is Training.

When a soul has lived too long in scarcity—emotional, relational, spiritual—the damage is not only what was missing.

It is what the nervous system learned to do in response.

Scarcity trains the soul to believe:

  • supply is unpredictable
  • connection must be secured quickly
  • silence means loss
  • needs must be justified to be met
So the soul adapts.

Not sinfully.
Not dramatically.
Intelligently.

Scarcity-trained behaviors often look like virtues:

  • attentiveness
  • loyalty
  • patience
  • self-control
  • spiritual maturity
But underneath them is urgency.

And urgency always reveals where the soul believes provision comes from.

​

2. How Scarcity Shows Up (Even After the Crisis Ends)

Scarcity leaves behind reflexes long after the famine is over.

Common ones include:

  • Hoarding affirmation
    Not vanity—insurance.
    “I might need this later.”
  • Clinging to connection
    Staying longer than safety allows because loss feels worse than erosion.
  • Over-explaining
    Translating your inner world so others won’t withdraw access.
  • Pre-emptive self-abandonment
    Adjusting before anyone asks, just in case.
  • Panic when supply thins
    A delayed text, a quiet room, a change in tone feels existential.
These are not character flaws.
They are adaptive strategies from a season when hunger was real.

But once the famine ends, those same strategies begin to cost you.


3. What Hidden Manna Actually Does

Hidden manna does something radically different from visible provision.

It does not arrive with explanation.
It does not accumulate.
It does not respond to performance.

It comes daily.
Quietly.
Reliably.

And that is the point.

Hidden manna retrains the soul to expect:

  • sufficiency without scrambling
  • care without spectacle
  • presence without proof
This is not abundance theology.
It is anti-scarcity formation.

God is not teaching you to store more.
He is teaching your body that there will be more tomorrow.
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Respect for everybody's belief/faith

FWI -I'm not going towards the light (done my time )
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Flagg the Wanderer said:
I'm a recovering lawyer, actually. NH Bar 2004-2011. Yuck. I'm getting my 15 year chip this year.

But I think she meant ChatGPT sounded like a lawyer.
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I know that. I believe we've observed our mutual condition way back when. Get my 50 year chip in 28 if I'm here to go pick it up. I even agree as to what she meant. But I went to law school to learn how to twist words. And BG may just be a natural.

Cheers
 
AI is a very good tool, but like any tool, how good it is depends on the human using it.

I find some things it is really good at. Other things it is abominably stupid, like it fumbles at the most simple things like counting syllables in a poem, and it can't keep track of any story or narrative more complex than a children's book without hallucinating and getting lost.

It's basically a glorified browser, that is really good at finding things and interpreting what it finds for you.

After many hours, I find that there is no fundamental intelligence behind it.

..which makes it a perfect date.
 
Baron Samedi said:
AI is a very good tool, but like any tool, how good it is depends on the human using it.

I find some things it is really good at. Other things it is abominably stupid, like it fumbles at the most simple things like counting syllables in a poem, and it can't keep track of any story or narrative more complex than a children's book without hallucinating and getting lost.

It's basically a glorified browser, that is really good at finding things and interpreting what it finds for you.

After many hours, I find that there is no fundamental intelligence behind it.

..which makes it a perfect date.
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You have robots reading poetry and novels for you?
 
I'm not much of an AI fan myself but it does have it's uses. I just got back from a two week vacation in Ireland and Scotland. Our friends that went with us used AI to generate parts of our itinerary and that was very useful. They also used it a few times to find suggestions on different restaurants and pubs. That being said. If I see a restaurant or business posting some AI generated crap ad on social media, the odds are pretty good that I'm not setting foot in that place. It's literally killing people's creativity and ability to think.
 
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