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The incriminating ChatGPT conversation--filled with typos--opened with Schaefer asking, "How fucked am I" and "qilll I go to jail." After the AI program "gave tips about the potential outcome of getting caught or being involved in this kind of behavior," Schaefer typed, "What if I smashed the shit outta mutlipls cars."
Oh, and his own phone placed him at the scene.
And it was all caught on security cameras.
Not too bright, this lad.
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When did Australia join the 20th century?
Anyway, I'll be upgrading from my 100Mb internet plan this weekend to a cheaper 500Mb one with the same provider. I have a business plan for the static IP and extra support (one of which I depend on and the other I have never used), and they didn't offer the cheap fast plans that recently became available to consumers.
Now apparently they do.
I could upgrade as high as 2Gb now but that costs twice as much as my current 100Mb plan (for 20x the speed) and requires a tech visit to upgrade the modem.
Also bought two weed eaters today because my old one went phut.
The old one was a Bosch cordless, which I bought because I have several other Bosch tools and a stockpile of batteries. It worked well until it when phut so I went onto Amazon to buy a new one and they're out of stock. Bosch sells at least three different models in Australia and Amazon has none of them.
So I found something cheap with decent reviews for about $70 with two batteries and a charger, and bought that.
Then I discovered that Bosch runs its own store on eBay, and bought their current model for about $85 without a battery.
Weeds better look out! In a week. Out here in rural Australia, same-day delivery is still a pipe dream, even if 2Gb internet is readily available.
With the web tapped out, developers are turning to synthetic data - machine-generated text, images, and code. That approach offers limitless supply, but also risks overwhelming models with low-quality output or AI slop.
The risk there is 100%.
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Blog Note
Scheduled posting time will be returning to 4 AM this weekend with the arrival of Daylight Saving time in the Southern Hemisphere. Or at least in my part of it. Queensland is not a real place.