Talk:3126: Disclaimer - Revision history

82.132.246.87 at 03:40, 30 December 2025

2025-12-30T03:40:00Z

76.247.67.197 at 01:53, 30 December 2025

2025-12-30T01:53:13Z

76.247.67.197 at 23:13, 29 December 2025

2025-12-29T23:13:35Z

46.34.239.30: Wrote an answer -Harry

2025-08-11T15:23:58Z

Wrote an answer -Harry

82.132.236.103: How did I typo that? It's not even anywhere the same type/vicinity of keypress... Total thinko, perhaps.

2025-08-11T14:39:20Z

How did I typo that? It's not even anywhere the same type/vicinity of keypress... Total thinko, perhaps.

82.132.236.103: Ok, surely you believe me now.

2025-08-11T14:36:09Z

Ok, surely you believe me now.

82.132.236.103: Proof-reading? What's that?

2025-08-11T14:35:02Z

Proof-reading? What's that?

82.132.236.103: ...and also a transparently 'unintentional' typo, too. Just to further muddy the waters. ;)

2025-08-11T14:33:47Z

...and also a transparently 'unintentional' typo, too. Just to further muddy the waters. ;)

82.132.236.103: An AI wouldn't make that error. Or maybe it initially would, in pretending to not be an AI... Your call!

2025-08-11T14:32:12Z

An AI wouldn't make that error. Or maybe it initially would, in pretending to not be an AI... Your call!

82.132.236.103 at 14:29, 11 August 2025

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	First mention of generative AI in XKCD? It seems like Randall was avoiding the topic for some reason, for over two years. Between when ChatGPT came out and when this comic came out, I think he only made about two or three comics that were AI-related at all, and those weren't about current AI technology. --[[Special:Contributions/76.247.67.197\|76.247.67.197]] 23:13, 29 December 2025 (UTC)		First mention of generative AI in XKCD? It seems like Randall was avoiding the topic for some reason, for over two years. Between when ChatGPT came out and when this comic came out, I think he only made about two or three comics that were AI-related at all, and those weren't about current AI technology. --[[Special:Contributions/76.247.67.197\|76.247.67.197]] 23:13, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
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	: Though there was an XKCD [[1068: Swiftkey\|comic]] about a text-generating language model ten years before ChatGPT. --[[Special:Contributions/76.247.67.197\|76.247.67.197]] 01:53, 30 December 2025 (UTC)		: Though there was an XKCD [[1068: Swiftkey\|comic]] about a text-generating language model ten years before ChatGPT. --[[Special:Contributions/76.247.67.197\|76.247.67.197]] 01:53, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
		+	:I don't think it was avoided. Possibly just was without a decent premise to explicitly make fun of (or parody/hype/whatever) the field, and didn't jump on the bandwagon regardless. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.246.87\|82.132.246.87]] 03:40, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

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	First mention of generative AI in XKCD? It seems like Randall was avoiding the topic for some reason, for over two years. Between when ChatGPT came out and when this comic came out, I think he only made about two or three comics that were AI-related at all, and those weren't about current AI technology. --[[Special:Contributions/76.247.67.197\|76.247.67.197]] 23:13, 29 December 2025 (UTC)		First mention of generative AI in XKCD? It seems like Randall was avoiding the topic for some reason, for over two years. Between when ChatGPT came out and when this comic came out, I think he only made about two or three comics that were AI-related at all, and those weren't about current AI technology. --[[Special:Contributions/76.247.67.197\|76.247.67.197]] 23:13, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
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		+	: Though there was an XKCD [[1068: Swiftkey\|comic]] about a text-generating language model ten years before ChatGPT. --[[Special:Contributions/76.247.67.197\|76.247.67.197]] 01:53, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

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	It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, different yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and/or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't, a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)		It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, different yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and/or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't, a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)
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		+	First mention of generative AI in XKCD? It seems like Randall was avoiding the topic for some reason, for over two years. Between when ChatGPT came out and when this comic came out, I think he only made about two or three comics that were AI-related at all, and those weren't about current AI technology. --[[Special:Contributions/76.247.67.197\|76.247.67.197]] 23:13, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

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 From now on, I'm adding this disclaimer every time I speak in any public space, including the link to the xkcd strip where applicable. I have been questioned a few times simply because I usually use proper punctuation and I write in a slightly formal manner. I see where this is heading. I am imagining the future world, where the humans will be writing comments, articles and books in this simplistic, "crappy" style full of gramatic errors to prove their humanity. After the internet becomes saturated with this type of content, chatbots will pick it up too, and at that point, it will be impossible to distinguish who's real and people will probably go outside to actually meet other people once again. I think I'll make this into a comicbook, but knowing myself, I wouldn't finish the project before it would stop being speculative fiction and become just boring reality instead. [Not ChatGPT output—I'm just like this.] Harry Chaote [[Special:Contributions/46.34.239.30|46.34.239.30]] 11:04, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
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 It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w|Tay (chatbot)|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, different yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and/or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't, a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)

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−	It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, different yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't, a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)	+	It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, different yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and/or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't, a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)

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−	It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, different yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)	+	It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, different yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't, a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)

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−	It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, ~~differemt~~ yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)	+	It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, different yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)

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−	It is ~~intetesting~~ to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, differemt yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)	+	It is interesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, differemt yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)

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−	It is intetesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a ~~genuinely~~ person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, differemt yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)	+	It is intetesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuine person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, differemt yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)

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	From now on, I'm adding this disclaimer every time I speak in any public space, including the link to the xkcd strip where applicable. I have been questioned a few times simply because I usually use proper punctuation and I write in a slightly formal manner. I see where this is heading. I am imagining the future world, where the humans will be writing comments, articles and books in this simplistic, "crappy" style full of gramatic errors to prove their humanity. After the internet becomes saturated with this type of content, chatbots will pick it up too, and at that point, it will be impossible to distinguish who's real and people will probably go outside to actually meet other people once again. I think I'll make this into a comicbook, but knowing myself, I wouldn't finish the project before it would stop being speculative fiction and become just boring reality instead. [Not ChatGPT output—I'm just like this.] Harry Chaote [[Special:Contributions/46.34.239.30\|46.34.239.30]] 11:04, 11 August 2025 (UTC)		From now on, I'm adding this disclaimer every time I speak in any public space, including the link to the xkcd strip where applicable. I have been questioned a few times simply because I usually use proper punctuation and I write in a slightly formal manner. I see where this is heading. I am imagining the future world, where the humans will be writing comments, articles and books in this simplistic, "crappy" style full of gramatic errors to prove their humanity. After the internet becomes saturated with this type of content, chatbots will pick it up too, and at that point, it will be impossible to distinguish who's real and people will probably go outside to actually meet other people once again. I think I'll make this into a comicbook, but knowing myself, I wouldn't finish the project before it would stop being speculative fiction and become just boring reality instead. [Not ChatGPT output—I'm just like this.] Harry Chaote [[Special:Contributions/46.34.239.30\|46.34.239.30]] 11:04, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
	: Grammatical [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 13:40, 11 August 2025 (UTC)		: Grammatical [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 13:40, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	It is intetesting to consider the contrasts between this comic and [[810: Constructive]]. By one interpretation, the difference is that (a decade and a half ago) Randall was perhaps wanting AIs to look indistinguishable from genuine and intentionally helpful people; whereas now he finds that his status as a genuinely person, in which he is certainly intending to be helpful, is being mistaken for an AI. Though, by ''another'' interpretation, it could also be said that AI has ''failed'' to look like ordinary people, only in looking like people like himself (which is bad news, for both Randall and the AIs — though arguably better, and more in line with #810, than the kind of user that {{w\|Tay (chatbot)\|Tay}} became effectively indistinguishable from). I could expound a couple more comparisons, differemt yet again, but won't. Lest I look AI-like myself (bad?), and-or Randall-like (definitely not bad, just not adding much easily digested explanatory value). [[Special:Contributions/82.132.236.103\|82.132.236.103]] 14:29, 11 August 2025 (UTC) (And the CAPTCHA initially seemed to disagree with me about what is, and what isn't a motorcycle. Or maybe it instead values my expertise and wishes me to identify yet more of them..!)