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The Lurking LLM on Usenet and The Lurking LLM on the SmolNet

I'm so old I remember when 3 holes was enough. Kids these days, with their pop music and 11 hole punches...

People building websites for brick and mortar retail stores be like "how many clicks can we make people do before we show them the store hours?" and then wonder why online shopping is kicking their butts.

George Orwell's 1984, Part 2, Chapter 3:

Julia was twenty-six years old. She lived in a hostel with thirty other girls ('Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!' she said parenthetically), and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor. She was 'not clever', but was fond of using her hands and felt at home with machinery. She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad. But she was not interested in the finished product. She 'didn't much care for reading,' she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.

Hatchette Books cancels release of Shy Girl by US author Mia Ballard over claims of LLM use.

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