Full disclosure - my background is in operations (think IT) not AI research. So some of this might be wrong.

What’s marketed as AI is something called a large language model. This distinction is important because AI implies intelligence - where as a LLM is something else. At a high level LLMs are using something called “tokens” to break apart natural language into elements that a machine can understand, and then recombining those tokens to “create” something new. When a LLM is creating output it does not know what it is saying - it knows what token statistically comes after the token(s) it has generated already.

So to answer your question. An AI can hallucinate because it does not know the answer - its using advanced math to know that the period goes at the end of the sentence. and not in the middle.

That’s just…sad.

As someone who only has minimal passing knowledge of the current competitive games - what do cheaters get out of going to such lengths?

Do you by chance live in a high CoL area?

Congratulations. Your a system admin. For real.

I’ve interviewed candidates for system admin jobs who had less exposure to managing Linux then this story.

Not dissimilar - my three steps.

1. Ran away from vista.
2. Get a job at Microsoft and figured I should learn how to use a core product again (Windows 10).
3. Dual boot for years (you never know when you will need to wake up the windows for some random task), until Win 11 and recall…

See you think that - but excel finds a way. We have what are lovingly called the “spreadsheets of doom” which accounting uses to manage all forecasts, and the bits that involve money flows. Did you know you can hook excel into Salesforce and pull all the sales records? A person who thinks her monitor is her computer (she has a Dell laptop) somehow found a way…

And even then your neighbors need to be sure they have removed every roach. And their neighbors…

They do customs after the Bellingham (going north) stop while the train is rolling.

Worst case. Inflation eats the mortgage until it’s just chump change.

IMO. Bicyclists have liberal disregard for traffic laws here. But so do the following groups: pedestrians, motorcyclist, big rigs, cars.

Can we just say anyone with a pulse?

The problem is not everyone who wants to can move. Picking up everything and moving to New England or the West Coast is not viable for people making minimum wage.

No one ever invades Poland. Ever.

They randomly started turning up in my music recommendations (I mostly listen to metal). I was so confused and so happy about it…

That makes me wonder. Can you escape it with a non-us keyboard?

Steal away. An old boss knew the person who maintains that page. If I remember correctly it’s entire reason for being is for that one question.

When in doubt I ask them what RAID 45 is.

Huh. TIL.

I’m sorry but if the are targeting tech workers, that seems…low.