Nope, I use ⧸ as a replacement.

This stuff is unbelievably mesmerising

The framing in the first part of the video is really negative, except that the exact same problem of people losing their AI "partners" has occurred in the west as well without any govt intervention – when the company that owns the AI simply pushed a new version of their chatbot. This was widely reported in several waves, entire subreddits were at certain points filled with grieving(?) people who were convinced their partners have been "lobotomised", or erased...

It is absolutely reasonable and good to ban or limit usage of such chatbots. The motivation ascribed to the Chinese govt here is also presented in a tone that suggests it's somewhat weird or manipulative, i.e. the desire to have real people meet and ultimately make babies. Which, sure enough, is fucked up as an excuse to arrest writers of online smut, which has been reported to happen, but in this case it's a good thing for the ordinary people as well.

Admittedly, the post still has almost only downvotes. But whoever posted that has some issues.

I'm wondering how much % of FOSS software is done with some degree of AI input today. It seems to be becoming unavoidable.

They really don't look alike, though. Where's the similarly, they have broad faces, or? I don't think the comparison is racist, because it doesn't make enough sense to be racist in the first place. Insisting on it this hard is just weird.

I guess they can just put the ads in the middle of the AI responses/searches?

Serbia barely had a second party, as far as I could see (from Croatia). Yeah, there was some opposition, but very few had any sincere trust in it, incomparably fewer than the number of Americans who actually like and support Democrats. The Student List tapped into this vacuum.

And European democracies are generally a bit more loose with having newcomer parties being at least somewhat viable, for better and for worse (AfD, UKIP...). The US electoral system just erases 3rd parties wholesale, it's particularly abysmal.

Btw, the Student List is not terribly left-leaning. They're trying to be "apolitical", in order to attract both the left and the right.

This was mostly noticed already in the earliest days of LLM spreading (I think several months since GPT went public), when Russian users noticed it has much worse output in Russian than English. The reason was simply that each letter was treated as a whole distinct token in Russian, leading to more difficulties in outputing words without typos. It is logical that this approach would be more resource-expensive and prone to errors, if the AI has to select each and every letter one by one instead of immediately jumping to selecting words and forming the whole sentence.

English is a fairly analytic language, words barely change, and subtleties in meaning and relationships are expressed with other words. Many other languages encode such information inside the word by various ways of modifying the same base form (inflectional languages). The same way English forms plurals by adding -s, so can other languages add a whole bunch of possible endings to express e.g. that the object is used as a tool, or that it's the recipient of an action. To analyse and tokenise all that stuff would require decades of manual work. Alternatively I would assume there are some automatised tools that would generally correctly split the words into tokens, at least for the major inflectional languages, such as Russian. But most likely they just split it down to random syllables or even individual letters. Indeed, I just tested Russian, Polish and Croatian in their linked tokenizer, and the results are mostly syllabic or letter-based or just sliced into random sections that don't correspond to anything linguistically relevant. Not a trace of morphemic analysis (morphemes are meaningful units, e.g. level-head-ed-ness, this style of slicing words down into pieces would probably be the ideal approach here). [Edit: holy shit, it actually seems to treat almost every capital letter as a distinct token.]

Or, to put it most simply, AI bullshits and brute-forces through languages with complicated words. And it's been known for years. Nice to see additional confirmation, of course, and to learn that they still haven't improved on it.

There's currently a replacement from his own party as the PM, Vučić planned to be the presidential candidate (Putin-Medvedev style switch). IDK about the details (I'm not sure if the Serbian president is appointed by the parliament or by public voting), but basically he's out of the game. For a while, at least.

He doesn't have a term anymore at all.

That's an interesting choice of the illustration.