“AI” pisses me off so much. I tend to go off on people, even people in real life, when they act as though “AI” as it currently exists is anything more than a (pretty neat, granted) glorified equation solver.

Me too. The LLM hype riders want a real artificial waifu to actually love them so very badly that they’re pleased to describe living beings in as crude and coarse reductionist language as possible so their treat printers feel closer to real to them. The pathology is fucking glaringly obvious most of the time, especially when the “meat” talk gets rolled around or that hologram waifu from Blade Runner is literally brought up as an example of why we’re all ignorant barbarians because fiction is real amirite?