searchmysite.net and search.marginalia.nu are both kinda interesting. I don’t know that their models scale particularly well, but in some ways they don’t have to

It’s infuriating but not entirely surprising. Human beings see faces in electrical outlets and car front-ends. LLMs are built with the express purpose of mimicry, so it’s hard to fault people for defaulting to anthropomorphising these systems!

When people ask me what I want for a gift (birthday, Xmas) my only response now is “a gift subscription to [independent journalist-run media outlet]”. I figure if I’m paying for a couple of the ones I like on a rotating basis, that I can go grab archived webpages of the rest.

But it only works if enough people take up that social contract.