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I'm not dunking on their writers, just how Al and AI look the same in most fonts.

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[–] some_designer_dude 69 points 10 months ago (2 children)

AI Pacino — robo-actor

AI Roker — actually could be a good name for a weather bot

AI Quaeda — fully autonomous terrorist organization

[–] son_named_bort 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Weird AI Yankovic - all about the pentiums

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

That’s ASIC album

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

AIDF - fully autonomous terrorist organization

[–] enkille 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've always looked at this in the other direction. Offer services "powered by Al" and as long as you have some dude named Al involved you don't have to waste time and energy on AI.

[–] Astronaut_M_Dexter 39 points 10 months ago

Bing Voice Search, now powered by Al:

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

You’re not wrong, because it took me a solid ten seconds to figure out what the fuck you meant with the rebranding.

[–] Stovetop 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your title honestly had me puzzled until I read the rest of the post. On my end it really did look like you were suggesting Al Jazeera rebrand as "Al Jazeera" and I was stumped on what the difference was.

[–] Astronaut_M_Dexter 13 points 10 months ago

Ha, exactly.

[–] NoRodent 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is why I prefer sans-serif fonts that have lower case l's with a little bend on the bottom. For example the new default font in Office (Aptos) does exactly that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Serif has the curly letters. Sans serif does not have the curly letters (hence the sans)

[–] NoRodent 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I know what a serif is. And I'm specifically not talking about that. I'm talking about this:

[–] Blue_Morpho 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Blue_Morpho 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"LLM is not a correct Roman numeral. Please correct or remove (some of) the symbols."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

ML, on the other hand...

[–] antidote101 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Israeli government recently got found out for using AI to help plan the current conflict. There's a story in the world news community about it.

[–] Astronaut_M_Dexter 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's true (I saw/read the posts). I'm just trying to not bring geopolitical stuff into everything.

[–] antidote101 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hey everyone this guy's a commie!

Points at you then runs away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] antidote101 1 points 10 months ago

Just thought it was the silliest way to be geopolitical sarcastically.

Of course, Poe's Law will always kick in.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

I'm down voting him in response

[–] Resol 1 points 10 months ago

And then they go back to doing this:

Seriously, this was the best thing Al Jazeera has ever done. And then they killed it.