Wake up honey, new Zitron just dropped.

Looks like Sammy boy has a crush on Scarlett Johansson and wanted to model his sexy chatbot after her role in the movie Her. The damage control is actually hilarious.

Altman subsequently claimed that the actress for Sky was cast before the company reached out to Johansson.

“Yeah, I don’t want to go out with you anyway. Also, I already have a girlfriend but she goes to a different school, so you wouldn’t know her. And no, I won’t tell you who it is!”

I mean, we all knew that OpenAI is a fucking clown show of a company run by wannabe nerd frat boys with way too much money, but I didn’t think we’d get high school level relationship drama this season.

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    5 months ago

    If natively fluent speakers of the English language use beg the question in the “wrong” way time and time again, finding the “incorrect” meaning a natural fit with their understanding of the verb to beg, then the “incorrect” meaning may well be the one we should roll with.

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      Pedants being wrong on the Internet is exactly why I have an OED subscription. :) “Beg the question” in the sense of “to assume without proof” doesn’t have a supporting quote newer than 1870, which suggests to me that… yeah, it can be considered obsolete.

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      I also stopped correcting people about the “correct” meaning of ‘moot’ a while ago too. Also when http://begthequestion.info went offline I hung up that hat for good. Still get a twinge inside every time I hear either