Or more to the point, it's surprising that humans can make sense of LLM text, quite as much as they do?

Because the sense and the semantics is entirely within the human.

It's disappointing that this article won't rate higher here, as it's spot on and most points very difficult to refute. Disappointing, but given the audience, unsurprising.

Do the non-connected TVs bitch about lack of connection and desperately prompt you to upgrade?

>> because semantics is not involved

And there, in five words, is the problem/feature/definition of AI.

And NEVER use an email address on some domain/service for administration of that domain/service.

Availability of an OpenWrt port is the first thing I check when looking for network hardware :)

I've been self-hosting (using a server at home) using MailInABox ( https://mailinabox.email ) for around 5 years.

I've been very happy with it. I have a perfectly normal email service, over which I have full control. MailInABox handles all the necessary DKIM etc. I had minor hassles, when I first started, with sending to google and microsoft, but these were reasonably easily managed by following microsoft's advice. (And I have a good ISP.)

The only hassle is that, because MailInABox uses greylisting, initial account-validation emails are sometimes delayed. But because I have control of the service, I can whitelist anything important :)

Must be the shortest ever NYT article ... "No."

I don't suppose it includes mindful discussion of how easily humans are fooled... and how desperately some people want to fool themselves.

The really interesting thing about "AI" is it has shown how easily we are fooled, and how willing we are to be fooled.

There's some great research areas opened up by "AI". But it's research into people, not "AI". We should be looking into how human vision works, given that we take obviously generated images to be real. And how we grant intention to text which clearly has no intention.

Bing was never great, but Google has gotten so much worse in the past year or so (ironically, the biggest fall was shortly after they started requiring JS around a year ago) that it's now the better choice. Yahoo is another one I've started using instead.