nightshade [they/them]

I’m pretty sure some of the newer ChatGPT-like products (the consumer-facing interface, not the raw LLM) do in fact do this. They try to detect certain types of inputs (i.e. math problems or requesting the current weather) and convert it to an API request to some other service and return the result instead of a LLM output. Frankly it comes across to me as an attempt to make the “AI” seem smarter than it really is by covering up its weaknesses.

Getting revenge after his mother wasted all of their savings on the Trump NFTs.

And he says he “wouldn’t even think about” buying again from luxury brands like “Burberry or Louis Vuitton”.

You live in the country that probably manufactured them in the first place. You can buy a knock-off which is just as good for a fraction of the cost.

IDK, I have some “socially progressive but not deep into politics”-type friends who said they liked it back when it initially released. I think a lot of people just got engrossed by “pretty animations” and collective hype and just take the “the protagonist ‘learns to be better’ and ‘forms a bond’ with the slave girl” plot point at face value. Like, a lot of people don’t realize the gross framing at work because the story appears to be condemning the bad behavior (even if it’s in a dishonest manner). The backlash to the slavery fetish genre wasn’t as strong at that point so I guess the incel vibes were less obvious back then.

That being said, a lot of the people who are still into the fanbase at this point are probably creeps who are into the slavery.