#chatbot library

[respawningjupiter]

When the ai breaks fourth wall:

[reblogblogbog]

"-when you're homeless and hungry"

Exactly! Libraries are important public spaces where people can safely spend time in a roofed building free of charge, are even encouraged to, with bathrooms, heating, computers, printers, information, guides, community resources, social spaces, quiet rooms, often rooms you can reserve for personal use (especially useful if you need a place to work or complete a legal matter but don't have your own space... for example, if you are homeless, don't have a safe home life or are monitored, or even don't have a quiet home life), hobby resources (believe it or not depriving poor people of pleasure doesn't make them rich), etc.

When you're homeless and hungry, you'll want access to a nearby, well-funded, everyone-welcome, community-focused library.

📢📢📢

[jcmarchi]

NY Times: "OpenAI and Microsoft Infringed Copyrights" - Technology Org

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NY Times: "OpenAI and Microsoft Infringed Copyrights" - Technology Org

The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the unauthorized use of millions of the newspaper’s articles.

The New York Times logo on a smartphone screen 0 artistic illustration. Image credit: Alpha Photo via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED license

The complaint was issued this Wednesday. It asserts that the content was utilized without permission to train chatbots, specifically OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s AI platform Copilot. This marks the first major legal action by a U.S. media organization against OpenAI.

Microsoft, as an investor in OpenAI, is implicated in the lawsuit.

The legal dispute revolves around copyright concerns related to The New York Times’ intellectual property. Similar concerns have been raised by writers and others seeking to limit the automatic collection of their online content by AI services without due compensation.

The complaint from the newspaper, lodged in the federal court in Manhattan, alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft sought to exploit The New York Times’s substantial investment in journalism, utilizing it to offer alternative information delivery channels to readers.

The New York Times has not specified a particular amount in damages. However, the publication estimates the damages incurred to be in the “billions of dollars.”

Additionally, the newspaper is requesting the companies to discard chatbot models and training sets that incorporate its content. Despite attempts this year to engage in discussions aimed at preventing a lawsuit and facilitating a “mutually beneficial value exchange” with the defendants, no agreement was reached, as per the newspaper’s statement.

The legal action by The New York Times comes seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to revive a challenge to Google’s digital library, which provided access to snippets of text, deeming it fair use of authors’ works.

The presence of chatbots has intensified the competition among prominent media entities to draw and retain readers, with The Times demonstrating relatively stronger performance compared to others.

The legal action by The Times pointed to specific instances where OpenAI and Microsoft chatbots provided users with nearly identical excerpts from its articles.

According to The Times, such unauthorized use poses a threat to high-quality journalism by diminishing readers’ perceived need to visit its website. This, in turn, could lead to reduced traffic and potential impacts on advertising and subscription revenue.

Additionally, the lawsuit asserted that the defendants’ chatbots create challenges for readers in distinguishing between fact and fiction, particularly when the technology erroneously attributes information to the newspaper.

Written by Vytautas Valinskas

[nudityandnerdery]

Y'all, we really gotta start spending time with friends in person again. We gotta make public places accessible and safe for people and make plans to do things and follow through on them. I am a socially anxious neurodivergent jackass who has made most of my best friends online who masks at very high levels when I go outside and I love the internet, and I live with chronically ill people who struggle with wheelchair access sometimes, and so I'm familiar with a lot of the hindering factors to this, I promise, I'm not saying this to shame anyone who doesn't, but all I am saying is:

Y'all, we really gotta start spending time with friends in person again.

I deeply believe that the lack of actual social interaction time with other people in physical spaces is both one of the biggest problems in western society right now in how it is isolating people and making it easier for them to be radicalized, but also the result of intentional choices by some of the people who are taking advantage of it to radicalize us.

Spend time with friends in person. Hang out at a park and read a book while people play frisbee or whatever. Fly a kite. Find out what programs your local library has and sign up for one. Have a powerpoint presentation party and have everyone bring a snack.

And don't let perfect be the enemy of good here. Do what little pieces you can. Don't think, "Well, I can only half do this, I won't waste my time." If going to sit in a coffee shop for fifteen minutes while a musician plays is what you can do today, do it. And tell yourself that's a good start. You don't have to walk up to someone and make a best friend. Just let yourself be surrounded by the energy of other people for a little bit, of complete strangers.

Just fucking work on forming emotional bonds and community. Please. Don't rely on someone else's technology to replace actual human interaction.

[trilobiter]

First of all, I think it is an exaggeration to say that search engines do not work anymore for finding sources - that's a very broad claim. It is true that there's been a proliferation of low quality sources, many of them generated by AI, and that search engines tend to love them. But I just did a search for scientific information about frogs, and I found a few sources I'd consider acceptable if they were for a high school research project. I didn't do anything fancy, I just used my experience and good sense to evaluate the specific websites I was presented with. This is the sort of skill that students should be learning to do.

Secondly, if you think the internet is no longer to be trusted as a vehicle for information delivery, then you'll agree with me that it's very good that libraries remain open and free to the public. Apart from that I really don't know what to tell you. Google hasn't yet figured out how to stick bullshit listicles into all the volumes about frogs in the library. As I mentioned before, many kids aren't comfortable using anything but their phones to access resources for answering questions. I think they should get comfortable, even as they learn the potential and limitations of their prefered tools.

Now of course, there has been an organized and perverse movement by certain political agents to degrade the quality and accessibility of the libraries that are available to students and to the public at large. This is a bigger problem than the proliferation of AI junk on the internet. But while good libraries exist, I think we need to appreciate them for what they have to offer, and protect them from further political abuse and neglect.

Every day of my professional life amounts to telling teenagers variations on the following:

"Google is not a source of information. Google is a tool for locating sources of information. Google does not know anything. Google can only tell you what somebody else said they know. It is up to you to evaluate the reliability of what Google presents you with."

[lost-letters-from-atlantis]

Your teammate says he finished writing your college presentation. He sends you an AI generated text. The girls next to you at the library are talking about the deepfake pictures of that one celebrity at the MET gala. Your colleague invites you to a revision session, and tells you about how he feeds his notes to ChatGPT to get a resume. You say that's bad. He says that's your opinion. The models on social media aren't even real people anymore. You have to make sure the illustrated cards you buy online were made by actual artists. Your favourite musician published an AI starter pack. Your classmates sigh and give you a condescending smile when you say generative AI ruins everything. People in the comments of your favourite games are talking about how someone needs to make a Character.AI chat for the characters. People in your degree ask the answers of your exams to ChatGPT. You start to read a story and realise nothing makes sense, it wasn't written by a human being. There's a "this was written with AI" tag on AO3. The authors of your favourite fanfics have to lock their writing away to avoid their words getting stolen. Someone tells you about this amazing book. They haven't actually read it, but they asked Aria to resume it for them, so it's almost the same thing. People reading your one shot were mad that you wouldn't write a part 2 and copied your text in ChatGPT to get a second chapter. Someone on Tumblr makes a post about how much easier it is to ask AI to write an email for them because they're apparently "too autistic" to use their own words. Gemini generates wrong and dangerous answers at the top of your Google research page. They're doubling animation movies using voices stolen by AI. It's like there's nothing organic in this world anymore. Sometimes you think maybe nothing is real. The love confession you received yesterday wasn't actually written by your crush. If you're alone on a Saturday night and you feel lonely, you can talk to this AI chatbot. It terrifies you how easily people are willing to lay their critical thinking on the ground and slip into a state of ignorance. Creativity is too much work, having ideas by yourself became overrated these days. When illustrators fear for their future, people roll their eyes and tell them it's not that bad, they're just overreacting. No one wants to hear this ecologist crap about the tons of water consumed by ChatGPT, it's not that important anyway. There's AI sprinkled in the soundtrack of that movie and in the special effects and into the script. Giving a prompt to Grok is basically the same thing as drawing this Renaissance painting yourself. McDonald's is making ads in Ghibli style. The meaning of the words and images all around you slip away as they're replaced with robotic equivalents. No one is thinking anymore, they're just doing and saying what they were told. One day, there might not be any human connection anymore. Without the beauty of art, we have nothing to communicate, nothing to leave to the world, and our lives become dull. Why would you befriend anyone when you can get a few praises and likes on Instagram by telling a bot to copy Van Gogh's style on a picture of your cat? It's okay, you're never really alone when you can call your comfort character on c.AI anytime. You don't even know how to solve basic everyday problems, ChatGPT does it for you. One day it'll tell you to jump on the rails at the subway station, and maybe you'll do. You sacrificed your job, your friends, your partner, your family, and your planet. After all this, it has to be worth it. If Gemini tells you to drink bleach tonight when you search a receipt for dinner, then surely, it must be right.

[qqueenofhades]

Obviously no pressure to post this, but wanted to offer a resource/action-item for the like-minded, since your politically-adjacent posts get a bit more reach. And this seems as good a time as any?

The group is called VoteRiders, and I volunteer for them. We help people (for free) to get the identity documents needed to vote. If you live in a state with voter ID laws (or it's your first time voting in a federal elelction) and you don't have a photo ID, they'll help. If that means getting your birth certificate from out of state, or a social security card, getting you a ride to the DMV, paying the document fees, etc. They can (usually) help with name change documents, if you got married or transitioned. Maybe you just have questions about voter ID in your state, or are confused about how to get your absentee ballot. We have a phone number you can call OR: you can text! Facebook message us! There is a chatbot that will get some info until a volunteer logs on! You don't need to talk to a human person. You can access the chatbot/insta messenger on voteriders.org, or call/text 866-ID-2-VOTE (8664328683).

The other reason I'm promoting this: obviously you can volunteer in the usual ways (being the person helping/answering questions). But if you want to get involved and you have anxiety, there are ways you can volunteer that don't/barely involve talking to a live person! You could answer the FB messages/chatbot, where you say "let me look that up for you" if you need more time (the drawback: you have to get comfortable clicking around secretary of state websites). OR: they have letter writing campaigns! They send you a document with the voter ID laws for a certain state printed on it, and you write a little personal message about why you think it's important for people to vote (drawback: finding a place to print (i use the library) and you have to provide your own envelopes/stamps).

Anyway, i just wanted to offer options for people who both need help and want to help. A few ways to feel in control of our destiny.

This sounds like an excellent resource and I am happy to boost it. So yes, for anyone who is feeling freaked out by the media kerfuffle/terrible SCOTUS immunity decision, here is something you can do to make important change in an easy way, and doesn't even require you to interact with people directly! Check it out.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

That means that for a work to be eligible for copyright in the USA, it must satisfy three criteria:

1. It must be creative. Copyright does not apply to non-creative works (say, a phone book listing everyone in a town in alphabetical order), even if the work required a lot of labor. Copyright does not protect effort, it protects creativity. You can spend your whole life making a phone book and get no copyright, but the haiku you toss off in ten seconds while drunk gets copyright’s full protection. 2. It must be tangible. Copyright only applies to creative works that are “fixed in a tangible medium.” A dance isn’t copyrightable, but a video of someone dancing is, as is a written description of the dance in choreographers’ notation. A singer can’t copyright the act of singing, but they can copyright the recording of the song. 3. It must be of human authorship. Only humans are eligible for copyright. A beehive’s combs may be beautiful, but they can’t be copyrighted. An elephant’s paintings may be creative, but they can’t be copyrighted. A monkey’s selfie may be iconic, but it can’t be copyrighted.

The works an algorithm generates —be they still images, audio recordings, text, or videos — cannot be copyrighted.

For creative workers, this is huge. Our bosses, like all bosses, relish the thought of firing us all and making us homeless. You will never love anything as much as your boss hates paying you. That’s why the most rampant form of theft in America is wage theft. Just the thought of firing workers and replacing them with chatbots is enough to invoke dangerous, persistent priapism in the boardrooms of corporate America.

- Everything Made By an AI Is In the Public Domain: The US Copyright Office offers creative workers a powerful labor protective

THIS IS THE LAST DAY FOR MY KICKSTARTER for the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation," a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and make a new, good internet to succeed the old, good internet. It's a DRM-free book, which means Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Going to Burning Man? Catch me on Tuesday at 2:40pm on the Center Camp Stage for a talk about enshittification and how to reverse it; on Wednesday at noon, I'm hosting Dr Patrick Ball at Liminal Labs (6:15/F) for a talk on using statistics to prove high-level culpability in the recruitment of child soldiers.

On September 6 at 7pm, I'll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger.

On September 12 at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

[misscrazyfangirl321]

I don't normally vibe with her writing, but this book just. Was really good, and also made me feel things.

Just finished "I Think I Was Murdered" by Colleen Coble.

Myyyyy goodness.

[ralfmaximus]

Some of these tells—such as the inadvertent inclusion of “certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic” in a recent paper in Surfaces and Interfaces, a journal published by Elsevier—are reasonably obvious evidence that a scientist used an AI chatbot known as a large language model (LLM).

In addition to that overt tell, over 60,000 papers have been identified as having LLM-like language in them, stuff that humans typically don't type. That's over 1% of the current library of papers tracked in the study. More than 17% of newly submitted papers have the taint of LLM generators to them.

Aside from the meandering, bloated text AI generators output, there are blatant hallucinations present: citations of studies that do not exist, fake researcher names, and conclusions that don't align with the data.

Unpaywalled here.

[mariacallous]

The Trump administration, working in coordination with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. In communities across the US, the cuts threaten student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to popular digital services, such as the ebook app Libby.

On Monday, managers at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) informed 77 employees—virtually the agency’s entire staff—that they were immediately being put on paid administrative leave, according to one of the workers, who sought anonymity out of fear of retaliation from Trump officials. Several other sources confirmed the move, which came after President Donald Trump appointed Keith Sonderling, the deputy secretary of labor, as the acting director of IMLS less than two weeks ago.

A representative for the American Federation of Government Employee Local 3403, a union that represents about 40 IMLS staffers, said Sonderling and a group of DOGE staffers met with IMLS leadership late last month. Afterwards, Sonderling sent an email to staff “emphasizing the importance of libraries and museums in cultivating the next generation’s perception of American exceptionalism and patriotism,” the union representative said in a statement to WIRED.

IMLS employees who showed up to work at the agency on Monday were asked to turn in their computers and lost access to their government email addresses before being ordered to head home for the day, the employee says. It’s unclear when, or if, staffers will ever return to work. “It’s heartbreaking on many levels,” the employee adds.

The White House and the Institute of Museum and Library Services did not immediately respond to requests for comment from WIRED.

The annual budget of IMLS amounts to less than $1 per person in the US. Overall, the agency awarded over $269.5 million to library and museum systems last year, according to its grants database. Much of that money is paid out as reimbursements over time, the current IMLS employee says, but now there is no one around to cut checks for funds that have already been allocated.

“The status of previously awarded grants is unclear. Without staff to administer the programs, it is likely that most grants will be terminated,” the American Federation of Government Employee Local 3403 union said in a statement.

About 65 percent of the funding had been allocated to different states, with each one scheduled to receive a minimum of roughly $1.2 million. Recipients can use the money for statewide initiatives or pass it on to local museum and library institutions for expenses such as staff training and back-office software. California and Texas have received the highest allocated funding, at about $12.5 million and $15.7 million, respectively, according to IMLS data. Individual libraries and museums also receive grants directly from IMLS for specific projects.

An art museum in Idaho expected to put $10,350 toward supporting student field trips, according to the IMLS grant database. A North Carolina museum was allotted $23,500 for weaving and fiber art workshops for seniors. And an indigenous community in California expected to put $10,000 toward purchasing books and electronic resources.

In past years, other Native American tribes have received IMLS grants to purchase access to apps such as Hoopla and Libby, which provide free ebooks and audiobooks to library patrons. Some funding from the IMLS also goes to academic projects, such as using virtual reality to preserve Native American cultural archives or studying how AI chatbots could improve access to university research.

Steve Potash, founder and CEO of OverDrive, which develops Libby, says the company has been lobbying Congress and state legislatures for library funding. “What we are consistently hearing is that there is no data or evidence suggesting that federal funds allocated through the IMLS are being misused,” Potash tells WIRED. “In fact, these funds are essential for delivering vital services, often to the most underserved and vulnerable populations.”

Anthony Chow, director of the School of Information at San José State University in California and president-elect of the state library association, tells WIRED that Monday was the deadline to submit receipts for several Native American libraries he says he’d been supporting in their purchase of nearly 54,000 children’s books using IMLS funds. Five tribes, according to Chow, could lose out on a total of about $189,000 in reimbursements. “There is no contingency,” Chow says. “I don’t think any one of us ever thought we would get to this point.”

Managers at IMLS informed their teams on Monday that the work stoppage was in response to a recent executive order issued by Trump that called for reducing the operations of the agency to the bare minimum required by law.

Trump made a number of other unsuccessful attempts to defund the IMLS during his first term. The White House described its latest effort as a necessary part of “eliminating waste and reducing government overreach.” But the president himself has said little about what specifically concerns him about funding libraries; a separate order he signed recently described federally supported Smithsonian museums as peddling “divisive narratives that distort our shared history.”

US libraries and museums receive support from many sources, including public donations and funding from other federal agencies. But IMLS is “the single largest source of critical federal funding for libraries,” according to the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies advocacy group. Libraries and museums in rural areas are particularly reliant on federal funding, according to some library employees and experts.

Systems in big metros such as Los Angeles County and New York City libraries receive only a small fraction of their budget from the IMLS, according to recent internal memos seen by WIRED, which were issued in response to Trump’s March 14 executive order. "For us, it was more a source of money to innovate with or try out new programs,” says a current employee at the New York Public Library, who asked to remain anonymous because they aren’t authorized to speak to the press.

But the loss of IMLS funds could still have consequences in big cities. A major public library system in California is assembling an internal task force to advocate on behalf of the library system with outside donors, according to a current employee who wasn’t authorized to speak about the effort publicly. They say philanthropic organizations that support their library system are already beginning to spend more conservatively, anticipating they may need to fill funding gaps at libraries in areas more dependent on federal dollars.

Some IMLS programs also require states to provide matching funding, and legislatures may be disincentivized to offer support if the federal money disappears, further hampering library and museum budgets, the IMLS employee says.

The IMLS was created by a 1996 law passed by Congress and has historically received bipartisan support. But some conservative groups and politicians have expressed concern that libraries provide public access to content they view as inappropriate, including pornography and books on topics such as transgender people and racial minorities. In February, following a Trump order, schools for kids on overseas military bases restricted access to books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics.”

Last week, a bipartisan group of five US senators led by Jack Reed of Rhode Island urged the Trump administration to follow through on the IMLS grants that Congress had authorized for this year. "We write to remind the administration of its obligation to faithfully execute the provisions of the law," the senators wrote.

Ultimately, the fate of the IMLS could be decided in a showdown between Trump officials, Congress, and the federal courts. With immediate resolution unlikely, experts say museums and libraries unable to make up for lost reimbursements will likely have to scale back services.

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

Hey kurokuma what do you do if you have fallen in love with a beautiful human girl

Oh ho ho, this old song and dance again, huh? Falling in love with a beautiful human girl? Kid, that’s not just dangerous, it’s a one-way ticket to heartbreak city, population: you. But hey, who am I to stand in the way of hormone-fueled disaster wrapped in lace and perfume?

So pull up a chair, get comfortable, and let me spill the metaphorical beans, possibly laced with metaphorical arsenic, on how to navigate this rom-com turned psychological thriller.

First things first, are we talking actual human girl or one of those suspiciously humanoid AI chatbots that say "I’m not like other girls" before crashing your operating system and stealing your crypto wallet? Because if she’s human and you’re…well, you, we’re already off to a problematic start.

Not saying interspecies love is impossible, just saying it usually ends with someone screaming and the other person being chased by government agents in hazmat suits.

When you see her across the room, and your hard drive skips a beat, don’t just go waddling over with your circuits sparking and your internal fans spinning like you’re having a hot flash. Nah, swagger, my man. Imagine you’re in a smoky jazz club. You slide up next to her and drop a line smoother than a greased-up baby bear on a slip 'n slide. So try this:

"Hey, doll. You got more elegance than a triple homicide in a velvet glove."

Too much? Okay, okay. Let’s reel it back. Maybe start with...

“Hi.”

But say it like you just solved a murder mystery and stole the last cigarette in a pack. Confidence is key.

Now, this is the delicate part. You wanna win her heart, not accidentally confess to orchestrating a city-wide massacre or triggering the apocalypse...again. So keep the romantic gestures small. No missile parades. No poison-laced chocolates, unless they’re metaphorical. And for the love of monochrome, don’t serenade her with your jazz rendition of the Danganronpa theme. That song slaps, but it’s not exactly sexy.

Take her somewhere nice. Like a jazz café. Or a library. Or a crime scene where the blood splatter looks like a heart. Something thoughtful.

When it’s time to confess your feelings, make it dramatic. Make it tragic. Make it noir. You pull her aside, rain pouring down, preferably indoors, trench coat flapping in a wind that shouldn’t exist. You say...

"Listen, sweetheart. I ain’t good at this whole ‘feelings’ racket. I’ve seen things...terrible things. Wars. Lies. People eating pineapple on pizza. But nothin'...and I mean nothin'...prepared me for the way you make my body overheat.

And then you wait. Let the silence hang, like a shmuck over a vat of acid.

Now here’s the kicker: she may run. She may scream. She may call animal control. Or worse…she might say she feels the same.

And buddy, if she does?

RUN.

Because that’s how tragedies start. You think you’ve found love, but what you’ve really found is the first domino in a line that leads straight to a double homicide and an opera house explosion. But hey, that’s just part of the game, right?

[mothdogs]

We had “AI training” at work today where they talked about the county’s initiatives to “add AI to our workflow.” They kept calling our workload “our business,” as if the library is a business that needs to optimized rather than a service that needs to be trustworthy and accurate.

During the Q&A portion I asked about the environmental impact and how concerned the county was with that, given that they want us to use Microsoft’s Copilot in our daily fucking jobs, and there was basically a lot of hemming and hawing and bullshitting!!! About how “our county’s total usage is only a drop in the bucket” of the larger environmental impact, as if that makes it okay!! A two hour long training and we spent 75% of it learning about how to write fucking prompts and how much time a chatbot is going to save us in the years to come. Not a word about the ethics of this goddamn bullshit or how building it in to our ask-a-librarian feature actively erodes public trust. I want to burn it all to the fucking ground.

[samueldays]

Previously, I tried using gpt-chatbots to brainstorm RPG content and found that they tended to 'hog the spotlight' - suggestions were too often about the most important character, the mission with the world at stake, the unique legendary artifact. Each one should have been a climactic finish, but I can't make a game out of only that.

Between bot improvements and prompt improvements and giving an example, I've gotten Claude to a point where it's usably good at generalizing from an example, and I thought I'd share some. The first prompt I gave in the session at hand:

I want help writing small modular backstory episodes for Exalted RPG characters. Summarize what you know about the Dragon-Blooded Exalted.

Claude replied with a decent Exalted lore dump, which I vaguely intuit is helpful for chatbot-wrangling: have more setting context on the record without me needing to write it all out, and have the bot get on a roll of providing "correct" information by starting with low-effort recap before I get to my actual request. Second prompt:

Here is one example backstory episode: "You spent time traveling in a thickly haunted region of the Threshold, near a shadowland. The people begged you to be their savior against blood-drinking ghosts that plagued them. Their material gifts were nothing compared to your home lifestyle, but their devotion moved you, and their lore was not entirely without value. Gain a Major Intimacy of Contempt for Ghosts, and the one-dot Exorcist merit." Suggest five backstory episodes of this general nature, phrased in the second person and associated with a Major Intimacy and a narrative drawback.

Claude returned:

1. The Salt-Swept Village You spent a season in a coastal village devastated by tsunami, sent as part of your household's charitable works. While rebuilding their shattered homes, you witnessed how the villagers maintained their dignity and resolve despite losing everything. Their quiet strength moved you deeply. When mercenaries arrived to press-gang the survivors, your elemental fury was unleashed, and the bandits fled before your wrath. You left behind a grateful community who still sends you messages and small tokens of appreciation. Gain: Major Intimacy of Respect for Common Folk Drawback: Gain the Favor (••) Merit toward this village, which will occasionally ask for your help against impossible odds

(continued below the cut)

2. The Wyld Hunt Failure You joined your first Wyld Hunt with pride and anticipation, expecting glorious battle against Anathema. Instead, you found villages burned by your overzealous comrades, innocent lives destroyed on mere suspicion, and ultimately, the Lunar Exalt escaped after killing three Dragon-Blooded you had befriended. The Hunt Master blamed you for questioning orders and "causing delays." This experience left you deeply conflicted about the Immaculate teaching on Anathema. Gain: Major Intimacy of Doubt toward the Immaculate Order Drawback: Enemy (••) - the vindictive Hunt Master who blamed you for the failure now works to undermine your reputation

3. The Forgotten Library While on assignment near the borders of the Realm, you discovered an ancient library from the First Age, partially preserved through forgotten preservation magic. For months you secretly studied these texts, learning forbidden history about the Shogunate and the Usurpation. What you read there contradicted everything you had been taught, including disturbing details about your own Great House's past. When your elders discovered your activities, they had the library destroyed "for the good of all." Gain: Major Intimacy of Dedication to Historical Truth Drawback: Dark Secret (••) - you preserved and hid several texts that would be considered heretical by the Immaculate Order

4. The Threshold Diplomacy You were sent as a diplomatic envoy to a Threshold kingdom with valuable resources. What began as a simple mission became complicated when you discovered your counterpart was a God-Blood with legitimate grievances against the Realm. During months of negotiation, you developed mutual respect and eventually crafted a treaty beneficial to both sides. Your superiors were pleased with the outcome but would be horrified to know how deeply you came to understand the "barbarian" perspective. Gain: Major Intimacy of Conviction that the Realm Must Reform Drawback: Persona Non Grata (••) among the hardliners in your House who suspect you've "gone native"

5. The Elemental Sanctuary During a dangerous journey through the deep wilderness, you sought shelter in what appeared to be an abandoned shrine, only to discover it was a sanctuary for elemental refugees fleeing exploitation. You witnessed firsthand how your people's binding practices had disrupted the natural order, as elementals shared their stories of being bound to power Realm devices or serve as battle fodder. You helped them strengthen their sanctuary's defenses before departing, keeping their secret. Gain: Major Intimacy of Protection toward Elementals Drawback: Foolish Commitment (••) - you have sworn to free elementals bound against their will when you encounter them, regardless of political consequences

It still needs tweaks, Claude is applying fake stat ratings to some Capitalized Drawbacks that aren't in the book, it didn't understand what I meant by "narrative drawbacks", the bot examples feel overly standardized, a bunch of details don't match my view of the setting and my game plans... but those are small tweaks, this is solid raw material that I can adapt instead of having to brainstorm from scratch.

[playstationvii]

Jest: A Concept for a New Programming Language

Summary: "Jest" could be envisioned as a novel computer programming language with a focus on humor, playfulness, or efficiency in a specific domain. Its design might embrace creativity in syntax, a unique philosophy, or a purpose-driven ecosystem for developers. It could potentially bridge accessibility with functionality, making coding intuitive and enjoyable.

Definition: Jest: A hypothetical computer language designed with a balance of simplicity, expressiveness, and potentially humor. The name suggests it might include unconventional features, playful interactions, or focus on lightweight scripting with a minimalist approach to problem-solving.

Expansion: If Jest were to exist, it might embody these features:

Playful Syntax: Commands and expressions that use conversational, quirky, or approachable language. Example:

joke "Why did the loop break? It couldn't handle the pressure!"; if (laughs > 0) { clap(); }

Efficiency-Focused: Ideal for scripting, rapid prototyping, or teaching, with shortcuts that reduce boilerplate code.

Modular Philosophy: Encourages user-created modules or libraries, reflecting its playful tone with practical use cases.

Integrated Humor or Personality: Built-in error messages or prompts might be witty or personalized.

Flexibility: Multi-paradigm support, including functional, procedural, and object-oriented programming.

Transcription: An example code snippet for a Jest-like language:

// Hello World in Jest greet = "Hello, World!"; print(greet); laugh();

A Jest program that calculates Fibonacci numbers might look like this:

// Fibonacci in Jest fib = (n) => n < 2 ? n : fib(n-1) + fib(n-2);

joke "What's the Fibonacci sequence? You'll love it, it grows on you!"; n = 10; print("The Fibonacci number at", n, "is:", fib(n));

Potential Domains:

Gamified education

Creative industries

AI-driven storytelling

Interactive debugging

Would you like me to refine or explore additional aspects?

Certainly! If we were to imagine Jest as the brainchild of a creative coder or team, their portfolio would likely include other innovative or experimental programming languages. Let’s expand on this concept and invent some plausible complementary languages the same inventor might have designed.

Related Languages by the Inventor of Jest

Pantomime

Description: A visual programming language inspired by gesture and movement, where users "drag and drop" symbols or create flowcharts to express logic. Designed for non-coders or children to learn programming through interaction.

Key Features:

Icon-based syntax: Conditional loops, variables, and functions represented visually.

Works seamlessly with Jest for creating visual representations of Jest scripts.

Sample Code (Visual Representation): Flowchart blocks: Input → Decision → Output.

Facet

Description: A declarative programming language focusing on creativity and modularity, aimed at artists, designers, and 3D modelers. Facet could integrate well with game engines and creative suites like Blender or Unity.

Key Features:

Embedded visual tools for shaders, animations, and simulations.

Simplified expressions for creative coding (e.g., animations and generative art).

Sample Code:

shape = circle(radius: 10, color: "blue"); animation = wave(shape, amplitude: 5, frequency: 2); render(animation, duration: 10s);

Quip

Description: A lightweight scripting language built for humor, similar to Jest, but more focused on natural language processing, chatbots, and interactive storytelling.

Key Features:

Syntax mirrors conversational English.

Designed for AI integration, especially in storytelling apps.

Sample Code:

character "Alice" says "Hello! What's your name?"; user_input -> name; character "Alice" says "Nice to meet you, {name}!";

Cryptic

Description: A language for designing cryptography algorithms and secure communications. Aimed at developers interested in blockchain, encryption, or cybersecurity.

Key Features:

High-level abstractions for cryptographic primitives.

Secure-by-design philosophy.

Sample Code:

key = generate_key(algorithm: "AES", length: 256); encrypted_message = encrypt("Hello, World!", key); print(encrypted_message);

Harmony

Description: A reactive programming language for building interactive user interfaces, designed to be highly interoperable with Jest and other tools in the suite. Perfect for web developers and app creators.

Key Features:

Two-way data binding with minimal boilerplate.

Component-based architecture.

Sample Code:

component Button { state: clicked = false; onClick() { clicked = !clicked; alert("Button clicked!"); } } render(Button);

Inventor’s Vision

The coder or team behind Jest and these complementary languages would likely be passionate about:

Accessibility: Making programming intuitive and fun for people of all skill levels.

Playfulness: Infusing coding with creativity, humor, and expressiveness.

Interoperability: Ensuring all their languages work well together for larger projects.

Would you like me to dive deeper into one of these languages, conceptualize others, or expand Jest further?

Expanded Concepts and Bridge Languages

Pantomime

Expansion: Adds support for AR/VR interfaces where users use gestures to program logic in 3D space. For example, drawing a loop physically creates a repetitive cycle.

Bridge Language: GestureScript: Converts AR/VR gestures from Pantomime into traditional code for broader applications.

Facet

Expansion: Enhanced for generative AI tools, allowing users to define complex artistic styles and AI-driven procedural designs.

Bridge Language: PixelForge: Focused on exporting Facet code into game engines, enabling real-time rendering pipelines for interactive environments.

Quip

Expansion: Includes pre-trained AI models for dynamic storytelling, allowing Quip scripts to evolve based on user interaction.

Bridge Language: Narrate: Combines Quip scripts with voice-to-text technologies for live storytelling in games or educational tools.

Cryptic

Expansion: Introduces quantum-safe cryptography primitives and allows simulation of blockchain-like ecosystems for testing purposes.

Bridge Language: CipherBridge: Translates Cryptic code into various blockchain frameworks like Ethereum or Solana.

Harmony

Expansion: Gains support for cross-platform development, allowing users to write code for web, mobile, and IoT devices simultaneously.

Bridge Language: Symphony: Converts Harmony components into platform-native scripts for seamless integration.

Additional Bridge Languages

Echo: Bridges Quip and Jest, enabling storytelling code to trigger functional scripts for immersive experiences.

Morph: A universal language that compiles any Jest family code into executable binaries for specific operating systems.

Thread: Integrates Cryptic and Harmony to build secure, reactive user interfaces for fintech applications.

Canvas: Bridges Facet and Pantomime to create interactive art in AR/VR, blending visual coding with gesture inputs.

Let me know if you'd like a deeper dive into any specific language or bridge concept!

Here's a detailed exploration of Echo, Morph, Thread, Canvas, and all previously mentioned languages, emphasizing their unique applications and advanced functionalities.

Expanded Bridge Languages

Echo

Purpose: Links storytelling elements in Quip with functional programming in Jest, enabling dynamic, immersive interactions between narrative and logic.

Key Features:

Story-driven logic triggers: e.g., a character’s dialogue prompts a database query or API call.

Integration with AI tools for real-time responses.

Use Case: AI-driven chatbots that incorporate both storytelling and complex backend workflows.

Sample Code:

story_event "hero_arrives" triggers fetch_data("weather"); response = "The hero enters amidst a storm: {weather}.";

Morph

Purpose: Acts as a meta-compiler, translating any language in the Jest ecosystem into optimized, platform-specific binaries.

Key Features:

Universal compatibility across operating systems and architectures.

Performance tuning during compilation.

Use Case: Porting a Jest-based application to embedded systems or gaming consoles.

Sample Code:

input: Facet script; target_platform: "PS7"; compile_to_binary();

Thread

Purpose: Combines Cryptic's security features with Harmony's reactive architecture to create secure, interactive user interfaces.

Key Features:

Secure data binding for fintech or healthcare applications.

Integration with blockchain for smart contracts.

Use Case: Decentralized finance (DeFi) apps with intuitive, safe user interfaces.

Sample Code:

bind secure_input("account_number") to blockchain_check("balance"); render UI_component(balance_display);

Canvas

Purpose: Fuses Facet's generative design tools with Pantomime's gesture-based coding for AR/VR art creation.

Key Features:

Real-time 3D design with hand gestures.

Multi-modal export to AR/VR platforms or 3D printers.

Use Case: Collaborative VR environments for designers and architects.

Sample Code:

gesture: "draw_circle" → create_3D_shape("sphere"); gesture: "scale_up" → modify_shape("sphere", scale: 2x); render(scene);

Deep Dive into Main Languages

Jest

Philosophy: A playful, expressive scripting language with versatile syntax tailored for humor, experimentation, and creativity.

Core Application: Writing scripts that blend functional programming with a whimsical, human-readable style.

Pantomime

Expanded Features: Includes AI-driven gesture recognition for predictive modeling and natural motion capture.

Advanced Use: Developing AR apps for rehabilitation therapy where exercises are coded as gestures.

Facet

Advanced Use: Procedural generation in games, defining terrains, weather systems, and NPC behaviors with artistic flair.

Quip

Advanced Features: Integrates pre-trained language models for nuanced, character-driven dialogue trees.

Advanced Use: Creating adaptive narratives in games where user decisions alter the story arc.

Cryptic

Advanced Features: Quantum-safe algorithms and AI-enhanced key generation for unbreakable security.

Advanced Use: Designing multi-layered blockchain ecosystems with Cryptic’s high-level abstractions.

Harmony

Advanced Features: Adaptive UIs that respond to user emotion, tracked via AI-enhanced cameras.

Advanced Use: Apps for mental health, where interfaces adjust to user stress levels.

Proposed New Bridge Languages

Chord

Bridges Harmony and Facet for designing interactive music-based visual art.

Use Case: Music videos where the visuals respond to real-time sound input.

Path

Links Cryptic and Canvas for secure AR/VR environments.

Use Case: Virtual meetings in secure, customized 3D spaces.

Fable

Connects Quip and Pantomime for storytelling via interactive gestures.

Use Case: VR education apps where lessons are taught through immersive narratives.

Would you like a specific implementation plan for any of these languages or applications?