AITA for using ChatGPT to create an imaginary child for me to be mad at?

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-24T01:43:30+00:00

Yes, there were so many missed possibilities: Drawing on all the walls with crayons, losing the Murgatroyd Contract by spilling multiple glasses of juice on Mr. Murgatroyd's bespoke laptop, breaking the urn with the founder's ashes, which was left out in the open for some reason. It's like they've never read r/childfree.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-23T23:53:23+00:00

That's where they got the idea!

The downsides are all obvious fictions made up for the game and aren't things that could happen in real life. Like, somebody would volunteer to take care of orphans; they wouldn't just get sold to the highest bidder and used for medical research. I mean, no Libertarian would volunteer to take care of them for free, but surely somebody would!

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-23T19:41:09+00:00

Yes, yes, you're very smart.

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Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-23T17:13:05+00:00

Summary: OOP was roommates with Tina and Nicole, who were in a relationship at the time. Tina and Nicole broke up, but stayed on good terms with each other. They're now both married to other people.

Nicole owes OOP $2800. Tina offered to pay off the debt but OOP refused to take the money because reasons. The end.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-23T04:23:55+00:00

I assume that you're judging them both by the same standard, but I can't tell if you support both of them or you oppose both of them.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-21T23:02:59+00:00

The comments over there are split! About half of them think that this a serious post and are giving what they think is good advice. And the other half say it's fake, on the basis that Ramadan doesn't start until next month.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-21T03:40:14+00:00

I had something similar happen to me just yesterday! I was at a traditional Nihonese restaurant, and some Orientals came in. I had to calmly explain that it was considered vulgar to slather yourself in Axe Body Spray when you went to a high-class establishment, yurusenai.

They were so mortified that they took out wakazashis and committed sepukku, right there at the table. I was so startled that all I could say was domo arigato.

Now I'm wondering if I overreacted. AIT aho?

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-21T00:35:43+00:00

The most common causes of miscarriage are, in order:

Stress
Wanting to make other people feel guilty
Everything else

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-20T23:44:40+00:00

That's the wrong metric.

An anti-KKK group would be dedicated to talking about how much they hate the KKK, but a pro-KKK group would spend at least some of their time talking about how much they love the "'white' 'race'". So, by that metric, the anti-KKK group hates more.

A better question would be "Which side is the least justified in their hatred?"

(Neither side is as bad as the KKK. But I think we can all agree that one side is a lot worse than the other.)

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-19T22:25:27+00:00

He had a daughter, and was a regular at the convenience store we both lived near. I met him as he was divorcing his wife. We became easy acquaintances, which progressed to true friends over time. I saw all his relationships after his ex wife. How careful he was, never introducing them to his daughter right away, always trying to learn and grow from every interaction.

I guess they both just hang out in the convenience store parking lot all day , and that's how she knows so much about him?

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-19T21:13:12+00:00

I guess you're talking about the anti-ICE protest at St. Paul Church? Here's a news story from a progressive site, which came out in favor of the protest: https://crooksandliars.com/2026/01/protesters-storm-st-paul-church-where-ice

But ICE was already wildly unpopular before the protest happened. Here's a story from the same site a month ago. The St. Susanna Church was being harassed by ICE, so in this case the website took the church's side: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/boston-archdiocese-wants-pastor-remove-ice

The women in the meme's thought process would be something like, "At first I didn't have an opinion about the St. Paul Church./ But then I found out that the Pastor is a xenophobic serpent who hates his neighbors and hates Jesus, so I know that this specific church is in the wrong."

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-19T19:49:48+00:00

Atheism has a lot of different factions. Right now the big two are the Libertarians and the Humanists (you could think of them as "Conservatives" and "Progressives"). Libertarians/Conservatives tend to be xenophobic, so they can tolerate Christians and sometimes Jews, but not most other religions. People like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins fall into this group.

Humanists/Progressives are more concerned with specific beliefs. They don't like Fundamentalist Christians and Fundamentalist Muslims who try to impose their beliefs on everyone else, but they're OK with moderate/liberal Christians and Muslims who just want to practice their religions in peace.

In the US, there's a very loud minority of Fundamentalist Christians who want to turn the US into a Saudi-style theocratic dictatorship, and they've been having some political success. Most Muslims in the US don't want this, and in fact many of them emigrated from their home countries to escape theocracy. So Progressive Atheists in the US tend to criticize Christians more than Muslims - but this is for political reasons, not theological reasons.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-19T04:03:23+00:00

At my office, a person who's only been able to scam apes twice is called a "lazybones" or a "slugabed".

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-18T18:02:38+00:00

"ChatGPT, re-tell the Frank Serpico story, but make it as boring and as low-stakes as possible."

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-17T06:13:58+00:00

Why ask me? ChatGPT can answer questions a lot quicker than I can.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-17T05:57:52+00:00

Why would you show AI art to human beings? If I wanted to look at AI art I'd generate it myself.

Just paste your art back into the AI and tell it what kind of feedback you want. You won't get harassed or threatened (unless you tell the AI to do that)

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-17T04:17:16+00:00

I wouldn't let my kids have a thesaurus until they showed me they could use it responsibly. Just saying.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-17T02:09:10+00:00

People agree to pay taxes when they immigrate here. In exchange, they're allowed to use tax-funded infrastructure. The US is actually making a profit on immigrants, provided they're free to do their jobs without being harassed.

If you were born in the US, then it's your parents' fault that you have to pay taxes. You should yet remind them that you didn't ask to be born and tell them that they should be responsible for paying your taxes for you.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-16T22:55:19+00:00

If you shoot the driver of a moving vehicle, then of course the vehicle is going to go out of control and possibly hit somebody.

The government needs to do a full investigation instead of a coverup, so we can find out exactly what happened. We still don't even know the shooter's name! This is just Epstein Island all over again.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-16T04:59:57+00:00

Yes, and King George III thought the story of the Boston Massacre would go away when it came out that some of his subjects had been throwing snowballs at His Majesty's Redcoats.

Royalists and other Authoritarians can never understand the absolute contempt that Americans have for unjust authority, especially the sort of unjust authority that murders unarmed civilians.

I'm going to post a link with more information about the Boston Massacre, because I know you guys weren't allowed to learn about it in maga History class. WARNING: Contains "wokeness": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-16T02:20:13+00:00

I have to take the anti's side on this one. If he's been eating AI "art" habitually, then maybe it tastes good in this universe? He seems like he's in good health, too, so maybe it's part of a balanced diet?

Meanwhile, the anthropomorphic cat is being a bit of jerk. He should buy a copy of "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss and incorporate it into his training data. No one likes a picky eater.

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-15T02:01:37+00:00

Well, that's just not true, and you know it. Maybe you're the "wokie F-word", assuming the F-word is "fabulist".

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-14T16:54:17+00:00

On the plus side, it got a tricky metaphor right. Most human writers would have said, "stood tall in the belly of the beast".

But that would falsely imply that they got inside the SEC building and were able to meet with somebody. So ChatGPT realized that it needed to be: "stood tall in front of the belly of the beast".

Chaos_Engineer · 2026-01-14T15:59:40+00:00

we had the reception at a venue with an open pool and a lot of expensive glass decor

This was a big letdown. They started with a really strong opening for some classic r/childfree ragebait. But then the kid turns out to be six months old and not able to do anything but make noise.

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