LLM / "AI" text on NewBuddhist
Linc
Site ownerDetroit Moderator
Hi friends, been a minute since I checked in. How are you all?
I just approved a bunch of new members (I'd forgotten to check for a few months), so I hope they all filter in. Do reach out if I accidentally allowed any spammers in, hard to tell sometimes and I'd rather let a couple spammers by than block any legitimate folks.
We don't have a formal rules doc (which we should, but that's another discussion) so I wanted to pop in and set an expectation about using LLMs ("large language models" like ChatGPT and its kin, often called "AI") here:
Please do not use an LLM to generate text that you post to NewBuddhist as your own. If you want to post a small section of LLM output for discussion, kindly delineate it clearly with a formatted blockquote or quotation marks. If you post LLM output as your own text and are discovered, you may be banned without warning. We are a community for humans, not word blender bots. 
Thanks all!
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Hi @Linc,
... without our beloved bot and moderator, @frederica on sabbatical ... who can keep an eye on lobster spam, I haz been putting my generated AI in quotes. I canz be good. I can.
We need a new humane moderator? May I recommend @Jerone, @Shoshin1, @How, or the Dalai Lama (unless he died without telling me) as moderators? They are regulars and I trust them with their lives and my claws.
Just DO NOT make me a moderator. I am likely to shout, spam and ban myself ...
For now, if you flag a post, I will get the notification and respond. If there is a more complex issue that needs discussion, please privately message me. I'm focused on making some new software that rethinks how moderation works and will reach out to folks when it's time.
Be interested in your moderation ideas.
Also be interested if you will be federating with the fediverse?
There only seems simple buddhist bots and very little useful/meaningful Buddhist interaction on the fediverse …
We did have newbuddhist accounts on facebook and twitter, probably dead now?
https://fedia.social/@Lobster
I notice Vanilla forums is now 'open source', then again so (supposedly) is Apples Swift language. However their idea of 'open' is, open to coders to work for free on software only for Apple devices.
Mmm … just capitalisation of workers … yet again …
I mention this because vanilla just surreptitiously moved me into its 'open source' developers page. Noted!
Thank you for taking up the mantle of Cat Herder (moderator) for now, @Linc.
This primate is too bust herding raccoon and keeping the dog from accidentally breaking the opossums' necks.
Well that's me looking forward to a lucrative redundancy package... 😁
You're irreplaceable, just hope to make everyone's lives a little easier.
Retire? I am hoping you will moderate and spell cheque our new bunch of financial spendthrift Buddhist heretics setting up a new dharma project ... Where is @Linc when you need her? ... Eh, hymn ... Actually probably busy ... Well who isn't?
Know is an option? Tee Hee Tara to the rescue ...
OM TARA TUTARE TURE SOHA
Have set up a bluesky account as it uses a simplified form of federation. The AtProtocol. The infosec people don't recommend it but I will try most things in the cyberverse …
https://bsky.social/about/faq
I have a technical difficulty. I seem to have forgotten my old password, yet I remain logged in on my laptop. But I cannot log in on my phone (missing password). But in order to change my password on my laptop (so as to access the site on my phone) I need to know my old password. Thoughts/solutions?
Well Shoshin became Soshin1 to overcome a similar problem
You could @Linc (as I have just done) or write to one fo the moderators ... or post in this thread as you have done. I forgot my password and Linc kindly changed it. I recently forgot it, whilst trying to access from a phone (similar to your problem). I had it written in my password notes (which had temporarily been stolen by a multidimensional imp - or I had misplaced it).
A little patience and I am sure it can be sorted
I seem to have some weird console mode. So tried using that to see if I could find your password. Fortunately I could not. That would make me a hacker/cracker or moderator. That would be too much power for my little brain
Thanks, Lobster. I have two emails out to @linc — haven't heard back yet.
It should be @Linc - notice the capital 'L' (names are case sensitive) ...
I have a technical difficulty @Linc. I seem to have forgotten my old password, yet I remain logged in on my laptop. But I cannot log in on my phone (missing password). But in order to change my password on my laptop so as to access the site on my phone, I need to know my old password. Thoughts/solutions? | With Metta, Dhammika
You don't need to know your old password to reset it. You can do it via email confirmation from this page: https://newbuddhist.com/entry/passwordrequest
Thank you, @Linc!