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I named my baby after a weapon – people say it’s ‘terrible’ but the spelling is a real ‘tragedeigh’
A PAIR of expecting parents shared their happy news with loved ones, but some weren’t too thrilled about what the little one would be called.
After detailing the name they’d picked, the couple was hit with shocked and short remarks from their family and plenty of trolling from strangers.
New parents shared their baby name, and online trolls had a heyday[/caption]
The anonymized exchange was shared in a Facebook group called “That’s it, I’m bored and shaming everything,” where users ruthlessly criticize anything and everything.
In a screenshot, a user shared an exchange between an expectant parent and a congratulatory loved one.
“Have you picked out any names?” the person who shared the screenshot asked the mom-or-dad-to-be.
“I’m pretty sure we are naming her Reighfyl,” the new parent wrote back. “Pronounced like ‘rifle.’”
The original poster’s one-word response said it all: “Oh.”
In the comments section on Facebook, people ripped into the parents and the “terrible, terrible name” they chose.
“You can’t put ‘eigh’ into just any name and call it good,” one critic said.
“That name is a Tragedeigh,” a fellow troll agreed.
Many were worried about the child being criticized by others when she reached school.
“Kindergarten is going to be so hard for that little baby,” one sympathetic commenter wrote.
“I hate parents who give their kids uncommon, hard-to-say or spell names,” another agreed.
They continued, “It is a lifetime curse of correcting people, spelling your name for people, and finally just answering to any name that sounds vaguely like yours.”
“I’m okay with an unusual name,” a member of the group wrote, “BUT rifle isn’t great already.
“Seriously just stared at the name,” they added. “Until reading the ‘rifle’ I did not get it. This is awful.”
The weapon-inspired name might open the door for feminized versions of other violent words, another person said.
As examples, they listed Felony, Syndikeight (syndicate), Cartel, Butcher, or even Jennicyde (genocide).
One person said the name sounded like a medication, while another said it was a “Scrabble tile name.”
“Just throw them down and see what you come up with,” they joked.
And one clever commenter shared their strategy for reacting with poise when they meet a child with a unique name.
“Me when I hear a ridiculous child’s name and I need to know more about it without sounding too much like an a**: ‘oh wow, is that a family name?’” they wrote.
For related content, check out The U.S. Sun’s coverage of the ‘dark and moody’ monikers that one professional baby namer says will rule 2023.
The U.S. Sun also has the story of a mother who gave her kids names some say are more suited for dogs.
‘ChatGPT Wrote a Terrible Gizmodo Article’
In short: ChatGPT was not very good at writing a Gizmodo article — at least not one about the machine learning tech that underpins it. After probably a dozen tries or more, the following is the best ChatGPT managed to come up with: “Large language models, also known as neural network-based language models, have gained a lot of attention in recent years for their ability to generate human-like text. These models are trained on massive amounts of text data, and use advanced machine learning algorithms to learn the patterns and structures of natural language. One of the most well-known examples of a large language model is GPT-3, developed by OpenAI. This model was trained on more than 45 terabytes of text data, and has 175 billion parameters, which are the variables that the model uses to make predictions. In machine learning, a parameter is a variable that the model uses to make predictions. These parameters are adjusted during training, allowing the model to improve its performance on the task it was trained for. In the case of large language models, such as GPT-3, the model has a large number of parameters, often in the billions, which allows it to learn the intricate patterns and structures of natural language and generate highly coherent and fluent text.” ChatGPT’s writing may be competently constructed and able to break down the concepts it’s tackling, but it wasn’t able to produce a “particularly bold or entertaining piece of writing,” says Gizmodo. “In short: this article wasn’t the easy lift that we thought it would be.”
“After asking the chatbot to write about itself a dozen different ways, the program consistently seemed to leave something critical out of its final draft — be that exciting prose or accurate facts.”
That said, ChatGPT did manage to write an amusing poem about Slashdot. It also had a number of things to say about itself.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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