Yes

You are definitely not overreacting, they are nutjobs. No offense. To you, that is.

Tell everyone getting manipulated into harrassment-by-extension, here, that it’s completely fucking unacceptable. Gently at first since they probably don’t realize they’re being pawns, but give some thought to how you’d explain the context and figure out what story they’ve been sold.

Out of a hundred possible good reasons to delete, it’ll probably be perceived as something you did wrong, because then people can gloat.

I have been wondering if “No Stupid Questions” is being misunderstood as a challenge. Originally, I think it was meant to be “no question too ‘obvious’”, but sometimes it does seem like there’s a contest on for asking the dumbest shit imaginable. All things considered LLM slop is likely, but it could still be “literally any topic for attention or activity’s sake” or plain old trolling.

When it comes to deleted threads that makes a lot of sense if you’re running a scam, but I suspect it’s also how people would react if enough people called them out for a bot.

Ah yes, the stigma against AI, the stigma that is actually pretty well founded given how it’s dogshit at anything other than BS-ing. The stigma that’s an obvious reaction to shoe horning a hype fueled scam into every fucking thinkable thing. That stigma?

Realistically, whichever one is the most commonly used in your project/framework/language/whatever, so it doesn’t stick out as an inconsistency. If you’re wondering about this now, it’s a potential point of confusion for anyone who needs to read the code, including future you.

If you want to be really picky about engineering: are you sure you do need to write the function at all? How does the new function save time/effort or make code easier to read and write? Do you write a lot of code where you need random vectors, and does “random vector” mean the same thing in all cases? Would the function itself just make more code that needs maintaining, possibly indefinitely?