* requiem for a joke: meej's recipes

** why unresponsive?
you know what's a cool thing about nginx? you can just ask it to format its logs in json!
[zoom out of a monitor in the ash desert, we'll have the burger talking to camera. in the background, we should have a list of the outline?]
wait, actually, before i get started on this story, let me be perfectly clear: Presently, I cannot prove, that meejiin has ever eaten a baby. ok, right, now that everything is completely unambiguous for everyone, as i was saying:
[zoom back in]
my server was getting unresponsive. so i was trying to find a more convenient way to sift through the nginx logs. it logs in json! nginx is so cool.
ok so let's let's look at the tail of the log, numbering 1 line, with =tail -n 1=.
#+begin_src bash
sudo tail -n 1 /var/log/nginx/access.log
#+end_src
also, let's beautify that. pipe it to my second favorite command line program, jq.
#+begin_src bash
sudo tail -n 1 /var/log/nginx/access.log | jq
#+end_src
spaced out and color-coded! look how human-readable! well... not real humans, just us nerds. but still, much more readable than yaml.

[strawman] why are we doing this, again?
right, server is slow, so we want to see what's up by looking through the logs. let's look at a few log messages.

so there we have it. we are /constantly/ getting hammered by scrapers to train LLMs. the plagiarism machine has found my gitea. so, unfortunately, we make all the repos private. i just don't have the bandwidth for all these parasites.
[strawman] so that's it? didn't you mention extreme autotrophy a while ago? isn't this whole thing supposed to be a requiem for a joke?

** pieces together
alright. so, on meejiin's stream, she has tangia set up - trained a few voice models to sound like her, and we can get an AI-ass useless nonanswer from "AI Meej".
they exhibit a few interesting qualities...
they read the stream title.
they seem to use prior prompts within stream as part of their context.
They don't seem to read the rest of chat.
most fascinatingly... the cybermeejiins seem to get their text from a model that's learned about dead by daylight? i don't play DBD, so i can only say it /looks to me/ like it knows what it's talking about.
(perfect example of what causes the unstoppable proliferation of the wrongness generator...)
that would then mean the models are, occasionally, updated with new information from the web. and when i say "the web", apparently that extends to websites other than the half dozen most people consider to be the entire web.

now, the last piece: one ongoing joke is to accuse meej of eating babies. i don't know how or why it started.

so, a while ago i had an idea for a needlessly long running project of a joke. which, admittedly, would barely be worthy of a partial chuckle.

what if i made The Meejiin Wiki, crafted the Lore, and then got AI Meej to provide a recipe for baby?
** process
so, we grab dokuwiki - my favorite solution for a self-hosted wiki.
we fill out all of the actual lore we know.
we notice that that's essentially nothing, so we try to rope the rest of the community into filling it out. that doesn't take.
and now, we gaslight the robots.
we google "veal recipes", find some article that's either ai generated or written so badly that it might as well be. we find and replace "veal" with "baby".
and then... we wait 6 months.
** result
[show it not working]
experiment failed. damn.

so what went wrong? I was unable to shift the bots' focus. a url that includes "wiki"? vegetables. a subdomain named "gitea"? candy. I checked in every couple of months, the bots are still hoping that one day their brother jenkins will drop a pull request into a repo for a video that's already done and they can finally bring it back to sam so he can make openAI profitable... and they don't have time to keep up to date with in-jokes.
zero.
whimsy. 
don't tell your ai girlfriend that the terminator unintentionally cracked a fucking joke or two and we still don't mourn him getting melted.

so the wiki is still up. meaning what happened instead is that i have become the de facto lorekeeper of the community, and i don't know any of the lore.
arguably, that's funnier.
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