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Shared fiction communities happen naturally when you have simple rules and a strong appealing grounding (visually, intellectually, ritually, or otherwise). See: Minecraft, Sonic, M…

Pre-AI I worked on a lot of (niche) open source; I've had several jaw-dropping moments when a friend or employee would tell me we should stop working on X because we're just making…

Meaning, the demigod twins? For 2000 years the name has been used for a mythological constellation, which takes the cake for being the "real" Gemini if that matters.

I am kind of surprised GitHub doesn't seem to have built a simple classifier for public repos to proactively lock the account of anyone uploading such obviously fishy things (for t…

What happens when OpenAI et al stop being open about these things, and just pack it into the training?

This is effectively code surreptitiously designed to act against the user's wishes. You could call it malware. I wonder what Stallman (creator of GCC and notorious hardliner on the…

The target audience of this blog post does not give a damn about PyPI. The affected parties get literally nothing from this post. They already disclosed behind the scenes, that was…

Everyone please download Roblox and see what it is if you haven't. Especially if you're a parent. You don't understand the meaning of "slop" or "brainrot" until you "play" a Roblox…

For better or worse there will definitely be services that AIs will use to get bodies (human or otherwise), for a fee. This already exists, just not in the mainstream. At the risk …

Look at how many times the current government has tried to shut down reporting that didn't tow the current party line. Selective access, prosecutions, lawsuits, threats to block me…

Parroting seems like the same thing ("out-of-context clickbait eye-catching headline snippet"), except without any checks or oversight.

What's procedural? The meshes? Textures? I'm impressed that I wasn't able to drive into a void, a lot of times I see things like this and it's a single generation pass that ends af…

> Trump Media may soon sell early access to the president’s Truth Social posts. Think about whether the spirit of the domestic/foreign emoluments clause would be okay with this. I'…

Not so much malice as greed and lack of empathy.

The people regulating this are the people profiting from it. Championing change isn't too different from prostrating in front of the King. Your advice might work in a different wor…

When I interview someone and they are scared of `git rebase -i` it's a huge red flag. Git rebase has such foundational data structures and concepts that you couldn't pass a serious…

This is a more reasoned take than most reactions to AI. But nobody wants to consider the possibility that maybe we won't actually need what was traditionally called lawyers in the …

You can thank everyone who thumbs up this response along the training pipeline. Modern LLMs are not too different from Reddit/Twitter in that regard, I'm sure the AI labs learned (…

The trend (and what TFA is arguing) is literally the opposite: be more implicit, don't waste time on details, and encode the high level concepts only. Because the rest has a billio…

What's "Top U.S. Models"? Even if we know what the set is, it's not clear what the numbers actually mean. Is it min, max, average, weighted, median of the models? Prerelease or pub…

All three could be true. Industry pressures -> lack of safeguards -> fake it till you make it -> let's spin this. Which, by the way, would be an Orwellian reversal from what the co…

It's not surprising; anyone who thinks share price is something other than what investors are willing to pay has become someone's sucker. And the industry could not exist without a…

> Sometimes I live stream what I’m doing just because with a camera I cannot escape from hard challenges by grabbing my phone. This is a great life hack, I highly recommend it if y…

Besides serving no purpose other than an attempt to enforce software by fiat (which would hurt legitimate business, make US AI companies noncompetitive, and do nothing to stop ille…

> I think the more productive way for frontier models to interact with a unity project is to directly manipulate the raw scene files. I disagree. Even moreso than webdev, gamedev b…