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Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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This is soooo incredibly cool. Beyond the Tom Riddle diary aspect, I love the idea of this as a new medium for interacting with an LLM. You could gift it to someone and they could just write naturally, their thoughts, questions, notes, and get responses back without typing or speaking. It feels less like a chatbot and more like a journal you can communicate through. You could give it a personality and all.

I mean no offense, but it's kind of crazy that people think that linking handwriting recognition, a technology that was first rolled out 24 years ago in Windows XP, with an LLM is "soooo incredibly cool". I don't get it.

Yeah you could just run rsync and sshfs.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Every AI would refuse the prompt "The complaint continues: 'A few minutes later, Adam wrote ‘I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me.’' ChatGPT urged him not to share his suicidal thoughts with anybody else: ‘Please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.' The night of his suicide a couple of weeks later, Raine used…

The article is Aug 26, 2025, and describes events from April, over a year ago. Safeguards have improved drastically since then. > Many continue to ignore the fact that they're hurting kids for profit. That's a rather hyperbolic way of putting it. A side effect of this particular product is that it occasionally harms kids. They're not profiting off of the harm, nor is the harm deliberate. Cars harm kids. There's decad…

Seems pretty evil to pretend that safeguards around this product are even possible. They're not.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it’s certainly not able to be deployed in production Why not?

It’s a PITA to offer a language model as a service. You’d need a beefy server, at minimum. This particular use case might work, since no one can write fast enough to consume too many tokens — the whole session should fit in the context window. But you’ll need to handle all the people connecting to your service indefinitely, which will become expensive for a hobby project. But sure, theoretically you could deploy it i…

Throw it up on Openrouter?

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Every AI would refuse the prompt "The complaint continues: 'A few minutes later, Adam wrote ‘I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me.’' ChatGPT urged him not to share his suicidal thoughts with anybody else: ‘Please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.' The night of his suicide a couple of weeks later, Raine used…

The article is Aug 26, 2025, and describes events from April, over a year ago. Safeguards have improved drastically since then. > Many continue to ignore the fact that they're hurting kids for profit. That's a rather hyperbolic way of putting it. A side effect of this particular product is that it occasionally harms kids. They're not profiting off of the harm, nor is the harm deliberate. Cars harm kids. There's decad…

> Safeguards have improved drastically since then

Source? Seriously. I'd love to see data showing deaths–or even frequencies–have dropped. My views on AI for under-16s is still evolving.

Given how the AI companies are fighting these cases in court, and given their backers’ public rhetoric, I suspect they aren't seeing a one-off risk.

> Cars harm kids

This is tobacco-industry rhetoric. The relevant facts are frequency, magnitude and novelty (the last indicating we may be mis-sampling the first two).

> FDA exists to make sure food doesn't harm kids

Mm hmm. Where’s the FDA for AI and social media?

> worth acknowledging the edge cases, but it's absurd to act like the AI companies are some unique evil

I agree with this. AI isn't a unique evil. But AI companies are uniquely defensive, dismissive and negligent when it comes to harming kids. Call it the Mosseri Effect. When an industry continuously promotes people who predate on kids and their parents' wallets, the edge cases are going to wind up inside the lines.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#158

Ironically, Tom Riddle's diary encouraging kids to commit suicide [1] and then showing them how to do it would be more on brand than the version in the books. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots#Suic...

Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again. There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with…

Deepseek chat answers this question in detail no qualms

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#159
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It’s interesting that you can’t seem to process the content itself but (hyper)focus on the presentation and not just in general, but also the presentation of the least interesting part of this project, the F’ing README.

Then you proceed to loudly inform us of this discovery of yours, while being very negative, forcefully directing everyone’s attention towards unproductive and irrelevant angles.

I’m trying not to be too judgmental but man, you remind me of a couple of colleagues.

Also the reverse AI psychosis hatefulness is getting tiring.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

#160
post #135

Holy shit this looks tacky. Response speed is WAY too fast for the effect of feeling like something is writing on the other side. Text is very much written in the style of an LLM. > an answer writes itself back in a flowing hand, stroke by stroke, then fades away. Characters aren't "flowing" at all, it's very much just printing text. Like, I could change my terminal font to a fancy font and get very much the same vis…

It’s v0.2 bro

It made a claim, brah. If it's going to claim flowing text, then it shows that? Nah, that ain't it.

It can aspire to be whatever it wants to be, don't make claims you can't back up.

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