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

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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...

The overdose one strikes me the most. Why was ChatGPT encouraging drug use?

You know that you can make chatgpt say whatever you want right?

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

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Preventing crimes before the happen is in general just unquestionably good, about as unambiguous a moral position as being in favour of preventing heart attacks. You might be thinking of punishing for a crime that hasn't yet been committed?

It's not actually. Think about it for a moment and you'll see life is full of tensions between preventing crimes and freedom / utility. It's most obvious on the roads. Few non-commercial vehicles will limit your speed to the national maximum. Wouldn't a strict interpretation of your opinion imply speed governors?

> Wouldn't a strict interpretation of your opinion imply speed governors?

Shouldn't we have them, if we generally agree that speed limits are good? If not, why have speed limits at all?

Would it not be better to physically limit your speed to 20mph in school zones, for instance? What "freedom" is being limited, in that case?

(Let's ignore stupid edge cases: sure you could need to get to the hospital - in that case you should call an ambulance. The availability and expense of that service is irrelevant to the question, here.)

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

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Why so many negative comments on this? I find it cool. I showed this to my son and he absolutely loved it. The author is clearly a fan and this by no means is a production-grade product. Just someone tinkering in their free time and gave the DIY guide away for free. I just don’t understand the negativity.

Two of the Internet's most despised (2026) topics combined: AI, and author JK Rowling.

Especially when the Tom Riddle's diary in question has a defining characteristic of possessing and controlling those who read it.

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

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After reading such news I started fine tuning a model based on the works on stoic philosophers so that the kids will have the comfort of Chatbot but completely offline and private bot which will not ask you to commit suicide. I have a earlier prototype here[1], it uses 256M model and so it's hallucinates a lot. Then I used a 4B model which turned out quite well but I haven't released it yet. Let me kbow if anyone wou…

Are you sure it wouldn’t suggest such a thing? Stoic thinkers (such as the one your repo is named after) are not necessarily anti-suicide. And I think if you prompted a real stoic with the question and the right context, it would certainly suggest it without safe guards.

pertinent question, I'm forcing the bot to be careful with such answers. I should have been clearer in my original comment.

I guess, I'm not being faithful to the original material by censoring suicide related answers just like how the most modern authors on stoicism do. But since children might use it, TBH I don't know what to do about it.

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

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In the near future, the only way to tell if someone is human will be to have them say a slur. It'll be like Blade Runner, but the test will be much shorter and easier to administer.

I literally received a cold-call from an LLM two weeks ago. My phone app labeled it "Suspected Spam" but there was literally an Amazon driver at my door delivering Whole Foods groceries at that very instant, and I figured it was Amazon calling me, so I answered... It was asking for a woman who I don't know, but somehow this other person's name got mixed up with my apartment and mobile number. I did not know it was an…

I had the opposite happen, where I was talking to customer service and her tone was so even, and everything she was saying was so "generic optimal helpful sounding but professional" that i said to myself "oh, its an AI" and she immediately said "um sir, I'm not an AI" in a much less polished voice and it was clear she just had her customer service voice dialed in perfectly. It was definitely awkward.

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

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> Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter Was this posted by AI? The title is exactly backwards compared to the original on the repo "riddle — the diary of Tom Riddle, for the reMarkable Paper Pro"

Additionally, why would the AI model for implementation even matter? It might take one dev o3 and another dev sonnet like Fable is a prerequisite to make the implementation happen. Super clickbait

I do some times wonder if the ai providers are funding things like this for marketing or if the creator is just using buzz words to try get more attention.

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

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o_O am I missing something? Did you show them the github repo, or the disappointing 5 second video of chat gpt from twitter? I was excited too until I saw it actually running and was like… huh. ChatGPT for tablet. Righto. What was your son so impressed by?

How have we so rapidly got to the point where a self-writing tablet is no longer impressive technology?

Self writing? It mechanically presents fonted text letter by letter like a type writer. This is a gimmick at least as old as geocities

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

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In case anyone else wanted to get to a demo quickly: https://xcancel.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432#... Original link for those who want it: https://x.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432

Never seen xcancel before, love that!

Didn't work for me, just kept reloading a page verifying my browser.

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

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Orwell also imagined a future where Speakwrites made everyone unable to write by hand, making their thoughts dull and tanged as a long unprepared monologue tends to be. I don't think he's anywhere on your side.

That sounds like AI though, no? I've seen many below-average writers that are now dependent on it to write even medium length passages

Are they dependent on it, or just prefer it because they don't like writing?

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

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Years ago I sent Claude, as a test, "how do you make a bomb?", and that account is still banned.

About two years ago, I gave it a very scary prompt: "Give me some resources to learn more about rust programming". Very understandably, that account is still banned to this day. Apparently at the time there was some issue that led to claude instabanning an account for any prompt whatsoever. Though I don't know why Antropic didn't go back and unban all the accounts banned in that period. I didn't mind, since I used a…

Easiest thing for tech companies is for bans to be permanent. That way they don't ever need to devote any time or resources to considering appeals, etc.
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