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Is it not a copyright infringement if you pain it yourself? Why is that the case? I thought it would be just that studios wouldn't care for the most part. Hasn't Disney gone after this type of personal projects in the past?
It seems like people here have already made up their mind about how bad llms are. So just my anecdote here, it helped me out of some really dark places. Talking to humans (non psychologists) had the opposite effect. Between a non professional and an llm, i'd pick llm for myself. Others should definitely seek help.
Shushh, don't tell people about Streisand Effect.
Law of the land. Must follow it to operate in that jurisdiction
Re:Questions to ask when you think need to finish something on Sunday September 28, 2025 @09:05AM (#45404049)
Questions to ask when you think you need to finish something? Sorry for the nitpick, typically my brain completes missing words easily. Must be the lack of coffee here.
Re:Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption on Thursday September 11, 2025 @11:54PM (#45218514)
Yes! you're absolutely right!
So, in other words, it's a "really good thing".
Re:The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @01:43AM (#44166734)
Got recommended this by George Hotz somewhere and I remember enjoying this.
Noam Shazeer says it at some point in the Dwarkesh Patel podcast.

Edit : Saw multiple people comment by the time I hit sent. Was it also memorable for you guys? I think it was just the way he said it or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gjI__RyCY

Re:Claude 4 System Cards Highlights on Sunday May 25, 2025 @06:55AM (#44086942)
I have the same experience. I was pretty happy with gemini 2.5 pro and was barely using claude 3.7. Now I am strictly using claude 4 (sonnet mostly). Especially with tasks that require multi tool use, it nicely self corrects which I never noticed in 3.7 when I used it.

But it's different in conversational sense as well. Might be the novelty, but I really enjoy it. I have had 2 instances where it had very different take and kind of stuck with me.

Re:ChatGPT Is a Gimmick on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:26AM (#44059962)
This sounds like the "self-assured gotcha" the parent is frowning about.
Re:Things that have a bigger impact than coding assistants on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @09:54AM (#44051481)
Content is left as an exercise to the readers.
Re:Jules: An Asynchronous Coding Agent on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:19PM (#44036434)
What about "VC" AI that wants a unicorn? :D
Nah, realizing I don't have to constantly be thinking about relationship was what made things a lot less stressful for me. It's still stressful. But at least I get to mind my own business. Not saying everyone is like me. Maybe no one is. But it was better for me to mind my own business and internally say fork you to all the superficial relationships.
RL is still training. Just like pretraining is still training. SFT is also training. This is how I look at it. Models weights are being updated in all cases.
Re:OpenAI Reaches Agreement to Buy Windsurf for $3B on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @10:33AM (#43916249)
Could you elaborate? Power saw operators replaced traditional carpenter?
Could you please elaborate what less or more calibrated means here? Thanks!
Re:Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:53PM (#43873441)
For a subset of topics, "AI" is already what I prefer to interact with over humans. At times, it's nicer to start with "AI" and kind of ground my messy thoughts before interacting with people and that works better than directly starting with a person.

I'm also starting to come across people who say "You should ask these types of questions to AI first" answer. But this is no different than people who preached "lmfgt" kind of religiously. Even when I prefer to start with humans, some humans prompt me to start by prompting AI.

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