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Please don’t do this.

You know it will be annoying.

I think you are just playing devil’s advocate.

There should be a distinction between helping the military and helping a police state.

Eg. Flock cameras don’t help the military but do help the police state.

My Swedish friend told me they make the more expensive things to sound more Swedish and the cheaper stuff to sound Norwegian.

Any speakers of either language able to confirm or deny?

I was with you all the way up until how you pivot to ad advertorial and become the exact thing you are complaining about.

If you can’t beat them, join them right?

$1 trillion less profit.

They also do other things you aren’t allowed to do as a developer - eg. When they do a ‘free trial’ of Apple TV, if you cancel it cancels immediately. All proper subscriptions you retain the use of until the renewal date.

Yeah you can win on hard playing one handed by just spamming ‘kick’

The website is still up and has more bandwidth than EVER BEFORE. Some people are calling it the website of steel.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER

I made a game about this. You can play it if you want to feel annoyed.

https://termsandconditions.game

Just been giving this a good try. It just creates educational slop. Please stop.

So do you guarantee accuracy for the course content itself, or is that also not guaranteed?

These things are trivial to remove though. And the whole point of it is they will also make the _detector_ available so you can then also check if you successfully removed it.

It’s not a solvable problem.

The problem with pretending is that people who k ow what they’re doing get away with it while people who don’t (and don’t even use ai) get unfairly accused of using it.

There just isn’t enough information in plain text to do this and we should stop pretending there is.

If we need to verify something isn’t made with ai then we need other ways of doing so - eg looking at a document edit history, doing it as an exam, oral defense.

There are options! But pretending you can tell if text is ai will only catch out people who make no effort to hide it and will inevitably have false positives.

We need to just stop pretending we can reliably tell if plain text is written by an LLM.

It’s just not a reasonable ask.

What is the quality of the output like compared to something like Veo?

People are missing the commentary that this is exactly what happened…

The reason is that back then while Mars bars were more unhealthy - everything else was more healthy.

Eg. Mayonnaise contained eggs and oil instead of the weird crap + sugar mayonnaise is made of now.

Also even things like the vegetables has more minerals in and the chicken had less fat in it.

‘artificial flavour’ may be doing some heavy lifting

I’d be more interested in the ingredients. I would guess the 91 version has a lot less weird stuff in it?

Is it just about pushing people out of autopilot? When commuting in particularly people are just in their own world.

I’ve noticed a similar effect when it snows here in london. It’s unusual and it’s like a common adversary to everyone and everyone becomes more chatty on public transport

I also had a sales job at uni, just selling windows. But it was great for making me much more socially competent. Highly recommend.

The worst thing about Apple AppStore ads is they create a who-can-pay-more rises to the top situation, where previously it was more based on merit.

And In order to make an ad campaign make financial sense, you MUST have a subscription app. Because just getting one download will cost you at least $3 which is already over the cost an app used to cost.

and your conversion rate to paid might be only 10 or 20:1. So you need to make $30 per customer

So as well as being annoying at the moment of seeing them, ads in the AppStore are directly contributing to the general enshitification of apps.

This is. Very well written letter.

Yeah if you can afford the probably 10x it will actually cost, you can also just afford a cleaner to come twice a week and be able to do a wider variety of tasks (anyone going to trust this with ironing?)

Can anyone explain why the body doesn’t just naturally make lots of These broadly neutralising antibodies?

It seems like they’d be so useful - so there must be a good reason there aren’t lots of them normally?

The reality of this is a lot less exciting than the headline implies.

That graph basically shows China is 6 months behind. So yeah it’s not as good now, but it 6 months it will be.

There’s an article from yesterday I think it was stratchery where they say it’s also because the Chinese open source models are better because they don’t have to play by the no-distilling rules that the western models have to honour.

I just gave the day dream / pay bills image to ChatGPT and Gemini pro and they both could only tell me the pay bills text (shown with the thin lines)