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mucha··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
It appears than you can only opt-out from having OpenAI train models on your data. There isn't an option for opting to exclude your de-identified data from being used to improve OpenAI products.
mucha··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
"If they opted out of training, then we definitely did not train on them."

Per OpenAI's privacy policy, they use de-identified data to improve their products. From Mark Chen's comment, improving products includes improving ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way. Improving models in a holistic way sounds a lot like training to me.

mucha··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
That's not what your Chief Research Officer, Mark Chen, says on X: "Do we use user feedback and de-identified data to improve ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way? Yes. And so does every LLM company."

https://x.com/markchen90/status/2097400166554993041

mucha··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Does opting out matter?

"Do we use user feedback and de-identified data to improve ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way? Yes. And so does every LLM company." - Mark Chen, Chief Research Officer, OpenAI.

https://x.com/markchen90/status/2097400166554993041

mucha··on Do you think it happened? Research stolen from their Codex private chats
It looks like clicking "don't train" might not matter. Per Mark Chen, the Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, "Do we use user feedback and de-identified data to improve ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way? Yes. And so does every LLM company."

https://x.com/markchen90/status/2097400166554993041

mucha··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Yes, and I can visualize in dreams too.
mucha··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Yay, I'm one of "these people" now. Aphants can still have inner monologues, and most do. I do.
mucha··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
For folks that are thinking this is just semantics or qualia, the site mentions this:

"We can also see activation in the visual cortex during fMRI studies, the area in the brain that processes images from the eyes, further suggesting actual visualization."

(edited to add) Also, Aphants lack pupil response when asked to imagine dark/bright scenes: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220420092150.h...

mucha··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Aphantasia and hyperphantasia can be measured. See section 6 here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11437436/
mucha··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
I'd recommend that you gather your thoughts and publish a response to this paper : https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226
mucha··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
The watermark will be encoded in the visible text.
mucha··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
Absolutely! You can avoid the watermarks by writing or rewriting everything yourself.
mucha··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Adam added a comment to that thread with the 75% number and more context.
mucha··on Vibe coding is mad depressing
LLMs are non-deterministic for everyone. Give it time.
mucha··on Zions CEO Cautions of 'Yellow Flag' in Private-Credit Market
https://archive.ph/f4s3A
mucha··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
That's actually an ad for X Premium+. No embarrassing ads!
mucha··on AI Improves at Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick
What Satya says: “I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software,”

First line from the article: In April, Microsoft’s CEO said that artificial intelligence now wrote close to a third of the company’s code.

Software != AI

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...

CNBC misquotes Satya in the same article with his actual quote.

mucha··on LLM Hallucinations in Practical Code Generation
Interesting. How do existing systems catch Task Requirement hallucinations?
mucha··on YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide, and her husband blames online abuse
It looks like a lot of it was coming from the saveafoxsnark subreddit.

https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1937527595236561090

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuKLR2IaYAAMziS?format=jpg&name=...

mucha··on AI Hallucinations: Provably Unsolvable – What Do We Do?
Aphantasia solved hallucinations for me.
mucha··on From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?
What happens when the LLM responsible for checking decides to ignore your explicit conditions?
mucha··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
That's happening. Unmodified LLM outputs aren't copyrightable.
mucha··on The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
Free beer tomorrow.
mucha··on Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet
Cool. What goods/services does your business provide to customers?
mucha··on AI Responses May Include Mistakes
Capability != Reliability