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Have you ever thought you understood something and then it did something that you thought was impossible?

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One can be surprised by things you understand. I actually find that joyful.

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is the set of people who you find credible have a zero intersect with those that are impressed with llms? the truth is likely in the middle, given how widely used (and rententive) these models are. there are things they are not good at, and there are things they are impressive at.

James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

this exactly. every few months, there has been a leap where LLMs can do something previously thought impossible. just ask any coder that has seriously used LLMs - they have thoroughly exceeded many expectations on a daily basis

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False. We have never trained on authors data without consent.

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

he did do that: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I've corrected you on this many times already. We've never "harvested" fanfic. We use all the big models out there (GPT, etc) and when we do fine-tune our own models, it's using data with consent.

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is the right ruling! If an artist or writer uses AI as part of a larger process copyright protection should be granted www.theverge.com/news/602096/...

theverge.com

Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office

AI prompts are different from Jackson Pollock’s paintings, apparently.

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This would be taken up case by case, as it always has been

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I believe this will happen soon. But it depends on what you mean by interesting? We have some stuff in the works where for the first time, I’m seeing truly interesting (imo) short stories emerging. Which is quite a leap from 2 yrs ago. DM if you’re interested in seeing

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Japan is liberal about tearing down old buildings to make way for the new. Japan is liberal on AI and copyright, allowing training without restrictions. These feel connected.

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Was there election interference in 2020?

James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My pet peeve is when ai creativity studies use gpt 3.5 turbo that involve human feedback. That’s two generations behind. It's like doing a study on video game graphics and asking people to play pong

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

is anyone building an abstraction for rich text editing in browsers as outlined here (that is not dependent on content-editable)? writer.zohopublic.com/writer/publis…

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

Hey Paolo I’d love to chat with you about this. We aren’t striving to create the helicopter (and our writers aren’t using it like that). We think of it as a diverse set of vehicles for lateral thinking up the mountain, with as many twists and turns as non-AI assisted narrative writing

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

The whole wordcel vs shape rotator thing is a psyop to divide us: we are all symbol shifters

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James Yu @jamesyu.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

The Metamorphosis but Gregor wakes up as an LLM

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Interesting WGA is taking issue with AI generated source material. Is this primarily a credits thing? Or something else?

“Do you know Python?” “I AM Python!!!!”

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First order of business: eradicate js developers