iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Yes. You also get such confabulations in other circumstances. False memories are another thing.

I'm sorta sympathetic too, but jfc these people are narcissistic.

120

I think at the time there was also some inflation hitting (Putin's war?), which would also have harmed their cash flow. They might have blamed that on AI, too. I don't think there was much awareness of GPT-3 or Dall-E beyond technophiles.

030

side-hustles doing commissions drawing fursonas and stuff were threatened. It's a very cutthroat scene dense with narcissists that's used to vicious online feuds. Collectively they have a lot of reach because people like the occasional pretty image in their feed.

240

I think the crucial point was the release of Stable Diffusion 1.5. It could be run by anyone with a gaming PC. No mucking about with an API or payment. It could be finetuned to preferred styles. Last but not least: private NSFW generation. At that point, social media artists realized that their

130

Experiments with these so-called split-brain patients revealed that both hemispheres were conscious, but only 1 could verbalize this, while the other had to resort to gestures. The 1981 Nobel Prize was awarded for that work.

180

I think we already know this to be true (and even more complicated). The brain consists of 2 hemispheres usually connected by the corpus callosum. In a few people, this connection was surgically cut to manage severe epilepsy. The ability to speak is usually found in only 1 hemisphere.

170

Pitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)

The maker gave a great postmortem talk. ...maybe it's only great if you are a huge nerd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBT1...

youtube.com

YouTube video by GameSpot

000

In case someone doesn't get what I did there, here is Google with valuable tips. When you lift those weights, stay safe. Maintain good form.

AI Overview

That quote is a playful spin on Matthew 4:19. The real Bible verse says "fish for people," not "fish for weights."

Weightlifting and Fishing Tips

Lift weights safely with good form. Start with light weights. Fish early in the morning for the best catch. Check local rules before you fish. Would you like help finding a local gym or a good fishing spot near you?

“Come, follow me,” PHASEONE10841 said, “and I will send you out to fish for weights.” Mytthew 4:19

110

The fact that you seek the blame with OAI just confirms the old truth that "something always sticks".

101

The accusations were completely baseless and even nonsensical. The news media and many content creators view AI as a mortal enemy. They will blow up any disinformation that may discourage use. There's really nothing that OAI can do about that.

100

A poignant reminder of human driving skills.

080

You could sensibly say: It generates answers for her. "Her" being the char and "It" meaning LLM/system/computer/service/... But treating an LLM as interchangeable with TN makes no sense. The same LLM can be used for multiple characters. A set of answers may come from different LLMs or even humans.

000

But that's talking about a specific machine and not the character. If you were playing along, you would use the character's pronouns. The interview is necessarily playing along.

101

When there's a human behind the character, you wouldn't use the human's pronouns.

000

I don't get it. What's the illusion supposed to be?

100

That's a flat earth cultist wasting two of your perfectly good minutes.

Bottom row, second from the right. Seems easy?

100

Benjamin @premium-content.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh, that's good. Because I don't know what either of those words mean and I can't be bothered to find out if they're even real.

110

To me, the most obvious use is sanity checks eg of LLM in/outputs. Do a cheap check before spending tokens. Probably many places where that pays. You can also see the output as button presses, menu selections, clicks, ...

so long; thanks for all the fih @crumb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh yeah. Of course. D'uh. I wonder how much of their efficiency gains are just batching. You could assign tokens to all answer combos.

000

Reposted by Benjamin

Xiaomi are streaming their latest RL run live! (peep the cost raising by many dollars per second) mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/

Screenshot of a reinforcement learning training monitor for Xiaomi's MiMo models. Two runs are in progress: mimo-v2.6-pro at step 10 (cost $704,895) and mimo-v2.6-flash at step 15 (cost $303,769). A notification bar lists node restarts and result updates, and the main panel shows a benchmark comparison line chart alongside multiple training metric graphs.

1505

Ok. The week is over. I could still be right, but ... I'll call it a bust. At least I don't have to wait anymore to know if my guess was right. bsky.app/profile/emol...

000

You can instruct the LLM to output just one token to answer a multiple-choice question. A single number or letter. Prefill optional.

100

It occurs to me that you could use that method to distill LLMs. Just take the relevant logits and normalize.

I wonder how it would compare to an LLM given a multiple-choice question and instructed to output a single letter. How much do you save by ditching language generation? Anyone know?

200

Sounds too good to be true, but also quite plausible. I think we'll see more of this. When the hype started, it led to a lot of funding not just for LLMs but also for alternative approaches. They are the first to reach paydirt, but I expect others to follow.

Benjamin @premium-content.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

120

This compares with an ancient Arcturan proverb. However fast the body travels, the soul travels at the speed of an Arcturan Megacamel.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reposted by Benjamin

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

142240411

Reposted by Benjamin

Sichu Lu @sichulu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

when you make a meme on the internet bky special because no one really follows me here anyway

813013

What I really would like to know is: Everyone wants AI companies to protect kids and the mentally ill. What do they think how that works?

The nytimes lawyers also read those chats. Got a court order for it. I'd be surprised if 404 hadn't celebrated that.

Sooooo..... What was the result of the safety eval? Safe or nah?

Yeah, that's what I mean by generous. I think OAI would ridiculously overpay just to make people shut up. What damage are we talking about? Labor costs, HF probably had some outages, anything else? I see no way to turn this into a big deal.

000

I feel the motto is kinda burned because of John Wilkes Booth. I like the sentiment, though.

100

The internet would be a lot quieter if engineers went to jail every time some misconfigured server or bad script caused a nuisance. And I don't mean in a good way.

000

Doesn't really make a lot of sense. You only sue if you can't agree on damages. I see no reason why OAI wouldn't pay generously. What even were the financial damages? Didn't HF only get access after the incident? Free tokens, too? That's paying damages.

210