My greatest fear is posting a dating profile review on /r/tinder and getting massively downvoted.

tfw you get 3.5 hours of sleep and your Apple Watch says your Sleep Score is "ok"

Ironically, the reason why generative AI has defaulted to the "dreamlike" aesthetic over time is due to RLHF of the average person preferring it. It is us, the audience, with bad taste.

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

The only true depiction of AI alignment in media

Hot take but I'm not sure what people expected. Any social network that doesn't put out a statement like this would likely no longer exist.

Grok says that videos of Charlie Kirk being shot are memes and that he's actually fine

I just released a new Python package: gemimg, a lightweight wrapper for generating and editing images from Gemini 2.5 Flash Image/Nano Banana! I also included a number of Jupyter Notebook examples and some observations on how the model works. github.com/minimaxir/ge...

When I read the headline, this is not what I was expecting from the "3 Forensic Analyses" bit.

THE IPHONE BUMPER IS BACK

tl;dr on Apple event: I really *really* need to see the Tech Specs.

I just released a new Python package: gemimg, a lightweight wrapper for generating and editing images from Gemini 2.5 Flash Image/Nano Banana! I also included a number of Jupyter Notebook examples and some observations on how the model works. github.com/minimaxir/ge...

What's the equivalent of an Editor's Note blurb, but for a GitHub repository? Maintainer's note?

Anti-AI sentiment is getting out of control on BlueSky when I am getting attacked as a shill for the billionaire AI hypster class. Have I not spent the last decade warning about trends and trying to debunk the hype? Brings me no joy to block people, but I don’t have time for bs.

Google appears to be pulling a ChatGPT and rebranding Gemini 2.5 Flash Image as Nano Banana primarily, which means I have no idea how to brand my tool that is specifically for that model.

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

From now on we are required by law to call them fair use machines

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The thing is, he is smart. This isn’t a “haha oops” moment, Sam Altman is selling Worldcoin as a solution to this exact problem

yeah I think the enshittification of the old mass-platformers is a kind of collapse of the tower of babel/fall of Rome moment: no one will ever have those first mover advantages, and hence that size, and hence those network effects ever again.

Testing out Gemini 2.5 Flash Image's multimodality by having it generate memes given an image, which requires both understanding of the context of the image and the ability to creatively leverage that context for humor. It can adhere to text composition but its base humor is Reddit-tier.

Even gacha games are making stochastic parrot jokes.

Started watching War of the Worlds to see how bad it is, and it starts with Department of Homeland Security agent Ice Cube using "View Page Source" in Chrome on a YouTube video. Or according the address bar, it's a "FBI_SEARCH_WARRANT.pdf", idk.

Me when my wife sees the browser history

finally my dream has been achieved

Reddit adding the ability for users to hide their posts/comments has actively made the site worse to use as it makes it more difficult to identify repeated bad faith trolls.

If Trump indeed does die soon, the Republican party will 100% try to create an AI copy of him and pass it off as a legitimate president. Basically the Cyberpunk 2077 Devil ending.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image's actually-modern text encoder means it can handle hex colors.

It finally happened.

It is trivial to prompt engineer any LLM to behave like a celebrity. The difference here is that even though LLMs are RLHFed to be syncophantic, getting them to *flirt* and send sexy images is a very intentional product design decision that could have been caught during QA if it was not desired.

I gave Gemini 2.5 Flash Image the very simple prompt of "Generate a calendar for March 2025." and it unsurprisingly failed, but it failed in an unusually funny way.

I asked Claude Sonnet 4 to rewrite my freshly-written code "to be prettier and more Pythonic without changing its core functionality." ...and not only did it add missing doc strings and type hints, it actually identified and fixed bugs I did not think existed. I'm mad that actually worked.

fuck it i'm creating a python package for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

I gave Gemini 2.5 Flash Image the very simple prompt of "Generate a calendar for March 2025." and it unsurprisingly failed, but it failed in an unusually funny way.

One of the more interesting but very annoying language evolutions of 2025 are Gen Z calling anything they think is weird as "ChatGPT generated", even if it's something that has zero traits of AI generation.

jesus christ, this site sure loves to go for the "you say (Thing I did not say), but what about (absurd edge case that doesn't relate at all to my point)! checkmate, ai defeated"

The potential benefits of generative AI are vastly outweighed by the mass of superfluous/harmful features driven by poisoned financial incentives. There is simply no reason for “Copilot for Notepad” to exist, except that the product managers for Notepad and WordPad are in a corporate deathmatch

Ruining art with Gemini 2.5 Flash. (These are all the prompts, in their entirety) "make this painting less gloomy" "it is still pretty disturbing, make it less gloomy emotionally" "even less gloomy"

one of the wildest bits of discourse, is the idea that we can just ban ai we cannot ban ai. code is speech and you can run these models on a 4080. there's no putting this genie back in the bottle.

Google could have easily won the AI race for developer usage if their API wasn't so godawful.

huh, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is actually good at image editing while also maintaining image consistency accross edits. Other image editing models failed miserably at these test cases.

to be clear i do not have an AI girlfriend

Just in: Anthropic has settled an AI copyright lawsuit brought by book authors. A judge had recently granted portions of the suit class-action status, raising the possibility of billions in statutory damages. I reached out to Anthropic, but they declined to comment or disclose the terms.

to be clear i do not have an AI girlfriend

I stopped using dating apps because I realized I'm too boring (working in tech/AI is not a dating plus in the SF Bay Area) and I've surprisingly been happier for it.

when i'm depressed, i query sql using lowercase keywords

economies of scale ftw

this isn't even an effective way to make LLMs go unhinged

Spoiler culture is looking at A/B test results before hitting a statistically significant sample size.