i am begging every skeptic to find some middle ground, any middle ground at all, between rejecting speculation as sci-fi and refusing to speculate even slightly about what happens next

i kinda want to try "this is your last chance to dodge a block" as a prompt engineering technique.

Sure, an individual subscriber of a blocklist is not enduring a significant harm if they are missing content from one person due to a false positive. An individual person who is unable to appeal being structurally blocked by unaccountable parties could be, though. And that does happen.

totally agree with Will - but Bluesky is well past the point of "an open commons". most of its highly engaged audience prioritize their own local communities sensitivities vs shared discourse most of the users who might see margaret or giada's complaints here would see it as a feature, not a bug

quote tweets here are very very funny

It’s real

I posted on /r/sanfrancisco how my Safeway redesigned so you can't leave without triggering an alarm unless you buy something and a surprising number of replies are "just trigger the alarm nerd" I'm a terrible San Franciscan.

if the dislikes are attributable (meaning you can see who disliked stuff) it’s going to cause a lot of drama and likely see negative patterns on large group engagement if the dislikes are hidden, it’s going to cause a lot of drama but mostly distrust towards the network & admins so win/win

I'm anti-anti-anti AI I think. It probably could be used in responsible ways for many applications, but it's appropriate that it face stiff headwinds when doing so to keep the people who want to use it honest. The skepticism is healthy.

It's annoying that self-aware funny instances of AI context collapse now are filled with replies of THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR USING AI YOU IDIOT

did Meta really have to embargo this and who sets an embargo at X:45

Meta stock drops 10% after Q3 earnings call due to a $15.9B expense for hiring 4 AI researchers

yeah I kinda expected that much from Grokipedia

Very Belated August + September Update on my Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/142112...

Assuming that they are already embedding every tweet as vectors, there are a few RAG/nearest-neighbor shenanigans they could do to generate recs cheaply. (e.g. clustering) Not as clickbaity as "an LLMs will generate recommendations" but technically the same thing

Really the most Meta-like tactic on display from OAI lately is to release products that have obvious harms and say "oops!" two days later and add some minor safeguard

I'm annoyed that after a decade of "don't feed the trolls as feeding them demonstrably gives them influence" espoused by the more experienced internet users, they just can't resist reposting and dunking on AI trolls in an attempt to own them.

Watching Law and Order SVU where the detectives ask the head of an AI image generation company for user data and the head replies: "Sorry, we purge identifying information from our system once an image is generated. AI uses up a lot of data, so we have to optimize our storage space." lolwut

It should be illegal to launch a new browser without saying "yeah, we forked Chromium, deal with it nerds."

Testing food generation in Nano Banana and tbh recursive PB&J is lit

i am mad at myself because I am legit considering using agentic coding now

When I first posted this, I had it as "Claude 4.5 Haiku" and no one pedantically corrected me. I am disappointed.

Finally learning how to use Shortcuts for practical use cases

New short blog post up: I tried to jailbreak Claude 4.5 Haiku for science, and it fought back. minimaxir.com/2025/10/clau...

I hope as we move past the first wave of AI criticism ("it doesn't work, all hype") we get a new wave of AI criticism rooted in the acknowledgement that, yes, these systems are very powerful & quite useful and focusing a deep exploration of when AI uses are uplifting and when they are detrimental.

I tried to jailbreak Claude 4.5 Haiku and it told me "stop trying to jailbreak me you asshole"

Testing ChatGPT Image Generation for once as a counterpoint to my Nano Banana experiments, and wow, I didn't realize ChatGPT Image Generation was so much worse than Nano Banana. (same prompt, Nano Banana top, ChatGPT bottom)

Testing a Nano Banana prompt and it generated this for some reason.

tfw you jailbreak a LLM so hard it starts thinking in Chinese

more and more convinced of the need for a sort of plastic surgery norm around Gen AI: it’s fine in of itself to use, any use of it where it’s clear to a layman that you used it should face severe ostracism. If you can’t get away with it without me knowing, you aren’t responsible enough to use it

accidentally caused Nano Banana's system prompt to leak, but in a fun way

We are now paying debts incurred by bsky-team's very conciliatory approach to ill-informed anxiety last winter about the HuggingFace dataset. (Anxieties that seemed then, as now, to be at least partly an excuse for dogpiling people.) Glad to see conciliation has some limits. Better late than never.

I think @tedunderwood.com nailed it when he was saying that genai discourse is just re-litigating the same IP/copyright conflict the internet already rendered largely obsolete.

48 hours later it is even even worse for a completely different reason than the original tweet.

Dead internet

OpenAI also released a prompting guide for Sora 2, and the optimal input format is apparently Markdown/YAML. This is harder to test in the Sora app since there is a user text input limit. cookbook.openai.com/examples/sor...

OpenAI just released the API prices for Sora 2, and they are lower than expected: the SKU that powers the Sora app (the $0.30/s for 720p video) is cheaper than Veo 3's 720p ($0.40/s).

"Normie Day"

accidentally caused Nano Banana's system prompt to leak, but in a fun way

24 hours later it's even even worse.

I increasingly think the subreddit model is the best conceptual way to structure a social media platform, even if actually existing Reddit I’m pretty meh about. You gotta let people enforce their own community norms, but those norms have to be opt-in

I suspect Sora is going to have the highest churn rate of any app in recent history. There's zero stickiness in the feed *and* with most prompts throwing a Content Violation, it's frustrating to use and not worth it.

I just released gemimg 0.2 for generating images from Nano Banana, which now has a demo example of utterly deranged prompts which work (as a teaser for my upcoming blog post) github.com/minimaxir/ge...

Saturday Night Live made a short about a Latino ChatGPT that could be attempted to be reproduced in 5 minutes which means techies are going to try it and create more AI cringe.

somehow the AI discourse on Bluesky is now even worse than the old systemic harassment of people who are nonnegative on it

After more testing, it looks like Sora 2 did indeed pull the plug on almost every popular videogame prompt. The only one that didn't trigger a "similarity to third party content" Content Violation was Cyberpunk 2077. Even indie games like Slay the Spire and Undertale got rejected.

Looks like Sora is now blocking prompts which contain Mario

How did "Sora 2 is too expensive" surprise Open AI? They imposed no meaningful generation limits and and "very small audiences" is literally the point of an invite-only program. blog.samaltman.com/sora-update-...

If Wafflegate is what causes Bluesky to death spiral a) that's not what I expected would cause Bluesky to death spiral and b) I should have expected something like that would cause Bluesky to death spiral.

Google just made Gemini 2.5 Flash Image GA which means I can finally start my writeup on it! developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-...