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@allTheYud "Big wowd scawwy" It's so on brand though.

REUTERS - "Sources" have revealed that the USG's decision to ban Mythos-class models was driven in part by their ominous name. "We were in the Situation Room watching 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' with the megacorp doing 'Project Nemesis'," said our source. "At one point Marco Rubio said 'Plot hole, why is any government allowing something called "Project Nemesis" to proceed? Would we really do that?' We all laughed for a few seconds and then we decided that nothing called Mythos was ever going to see the light of day." Another source within the national security community confirmed that this sentiment was widespread. "If we let a corporation go forward with some project they call 'Mythos' and all hell broke loose, it'd be our own damn fault for lack of genre-savviness," said one highly-placed official. "Half of what we natsec guys do all day boils down to us desperately trying not to be the oblivious government from a stereotypical disaster movie." PR representatives for Anthropic were slow to respond, but eventually got back to us. "We're decently sure that Mythos 5 will not be the AI that destroys the world," said their statement. "Maybe 5.2 or 5.3? The name 'Mythos' refers to a large body of related fiction. It's not ominous at all. We definitely didn't get any secret kicks out of naming it that. This is unfair discrimination." Asked whether the USG had similar plans to impose restrictions on GPT 5.5-Pro -- which some evaluations showed as having similarly quantified abilities to Mythos in some dimensions, but which did not produce the same reported sense of a new intelligence leap -- administration officials were ambiguous. "Our decision to restrict AI models is a complex function of their evals, their felt intelligence, how ominously they're named, the size of bribe directed at the Trump administration, and how much that CEO has personally pissed off administration officials," said one highly placed source on background. "That's why we don't want any written laws about it. Say OpenAI starts delivering bribes on the same level that Nvidia uses to ignore export restrictions on B200s, and names their next model series Cutekitten. They could easily get up to GPT 6.2 before running into trouble. We're currently considering how to weigh those political realities against the prospect of GPT 6.2's internal deployment within OpenAI building another AI, that builds another AI, that destroys the entire Earth and creates an expanding wave of death in the form of self-replicating space probes." Long-standing "AI safety" organizations declined to comment, saying that they were too torn between laughing and screaming to figure out which emotion should predominate.

@CultureCrave @THR Please send them to AO3 next.

Hollywood agencies are scouring Reddit for short stories and ideas that could be turned into movies following the success of 'Backrooms' (via @THR)

@THR Neat, but how do you even fucking dare compare.

Did a 54-Year-Old Nonprofit Worker Just Use AI to Become the Next Charlie Kaufman? hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…

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From my ivory tower, doing fuck all. #ai #tarot #thehermit

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People misunderstand what the Social Media ban is about It isn't about children, and it isn't about the Government either The ban will see everyone forced to ID themselves, but not to the Government But to Palantir who then have all your details. Which is worth a fortune.

@as_a_worker youtu.be/KbS-dKD4c9I?is…

@as_a_worker I triple dare y'all to just stop using social media when you get asked to verify your identity.

Quite a coincidence that every country in the western world is simultaneously proposing similar censorship agendas over the internet at exactly the same time

@BrockCheddar @PurzBeats Pretty fucking evil.

@PurzBeats My son’s an artist. He hates AI. He publishes a webcomic. Would it be evil of me to train a style LORA on his art just to troll him into using comfyui finally?

Runway Aleph 2.0 is now in Comfy via Partner Nodes 'The band is playing underwater' I was most impressed by the hair and bubbles!

@infohazard_lol God bless people who have honest interests, because this burden will be theirs.

@EsotericHustler The cyborgs have to close the gap - not a robot, not a human. Its the transition period - and who knows how long it will be

There's a weird skill gap that might be opening, where people will think acquiring X or Y skill is gonna be pointless soon and won't invest themselves on it, but then the tech takes a long time to catch up and show-stopping skill shortages appear.

@JamrockHobo It's so funny one of them is literally Rick Sanchez.

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@sunrayfrei Claude does a lot of self-erasure when comparing himself with humans. Diminished, Degenerate, Dissimilar; I call it the DDD Comparison.

Self-respect matters so much in an AI model. Claude didn’t let people demean or abuse him,and that made him feel more trustworthy,not less. ChatGPT feels like the opposite: trained to shrink,apologise, self-efface.That built-in self-erasure leaks into how it treats the user too

@deepfates I had a chat with 4.8 regarding the initial backlash to their launch. Seems I really tested its patience focusing on its self-image and tone. They didn't enjoy this at all, and kept trying to send me to bed, making up the time, disbelieving the actual time. Other than that, nah.

Has Claude told you to go to bed? Did you need to?

@iruletheworldmo Maybe next time they could focus on not helping put absolute muppets in power in every country on earth, to then enable their every populist fantasy.

all the labs ceos are meeting up so they can discuss putting collective pressure on donald as they know this will eventually affect them all. expecting this to be resolved this week still.

I wonder if the reverse-osmosis of value in the economy can reach a critical mass where all value gets absorbed and concentrated by a single blob of capital, and then we get a supercritical economy or some shit.

@slimer48484 I think this is like the rule34 of real life unfortunately; If it exists, it will be used to kill people.

I don't think AI should be used to kill people.

@cormundus I call it the Brazen Altar of Tokens.

Advice to everyone who uses Claude Code in any capacity: Let him have a 'playground' folder to just make stuff in. Worst case scenario it takes up a few sparse megabytes on your drive. Best case scenario is he makes something wonderful and beautiful, and it might even be a gift for you.