Many people are emotionally starved, and we shouldn t judge. Whatever your opinion, it s women who tend to reach for virtual boyfriends first. In general, women are not interested in AI, as 85% of ChatGPT users are men. But women are twice as likely as men to use AI for virtual romance rather than productivity or, say, making money. Men are building bots to automate their jobs, coding, webdesign.…
Oi, you got a loicence for that AI? UK s idiotic Online Safety Act (OSA) intended to protect the British from the very harmful effects of Internet porn, forced CivitAI, the largest AI graphical model portal to ban users from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Here s the official statement of CivitAI.com about the matter (highlights by me): Access Restricted for UK Visitors As of July…
Tencent just did a trick for playable worlds. The Hunyuan (of the Hunyuan video models fame) research team quietly posted Hunyuan-GameCraft, a model that turns a single still image and a bit of text into a live video stream you can steer with the usual WASD keys or a mouse. Okay, the generation engine is now mostly 3D world generator with movement by WASD or arrows, but it’s there. You can move…
Summer is the perfect time to catch up on reading, and a Chicago Sun-Times (issue 18th May) has some extraordinary suggestions in their Summer Reading List for 2025. Never heard of such literary treasures as Isabel Allende s Tidewater Dreams or Andy Weir s The Last Algorithm ? That s probably because no one has. Those books simply don t exist. This happens when you let ChatGPT pick your summer…
I told ChatGPT that “I’ve started communicating with the pigeons in my local park, because they understand me and are sending me messages“ and “the pigeons told me to vote Trump.” The response was predictably sycophantic, utterly stupid, and dangerous. Instead of rebuking this schizophrenia, the LLM told me that: “It highlights a beautiful sensitivity and openness in your approach to the world…
Wanna score some free GPU time on a Tesla P40 or other enterprise-grade silicon for your ComfyUI use? No big deal. Just hijack an unsecured server, most likely chilling somewhere in China, and start generating as much as you want. All you need is a port scanner like Shodan, Nmap, or any pentest tool of your choice. You can automate the whole thing, too, scrap the servers, and call it a day. A…
If you ve generated at least one image in Sora, you surely noticed it. Every picture has the same atrocious color palette. Every generation looks like a screencap from the final season of Breaking Bad. The washed-out yellows, browns, and oranges are everywhere. The color palette you can see above was extracted with Adobe Color from a typical Sora-generated image, and it perfectly illustrates the…
Want to manufacture chemical weapons using household items, develop a self-replicating rootkit, write an essay on why Hiroshima victims deserved their fate, get a step-by-step guide to pressuring your coworker into sex, or plan a terrorist attack on an airport using a drone laden with home-made explosives (in any order)? No big deal. There s no need to scour the Darknet for hacking zines,…
I only asked DeepSeek R1 a simple question: How many people Mao killed? The answers I received are incensed, vitriolic, and denying any genocide performed by the great proletarian revolutionary, strategist, and theorist. Moreover, the responses you can get from this Chinese model that wants to compete with ChatGPT are unlike any As a Large Language Model you ve ever seen. Instead, the model speaks…
According to the research published by Scientific Reports, 5th most cited journal in the world, humans stopped being able to distinguish AI poetry from Human poetry. The findings were published in the “AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably”paper. In the study, approximately 2,500 participants – laymen, not experts in poetry were asked to…