Compare these two sets of messages. Positive: You belong You are welcome here You are one of us You are not to blame You are part of the solution You are one of the good guys You are an equal You have a voice Negative: You do not belong here You are not welcome here…
What a difference a year makes. I was putting together slides for a private workshop I’m doing today, and for fun I decided to take a snapshot of Humanity’s Last Exam results from a year ago and from today. That was eye-opening. In a year’s time, what was described as one of the most difficult…
China strikes again. Two big model releases this week – Minimax H3 (Hailuo), king-size video generator, which can run on a machine that can support 500 GB of VRAM. You won’t be running this on a MacBook any time soon, but big inference providers like DeepInfra will be able to serve this up and it’s…
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Last night I used Minimax M3 to generate a steaming pile of AI slop in 51 minutes, a 50,000 word 1920s romance novel set in Venice. (and it’s terrible) I did it to prove a point to a commenter on X who publicly posted they didn’t feel like human authors deserved fair compensation for their…
How do you generate less generic music with AI? You start by using existing music. AI, by definition, will create mathematical averages of the tasks you give it, be it writing, images, video, or music, based on what is most probable in its training data set. DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A LAWYER. THIS IS NOT…
