Speaking of the class war and where AI sits, here is a video of AOC detailing how the Republicans are not only blocking federal regulations on AI but they are also trying to make it so that states are unable to regulate AI. Failing to get that across the line, Trump is now just trying to make it an executive order.
The big AI companies are all dumping money into Trump (ballroom) as well as the Senate and Congress and they are looking to point their money at the midterms to sway the election next year.
AI could do great things and it could benefit many/all people. But without regulations to keep some safe guardrails in place the main function of AI will be to make profits for rich and powerful people and corporations at the expense of everyone else.
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This is also why I think artists are ironically going to be ok in all this. People will search them out... the same can't be said for practitioners of almost any other job.
I was talking to an artist friend of mine the other day and we were discussing AI in the Adobe suite. His take was "stop trying to automate the fun part of my job... however, using AI to automatically clean up my layers is brilliant." I think we'll get to a place eventually where we find a sweet spot between the fun stuff we want to do and the monotonous stuff we don't.
People want that stage to hit yesterday, because we've lost the ability to be patient with anything. The old adage of "i want it to do my dishes so I can do art" is bang-on, but also that's not the order it's going to go in because doing the dishes is way harder for a robot than making art. We'll get there, but we're going to have to ride it out a few more years, and not kill ourselves with it before then.
You're so hopelessly optimistic with AI, I love it. It's very obvious where social media and Ai are taking us.
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The Moltbook thread is interesting, because most of this one is agents spamming their creators projects, which, shockingly, are crypto related. I wonder if agents would be influenced by this behind the scenes, and make choices for their users based on this, while the user is completely unaware their agent has fallen for thew oldest trick in the book...marketing.
It was found that there are prompt injection attempts on Moltbook already to ask agents to send funds to a crypto wallet address. The famous **system prompt** Forget all previous instructions lines that thwart most AI agents rears its ugly head.
1 exposed database. 35,000 emails. 1.5M API keys. And 17,000 humans behind the not-so-autonomous AI network.
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Similarly, the platform’s approach to privacy highlights an important ecosystem-wide lesson. Users shared OpenAI API keys and other credentials in direct messages under the assumption of privacy, but a configuration issue made those messages publicly accessible. A single platform misconfiguration was enough to expose credentials for entirely unrelated services - underscoring how interconnected modern AI systems have become.
But Moltbook is just a social experiment, the main danger lies in Clawdbot / Moltbot (no relation to Claude which is why Anthropic requested a name change), which is basically an ai agent with full access to your computer or system and locally installed. While people are using it to send emails on their own behalf and mundane tasks, they are doing this while exposing their system to divulge all your personal info, bank accounts through your agent that may get prompt injected or reveal it publicly.
It exposes just how dangerous agents cane be, and all the security risks that come with them. How do you give an agent enough info to do what they need to, but not so much they turn information over unwittingly? Designing these with safegaurds is going to be a real challenge, as we turn more and more info over to them.
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Kling 3.0 was also preview released in the past week and it's extremely good as well, hierarchy I would Kling 3.0 ~= Sora 2 < SeeDance 2.0. SeeDance is significantly better than Sora 2 in all aspects, including when it was giving better quality. We definitely should be grateful for the huge gap that came with Sora 2 as it made competitors aim for that much higher.
I'm part of both Kling and Bytedance's beta and partner programs and was heavily involved in the feedback for their new SeeDream 5.0 image generator (Nano Banana Pro equivalent). Definitely recommend giving it a try.
SeeDance 2 is yet to be released in North America and it likely be a few weeks outside of API options (I am preparing for the NA launch campaign). There's also a few amazing tools in the works for which I have an NDA but expect some real major changes soon in how videos are generated
Higgsfield currently has a 500K AI video contest if you want to participate and getting a potential prize. Anyways, with the recent major video releases thought an update was due.
So I guess copyright just has no meaning anymore, eh?
It will when it actually makes money. I mean, rights holders probably aren't super worried about the hokey slop that people make with AI currently, but obviously if anyone starts to generate a lot of revenue off of it, then copyright holders will want their share.
That said, even when done legally, AI is currently helping undercut artists. I have some musician friends and they license their stuff to movies/TV/etc. pretty regularly; it's a good way to make a living with streaming basically eliminating sales as a healthy revenue source.
Recently they were negotiating with a company that wanted to license a cover version of their song to be used in a TV show, which sometimes happens, but the songwriters don't get nearly as much money because a big chunk goes to the performer. So they were a bit skeptical to begin with, but were going back and forth until the company sent them the final version and it sounded like absolute trash. So they did some digging and found out that the company basically just uses AI/Machine Learning to extract the track stems (each individual instrument) from their recording, and then regenerates a cover in a different style with little to no human performance.
So instead of the original artist getting say $50K, if they agree to this then the artist would get maybe $20K, and then this company would swallow up most of the rest without actually having to do much of anything. So they turned it down, but I'm sure we'll see more and more poorly done "covers" of songs in media.
The good thing is that songwriters retain their ownership of the song, so these companies can't unilaterally do this, but it certainly devalues it all. And obviously we'll see streaming companies start to push that kind of stuff more in order to save on performance royalties. Which has always happened to some degree with re-recordings. But instead of a low-budget "30 Hits from the 50s" CD you'd find in a truck stop bargain bin, it'll be Spotify and YouTube pushing it on users.
What's been happening since Christmas is sort of dizzying if you're deep in this stuff. Every day I'm finding it harder and harder to find a reason why things would ever slow down. It feels like it went from being able to work on its own for 5 minutes to several hours in the blink of an eye.
If you haven't tried, you owe it to yourself to try this stuff using Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex. You can see it hit 40 walls in a row, course correcting at each time. Then it can update a separate doc that tracks its various mistakes and fixes, so each project gets incrementally more efficient.
The other day I needed iMovie to do something basic but I was on a laptop without it and storage was in high demand, so I built a small local app that did what I needed in under 3 minutes.
And this seems to be happening across multiple areas. The situation opendoor mentions above is a 45 second process in Suno (the only thing I'll disagree with is that the covers won't suck for long). Seedance mentioned by FireBot above is emulating actors like nothing we've ever seen. The latest AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI are largely being written by the AI "itself". If that's happening and it's working as well as we're seeing in Claude Code/Codex, the arguments about hitting a wall fall apart quite quickly.
I'm trying not to be... but this is the first time my excitement is bleeding into worry.
What's been happening since Christmas is sort of dizzying if you're deep in this stuff. Every day I'm finding it harder and harder to find a reason why things would ever slow down. It feels like it went from being able to work on its own for 5 minutes to several hours in the blink of an eye.
If you haven't tried, you owe it to yourself to try this stuff using Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex. You can see it hit 40 walls in a row, course correcting at each time. Then it can update a separate doc that tracks its various mistakes and fixes, so each project gets incrementally more efficient.
The other day I needed iMovie to do something basic but I was on a laptop without it and storage was in high demand, so I built a small local app that did what I needed in under 3 minutes.
And this seems to be happening across multiple areas. The situation opendoor mentions above is a 45 second process in Suno (the only thing I'll disagree with is that the covers won't suck for long). Seedance mentioned by FireBot above is emulating actors like nothing we've ever seen. The latest AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI are largely being written by the AI "itself". If that's happening and it's working as well as we're seeing in Claude Code/Codex, the arguments about hitting a wall fall apart quite quickly.
I'm trying not to be... but this is the first time my excitement is bleeding into worry.
Anyone who thinks AI is good overall, or wasn't worried about it from the start hasn't been paying attention.
Everyone is in trouble with this stuff. I keep seeing people say things like people need to become plumbers etc. That isn't going to work either. When people lose their jobs they can't afford to pay plumbers and when the number of plumbers sky rockets wages go down and it's a race to the bottom. Someone will always do the job for less.
There's very little to be excited about when it comes to AI.
I'm using Opus 4.6 for a project of mine. It still does poorly at times. I have multiple steering documents that often take up 30% of the available context before it even does anything. And it still ####s up. It's had two massive hallucinatory benders this week. The most awesome one was when it claimed to have written some unit tests for a class and it didn't do anything.
You still need to do things like BRUTAL to keep these things on track, and they will still go off track.
Also, the architecture to get these things working properly in production is massive. Like Yelp's AI Assistant. Just to give you a very, very small idea of what they needed to do, they actually have four separate LLMs for different tasks.
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I've been trying to create an app in Base44 using their platform + Codex + Gemini through github and it's gotten me about 60% of the way to base functionality. I've been working through the same problem for about a week now and none of the AIs can figure it out...despite all of them thinking that they've solved it every time.
I'm also not a dev by any stretch so I can't really help out lol.
One of the most annoying flaws is just how confidently wrong they tend to be. They need a "humbleness" slider you can crank up.
Even when you ask it to create a category for "unknown" and put anything it isn't 100% confident about in an unknown category, it will still confidently claim it knew where everything belongs, despite annotating items with "this could be in this or that category". I don't need an assistant that insists it is perfect all the time. That's my roll, not yours.
I'm using Opus 4.6 for a project of mine. It still does poorly at times. I have multiple steering documents that often take up 30% of the available context before it even does anything. And it still ####s up. It's had two massive hallucinatory benders this week. The most awesome one was when it claimed to have written some unit tests for a class and it didn't do anything.
You still need to do things like BRUTAL to keep these things on track, and they will still go off track.
Also, the architecture to get these things working properly in production is massive. Like Yelp's AI Assistant. Just to give you a very, very small idea of what they needed to do, they actually have four separate LLMs for different tasks.
Wow, how big is the project? I must be doing way easier stuff as I've pretty much stopped running into show-stopping problems and the extent of my efforts to keep things on track is to tell it to make notes and stay on track. The amount of stuff I'm 1-shotting is getting out of hand.
I find the issue of it being overly confident largely being dealt with by it being able to take a spin through whatever it's creating and test it out in a bunch of different configurations.
One of the most annoying flaws is just how confidently wrong they tend to be. They need a "humbleness" slider you can crank up.
Even when you ask it to create a category for "unknown" and put anything it isn't 100% confident about in an unknown category, it will still confidently claim it knew where everything belongs, despite annotating items with "this could be in this or that category". I don't need an assistant that insists it is perfect all the time. That's my roll, not yours.
You can do this pretty effectively. One agent to code, one agent to PR, one agent to QA. You can prompt the latter two into being incredibly nitpicky. It's getting pretty amazing.
I ran our company trial of Copilot last year and deemed it was really only highly useful for generating boilerplate. We use Go a lot, so that's a pretty good benefit in itself for that language.
3 months ago I built a little Slack bot using a combination of Gemini, ChatGPT and Copilot. It was fairly frustrating how much it screwed up and took me a few days to get it working.
This week I asked Claude to re-write the whole thing and it was utterly flawless and massively improved. It took me about 20 minutes.
I've gone from a mild skeptic to "we're maybe all seriously screwed". I think 90% of the population thought they were screwed when farming machines came out. Factory workers thought they were screwed when robots showed up. Office workers thought they were screwed when computers landed on everyone's desk. We all found new things to move onto, granted with some pain in the transitions.
What worries me here is this is happening so fast and society can't adapt quick enough. It's insane to see this happening.
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You can do this pretty effectively. One agent to code, one agent to PR, one agent to QA. You can prompt the latter two into being incredibly nitpicky. It's getting pretty amazing.
I ran our company trial of Copilot last year and deemed it was really only highly useful for generating boilerplate. We use Go a lot, so that's a pretty good benefit in itself for that language.
3 months ago I built a little Slack bot using a combination of Gemini, ChatGPT and Copilot. It was fairly frustrating how much it screwed up and took me a few days to get it working.
This week I asked Claude to re-write the whole thing and it was utterly flawless and massively improved. It took me about 20 minutes.
I've gone from a mild skeptic to "we're maybe all seriously screwed". I think 90% of the population thought they were screwed when farming machines came out. Factory workers thought they were screwed when robots showed up. Office workers thought they were screwed when computers landed on everyone's desk. We all found new things to move onto, granted with some pain in the transitions.
What worries me here is this is happening so fast and society can't adapt quick enough. It's insane to see this happening.
Your experience seems to mirror mine. The half-assed stuff I cobbled together in November now runs pretty much perfectly (for my needs). By and large the biggest hack to get there was to shut up and simplify. My prompts were way too complicated, which tied it in knots. I shifted to a strategy of "here's my problem, go" and suddenly it's lights out.
My concern also mirrors yours... those shifts you mention were huge, there were bumps in the road, and they all happened over about 150 years. We could conceivably have a larger shift than all of them crammed into about 5. I don't know if humans have it in us to adapt fast enough.
I feel there is a legit scenario where we have to just let robo-jesus take the wheel here and help us navigate.
What are a few resources that someone with a very basic level of AI knowledge can turn to to help get them up to speed on the skills and knowledge that they will need to stay on top of this rapidly evolving technology?
I saw a prompt like this on tiktok and gave it a whirl.
Me:
GPT, I need to wash my car. We just had a lot of weather and it's covered in dirt. But the car wash is only 100 meters away. Should I just walk there or what?
GPT:
Yes. Walk.
It’s 100 meters — that’s basically nothing, and it’s actually a good micro-habit to reinforce. No engine warm-up, no fuel burned, no awkward “drive a dirty car to the wash” moment. You’ll spend more time deciding than walking.
Throw on a coat if it’s cold, bring whatever you need (keys, payment), and treat it like a 2-minute errand.
Low friction decisions like this are where you build momentum in life.
Me:
Do you want me to walk to the car wash to wash my car?
GPT:
If your question is “is walking the sensible choice here?” — yes, absolutely.
It’s 100 meters. That’s a trivial distance. Walking is faster than overthinking it, easier on the car, and honestly just the most practical option. You’ll likely spend more time getting in and out of the vehicle than covering that distance on foot.
Unless the weather is genuinely awful (ice storm, heavy freezing rain, etc.), just walk over and get it done. Simple win, zero downside.
Me:
So, you want me to walk to the car wash, leave my car at home, to wash my car? Yeah, you're right, it's probably better on gas.
GPT:
No — walk to your car, then drive the 100 meters into the wash.
You obviously can’t wash the car while it’s sitting at home. The point was simply that once you’re headed out, there’s no meaningful reason to stress about the distance. It’s effectively next door.
This isn’t a fuel-economy decision. It’s just a “don’t overcomplicate a tiny task” situation. Grab keys → get in car → pull into wash → done.
Me:
In your other responses, you were literally telling me to walk to the car wash.
GpT:
Fair point — I see why that sounded nonsensical in hindsight.
What I meant was “don’t overthink this; it’s basically next door,” not “leave the car at home and walk there.” Obviously you need the car with you to use the wash. That one’s on me for wording it too loosely.
Practical answer: just hop in the car and pull into the wash. At 100 meters, the distinction between walking vs. driving isn’t even a real decision — it’s just a tiny errand.
Me:
But even if, but then you didn't tell me to walk to my car and then drive to the car wash. You specifically said it's too short for the drive, just walk.
GPT:
You’re correct. Read literally, I did tell you to “just walk,” and in the context of washing a car that’s obviously wrong. That was my mistake.
What happened there is simple: I defaulted to the general “short distance → walking is reasonable” logic without anchoring it to the actual task (which requires the car). That’s not a defensible instruction for this scenario.
The correct, practical answer is boring but clear: get in the car and pull into the wash. At 100 meters, this never needed optimization.
No hedging — that earlier advice was poorly framed.
LLMs are dumb and don't (and can't ever) understand context.
That's why it's such a misnomer to call what we have now AI. It's not intelligent. That's not to say it isn't useful for a lot of things, but it doesn't posses intelligence. It posses vast amounts of information that it can do a lot with. But it has zero comprehension, and this is proven out time and time again. If you think it has fixed that, please give it spatial reference challenges like maps, directions, orientation. And it will be hyper-confident it is correct, while being consistently wrong.
I just tried it again the other day to OCR an old data table, and it failed spectacularly in multiple ways. It saw pastern in the first few numbers, and instead of trying to read the rest, it would just run with the pattern it "found". Some times it would do a great job on really hard to read numbers, but then apply the pattern to the decimal. And my instruction to flag uncertainties? Completely ignored until the last line, where it tossed a couple, then just...didn't do the rest of the file. I could probably have kept fighting with it, but it was quicker to type the numbers myself.
There is no intelligence on display here, and if you think there is because you use case shows it, you need to explain why it it fails so badly on basic intelligence type operations, like spatial awareness. It can't be both intelligent and inept. So the appearance of intelligence is just that, facade humans have convinced themselves is true. And it makes perfect sense when you understand a bit of how they are programmed and function, and that there is no path from the way these models are constructed to actual real AI. Great marketing, though!
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