Readit NewsHumorist2290 commented on Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 oneusefulthing.org/p/thre... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
I got a 3000 word story. Kind of bland, but good enough for cheating in high school.
See prompt, and my follow-up prompts instructing it to check for continuity errors and fix them:
It took me longer to read and verify the story (10 minutes) than to write the prompts.
I got illustrations too. Not great, but serviceable. Image generation costs more compute to iterate and correct errors.
Disappointingly, that is an exceedingly good story for a high school assignment. The use of an appositive phrase alone would raise alarm bells though.
It's nitpicking for flaws, but why not -- what lens on an old DSLR, older than a car, will let you take a macro shot, a wide shot, and a zoom shot of a bird?
In any case I'm not surprised. It's a short story, and it is indeed _serviceable_, but literature is more than just service to an assignment.
Humorist2290 commented on Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 oneusefulthing.org/p/thre... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
> Again, we have moved past hallucinations and errors to more subtle, and often human-like, concerns.
From my experience we just get both. The constant risk of some catastrophic hallucination buried in the output, in addition to more subtle, and pervasive, concerns. I haven't tried with Gemini 3 but when I prompted Claude to write a 20 page short story it couldn't even keep basic chronology and characters straight. I wonder if the 14 page research paper would stand up to scrutiny.
Humorist2290 commented on The disguised return of EU Chat Control reclaimthenet.org/the-dis... · Posted by u/egorfine
> According to Breyer, the existing voluntary system has already proven flawed, with German police reporting that roughly half of all flagged cases turn out to be irrelevant.
A failure rate of only 50% is absurdly good for a system like this. If we have to:
> Imagine your phone scanning every conversation with your partner, your daughter, your therapist, and leaking it just because the word ‘love’ or ‘meet’ appears somewhere.
then apparently either there are so many perpetrators that regular conversations with partners etc. are about as common as crime, or such regular conversations don't have such a high risk of being reported after all.
I don't think chat surveillance is a good idea. But please use transparent and open communication. Don't manipulate us just like the enemy does.
It is probably a reference to the report mentioned in this article from September https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-chat-control-false-reports...
According to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), 99,375 of the 205,728 reports forwarded by the US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) were not criminally relevant, an error rate of 48.3%. This is a rise from 2023, when the number of false positives already stood at 90,950.
Presumably the actual number of criminals caught by this would remain constant, so the FP rate would increase. Unless of course, the definition of criminal expands to keep the FP rate low...
Humorist2290 commented on The disguised return of EU Chat Control reclaimthenet.org/the-dis... · Posted by u/egorfine
(6) Online child sexual abuse frequently involves the misuse of information society services offered in the Union by providers established in third countries. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the rules laid down in this Regulation and a level playing field within the internal market, those rules should apply to all providers, irrespective of their place of establishment or residence, that offer services in the Union, as evidenced by a substantial connection to the Union.
But if you want to outlaw this harmful activity [licensed gambling], you have to find a way to replace 6.4% of Maryland’s budget, which is slightly less than the entire amount the state brings in from corporate taxes.
Do I misunderstand, or is this just actually incredible?
Humorist2290 commented on The new calculus of AI-based coding blog.joemag.dev/2025/10/t... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
As a security researcher, I am both salivating at the potential that the proliferation of TDD and other AI-centric "development" brings for me, and scared for IT at the same time.
Before we just had code that devs don't know how to build securely.
Now we'll have code that the devs don't even know what it's doing internally.
Someone found a critical RCE in your code? Good luck learning your own codebase starting now!
"Oh, but we'll just ask AI to write it again, and the code will (maybe) be different enough that the exact same vuln won't work anymore!" <- some person who is going to be updating their resume soon.
I'm going to repurpose the term, and start calling AI-coding "de-dev".
In my opinion, AI-coding is basically gambling. The odds of getting a usable output are way better than piping from /dev/urandom/, but ultimately it's still a probabilistic output of whether what you want is in fact what you get. Pay for some tokens, pull the slots, and hopefully your RCE goes away.
The source of funding is mentioned in the article.
The president is quoted as saying
The White House Ballroom is being privately funded by many generous Patriots, Great American Companies, and, yours truly.
Humorist2290 commented on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized cnn.com/2025/10/02/middle... · Posted by u/nashashmi
Famine is political, always. The world produces a significant excess of food. The only reason famine exists is because one group of people is perfectly happy to starve another group of people. Gaza is not unique here although Gaza is a aprticularly egregious example of industrial mass starvation and death at the hands of a highly-developed military and state actor.
I can't disagree. Modern famine is a tool used to cause harm indiscriminately. It is a testament to the human capacity for cognitive dissonance that so many people can be against the starvation of children yet support politicians responsible for mass starvation.
Though my point was more about considering the historical context. Famines used to happen all the time but largely because of crop failures. That famine is _caused_ has become common knowledge is, I think, at least an improvement. ~All~ Most of the famines that could've happened for the old reasons haven't.
Admittedly, I'm grasping at straws to avoid dwelling on the horrid situation at hand.
Also rereading the article, I cannot put down the irony that it seems to use a very similar style sheet to Google Cloud Platform's documentation.