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hbosch commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
giancarlostoro · 5 days ago
This will not end well for Disney, there were certain historical characters removed from Sora 2 because people kept making racist videos that are hard to censor, and it became increasingly unhinged. This feels like another circular investment where Disney is hoping to make money back I'm sure. On the other hand, assuming they do the freemium stuff, I look forward to making a few videos of my daughters favorite Disney princesses "talking" to her.
hbosch · 5 days ago
>This will not end well for Disney

I have faith that the Parks Imagineers will soon be installing Sora Stalls in and around every attraction in Disney World.

hbosch commented on Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows   phys.org/news/2025-12-hum... · Posted by u/pseudolus
hbosch · 12 days ago
So, the centrifugal force of head-banging is why metalheads grow long hair?
hbosch commented on Everyone in Seattle hates AI   jonready.com/blog/posts/e... · Posted by u/mips_avatar
mips_avatar · 13 days ago
It's pronounced wanderfull in Norwegian
hbosch · 13 days ago
"Wanderful" would be a better name.
hbosch commented on Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public   ft.com/content/3254fa30-5... · Posted by u/GeorgeWoff25
michaelbuckbee · 13 days ago
Amazon also uses Claude under the hood for their "Rufus" shopping search assistant which is all over amazon.com.

It's kind of funny, you can ask Rufus for stuff like "write a hello world in python for me" and then it will do it and also recommend some python books.

hbosch · 13 days ago
Are you sure? While Amazon doesn't own a "true" frontier model they have their own foundation model called Nova.

I assume if Amazon was using Claude's latest models to power it's AI tools, such as Alexa+ or Rufus, they would be much better than they currently are. I assume if their consumer facing AI is using Claude at all it would be a Sonnet or Haiku model from 1+ versions back simply due to cost.

hbosch commented on X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans   weaponizedspaces.substack... · Posted by u/adriand
MayeulC · 22 days ago
> the fact that it showed as Israel

Please re-read. That never happened.

hbosch · 22 days ago
It may have happened. There are already many users saying their "created in" locations were incorrect. Thus the rest of my comment: trust is binary. We can either be 100% certain the data is correct, or we must assume it is never correct.
hbosch commented on X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans   weaponizedspaces.substack... · Posted by u/adriand
Aarostotle · 22 days ago
Given the sibling comment here, I am wondering if you’ve fallen for a fake screenshot. I hope you did not make this up.
hbosch · 22 days ago
The same head of product quoted in the sib comment admits that "for a small set of accounts the location data was incorrect". Given what we know about Twitter's relationship with the government and this administration in particular, you're simply left to do with that information what you will.

I personally do not trust Twitter, or the government, very much. I also would not be surprised if some government accounts were created at various embassies around the world or through strategic VPN networks, or if general business is conducted through a darknet-like node system which includes allied endpoints. To me those are more plausible.

hbosch commented on X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans   weaponizedspaces.substack... · Posted by u/adriand
harrisonjackson · 22 days ago
https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1992382852328255743?s=20

> This is fake news. Location was not available on any gray check account at any point. Furthermore, the DHS has only shown IPs from the United States since account creation.

- head of product @x

Not to discount the impact of foreign powers over social media but maybe don't spread this misinformation.

hbosch · 22 days ago
Does this make the fact that it showed as Israel, was disabled, and is now "corrected", mean that this feature is good or bad?

Either we can trust all location data all the time, or we can trust none of it. We cannot expect Nikita Bier to swoop in on every suspicious tweet and try to educate us on IP range changes and DNS glitches or whatever.

Furthermore is it more likely that a small set of special accounts seemingly never collected location data on signup, or that for a small number of accounts X simply modified that data post-hoc?

hbosch commented on X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans   weaponizedspaces.substack... · Posted by u/adriand
mlmonkey · 22 days ago
Unfortunately, it requires 3 clicks ("account" -> "join date" -> "about account") to get the required information.

It should be visible on the post itself: where it was posted from, and where the author's account is mostly located. Just 2 little chips stuck on top of each and every post.

hbosch · 22 days ago
It wouldn't be difficult to include a little "" icon on each post that, when hovered, shows probable location or the creation origin. It's true that VPN's will often muddy this info, and even things like phone number confirmation for 2FA or billing address for Verified badges can't be 100% reliable... but it shouldn't be too difficult to say in those cases "User likely masking location" if the pattern is detected.

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hbosch commented on Blender Lab   blender.org/news/introduc... · Posted by u/radeeyate
spiderice · a month ago
> objectively

I do not think that word means what you think it means

hbosch · a month ago
I used it to mean that it's inarguably true and unrelated to opinion.

u/hbosch

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