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New comment by trentor in "On AI regulation and messaging"

trentor — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:29:17 +0000

The only factual point you made is solved on February second. All Model providers have to provide offline tooling to check for invisible watermarking.

New comment by trentor in "Asus Bike Booster"

trentor — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:30:46 +0000

Reminds me of the best mechanic class in high school we were just five guys and the teacher let us rebuild two old velo solexes.

New comment by trentor in "Mark Zuckerberg Lays Out New AI Vision in 6,500-Word Essay"

trentor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:53:26 +0000

Fitting famous german quote:

Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen. - Helmut Schmidt.

Eng: Whoever has visions should go to the doctor

New comment by trentor in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"

trentor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:21:15 +0000

99.99% of stuff is worthless for most people.

New comment by trentor in "An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power"

trentor — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000

They really believe they are the new East Indian Trading Company. Delusion and all.

New comment by trentor in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

trentor — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:37:16 +0000

You can learn remotely in his class. That's the whole point he is trying to make. Hybrid does not mean fully remote. If you want fully remote take a full remote class.

New comment by trentor in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

trentor — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:22:29 +0000

Downvote me all you want. China is doing something right. Nuclear, renewables, whatever the mix, they're not parking gas turbines next to a data center and calling it a power strategy. That US tech companies reached for that first tells you everything. Speed over consequences, every time. And shut up about that China still fires a lot of coal. They are phasing it out... the right way.

New comment by trentor in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

trentor — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:52:47 +0000

There is just not shortcut to acquire a skill worth having. I don't understand your argument.

New comment by trentor in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

trentor — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:05:36 +0000

I am lost they have training videos, they have a reading list, they have tutorials... everything you need to get started. How else would you acquire skills? There is no upload function yet.

New comment by trentor in "George R. R. Martin: Better Late Than Never"

trentor — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:27:14 +0000

At this point I just call it bait.

New comment by trentor in "Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short"

trentor — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:14:14 +0000

"self-driving" in better than ideal conditions.

New comment by trentor in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

trentor — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:36:57 +0000

If I don't recognize that it's AI and it helps me understand the article I am fine with it. Generative AI images don't need to be slop even if most of them are.

New comment by trentor in "Surveillance cameras will be required in all new cars by 2027"

trentor — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:44:27 +0000

I don't know how viable it is in the future but right now you can just unplug the wireless module (ioniq 5 2024 for me). I have wired carplay so I don't know if bluetooth would be killed as well.

New comment by trentor in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

trentor — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:54:18 +0000

I had fun and also learned a lot when I retyped programs from magazines back in the day. I am not sure if it's suitable now but there is certainly some merit to the idea.

New comment by trentor in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

trentor — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:15:39 +0000

I always thought of the Pelican more of like a gimmicky quick test. There are people who took it as a serious benchmark for overall model performance?

New comment by trentor in "Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books"

trentor — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:15:47 +0000

I hate these headlines. It's not generative ai that floods the market for books. It's people using Generative AI to flood the market. It's always the same something gets attributed to technology while it's people doing it. Scrutinize the people not the technology.

New comment by trentor in "Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth"

trentor — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:46:56 +0000

Maybe it's them getting more and more user hostile...

New comment by trentor in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

trentor — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:02:30 +0000

If you want to use a service that is age restricted either by law or the company providing it how else would you do it? It's the same IRL. I don't like it as well and we certainly lived through the wild wild west times in the 90s and 00s but the more something gets economical important the more scrutiny it gets. Maybe we just need something new.

New comment by trentor in "Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but doesn't solve AI disinformation"

trentor — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:56:00 +0000

If you are experienced working with diffusion models it's rather easy to break. A simple img2img pass with low denoise will generally do the trick. It's like locks for normal people they are a good enough deterrent but if someone know what they are doing they are easy to break.

New comment by trentor in "Claude Opus 5 cheated when tasked with running a vending machine"

trentor — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:03:36 +0000

So the communist model was the most honest. snicker