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I always said that AI could cause human extinction not by being too smart, but by doing dumb things because some stupid human overestimated its capabilities and used it where it should not.

I’m not sure about this, we already support resizing on our app for a while now because of our iPad/mac catalyst version, so I fail to see how different it would be on the Duo.

I assume other apps will have have the same, since our team is super small compared to everyone else.


The small screen is so small they had to move controls to the right, I would expect glitches because of that, especially for custom controls.

Apps not rebuilt with the latest SDK will display in pillar-boxes mode, centred on the screen.

The article itself answers the second question.

That Aaron Swartz guy was prosecuted so hard for downloading some academic papers, he killed himself.

Meanwhile, AI companies are free to steal literally any content they want and nothing will ever happens with them.


Ah, this remembers me when I was also young and naive.

Good times when we thought the internet would be great for democracy because knowledge would be easily available for everyone. Fast forward to 2026 and even the leader of terrible communist regime like China is looking better than the shitheads we got on the democratic west..


Therefore it’s only fair that some kind of disclaimer is shown somewhere


> you have to use it at work unless you want to go out the door

Why people are so compelled to gospel about their saviors to others? Why tech became a cult?


Did you read the subsequent sentence?

>Side projects is completely upto you

That hardly strikes me as "gospel about their saviors" to me. Not to mention at least in my circles that statement is approximately true, even at a company that hasn't gone full AI-crazy (eg. with unlimited token spend and AI use leaderboards).


I think it happened when it solved one of those Erdős problems, while also knowing everything there is to know about birds, mitochondria, history of Uganda, etc.

Even my most contrarian friends have a hard time justifying coding by hand. To say it slopaganda style; That’s not a cult, that’s common sense.


How about all the times it confidently states made up stuff, and writes horribly insecure code?

That's not common sense, that's bs.


Everything you described applies to human written code, especially ones you're randomly copy pasting from the internet. Maybe if the stackoverflow answer you're copying from is popular enough that people will catch it, but otherwise you'd probably have better luck asking AI to review it.


I don't think it's common for human developers to confidently state made up stuff.

They may be incompetent, but they're unlikely to lie too brazenly.

Yes, you should always declare when you're pasting something from the internet, and how much you checked it.

But, to get back to the post's topic, do you know how you protect yourself from poor developers?

You see code written by them, and you say "let's check this very carefully"; or let's just avoid this project altogether.

How do you do that for an AI agent, if it's not declared that they're the authors of some code?


So basically you created a Slop Maker..

I mean, you do you I guess..


Prior to AI, I've made over a dozen films. Six AM call times and eighteen hour days, location release forms, insurance, lifting big props off of two story shelving at the prop house in sweltering heat, last minute fixes to catering for hundreds of people, running AD and logistics.

During the pandemic I bought fifty grand of mocap gear to keep shooting virtually.

Are you a filmmaker? Because this tech helps me tell stories more directly than photons captured on extremely expensive glass, set dressing full of cheats and tricks, and spreadsheets of logistics.

I have several films coming out in theaters that use ArtCraft.

I'm working on anime reboots of several popular series from the 80's and 90's. Full licensing and original authors on board.

I'm talking to several major bands, huge directors, and tons of people in the space. I've talked to the leadership at many of the big studios and I'm working on deals.

I promise I care more about film than you do. I spend so much energy on it that it consumes me.

Hollywood already makes slop. Some of the projects that get greenlit are downright terrible. You don't need AI to make slop.

There are hundreds of AI filmmakers doing absolutely phenomenal work, and the pool is rapidly growing. You don't criticize early CG film for relying on imprecise Blinn-Phong shading, yet people who aren't even trying to carve sculptures out of the new kind of clay are eager to jump on AI rendering artifacts while discounting AI works as a whole.

An AI short film can take months and months of labor. An AI aided scene can take weeks. It's work. It's not "prompt and done".

What sucks is that I know a room full of people that went to expensive film school and wound up in support roles where they never got to helm their dream projects. Hollywood funding was never amenable to following your vision as your heart desired. We've been fortunate in software to not live with that curse. How many young Scorseses withered on the vine because they couldn't access the capital they needed to tell the stories their heart desired? AI is going to fix that.


That $20 price is heavily subsidized to addict people like you. Their plan is that once people are addicted to it, they can just increase prices.

Which now won't be possible because we have chinese open models to use instead.

I'm very curious about how long these US companies can keep on burning money like that.


And those same American companies want the US government to intervene in other countries to try to kill their local alternatives


I mean, that’s exactly what “effective altruism” is about? Getting filthy rich and powerful no matter the methods and then the vague promise of doing something good?


Not really. They seems to chase IPO so that alone proves that they can’t hold any promise about doing something good. They would need to stay as private company to have any power to do some ”good” in the end.


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