Joey Anuff

Doomscrolling since Day Zero 🤳 AI dev (Superagency, Impromptu) @reidhoffman & @gregbeato ⏳ prev @stepzen_dev @DataStax 🧑🏻‍🚀 @VH1 📺 @WIRED 📟 🕰

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

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[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy have?

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

@agaricus You might not get likes, but I'd bet you get results.

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

@simonw @elder_plinius "A system prompt can often be interpreted as a detailed list of all of the things the model used to do before it was told not to do them." Well said, and a good heuristic for unpacking all prompts, not just system prompts.

[near @nearcyan]

first thing I tried with Veo 3

"futuristic russian singer, techo vibes, eclectic tongue thing"

wow. #Veo3

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

This speaks to the difficulty in sharing major LLM hacks these days. (To AI-averse loved ones, privately.) You know with some minimal guidance they'd be legit superpowered, but they've already tried some AI naively and intuited (correctly) that such use could easily "act as a shortcut that hurts learning."

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The current state of research on AI and education: Growing evidence that, when used as a tutor with instructor guidance, AI seems to have quite significant positive effects. When used alone to get help with homework, it can act as shortcut that hurts learning

Still early days.

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

Oh, ok. Never mind then.

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

@JamesSurowiecki What specific LLMs did you use? You’re commenting on a post about top models, so I assume you used a top model? GPT-o3 or Gemini 2.5 Pro? Would you share a link to the chat?

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

“Can you imagine? We’ve converted the electric stove into a stereo system—yet we still go to our parents’ place for dinner!”

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

Can you make the rampaging robot that's chasing all the people away seem friendlier?

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

@humbertomoreira @guydeboredom @edanuff The instance I had that solved all Terry's movie examples gave me this one, which besides the bad crop works.

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

I was just telling @guydeboredom and @edanuff how the top models were struggling with the Terry Colon rebus challenge. (The great thing about Terry's rebuses is they're annoying.) o3 takes its time, but mostly gets these right.

https://t.co/rMRI6pmmPF

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

@humbertomoreira @guydeboredom @edanuff Maybe try getting it to recreate one Terry's already done. That way you have a solution to show if it fails.

[Joey Anuff @JoeyAnuff]

I always suspected this anti-sci-fi propaganda page would make a great AI subject. Grok's translation is nil, and their image looks like it's emulating true cut-and-paste, which is an impressive concept but hideous in practice. GPT-4o reverts more to the Sora house style but shines on the translation. (It rhymes!) Delightful text placement also, especially compared with Grok.

IN THE WORLD OF DELIRIUM SCI-FI
Technology for youth. - 1948. - 2. - P. 32, 3 pp. region.
Before us are dozens of books with colorful covers, with flashy titles, with lively drawings. These are collections of fantasy novels, short stories and tales, which enterprising publishers throw out onto the American book market in millions of copies. Let's open any of these books. A terrible world will look out from the pages, as if drawn by the imagination of a madman - a world of delirious fantasy. Insanity, corruption, fear of today, horror of the future, everything with which capitalism is incurably ill - all this is clearly imprinted here.
https://t.co/qMYHDt9mOn

Wikipedia: And you are lynching Negroes
During the Stalin era, praise for the quality of any aspect of US life prompted the rejoinder "Yes, but they lynch Blacks, don't they?"[13][14] Throughout the 1930s, white men traveling from the US to the Soviet Union on business reported to the US consulate in Riga, Latvia, that locals asked them about the dichotomy between living in a free society and "the 'lynching' of blacks."[25][26] The term worked its way into fiction literature books written in the country, and was seen in this context as criticism of foreigners.[27] Years later a science fiction comic, Technique - The Youth – 1948. – No. 2 titled "In a world of crazy fantasy" (Russian: "В мире бредовой фантастики") featured a poem of political attacks on the cover which included a similar line: "Every planet's Negroes are being lynched there."[28]
https://t.co/Xn5Ye3Lqcn