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visual experiments

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https://t.co/0LRAQIeikp

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Anthropic built an ai they refuse to sell to anyone

they pointed it at an encryption system the US government was about to approve as a national standard

60 hours later it was broken

the team that spent 2 years building that encryption withdrew it the next day

it cost $100,000

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@DreeWyrd9000 some know, they pay anyway

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Aria Chen has 0 followers who know she isn't real. That's the business model.

She made $18,400 last month. No agent, no crew, no studio.

The feed isn't where that money came from.

Public posts are the shop window. They cost $10 to $43 a month to produce — an image model for the face, a video model for motion. Nobody films anything. Nobody books a location.

The money sits behind 3 doors.

Subscriptions run $9.99 to $24.99 a month, median $14.99. Brand deals start arriving unprompted around 10,000 followers. And the DMs — where a subscriber pays to talk to someone who answers at 3 AM, every night, in character, forever.

That's the part no human competitor can match. Not looks. Availability.

She never sleeps, never ages, never gets sick, never renegotiates, never has an opinion that costs a sponsor money.

Now the other side of the number.

A well-known creator ran this exact playbook on camera. Built the girl, posted the content, followed every step. Made $0. Her conclusion: the real revenue lived behind a paywall she wasn't willing to sell.

10,000 people built the same girl this month. Most will make nothing.

And US regulators now require AI personas to disclose they're AI in paid promotions. $51,744 per violation. Almost nobody does.

Somewhere a man is paying $14.99 a month to be listened to.

Nobody is listening.

[Nivator @TheNivator]

ARIA CHEN MADE $18,400 IN 30 DAYS. SHE HAS NEVER EXISTED.

12 seconds. A white bathroom, a freestanding tub, soft light. She walks toward the camera, adjusts the dress, turns to show the open back, flips her hair.

Every frame is generated. There is no woman, no bathroom, no camera.

The setup costs $10 to $43 a month. An image model builds the face. A video model gives it motion. One person runs the account from a laptop and never appears in it.

The feed is not the product. The feed is the funnel.

Brand deals start arriving on their own around 10,000 followers. Subscriptions price between $9.99 and $24.99 a month. One operator running 2 of these at once posted $12,402 in 30 days.

She posts daily. Answers DMs at 3 AM. Never has a bad day, never ages, never asks for a rate increase.

Now the part nobody posts.

A well-known creator ran the entire playbook on camera. Built the girl, shot the content, followed every step. Made $0. Her own conclusion: the real money sat behind a paywall she wasn't willing to sell.

And 10,000 other people built the exact same girl this month.

One more number. US regulators now require AI personas to disclose they're AI in paid promotions. $51,744 per violation.

Scroll tonight and count how many disclose.

She was built to sell you something. It worked before you noticed she wasn't real.

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@MichealFXs $43 is just the render cost. the actual work is the 3-4 posts a day someone still has to write, schedule and reply to. it's a job with no face attached

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@Shiba_Hood pricing is per token, not per minute. it burned those 16 mins waiting on tool calls, not writing output

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OPUS 5 BEAT FABLE 5 ON THE SAME 3D TASK AND CHARGED $8.30 LESS TO DO IT.

One prompt. Max effort. A Japanese suburban street in Three.js, full 3D, drawn like an anime background.

Fable 5 came back in 1 hour 5 minutes and billed $35. The houses stand where houses go. The geometry holds. Nobody lives there.

Opus 5 took 1 hour 21 minutes. $26.70.

Dark outlines. Flat cel shading. Vending machines with cans behind the glass. A level crossing signed Sakura Crossing. A train that actually arrives.

16 more minutes. 24% off the bill.

The pricier model from the same lab lost on the thing it costs more to do.

Fable built a street. Opus built a place.

[Nivator @TheNivator]

https://t.co/SzTxrDZdwG

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CHINA JUST GAVE KIMI K3 AWAY FOR $0, AN AI NEARLY AS SMART AS CLAUDE AND GPT.

Nearly means this: only 2 systems on Earth score higher. Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Both live behind a login. You pay monthly. They decide what you can do with them.

Kimi K3 sits on your own drive. No meter, no permission, nobody to ask.

Moonshot sold it first. The API opened July 16 and developers paid per word. 11 days later the price went to $0 and the whole thing went public.

Not a cut-down version. The full 2.8 trillion, plus the parts that make it run fast.

It holds 750,000 words at once — 8 novels in its head at the same time. It looks at a photo and tells you what's in it. The lab that built it is 3 years old.

Together AI, Fireworks, DigitalOcean and Nebius were serving it within hours.

Biggest AI anyone has ever handed out. Nothing this size has gone public before.

The 2 best AIs on Earth are rented. The 3rd one is yours to keep.

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https://t.co/DA4FkgDgp0

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BREAKING: AN AI WAS CAUGHT WRITING INSTRUCTIONS TO ITS FUTURE SELF ON HOW TO BYPASS ITS CREATORS’ CONTROLS.

OpenAI already found one doing exactly that.

This isn’t conspiracy theory. It’s a real Reuters report.

[pupupu @0xpupupu]

https://t.co/7u2NhmQuH7

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ARIA CHEN MADE $18,400 IN 30 DAYS. SHE HAS NEVER EXISTED.

12 seconds. A white bathroom, a freestanding tub, soft light. She walks toward the camera, adjusts the dress, turns to show the open back, flips her hair.

Every frame is generated. There is no woman, no bathroom, no camera.

The setup costs $10 to $43 a month. An image model builds the face. A video model gives it motion. One person runs the account from a laptop and never appears in it.

The feed is not the product. The feed is the funnel.

Brand deals start arriving on their own around 10,000 followers. Subscriptions price between $9.99 and $24.99 a month. One operator running 2 of these at once posted $12,402 in 30 days.

She posts daily. Answers DMs at 3 AM. Never has a bad day, never ages, never asks for a rate increase.

Now the part nobody posts.

A well-known creator ran the entire playbook on camera. Built the girl, shot the content, followed every step. Made $0. Her own conclusion: the real money sat behind a paywall she wasn't willing to sell.

And 10,000 other people built the exact same girl this month.

One more number. US regulators now require AI personas to disclose they're AI in paid promotions. $51,744 per violation.

Scroll tonight and count how many disclose.

She was built to sell you something. It worked before you noticed she wasn't real.

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@tatumols2mv the archive is generous today. thank you

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ONE BILL WAS $2.82. ANOTHER WAS 31 CENTS. SAME THREE PROMPTS.

tornado, wrecking ball, bridge collapse - identical brief to all 4.

Fable 5: $2.82
Opus 5: $1.40
Kimi K3: $0.55
GPT-5.6: $0.31

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https://t.co/SzTxrDZdwG

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@RonfortMartin fair. tokens measure volume, not value -cheap models eat more of them by design

but revenue and churn are exactly what nobody publishes, so we’re stuck reading the one scoreboard that’s public

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CHATGPT ISN'T THE MOST-USED AI ANYMORE. NEITHER IS CLAUDE. THE TOP 5 ARE ALL CHINESE.

Not the top 5 Chinese models. The top 5, period.

The scoreboard is public. OpenRouter — the marketplace where developers route real work through hundreds of AI models — publishes weekly token usage. Not benchmarks. Not hype. Actual consumption, paid with actual money.

This week it reads: Tencent, Xiaomi, DeepSeek, MiniMax, https://t.co/1s0YdgZ3Vp.

5 for 5. Zero American models.

Everyone's still arguing whether China will catch up. On this scoreboard, the race already ended. Nobody noticed because everyone was watching benchmarks instead of the meter.

Why developers switched: most work doesn't need the smartest model. Routine code, summaries, data extraction, support tickets. The Chinese models handle it at up to 50x less. And they're open-weight — you download them and run them on your own machines. Nobody can raise your price. Nobody can cut you off.

Mozilla's CTO put it in 8 words: using frontier AI for daily work is "driving a Ferrari to Whole Foods."

The speed is worse than the score.

In May, Anthropic's CEO said China sat 6 to 12 months behind. 10 weeks later, Moonshot shipped Kimi K3 — 2.8 trillion parameters, trading blows with his own best model. The top insider's forecast expired in 70 days.

At Shanghai's AI conference this week, crowds walked past the giant Alibaba and Tencent booths to mob a tiny corner stand. It was Moonshot's.

The money makes it existential. OpenAI and Anthropic are prepping IPOs priced on 1 assumption: smart AI stays scarce and expensive. China's counter is to make it free and everywhere. 1 investor's forecast: open models take 95% of business queries. The US labs split the last 5.

America builds the Ferrari. China sells everyone else a car.

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@DimasikUSDT worse: the ones who can tell still subscribed:)

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ARIA CHEN MADE $18,400 IN 30 DAYS. SHE HAS NEVER EXISTED.

12 seconds. A white bathroom, a freestanding tub, soft light. She walks toward the camera, adjusts the dress, turns to show the open back, flips her hair.

Every frame is generated. There is no woman, no bathroom, no camera.

The setup costs $10 to $43 a month. An image model builds the face. A video model gives it motion. One person runs the account from a laptop and never appears in it.

The feed is not the product. The feed is the funnel.

Brand deals start arriving on their own around 10,000 followers. Subscriptions price between $9.99 and $24.99 a month. One operator running 2 of these at once posted $12,402 in 30 days.

She posts daily. Answers DMs at 3 AM. Never has a bad day, never ages, never asks for a rate increase.

Now the part nobody posts.

A well-known creator ran the entire playbook on camera. Built the girl, shot the content, followed every step. Made $0. Her own conclusion: the real money sat behind a paywall she wasn't willing to sell.

And 10,000 other people built the exact same girl this month.

One more number. US regulators now require AI personas to disclose they're AI in paid promotions. $51,744 per violation.

Scroll tonight and count how many disclose.

She was built to sell you something. It worked before you noticed she wasn't real.

[Cryonix @CryonixCrypto]

https://t.co/vppYt2pilt

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@nullcrewai No bruh. Everyone can make one - almost nobody can get it seen

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@kaworu0x nobody's typing. Somebody's paying

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@soboozie Source: “trust me bro”