Also you sound like you want to do something I can't endorse, so it's good that you don't want to train a model

Not sure what that means. I want to send a message sounding like Trump or respond with a joke in the voice of Ghandi to friends.

Anonymizing would also be a usecase. Then I could replace the audio of videos I want to make after narrating them, record an anonymous podcast, or send voice messages into groups I'm a part of with a different voice.

I assumed you want to make person unidentifiable, in which case tone and pitch changes will not erase enough of biometrics.

If you want to make it sound like someone specific, then it's exactly what you said in the last line, you need to train your own spoofing models. Also you sound like you want to do something I can't endorse, so it's good that you don't want to train a model

combine whisper speech-to-text with any one of the numerous local text-to-speech solutions like picotts, piper, kitten, pocket-tts, outetts etc.

That doesn't give a new voice and I can't send my friends messages sounding like a specific personality

What's wrong with the old school approach of adjusting pitch & such?

The subprime mortgages bubble didn't make mortgages disappear, but it forced stricter regulation of mortgages. And lack of regulation is a major problem with current commercialized AI. In fact, so far the companies have been lobbying very hard against regulation.

Furthermore, propping up the AI bubble is also screwing up the economy. Some of us would just like to see the bandaid ripped off before more long term damage is done.

Finally, put yourself in the position of a Gen Alpha entering the job market. You can't find an entry level white cost job because companies think they can replace you with AI. Someone in that position sees no benefit from continuing to prop up the bubble. If the bubble bursts, at worst they're still in the same situation, at best the job market opens up again.

It's just a betting game. Some will win, most will lose. Sad thing is that most people who lose never opted in to participate in the game.

I don't understand people like this who act cheerful at the prospect of the AI bubble bursting as if that's going to make AI dissapear. No - you'll still have AI like you do today but now with further screwed up economy. The dotcom bubble bursting didn't make the internet dissapear either.

Was this article written for people who have only recently heard of LLMs?

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If you have a good theory of your codebase, you can push the LLM much harder than if you have no familiarity. Because you have your own sense of what a good solution might look like, you can say “no, I think it could be simpler here”, or “but don’t we already do X?”, or “can we express this problem in these familiar terms?“.

Yes. When you already know what you’re doing, AI can work as a force multiplier.

Lol, no

I agree. But calling an A.I. just a tool is a bit like calling a Saturn V a firework.

AI regulations are just a form of market capture. OpenAI and Anthropic just don't want new players in (what they see as) their playground.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the agency views Chinese distillation as a form of IP theft.

All LLMs are a form of IP theft.

I'm sorry but I'm still a bit of an AI doomer. Like I genuinely hope AI is fundamentally slop. But like digital technology is fundamentally to simple to manifest any meaningful safeguards from computers that program themselves.

AI has only begun to scratch the surface of what it can do cyber-security wise.

https://www.iansresearch.com/resources/all-blogs/post/security-blog/2026/05/15/google-detects-first-ai-generated-zero-day-exploit-in-active-campaign

An AI that's been trained on millions of device models and software versions could build a data base of exploits and select targets exclusively based on hardware with zero day vulnerabilities. Even patched exploits can be cross referenced with software versions so that any out of date hardware is immediately targeted with that specific vulnerability.

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Our tendency to anthropomorphize AI causes us to assume that only a sentient AI presents an existential threat. But in reality the threat isn't the intelligence of the AI, but the vulnerability of the digital world and everything connected to it. Even a 'dumb'AI with the right data could become a global nuisance.

I'll be worried when we have true AI and not this fancy random number generator that does a good job of making people think it is one. The article is making some huge leaps that LLMs can be programmed to have personalities and it's own goals. That is literally impossible with LLMs.

Thank you for spamming info about a 6 month old model just because it was posted in another instance you don't want people to use.

I replied on-topic there.

They're just giving it away for free, its devastating to our profits! We can't censor models we don't own. 😂

Back when I was at the bedtime story stage I just went for the books I enjoyed as a kid. We got though the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, some of the Narnia books and some others. Even if they don't know all the words that's ok the best stories just carry you along. The youngest should be on picture books not screens but the main thing is, you are there and reading with them because that time is priceless.

Or an excuse to cripple competition. I shoot you, you shoot me, omg you have a gun and you're dangerous.

I don't think so, albeit this is a possibility and should be considered

I still don’t see the big difference here between this and letting kids watch YouTube, especially with so much AI content anyways. And I’ve read some really bad kids stories that were supposedly written by people.

At the end of the day it’s just another thing for parents to parent on.

The local GP will just tell you to fuck off if you float the idea of ADHD here, seems they really just can't be fucked with it anymore.

It's 8 weeks for a GP appointment here and when people who need treatment go they are just told to fuck off, kids even moreso....AI is not the problem here it's fuckwits crafting novel conditions and then getting upset when people say they have them.

If the kid thinks they qualify for a sticker then explain to them getting the sticker won't fix things, could make things worse and they can apply for the sticker if they feel it will give them easier access to helpful resources.

Teach a simple credential check: does this creator have LCSW, Ph.D., MD, or DO in their bio?

FFS, No.

Judge content creators on the content they create, not on some fucking sticker in a bio, plenty PhD's spouting absolute shite.