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Oh wow, this is just a straight ripoff of that last one isn’t it?

I feel like this is a recurring theme. Someone posts about one shotting something and then it’s revealed that you could also have one-shot it buy git cloning the repo it’s based off of


The real point of these posts is karma farming. Posting a good one shot is worth at least a hundred or so upvotes. People need to recognize this for what it is and ignore these kind of things.

Proof you can graduate from MIT and still be completely dumb.

I know people with doctorates who can't organise their lives. Being a good student does not make you smart in all aspects of your life.

"...Hallucinations, where language models (LMs) generate factually ungrounded responses, pose serious risks, as users tend to blindly rely on them. This is particularly concerning in high-stakes domains, where consequences of such model behavior can lead to significant harms. Despite notable progress in understanding hallucinations, it remains unclear how reliably these models can recognize the limits of their knowledge....

...We introduce PhantomBench, the first large-scale benchmark of its kind, comprising more than 60K non-existent terms and entities derived from real concepts across diverse domains. Using our benchmark, we evaluate a total of 21 models of various types and sizes....

...We show staggering hallucination rates across the board (with average rates as high as 86.7% in some cases), and note that even frontier models surprisingly fail to abstain on non-existent concepts, especially when the input presumes their existence..."


In the SpaceX IPO prospect there was mention of Kardashev Type civilizations...normally, this would be enough to just get people institutionalized, but in 2026 its what it takes.

We are getting dumber and there is no way around it:

"Are we raising a dumber generation? IQ scores fall worldwide" - https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/hjcg09ud11l


The new AI models make it worst. They make the hallucinations plausible enough to survive reviews.

So you have it so much worst. As analogy would be like you have less clown shoes, and weird fingers, but more forged passports.


>> The US government basically has to nationalize AI and capture an outsize portion of the revenue from it

Currently AI has generated no profit. And as it sits, is a non viable business.

I refuse to include the sellers of shovels as AI revenue.

If the companies buying the shovels are still losing money, then the tool supplier fortunes have nothing to do with the economics of the AI application layer, who is losing money on every prompt.


It's the most naive opinion that keeps getting shoveled around. You have a product that is viewed as essential by businesses, with revenue growing by 10x a year and geopolitical ramifications that have continued to rear their heads and your opinion is "this is all an unprofitable shill". It is extraordinary to me that people really believe this. Whether or not labs run at a loss today is absolutely irrelevant. There is of course steady state economics that make sense, and its currently not well known what the profitability picture is right now, so to say "Currently AI has generated no profit" is also just speculation and not a very insightful one at that.

I've heard that the API calls by themselves are ~60% profit if you ignore capital expenditures. The labs haven't generated profit because they're constantly sinking money into the next generation of larger models to stay relevant. Dario has talked about the economics of this a lot, and I do believe him there.

There's clearly also a lot of pent up demand in the corporate world for inference, the problem is that it's currently expensive enough that enterprises are balking at the cost before they've had a chance to refine processes and see projects through to fruition. That's a tractable problem to solve though.


The number of capital-heavy businesses that are wildly profitable “if you ignore capital expenses” is too many to list.

Airlines, for example, which are so profitable they continually go bankrupt.


That's true, but if the frontier doesn't advance there's no depreciation or ongoing capital expenditure. If all the frontier labs agreed to stop making stronger AI and just try to sell what they've already trained today, their books would turn green in a hurry.

You do know your product is a prompt, right ?

Absolutely. Look at every current member of the EU commission, European Investment Bank and European Central Bank. Almost without exception, almost everyone has a scandal behind them.

Its how you get these jobs, you need to prove you have the pedigree.


>> I don't review my code anymore.

Thanks. I will have that on your pink slip.


I am the founder and ceo

Nothing builds trust on a product like announcing your quality control process is vibe based.

Oh, wait… you mean the same company that, for years, installed Oracle Database Encryption enabled by default even though it required an extra license?

The same company that, during routine audits, aggressively billed customers for having that feature enabled, even when those customers pleaded, explained, and proved it was an honest mistake and that the feature had never actually been used?

That company is now being accused of doing something illegal?

That company?


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