It'd be naive to suspect that this isn't part of the backlash. Artists and musicians are indulging a will-to-power impulse just like the rest of us. Nobody likes to lose power, or to see their own influence diluted.

Looks like another unreadable black hole of nothingness. God, I wish this trend would hurry up and run its course.

Unfortunately the trend is only accelerating

there are other themes, the one shown is just extending my terminal theme so it doesn’t feel out of place.

Ironically, I understand what the "unreadable black hole of nothingness" is perfectly. But I have no idea what your comment means.

hard to argue that the UBHON is a recurring theme these days! rimshot

I sure hope humans are in the loop at those companies, reviewing pics that aren't recognized as faces. If I ever see one of those captchas, they'll get to see some things that no human has ever, or should ever, see.

Nah, I just have my clanker deal with it. It's better at those stupid puzzles than I am.

Cloudflare doesn't do puzzles. It either says you're a bot or you're not a bot.

Patchright is a patched playwright that clears turnstile and other similar automation hostilities

Love when something decides I'm a bot and the decision is final. (Looking at you, CPU-World -- it even lets me know my IP address has been banned for "abuse", too.)

Right. Because IP addresses uniquely identify people. /eyeroll

Even if I were behind CGNAT (which I'm not), you don't see that message if you're already blocked. They won't even serve you the signup page then.

I remember being blown away when a then-unreleased version of GPT 5 took gold at the International Math Olympiad. Now I can run a model at home that can do that. We are more fortunate to have these tools than almost anyone is willing to acknowledge.

When they started leaving notes for their future selves, that rationale became a little more interesting. We're seeing the first stirrings of object permanence.

How many user pictures are there to choose from, though? This is a nice, elegant way to sample from the set, but the nature, size, and frequency of the problem don't justify more than five or ten seconds' or thought and one or two minutes of coding.

But multiplied by the number of times it'll run on the planet, and you have a surprisingly big impact.

Exactly this, if you count the amount of time the windows 11 context menu needs to pop up and then the second click to get to the old context menu across the entire globe for a month, you would get an insane amount of time and cycles wasted

I guess I'd do it once, the slow and easy way, and cache the result. But that's just me.

The billions of times aren't repeated times for the same person, it's because it's been done for the first time billions of times. This is the "choose a user's initial profile picture". They're not randomly changing it.

If its weights are open, that covers a multitude of other sins. Sufficiently-strong performance on the part of the new model would justify adapting existing tools to work with it.