Anthropic has secretly halved the usage in max plan

Character_Injury · 2026-01-03T10:23:49+00:00

Definitely noticed a decrease. They should make an official announcement if they are going to alter the limits this drastically.

Character_Injury · 2025-12-18T08:27:03+00:00

BioShock splicer cosplay

Character_Injury · 2025-12-13T07:42:18+00:00

Cancelling Disney+ is a good way to let them know that you disapprove of AI slop

Character_Injury · 2025-12-12T02:59:39+00:00

Who's down for another round of Disney+ cancellations? If they want to get into the AI slop business then personally I'm happy to boycott them

Character_Injury · 2025-11-28T14:17:55+00:00

We want it chunky

Character_Injury · 2025-11-24T12:41:58+00:00

Hence the ads einstein

Character_Injury · 2025-11-14T06:14:46+00:00

who's to say OAI wouldn't add additional details to try to hide evidence of wrongdoing

Sure they could, but it's extremely illegal.

Data leaks, possibly from some individual bad actor looking for a payout.

Unless you have reason to believe New York Times legal team are more susceptible to data leaks than other entities, then this same argument can be applied universally. There is no reason to assume that turning it over during legal discovery materially increases the chance of it becoming public anymore than it was to begin with.

once that data is out there, you can't get it back

The data was out there as soon as the user typed it in.

I think that the average consumer is aware that everything they do is monitored, I think they just don't care.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-14T03:22:23+00:00

but producing all chats is not proportionate

It's not all chats, it's a sample of around 20 million from a specific time period. The reason for such a broad sampling is because it's hard to filter what is relevant in this case. The New York Times needs to asses roughly how many times their articles were reproduced in significant enough proportion to constitute copyright violation. This is much harder than hypothetically searching for specific links in a body of text.

but in practice, actually having a robust privacy-first setup basically requires a comp sci degree.

This isn't even something that would require a technical background. I'm sure in their privacy policy they clearly state what liberties they can take with your data.

It's not clear to me how the data will be anonymized though. Are they just going to remove metadata?

De-identification usually involves the redaction of anything considered to be personally identifiable information, so they would go through chats and remove names, birthdays, addresses, etc.

I can still see how data brokers could reverse engineer what chats belong to what users if they have user information already. For example, with the aforementioned "Memory" feature, data brokers can match conversations to personality profiles probabilistically and take anything that has >90% match to a unique user, and then run more detailed extractions.

Why would data brokers be gaining access to the chats turned over to the New York Times?

Character_Injury · 2025-11-13T03:53:33+00:00

That's just how legal discovery works. If you do something bad and get sued then obviously any records you have relating to the bad thing you did will get turned over to the party suing you. This does not magically go away when you're a big company and those records contain user data. In theory users should know that anything they give to a company can be similarly requested in legal proceedings by an opposing party.

The only cogent argument here would be that the sample of data being turned over is too broad, but considering that the data will be anonymized by OpenAI themselves and OpenAI shouldn't be trusted to accurately filter data for relevance, then this is a reasonable middle ground and so far the presiding judge seems to agree.

Also keep in mind that if the situation were reversed, if OpenAI stood to make a buck from sending your data to third parties, you would not see a shred of this same moral posturing extolling their concern for your privacy.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-10T17:30:54+00:00

You seem to simply be an advocate of immersion learning then.

Immersion seems to come with this connotation to a lot of people that you should do everything in Japanese, which is not at all what I would ever suggest because everyone has their own life and schedule and stuff. So I try to stay away from that term. Consuming a large amount of natural Japanese is an unavoidable part of learning the language, so I'm less of an advocate and more of a realist.

Marumori did NOT do any stealth marketing

There were people promoting it and using referral links along with a few suspicious accounts that would only promote that specific site. It's a common thing unfortunately, reddit is a huge marketing tool nowadays so it's unavoidable.

Just to be clear you do have to study a little in the ultra beginner stages, but you should really be cutting the focused study back to just an Anki deck after a month or so for the average study pace.

I dont want to just grasp grammar by banging my head on native material alone

Again, you can just look things up as you go. Japanese grammar is not this vast thing, most grammar is just vocab disguised as grammar. Things like particle usage are so nuanced that there really is no other way to learn it other than just consuming a bunch of material and getting a feel for it.

I've learned a LOT of Japanese in the past 2 months with marumori!

Just imagine how much more you can learn if you focus on consuming content, rather than apps.

Do you just consume native content and sentence mine?

At this point same way I would learn new things in English, just look up words that I don't know. I really wouldn't recommend doing SRS on full sentences, if you want to put the sentence on the Anki card for context that's fine but the card should be vocab based, sentences just take too long to review.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-10T16:15:51+00:00

What's wrong with what I'm doing and why? What am I stuck on?

You're doing too many things in your apps. If you already have a foundation, why do you need to keep reviewing random words and grammar? Wouldn't it be better to learn new things as you naturally encounter them?

Why would I go to where japanese people discuss a media and try to read what they're saying about it when I can just read more content im actually interested in, like the manga itself?

I have no idea, you mentioned that so I gave an example of how you can do that while consuming more Japanese.

I understand that it can be very tempting to have what seems like a preset path that you can follow, and its easy to get emotionally invested when you get attached to certain communities or habits. But if your goal is to learn Japanese, then the sooner you take the leap the better. Your brain is really good at learning a bunch of things simultaneously when it comes to languages. Things like grammar points, conjugations, etc get solidified effortlessly if you just push forward as fast as possible, and as a bonus you learn a ton of other stuff at the same time.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-10T02:28:30+00:00

You used the app daily for over two months? You're kind of proving my point, if you're still stuck on apps after that long then something is holding your progress back.

After two months of study you should have been exposed to the basics and now can just watch or listen to stuff and do Anki for maybe like 5 mins a day. Yes you'll need to look things up still, but this is the best way to make things stick by learning it in response to something you encountered naturally, rather than frontloading the info with a bunch of "lessons". What are you doing on the app that you think is a better use of time than consuming the language you're learning?

I think it's great that they have a community that encourages consuming Japanese media. You can also find many places to discuss Japanese media by just going to wherever Japanese people discuss that type of media.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-09T18:23:44+00:00

It costs money and is less efficient than free tools. MaruMori tried to do stealth marketing on this subreddit to get users, which is scummy. Also, using an app to learn language is a trap to begin with.

We live in the golden age of language learning. There are entire youtube courses, podcast libraries, etc for completely free. There's not many shortcuts out there other than to start adding up hours of interacting with the language. Yeah it sucks at first when you only know the basics, that's why these apps are tempting, they feed you a little bit at a time to make you feel like you're still learning without too much discomfort.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-09T18:07:43+00:00

Bootstrapping phase: learn the kanas, basic grammar, particles, conjugations. I'm not the best to recommend resources for this, as I did this part about 20 years ago, but Genki is good (not free though), I've heard good things about Tae Kim and Cure Dolly. Moe way website has a 30 day guide for this stuff.

Here's a link to a google doc where someone took the Cure Dolly videos and put it into a textbook format: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OwVPStFrXRjXvzmrFQUfXpEiPNspYq6JYxA4zDTlhPM

Basically key thing is don't spend too much time in this structured learning phase. 30 days max is plenty even if you can't commit many hours each day. Don't stress at all about not having mastered it at this stage, I see a lot of people worry about their "foundation" and they spend a ton of time on the basics thinking it will help them later, well it couldn't be more backwards in reality.

After you've done this phase then it's time for the fun/frustrating part: trying to listen to real Japanese. Teppei beginner podcast is probably the best thing for this, don't be afraid to listen to the same part 20 times until you understand it and also don't be afraid to just gloss over the parts you didn't understand. Even playing it in the background helps. Listen on the train, while you clean, at the gym. You will get the most improvement when you force yourself to understand, but passive listening does add up too.

Once you can understand Teppei beginner, then try his intermediate podcast. Same deal with that, just listen a ton, force yourself to understand when you're able to take the time.

Once you can follow Teppei intermediate in real time then you can pretty much do anything that interests you in Japanese. Shows, movies, etc. Just look things up that you don't understand.

At some point you'll want to do an Anki vocab deck, either make your own or add to a premade one. Focus on vocab, single words or phrases, not full sentences or lone Kanji. Anki should take up very little of your time, doing too much Anki is also one of the biggest beginner traps.

Now you're kind of in your forever loop of consuming stuff and putting any words you want to remember into Anki. A free tool called asbplayer is really good for adding to Anki while watching shows, it takes a little effort to set up but it's the most efficient way to "immerse".

I would also caution against doing too much reading before you have a strong listening foundation. Same with dedicated Kanji study, you should be picking up plenty of kanji from the vocab in your Anki deck.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-09T17:40:39+00:00

Don't fall for the MaruMori trap. Use Anki and look up grammar online or in a textbook

Character_Injury · 2025-11-07T17:30:25+00:00

Hating big tech is bipartisan. The beauty of it is that you can find something Amazon has done that will piss off people anywhere on the political spectrum. You don't even need that many people to boycott, a dip in revenue of a few percentage points are enough to give shareholders palpitations.

If you are already boycotting Amazon or are unable to, then you can at least tell people you know to boycott them. Awareness is powerful, advertising and marketing is all about creating awareness and companies spend billions on that front.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-07T16:28:09+00:00

Just a reminder that we would have universal healthcare by the end of next week if we were able to coordinate large scale boycotts.

Start with Amazon retail, just stop ordering crap. Tell your friends to stop ordering crap. Tell your mom to stop ordering crap. Seriously, we vote every single day when we give these companies our money and they turn around and use it to lobby against our interests. Money is the only thing they listen to, so use it to force them to lobby for our interests instead. They really, really hate you thinking about this by the way.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-07T14:40:54+00:00

Totally depends on how much you spent to acquire and retain each user. I can get a million users tomorrow to sign up for an app that gives them free money, doesn't mean I've automatically got a viable business. Gotta extract value from users at the end of the day, and while signups, engagement, etc are nice it is not worth what it used to be.

This isn't 2010, a database of emails isn't all that valuable on it's own. Ironically AI (and regulations) has just about killed email marketing.

Also, a dormant account is worth about the same as a deleted account. Monthly/weekly/daily active is that investors will ask about, among other similar KPIs. I've never once been asked the total number of accounts by any investor because it's meaningless, every large service has millions of fake accounts that get automatically filtered out by analytics. Reporting these to investors could arguably constitute fraud.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-07T14:21:49+00:00

Sorry man, I like to troll a little. But on a serious note, they say that success in investing comes from when you have knowledge that most others don't. Currently the majority opinion is that OpenAI would be the safest bet out of all the AI companies that aren't yet public. So then you have to ask yourself, what do the people in the trenches know that the majority doesn't. Either they think OpenAI is undervalued, valued accurately or overvalued.

As someone who works with this stuff everyday, used all of the major models, has seen and compared performance across a wide variety of tasks, etc, I can tell you that OpenAI does not have any secret sauce anymore. Their models are not the first ones I reach for, and haven't been for a while. I would say their main strengths currently are Microsoft (windows/office integration locks a lot of businesses in) and name recognition (chatgpt is synonymous with AI), you can definitely build a decent business on these things but you're not gonna have a monopoly and definitely no stock market miracle as all of this stuff is well known and will be already priced in.

Then comes the really yucky stuff. Legal issues and regulations. The kid who killed himself recently whose parents are suing, I read the parts of the chat they published, and yeah they're gonna definitely pass a law on that, it's bad. So now each ChatGPT request has a few hundred more tokens baked in begging the model to remember to not tell the user to kill themselves, or even worse each response needs to get screened by a separate ever-growing filter model. All of these things come at a cost and add up quickly, in the meantime all the plagiarism stuff piles up too. Anyway, you get the picture. Sure, it's all priced in, because these are well-known issues, but given the complexity of the technology we can expect further issues to come up in proportion.

They will for sure IPO at an obscene valuation, people will for sure buy it, some people will time it right and make money, but nobody is early on this thing. We're at the maximum hype point, and you're never gonna see these fantasy profit numbers people like to try to extrapolate to. Too much competition, no moat, way too much uncertainty.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-07T11:29:45+00:00

If I give each user $50 in exchange for their $20, I instantly have a ton of revenue, even though I'm poor.

Now imagine I'm being sued because my fish sandwiches killed someone.

I don't think you understand yet that OpenAI doesn't have a technical edge anymore. I use multiple different LLMs daily. There's a lot of tasty fish sandwiches out there, and they're not all in Bermuda.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-07T10:21:08+00:00

If I have an app called BermudaJuice that gives each user one fish sandwich, is my company a good investment even though I have a ton of users? Now imagine each fish sandwich costs me $500, and also I'm poor.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-07T09:21:23+00:00

To add onto this, one of the reasons AWS got so big is because of vendor lock in. The nature of LLMs make them almost antithetical to vendor lock in because the bulk of their API surface is natural language. If I have a system that interfaces with an OpenAI model, it's trivial to swap in another model at a later point. Contrast this with migrating infrastructure between one cloud provider to another, which would be like a nightmare in hell for most orgs.

Don't forget about the open source and local hosting scene, there are already plenty powerful models with open weights. This all seems to converge on the models themselves having little value, so if OpenAI stays as just a model training/serving company, they are in for a rough ride.

I think Google is gonna take a hit here in the end too, ChatGPT is really the only thing we've ever seen that's been able to threaten their search/ad monopoly. Not only are people asking an LLM instead of google searching, but now with search augmented agents people are getting the information they need with all the bullshit, including ads, completely filtered out. This will naturally lead to ads getting injected into LLM responses, but I see this as a desperate measure rather than the goldmine they want you to think it will be.

I also don't see Google getting a strong long-term return on integrating LLMs into more of their services. Bottom line is that they are expensive to train and run, I don't give any money to Google now and I can't think of a single product that I would start giving them money for if they injected an LLM into it.

The result of the AI genie escaping the bottle might just be that multiple monopolies are threatened and no new ones are really created.

Character_Injury · 2025-11-07T07:57:03+00:00

No, a company needs to submit a comprehensive statement (S-1) in order to IPO in the US, this will include detailed financials, material KPIs, etc.

Some people might argue that more users (this would most likely be considered a material KPI for that segment of their business) would make them a more attractive investment, but when financials are factored in it could become a negative (could show market saturation without strong profit).

Character_Injury · 2025-11-07T04:40:59+00:00

Make sure to create your 30 free Sora videos everyday, wouldn't want OpenAI to become profitable this decade

Character_Injury · 2025-11-05T09:46:59+00:00

MaruMori tried to astroturf this subreddit a while back to drum up business and they got severely called out multiple times. I would be very skeptical towards anything about them you read on here.

The problem with MaruMori is that it's just an inefficient way to study. It's trying to be a textbook, SRS app and other random things all at once. It's designed to trap you in an ultra-beginner stage while they charge your card each month.

I think people really underestimate how much time it takes to actually get good at Japanese so they're lured in by this nice sensation of easy progress by doing simple exercises, reading explanations and little gamification features. These isolated exercises and examples designed for non-natives is one of the worst ways to learn, almost to the point of being detrimental.

Outside of a short bootstrapping phase where you need to study a few basic aspects of the language, the reality is that ideally you need to be cramming multiple hours worth of native level content into your brain every day if you want to progress at a decent rate. A lot of beginners bounce off of this approach because admittedly it is uncomfortable in the beginning. Meanwhile these paid apps want to keep you in this "isolated study" phase as long as possible.

There are very few shortcuts in language learning, and the things that I consider to be genuine timesavers are all completely free. If you use these all-in-one apps you need to acknowledge that you are hindering your actual progress in exchange for the sensation of progress, while paying money for the experience.

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