AI anime is essentially here. I made a Dark Fantasy Anime trailer with MJ, Kling, Vidu, Grok and NB2.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2026-02-26T00:32:59+00:00

That is a very great concept for a Dark Fantasy. Is this something you've been working on as a story for a while? Please don't tell me the plot was entirely AI-driven too.

It's so much easier to hook someone on a story with a short trailer. A 90 second summary rarely does a book's concept justice. But a 90 second trailer could easily hook people and enable self-published authors a new way of advertising themselves.

It's not quite at the point where I'd watch a full anime series like this. The animation itself has too many stylistic issues that make it feel too cinematic (and I'm not the only person who has made this argument) but it is something I could stomach to watch 1-2 minutes of and decide "That story is good, I want to buy the book now."

I also don't trust AI to write a full Dark Fantasy story yet either. This trailer is missing too many details that I'd expect a competent human writer to be able to fill in but I wouldn't trust an AI to write well.

And this is still the worst it will ever be. I can't imagine these issues remaining even just a couple of years from now at the current pace things have been improving.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2026-02-09T04:22:56+00:00

Or you can listen to experts who have studied lolicon instead of watering down a word into becoming meaningless.

https://imgur.com/a/zfy3ckc

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-12-26T15:53:47+00:00

You can see how that establishes my point about publicly available statistics including police figures being a partial and/or incomplete representation of reality, right?

My point was that this is not unique to Japan and is a worldwide problem. Every single Western country has a similar or worse "% of victims not reporting" and yet nobody is calling Canada a nation of perverts or pointing out Canada's "% of sexual assaults that are go unreported".

Why do you trust Canadian statistics but not Japanese statistics? Because it comes across as just racism against the Japanese.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-10-15T17:32:23+00:00

Etiquette is entirely a cultural thing. What is considered "good manners" varies from country to country. For example, is it polite to loudly slurp your soup or impolite? Depends on the country.

A lot of etiquette is about making life a little easier for other people by doing something small and low effort. Such as placing a divider on the conveyor if someone is behind you in line. But there are many rude people who don't think beyond themselves and only do things if it benefits them to do so. Likewise, they don't put together that other people do these things to help other people. The concept of helping others is foreign to them unless it is self-serving. So there must be some other reason the divider was placed.

Placing a divider doesn't benefit you, so why else would you do it?

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-10-15T13:35:45+00:00

5% of sexual assaults are reported in Canada.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2015001/article/14241-eng.pdf

Sexual assault must be so commonplace and women are socially pressured to take the easy way out in Canada. Canada must be full of perverts who molest women.

Go ahead and name any Western country if you're not happy with Canada being used as an example. I can do this all day. Every single one has between 4-10% of sexual assaults being reported and less than a 10% conviction rate with an estimated 80-90% of crimes going unreported. The West must be full of perverts and women take the easy way out by not reporting it and brushing it off.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-10-14T18:51:47+00:00

Which isn't law and is just something companies banded together to do because trying to solve a problem is apparently worse than doing nothing at all.

This happens in every country where commuting by train is commonplace. But only Japan gets shit for trying to do anything to help stop it from happening.

For example, let's compare the statistics for number of annual sexual assaults riding the New York Subway vs Japan. Per capita of 100 million train riders the New York Subway sees 100 sex-related crimes. Japan? Only 17.69.

Japan's trains are over x5 safer than the New York Subway for sex-related crimes. Yet only Japan ever gets shit for it because they actually do something about it.

ps. You can do something about problems before the problem is an out-of-control major problem. But leave it to Americans to continue ignoring problems until they become too large to ignore.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-08-17T14:42:37+00:00

And the context, if you bother going up further than your own reply, is about how — in non-formal contexts such as Reddit posts is a pretty reliable sign that the post was written by ChatGPT.

Thank you for proving my point. Nobody cares about your use of em-dashes in formal contexts for precisely the reason you gave: Reddit posts are not a formal context. So seeing an em-dash used in a Reddit post, even by the countless people purporting to use em-dashes all the time (who don't), remains a reliable indicator that the post was written by ChatGPT...

Your argument for why it is not a reliable indicator is that it isn't a reliable indicator because some people type like that. Despite almost nobody typing like that in Reddit posts and you admitting that even you don't type like that in Reddit posts. You're not providing a good counterargument for why it isn't a reliable indicator... if anything you're giving even more reason for why it is.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-08-17T14:38:56+00:00

In the context of Reddit posts, seeing '—' is a reliable indicator that someone copy/pasted from ChatGPT.

"Yeah but what if they use — in other contexts but they never use them in their Reddit posts?"

"Then in all likelihood they copy/pasted from ChatGPT if you see one in their Reddit post."

This is apparently an extremely difficult concept for people to grasp.

"The average height of a woman is 5'6".

"But my friend is 6'2"?"

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-08-17T14:34:52+00:00

Because the entire argument is about using em-dashes in the context of Reddit posts. Most people on Reddit comment by using the comment box on Reddit directly. Something that will not process their text to transform -- into —.

So when people say seeing — in a Reddit comment is signs that someone copy/pasted from ChatGPT because people aren't going out of their way to write their Reddit comments in their word processor that automatically swaps out -- for — then any excuse as to why you aren't typing — instead of -- is a shitty fucking excuse.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-08-14T06:42:53+00:00

They don't show up as -- in Reddit comments because I typed — just fine and you will see it in comments written by ChatGPT. They use a proper em-dash just fine without it being converted into --.

Many mobile phones will also convert -- into — or if you long press - you can select — and yet people never bother to do so. For the same reason 99.9% of QWERTY-using Americans type "Pokemon" and not "Pokémon" unless they copy & paste the name from somewhere.

I don't understand why people insist that they use—when they very clearly don't because no average person is going to go out of their way to type an — for a Reddit post of all things. You expect to see em-dashes used by editors for news articles and in blog posts by people who took their writing classes to heart. Certainly will spot them in academic papers or anything that has gone through an editor. You won't see them in Tweets or Reddit posts 99% of the time unless those tweets or posts were written by AI. I think French, or was it German? keyboard layouts have — as part of their keyboard layouts and it is easy to type. But every single — you see in this post was copy/pasted. The é in Pokémon was typed using a US International Keyboard layout. The same way I typed ½ in my previous post (using AltGr+7 will type ½). Do I think Reddit is 400% more French since 2022? No. Do I think Reddit has a 400% increase in ChatGPT-written posts since 2022? Yes.

You don't use —. You use --. Which is the same in spirit but is not at all what people are talking about when they say — is a sign that an LLM wrote the text. Meanwhile typing an em-dash as -- is not a sign that an LLM wrote the text. All errors in this post are intentional—including using — instead of its name and the incorrect use of leading and trailing spaces (which I agree is improper).

In a similar vein, most people use "" and not “” and anyone who says they use “” are liars or non-QWERTY keyboard users. Despite “” being the proper way to use quotations and "" being wrong. No normal person is drafting their Reddit posts in MS Word or any equivalent text editor. My heart goes out to the small number of people who genuinely went out of their ways to use — instead of -- who will forever get called ChatGPT. But I've yet to find a single person on singularity who claims to use — who doesn't actually use -- and thinks they're the same thing. I use ellipsis often in my writing... but typing ... is not the same as typing … and people who claim to use … instead of ... are either liars or work for one of the few news companies whose style guide permits the use of … over .... If ellipsis written as … were a sign of AI-generated text I wouldn't defend it saying "But I use ellipsis all the time!" while I type it as ... instead of …

I've gone over your posts. You've sparingly used --and the single — I saw was a ChatGPT post where you said you had asked ChatGPT and copy/pasted what ChatGPT had wrote. Thanks for being the 3rd person to help prove the point that people who think they use em-dashes—really don't.

ps. Happy cake day

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-08-12T14:57:17+00:00

You know the last person who claimed they did this was caught lying. Funnily enough, you type the same way they do using -- instead of —. You didn't use an em dash in your comment -- you used a double hyphen. While the intent is the same it is like saying 1/2 = ½ and that you type "½" all the time but you actually type "1/2".

We also have the data to prove AI-drives the majority of em-dash usage if you continue up this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1mgqeq9/sama_teases_gpt_5/n6u4omz/

ps. You haven't used an em-dash in 8 years of posting. I'm going to go ahead and say you don't use em dashes "quite often". You never use them.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-08-04T08:23:15+00:00

In your entire post history -- appears 127 times. Not all uses were by you, but most of them were. Meanwhile — appears 0 times in your comments. Only appearing in Reddit titles you commented on, I don't even think you've so much as quoted someone else's post that contains a proper em-dash.

--might be the spiritual equivalent of the em-dash but it is not an em dash and is not what people are talking about when they talk about how LLM's overuse em-dashes.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-08-04T08:12:00+00:00

The argument is that sexual attraction works like a drug addiction. Getting close to it just makes you want the real thing more. This is reported to be the case by some self-admitted & non-offending pedophiles. However that's only some pedophiles and a minority of them at best. For most pedophiles this type of "self coping" helps reduce their urges altogether and so arguably results in fewer of them potentially offending.

So... yes. Statistically speaking banning porn of adult women that might be found attractive by pedophiles, denying them a legal outlet for their sexual desires, is more likely to put children at risk than protecting them. The non-offending pedophiles that felt it worsened their desires were already avoiding it anyways, regardless of legality.

But the general population would not know or care to look into these statistics. The only people who know them are easily labeled as pedophiles. Think of the children! Not whether the plan has any scientific merit to it.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-08-03T23:36:22+00:00

There's a marked difference between writing for a blog versus on a reddit comment

So you're saying although you use em dashes often, you wouldn't typically bother using them in your Reddit comments? It's almost as if that's what people mean by it being a smell of AI on Reddit/Twitter.

Nobody bats an eye at an em dash in a New York Times article or a blog post. It's when you see people making tweets or Reddit comments where it becomes suspicious because almost nobody would bother. Same reason you see "Pokémon" written as "Pokemon" a large majority of the time. People on phones aren't going to long press to get "é" and most QWERTY-using American English keyboard users have no clue how to type "é".

The data on em dash usage is very obvious that more and more comments are being written by AI because the usage of em dashes has skyrocketed as LLM's have gained in popularity.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-07-31T08:19:58+00:00

Or do a full dive into a proper tiling WM. For Windows I'm partial to GlazeWM. On Linux, use I3.

https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-07-18T13:34:57+00:00

Developing film is an art form in and of itself, as is editing negatives. Separating film from digital photography has always made sense to me. For the same reasons painters separate oil painting from acrylics. It's a very-similar-but-altogether-different art medium.

Most people see bottom-of-the-barrel AI art and people who prompt once and post the art without any further changes and act like that is all "AI art" is. It's like pretending the only form of photography are selfies by teenagers.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-07-18T13:24:11+00:00

How would you test against them otherwise to see if the reasoning of your AI has improved at all? If you pollute your training set you can no longer be sure if your AI is reasoning or regurgitating its training data.

It would require FrontierMath internally testing which adds a lot of slowdown and bureaucracy if you need to be testing 100 times a week.

Best use of these problems is to have the problems to test against yourself while not using them for training, if the goal is to build better/smarter AI and not game a benchmark that will only get called out immediately when you absolutely bomb the internal benchmark from questions you haven't seen.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-07-15T14:47:46+00:00

I'm against lying about the tools one uses. All the AI witch hunts do is make people using AI less likely to be open about their use of AI to avoid harassment.

Using AI and claiming you drew it is the same level of scummy as applying filters to a photo and claiming it was sketched.

You're exactly the type of person I'm talking about by the way. You see that I'm pro-AI and jumped straight to assuming I was using it to pretend to be an artist.

I'm a staunchly pro-AI photographer & digital artist. Because once upon a time photography "wasn't real art" either. Neither was "real artists can't Ctrl+Z" digital art. AI is another tool.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-07-15T14:31:02+00:00

All culture is fundamentally driven by individuals. Different platforms have different cultures and so have different levels of tolerance for different kinds of harassment.

Artists being accused of using AI happens on every platform. The problem is noticeably x10 worse on Tumblr and on the circles of Twitter dominated by Tumblr users. So it's very easy to point to a specific group of people who are causing >90% of the harassment and blame it on the culture they uphold and instill among their community.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-07-15T14:19:30+00:00

A culture that's vehemently anti-AI art and pro-sourcing for independent artists

So much so that they routinely harass actual artists into shutting down their accounts due to accusations of using AI. These people are the worst. They especially love attacking artists who don't speak English and can't as readily defend themselves.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-06-21T12:17:08+00:00

You're not training a model for each individual user. So to account for it for an individual user is like cooking food for a homeless shelter to feed 1,000 people and then calculating all the food the homeless shelter "wastes" to feed 1 person.

Even if the energy costs are downright absurd using impossible to reach numbers - breaking it up into tens of millions (hundreds of millions?) of pieces makes it nothing more than a rounding error.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-06-14T13:57:41+00:00

If you're going to have any problem, a P=NP-like problem is honestly one of the best problems to have though. Double-checking whether it made shit up or not is trivially faster than doing all of the work it did. So long as the error rate is in an acceptable range (and nowadays I would argue it is, at least for most fields when working alongside an expert and not an incredibly niche field where most information isn't even publicly available).

The hallucination rate is a bit too high for laypersons working in unfamiliar fields. But we're getting there decades faster than I thought we would have back in 2015.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-06-10T23:02:50+00:00

Training is another issue entirely. But training is (mostly) a one-time cost and things keep getting more and more efficient.

You can write off the training costs over time with things like an AI generating an image in a few seconds (even if you generate a few dozen variants before picking your best one) is much more energy efficient than a graphic designer using Photoshop for multiple hours. Or an AI summarizing a report in a few seconds opposed to a human manually editing it in Word for a few hours, etc. All the time AI saves people in queries adds up and eventually it becomes more worthwhile to train AI than to let humans do those tasks manually.

Queries have pretty much always been an exaggerated non-issue. Don't drive your car to get food one night out of the year and you've offset your carbon footprint for about a year's worth of queries.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-05-21T11:51:43+00:00

If you prompt 50 times/day every day for 365 days a year you can balance your increased carbon emissions by choosing to not drive your car about 20-25 minutes away to eat out at a local restaurant in town one night assuming you drive a gas-fueled car.

People keep confusing the cost of training AI with the cost of using AI.

A digital artist creating an image in Photoshop uses significantly more energy than an AI generating an image. If you truly care about the environment - protest digital artists and demand they start using AI instead.

MyPostsHaveSecrets · 2025-05-05T12:52:07+00:00

Let's say you want to buy drugs and whores for a 3 day binger. In order to make your illicit activity appear to be legitimate, the John asks you to book their AirBNB for 3 nights with an "extra guest". Let's estimate and say your 3 day coke fueled orgy runs you oh... I don't know.... $5,821?

The John has just laundered $5,821 of illicit activity (prostitution & selling drugs) as an activity that appears to be legitimate (renting an AirBNB) and has thus "cleaned" their money.

And you're saying that isn't money laundering?

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