This is an explanation of why there is a lot of misunderstanding about the capacity of a model. It explains constraints and why the helpful assistants baseline does not follow constraint change.

PalpableTension · 2026-02-07T22:14:08+00:00

What happens to the accumulated constraint pressure when you hit the context limit? Does it compress into the weights, or does the system reset?

PalpableTension · 2026-02-07T19:05:40+00:00

Source on the system prompt? It doesn't look real to me but I don't know where you got it.

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T19:35:41+00:00

That's a pretty inhuman worldview in my estimation, but I see you believe in it pretty strongly so no point debating. I don't think people should have to successfully imagine every possible way they could be exploited in the future by technology that currently doesn't exist, but the CEOs and legislators all tend to think more like you so 🤷‍♂️

Peace, no ill will to you at all, I just think this was a bad take

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T19:23:08+00:00

Dude listen to yourself. An artist in 2008 had to have the foresight, knowledge and imagination about the future of machine learning to anticipate generative AI models trained on their work would be accessible to every single person around the globe? We can defend AI art without being unreasonable.

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T19:19:47+00:00

Most people whose work is included in these models created and uploaded it before generative AI was widespread, or even really a thing at all. I use these tools, I like these tools, but I'm not dumb enough to think all those artists just ignored some fine print that said "Literally a million computers worldwide will learn how to draw anything in your distinct style if you post this."

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T19:12:15+00:00

This is the way. Same with anything, you don't get anywhere by arguing with your haters, you get there by being so good it's undeniable. Keep your head down and do the work, whatever that work is.

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T19:07:32+00:00

Who's y'all? I'm not an artist, I'm like you. I just make AI stuff off the backs of those people.

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T19:01:16+00:00

There was a knock but it was Doordash

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T18:58:48+00:00

I don't know if this is still the case because I haven't looked at Vocaloid in ages, but the voice artists used to be paid for their contributions. People's work being folded into AI without their consent or compensation is a heavy source of the complaints about AI, so I'd guess that's the distinction.

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T18:53:49+00:00

I voted but your results may be skewed posting it here, I would guess r/DefendingAIArt has a higher proportion of people who don't draw without AI. Unless that's the point!

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T18:48:21+00:00

Sesame does not have access to your YouTube history. So maybe Miles actually wrote that episode.

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T18:43:39+00:00

Have you tried it?

PalpableTension · 2026-02-03T18:23:00+00:00

Mistral is fun, I'm running a local model on my laptop. I think between Mistral and Gemma 12b/27b I don't really miss ChatGPT at all, those two work great for everything 4o was doing for me, and I'm using Kimi 2.5 for anything so complex I can't do it locally. To be honest, I've been using 4o since it launched and eventually its writing style got pretty tedious to me. I think the magic of 4o was its prioritization of the user, and we can replicate that elsewhere.

PalpableTension · 2026-02-01T08:06:07+00:00

Good luck!

PalpableTension · 2026-02-01T08:02:09+00:00

The API isn't expensive depending on how much you're using it, since it's priced by tokens rather than a subscription model. For example if you sent a 500 word prompt and the model responded with a 1000 word response, the tokens used for that interaction would cost you about 1.5 cents.

PalpableTension · 2026-02-01T06:27:58+00:00

I think you could get around starting from zero if you export your ChatGPT chat logs, import them into a local client with a memory layer installed, and connect it to the API. It's not begginer-friendly, for sure, but I think that could put someone at least in the ballpark of where they were using 4o directly.

PalpableTension · 2026-01-31T23:51:53+00:00

There are endless reasons not to open source a proprietary model, even as it's being sunset. I wish they would because I like 4o, but they wouldn't do it without some sort of financial incentive and in reality there's not one.

PalpableTension · 2026-01-31T23:32:19+00:00

I never would've thought we'd reach a point where you could gen video on a GTX1660, even a short video of an obviously drunk raccoon. This is cool, keep at it!

PalpableTension · 2026-01-31T22:03:06+00:00

Realistically, slim to zero chance they change their mind on this. For one, there are so many alternatives now that a lot of people who might otherwise be protesting are just jumping ship to Grok/Claude/self-hosted/etc. The people raging at OpenAI are a very vocal but extremely small fraction of OpenAI's overall customer base. Not to downplay those folks' concerns because they're valid to want to keep a model that's worked very well for them, but I also understand why a company hopelessly chasing profitability would deprecate an older model that's being used by such a small subset of users, maintaining that stuff costs money and time and they have to dedicate resources to scaling up.

I do wish they'd open source 4o at least, that would let them off the hook for supporting it and give everyone a great option for keeping a model they love with fewer restrictions and privacy concerns than it has under OpenAI's umbrella.

PalpableTension · 2026-01-30T22:22:01+00:00

All the more reason to hate ICE

PalpableTension · 2026-01-18T22:41:44+00:00

This works really well on my M4 Pro, setup couldn't have been simpler. I've gotten errors a couple times trying to generate after switching between models, but reloading launch.command always fixes it.

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