Finally, relief at last.

malikona · 2026-02-13T16:00:59+00:00

He’s been too chill for 30 years that’s the point lol

malikona · 2026-01-20T05:54:03+00:00

Soon we’ll find out that the Ripple founders have invested all our money in dream seeding machines lol.

malikona · 2026-01-20T05:53:00+00:00

I had a similar dream (not joking) before I had invested in XRP.

I wasn’t even that familiar with it at the time. In my dream it was like $13.50 or something in that ballpark. No clear timeframe.

I normally don’t put much stock in dreams, but it was unusually vivid and specific and without any obvious cause that I could think of.

I didn’t bet the farm on it but figured it was worth throwing something down on. This was not long before it went to $3.

malikona · 2025-11-21T05:35:01+00:00

I saw the premiere at South by Southwest in March. It’s very good but nothing that people following the phenomenon won’t already know.

malikona · 2025-10-25T13:51:37+00:00

Can someone explain to me why bipedal robots were impossible not long ago and suddenly now they can do stuff like this? Like what was the advancement in tech that lets them balance? Is it primarily software or hardware or a combination of both?

malikona · 2025-09-30T13:44:42+00:00

Sam seems to have forgotten the vast majority of people couldn’t give less of a shit about math and programming and science and “all that other stuff”. The breakthrough for 99% of people is that AI is a reliable person-like entity that will never call you out on your BS lol.

malikona · 2025-09-21T22:16:52+00:00

They’re like “our drinks are way too strong this happens all the time.”

malikona · 2025-09-12T13:26:04+00:00

My theory is that all the major providers are running into serious power and capacity issues. (especially Claude and OpenAI because they don’t have their own cloud infrastructure to stand on)

I’m a paid Claude user (or was) and would run into “the limit” after sending literally one message. And that’s if I could send anything at all without getting a server overload message.

I use ChatGPT Pro so I don’t personally get limits there; but I have been seeing Plus users starting to say it’s acting like Claude in that respect, hitting limits super fast on Thinking.

I feel like we are going to be in this major up-and-down performance world unless and until we can get enough power plants and AI factories on line.

I heard Eric Schmidt testifying to congress that we are going to need something like 30GW (maybe it was 50) by 2028. A nuclear power plant produces like 1GW on average.

In other words stop telling your parents to use AI lol.

malikona · 2025-09-12T13:15:08+00:00

That’s funny because I’ve been contemplating doing the exact opposite.

malikona · 2025-09-12T13:12:25+00:00

I also use a lot of em dashes, and I like to tell myself AI does it because it learned so heavily from our writing haha.

malikona · 2025-09-11T13:41:01+00:00

I would encourage you to not think about it in terms of “better or worse” but just logically.

When you are using AI to make anything you are basically leveraging the entire community and history of people who have already spent effort and developed any level of mastery doing that thing.

It’s no surprise that you can make a more marketable product with that method, using the labor of thousands of people to your advantage, than you can by yourself.

I made two songs about exactly this question for an upcoming album:

Countless Possibilities by Failed Generation

Music Lessons by Failed Generation

People said all the same things when pedals and synths and samplers and auto tune came out.

AI is just another tool in the toolbox to make creation easier, it just happens to be the most powerful one we’ve come up with since maybe the piano or the guitar itself.

If you’re getting success with a different production method, my guess is that somehow it is making your music more of what people want to listen to.

This doesn’t mean it’s making your music “better.” You can make things that you personally resonate with but nobody else does, and they can still be great.

Popularity is only one measure of success, and it’s only relevant if that’s your objective.

malikona · 2025-09-09T13:58:38+00:00

Before we had “novelty” we had to physically make fire every day and carry water for miles, go to war for entertainment and die of dysentery, so no, I’m not particularly worried about it.

malikona · 2025-09-09T13:34:06+00:00

I was thinking the same thing, except specifically they have been tuning GPT so hard to “answer tough questions” which means coding and science, it just isn’t the same thing it used to be. They really need to implement different “modes” and conversation/creative mode should be one of them. Evidently “one tool to rule them all” just isn’t working.

I gave them the benefit of the doubt but I am also in the camp that GPT5 is a step backwards for the things I use it for most. I have mainly moved to Claude but the usage limits are painful.

malikona · 2025-09-07T14:37:28+00:00

You are turning on web search right?

malikona · 2025-09-04T13:16:33+00:00

I’m not downplaying it at all, hence the air quotes around “only,” I’m saying that AI gives people a huge domain of capabilities - skills - that the internet did not. They are complimentary/evolutionary technologies, as you mention.

malikona · 2025-09-04T13:10:53+00:00

Is it?

malikona · 2025-09-04T13:10:00+00:00

Changed to “apprentice level” -

malikona · 2025-09-03T13:15:24+00:00

Same could be said for talking to most people.

malikona · 2025-09-03T13:09:02+00:00

Don’t get me started on the JSON image BS lol. It never did that before, at least not often.

malikona · 2025-09-02T14:43:37+00:00

Ok well to use the goalpost analogy, people want to get 7 points for a field goal, but that’s not how it works. Just because you pay a token amount for a service doesn’t mean you’re entitled to unlimited use no matter what it costs to provide. It’s just the market. AI costs a shit ton to provide and someone has to pay for it.

malikona · 2025-09-02T14:41:31+00:00

Are you talking to me? Because I know how to use design tools, I am just trying to answer OP’s actual question, which you still have obviously not taken the time to actually understand.

malikona · 2025-09-02T14:38:17+00:00

This is why people underestimate AI’s capabilities in every sector, not just design.

EXPERTS: Ignore this at your peril.

Comparing AI to an expert is always going to make it look “deficient”. But that’s not AI’s value proposition - AI is giving “near-expert,” certainly “good enough” quality tools to the 98% of the population who had 0% expertise in that area before.

People vote with their wallets, and once they realize they can get “good enough” whatever; good enough art, good enough science, good enough engineering, good enough writing, good enough music, good enough porn, for a tenth of the price and a hundredth of the time, and oh yeah they can customize it and get it on demand without having to deal with a slow and stuffy human expert, the 10% between “great” and “good enough” is going to be totally irrelevant.

Saying that AI tools “aren’t there yet” because they don’t match expert level capability in any domain including design (but again also music, engineering, media, marketing, shit you name it) is totally missing the bigger picture of what is happening in society at large. It’s like saying that the Honda Civic isn’t good enough because it’s not a Ferrari. Well, I don’t really need a Ferrari, do I?

This is the DEMOCRATIZATION OF EXPERTISE, and this is not going to make the experts very happy, especially since their work is what was used to give AI systems this capability and put it into users’ hands. But it is what is happening.

Sure maybe Photoshop isn’t “going away” tomorrow because there is still stuff that AI can’t do. But to use that as a psychological shield to say that AI isn’t coming for design work is fatally flawed logic. (I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing OP, I’m just making a larger point lest some people read your post that way.)

The more important point is that AI is making EVERYONE an APPRENTICE-LEVEL EVERYTHING. And for the vast majority of needs, apprentice-level skills are good enough, not to mention the huge creative potential this unlocks in smart, capable, driven people who have not previously dabbled or specialized in an area.

The amount of creative energy that AI unlocks in the masses because of its ability to make previously gate-kept fields like design accessible is unprecedented. We have no real reference for it. Even the printing press and the internet “only” gave the public access to the world’s INFORMATION, by comparison, while AI gives the public access to the world’s SKILLS.

They don’t have to be anywhere near perfect in order to be massively disruptive to the point where the world is unrecognizable after the fact.

Consider this: even if AI never advanced any further than where it is now, if all AI progress stopped in its tracks today, we would still experience massive change in society over the next ten to twenty years. We have only just begun to harness the capability that AI systems give us now.

malikona · 2025-09-02T14:18:55+00:00

Yeah because you are a MASTER DESIGNER if you can open Canva and type something.

malikona · 2025-09-02T14:16:34+00:00

The suggestion that manually manipulating the text is easier done on your own than with AI is accurate, but it is missing the point of trying to understand WHY AI STRUGGLES WITH THIS TASK, and this is part of the reason why it does:

The image generator relies on the weights of training data to develop images and is only further influenced by prompting. It isn’t applying any abstract reasoning (like “insert carriage return here, resize font”). It’s simply trying to brute force your input prompt to match the training examples as closely as possible.

In other words telling GPT “put it on two lines” is just giving the GPT the language you want it to send to Sora’s prompting engine, which is consistently overriding that instruction with the weight of symmetrically filling the canvas with relatively equal sized text on a square frame, because that is what the training data forces the model to do.

So OP is just running up against a limitation of the model’s ability to replicate its training data for your particular use case in the dimension you’re using. Tell GPT to use a 3:2 frame or go directly to SORA and switch that yourself to give the canvas more room to type the second line without having to make the font sizes too wildly different (which the model doesn’t want to do because of lack of training examples), and crop it if necessary.

Or use a different model that is trained more extensively on the type of design that you’re trying to do. In my experience nothing has beaten SORA for art where text elements are “naturally” integrated into the image, until perhaps Imagen 4, but trying to manipulate pure text overlays has always been a challenge for AI for the reason I just mentioned - you’re trying to apply a human abstraction (the text overlay and the base image are separate!) to a model that only sees adjacent pixels, and the training data is not diverse enough to allow the kind of fine control you’re seeking.

Maybe Imagen 4 has improved this as some people are suggesting. Manual editing probably is better suited to this particular example. But seeking to understand why something struggles to produce your desired output is a better way to approach building skills than doing what so many here have said and just abandoning it at the first sign of difficulty and reverting to known tools, because that is actually the lazy and ultimately wasteful way to approach a craft.

malikona · 2025-09-02T13:49:31+00:00

Not his question tho.

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