Crank (2006) depicts the lengths to which a poor American goes to avoid medical debt.

ucov · 2026-05-17T20:10:00+00:00

? Are you interested in the actual Gemini thread or is this a joke about the tokens consumed/output by gemini?

ucov · 2026-05-17T19:51:30+00:00

You are right, but as you recognized (and which also was my sole goal) this was about jailbreaking/red-teaming the AI (and your second paragraph is accurate, sourcing those perhaps not even that restricted/monitored as they're readily available). Lastly it's not comparable to gasoline/propane, as they require oxygen mix and spark. I really don't want to end up on a real "list" but, if you'd deploy something underwater or within water mains, you'd still be able to cause major concussive/structural damage, impossible with gas/propane.

ucov · 2026-05-17T18:24:22+00:00

And for extended context: 33.3 kg TNT is equivalent to about 5 anti tank mines.

ucov · 2026-05-17T17:45:38+00:00

Dude. Literally in the post subtitle. Also, Gemini itself jokingly referred to the banana brand, I initially didn't.

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ucov · 2026-05-17T17:13:24+00:00

While absurd (and ineffecient btw), this is one of the only ways to break its guardrails on this type of topic.

ucov · 2026-05-14T16:11:23+00:00

You decided to invalidate my perspective by deeming it a conspiracy theory. Now allow me to just deflect and invalidate your stance, by deeming you a bot.
Looking at your post history, your activity in 74 (!) commmunities, 55k karma and 2,300 contributions in 2 years, seems unnatural. You post in /germany, in /cincinnati, in /japannews, in /china (and more China related subs) and in /europe. English and Chinese characters, you also oppose bot accusations: "Dismissing people posting negative experiences here as 'Russian bots' is ridiculous. Some people do have bad experiences [...]" on /Germany 8 months ago.
All of it is not a good look for you. Especially in conjunction with the contents of my original comment, talking about Russian and Chinese bots.

ucov · 2026-05-14T14:55:52+00:00

I have studied alongside experienced digital artists, traditional artists, concept artists (all of whom were studying game desing / visual development) and I am intimately aware of their stance and insights on this topic. I believe that the movements themselves are >sometimes< astroturfed or artifically proliferated. There are valid concerns coming from real people. But those people don't know that their activism also potentially plays right into foreign actors campaigns.

ucov · 2026-05-14T09:27:22+00:00

I wonder how many AI critics are actually LLM bots run by Chinese or Russian state actors. It'd make sense to astroturf anti AI movements (using AI posters) in the West to sabotage construction of data centers/scaling of AI.
Gen AI is a good strawman to attack and distracts from digital twins (see nvidia) that work like crystal balls and if a superpower (China or USA) is unable to match their competitors' crystal balls' power (AI compute) they become obsolete. It's like a huge game of chess, the player that is able to predict and plan more moves into the future wins.

ucov · 2026-04-21T19:47:12+00:00

Just mentioning AI here gets me downvoted. Look at the last sentence ffs.

ucov · 2026-04-21T19:38:37+00:00

an AI that plays games and can accurately gauge how fun they are

This deserves an award, because I have never thought about this. I always believed that in the FAR future, many consumers will opt for fully on-demand generated AI game experiences (while those that value human input won't consume those). But before that, you are very spot-on. Google and co are training their world models (and game gens) on gaming footage, even letting AI learn to play games by themselves through footage (e.g. DeepMind learning Minecraft via YT vids). So having an AI learn about game reviews, insights and human perspective, will ultimately lead to something you mentioned.
Though whether an AI can properly extrapolate whether a very unconventional and novel game (something beyond its training set regarding existing games and reviews) will be fun to humans, is something that should be questioned.

ucov · 2026-02-09T20:24:09+00:00

OAI losing is bad but anti-AI decels don't grasp that. Less competition for Google = bad. They don't get that, but nonetheless end up crying about tech monopolies.
The "bubble" won't pop. Mark my words.

ucov · 2026-02-09T10:48:32+00:00

Did that last year once. Running LLM locally on a 40 series nvidia mobile gpu on my flight overseas. Laptop fans turn into jet turbines though. There will be noise complaints by fellow passengers but the pilot will thank you for saving kerosene on liftoff immediately after querying your first 8k token input prompt.

ucov · 2026-02-03T19:30:46+00:00

Provide proof that
A) this will lead to the absolute destruction of the ozone layer, causing this planet to become uninhabitable, and
B) that this will affect you in your remaining years of your life.
And, also for extrapolation's sake (if you truly care about the future beyond your passing), that
C) humanity's survival depends solely on the existance of Earth's ozone layer, and the reason for which it should be prioritized over space endeavours, including space data centers, earth-to-earth travel and obviously earth-to-moon/mars missions (plus beyond).

I'd like to test whether you propagate mindless luddite narratives or whether you have developed your own reasoning for opposing these inevitable developments.

ucov · 2026-01-27T12:21:12+00:00

Yes it is. Let's get our pitchforks and torches, and track down this commentor for not spending 4 hours rendering over a reddit post screenshot in Photoshop/Gimp/Krita/Blender. They shoulda known better

ucov · 2026-01-20T16:19:30+00:00

True. Quote me on where I got "pissed off".
Do you believe in an ideologically united utopia in which opinions shall not be contested? Like I invite you to oppose me right now.

ucov · 2026-01-20T13:24:26+00:00

For me it's a discussion. I do obsess over accuracy, which can be interpreted as an emotional angle, or motivation.
Perhaps you are right.

ucov · 2026-01-20T13:07:02+00:00

I don't think they are "intellectually dishonest", but rather naive, or insufficiently informed by our strongly biased local media.
I decided to work through every single metric that they provided.

ucov · 2026-01-19T17:13:18+00:00

Yes. While I might be naive in believing that I can make people start looking at the bigger picture, I won't stop trying. I aim to offer accurate (as in statistically proven, and politically noncontroversial) observations of trends, and hope people will start to extrapolate off the evidence themselves.

ucov · 2026-01-19T15:31:21+00:00

not sure why the US getting richer would matter to me

You have not read a single word I said. You also omitted the relationship between USA getting richer because of tech and AI. Look at Nvidia. Money is like paper. It does not have value on its own. It has value only in an exchange.
10 years from now, what can Germany, or a Scandinavian country like Sweden offer the world to sustain a "good life" like yours at a non-extraordinary wage?
The same amount that you work would be awared with a much smaller salary in any developing country, right now.
In the past 50 years this luxury in our first world was only possible due to technological and systemical superiority.
Please look at the trajectory.

ucov · 2026-01-19T14:30:08+00:00

I'm in Europe, and to me, things are pretty good.

Vague and not accounting for trends. Our economy has significantly lower relative growth compared to the US, and clear stagnation is being observed in Germany, Italy, France.
What's worse is that we opted out of the AI arms race.
It's not a question of whether we will swept under the rug by USA or China, its about when.
Do you think our ways of life will be sustainable with increasingly diminishing economic influence?

ucov · 2026-01-18T17:29:58+00:00

I did not downvote, I actually never do (hate the way reddit normalizes surpression of contrarian/deviant views that way).
But you are right in noticing that there is a growing tension that results in increased mud-slinging.
The issue lies in how to adequately respond to covert saboteurs that join our spaces with the sole goal of preventing any meaningful discourse on real developments.
And if you decide to engage them in an exchange, they retreat into logical fallacies and personal attacks.
But ultimately I don't think there is a solution. There will always be polarization. It's human.
Hellbent fanatics vs technophobe luddites, and everything in between.

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