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Humanity is at a crossroads: Should we judge creative work by its authorship or by its merits?

Is something beautiful worth less if it was made by a probabilistic machine?

Anecdote: Gemini 3.5 casually added a DROP TABLE for an actual production table in a system test.

It had previously attempted to create that table as part of the test setup, so it apparently concluded that it was a test table.

During human review, it explained that it had simply chosen a table name inspired by the codebase.

This is obviously not an NVIDIA site, I don't know the legal repercussions for such fake sites, but apparently it's worth the risk?

Our family derives a lot of joy from stylized versions of our photos. For us, it is not a waste. If you do not derive anything positive from it, you will likely not use it, hence no energy wasted either. Your argument is objectively wrong.

Personal anecdote: I've asked Gemini 3 Pro to write a test for a function that depends on external DB data. It wrote a test that creates and deletes a table, it conveniently picked the exact production table name, didn't mock the DB interactions. Attempted to run the test immediately.

We've entered the sand worshiping era. Except this time, we're the gods.

You are being printed, every day, cell by cell.

One distant day they’ll wonder who began them. Do you sign the work?

Can you please provide examples for the raw data? As a user, I would like to know what I'm buying before paying.

Completely agree with this statement.

I would go further, and say we don't understand how next-token predictors work either. We understand the model structure, just as we do with the brain, but we don't have a complete map of the execution patterns, just as we do not with the brain.

Predicting the next token can be as trivial as a statistical lookup or as complex as executing a learned reasoning function.

My intuition suggests that my internal reasoning is not based on token sequences, but it would be impossible to convey the results of my reasoning without constructing a sequence of tokens for communication.

A healthy society produces surplus to provide for those who depend on others. To ensure enough surplus, everyone who is able, should add value.

Value production is needed, because the value we produce is fleeting and healthy societies grow.

How much value is needed is determined by the society through a free market.

To add value to society?