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Comment · 5 months ago
> We do not have a say over a nuclear-armed idiocracy forcing it's profound corruption and stupidity on other sovereign entities.

That’s funny because it perfectly defines the relationship between the EU and the countries in it.

Comment · 5 months ago
Just to confirm, what this means is that the training data contains one or multiple pitch black images, and their system is refusing to reproduce them verbatim?
Comment · 5 months ago
Interestingly, using AI Studio with the gemini-2.5-flash-image model and asking it to generate a "completely black image" fails with the message "Image recitation block," which has zero hits in Google.
Comment · 5 months ago
Considering all models can use search engines, is this really relevant?
Comment · 5 months ago
They are selling a reduction in labour costs which has been the primary selling point of automation since humans began automating things.
Comment · 5 months ago
> And absolutely no one seems to be interested in answering the question of “okay, then what?”

I don’t see why the people being booed should be responsible for answering this question. How many such questions did the inventor of the tractor have to answer?

Comment · 5 months ago
I was thinking more in terms of horsepower, etc. I’m sure it will be a “city car” with ridiculous power and autonomy.
Comment · 5 months ago
I can’t even imagine how ridiculous this will look.

How about you go back to making actual cars at that price point?

Comment · 5 months ago
The page is gzipped in transit - only 5 MB of traffic are generated.
Comment · 5 months ago
Isn’t that the audio description (AD) track? Maybe it’s mixed in because of an encoding error.
Comment · 5 months ago
She did everything properly, but the tax agency illegally imposed a fine on her anyway.

Remember that in Spain the tax agency loses 51 % of trials. I assume the percent would be even higher if everybody could afford to defend themselves.

Comment · 5 months ago
…she was told she had to pay taxes that she didn’t owe. It was a shakedown, which is quite common for the Spanish tax agency.
Comment · 5 months ago
A Mandela effect is when it happens to a large group of people. I’m afraid you’re alone in this.

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