Well, one person says ‘demand,’ another says ‘give the thumbs up to’ or ‘welcome our new overlords.’ Why quibble? Surely we’re all making way too big a deal out of this idea of OpenAI ‘treating adults like adults.’ Everything will be fine. Right?

Why not focus on all the other cool stuff happening? Claude Haiku 4.5 and Veo 3.1? Walmart joining ChatGPT instant checkout? Hey, come back.

Alas, the mass of things once again got out of hand this week, so we’re splitting the update into two parts.

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Outline:

(00:51) Earlier This Week

(02:25) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(05:44) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(11:47) Huh, Upgrades

(14:55) We Patched The Torment Nexus, Turn It Back On

(27:49) On Your Marks

(34:33) Choose Your Fighter

(35:50) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(36:15) Fun With Media Generation

(40:32) Copyright Confrontation

(41:04) AIs Are Often Absurd Sycophants

(44:32) They Took Our Jobs

(54:04) Find Out If You Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(55:42) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

(01:02:59) AI Diffusion Prospects

(01:11:13) The Art of the Jailbreak

(01:14:38) Get Involved

(01:14:57) Introducing

(01:16:48) In Other AI News

(01:18:22) Show Me the Money

(01:20:45) Quiet Speculations

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