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why not skip the text conversion? is it usable at all?

gemini embedding 2 converts straight video to vectors. in this case, dashcam clips don't have audio to transcribe and even if they did, it would be useless in the search

What are the SoA audio models right now?

Why are they trying to sell a VPN in the countries where users barely need it?

https://www.pornhub.com/blog/age-verification-in-the-news

Over the past year, Pornhub had to make the difficult decision to block access to users in the following American states due to Age Verification laws:

    Alabama
    Arizona
    Arkansas
    Florida
    Georgia
    Idaho
    Indiana
    Kansas
    Kentucky
    Mississippi
    Missouri
    Montana
    Nebraska
    North Carolina
    North Dakota
    Oklahoma
    South Carolina
    South Dakota
    Tennessee
    Texas
    Utah
    Virginia
    Wyoming

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Oh shove off with this Puritan attitude. First off, you're implying most of PornHub is rape. That'a ridiculous; no one is uploading videos of actual rape to PornHub.

Secondly, porn ≠ abuse. It's an actual industry and so obviously the treatment of women varies by company.

Simply put, if you don't like porn, DON'T WATCH IT. Don't try to shove your personal beliefs on everyoje else.


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1. That's an opinion piece, not a piece of investigative journalism.

2. That's from 5 years ago; who knows if this is even still the case, even assuming it's as widespread as the opinion piece claims.

3. See my second point.


For what it's worth, both the pieces are part of a smear campaign by an American far right Christian group called Exodus Cry.

Among other things, Benjamin Nolot who runs Exodus Cry is a holocaust denier


I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. The hyperconservative scumbags (alas I repeat myself) will stoop to anything to shove their beliefs on everyone else.

Can gay men still watch porn, or should they feel bad too?

I hate about full access to Reddit? Discord? Have you tried accessing the internet from a location with these laws in place?

That feels weird to me as well. I get that they need to trial it, but United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom isn't really the countries I'd priorities for a free VPN.

I understand that a number of people in both the US and the UK is struggling right now and may not be able to affort a VPN, but their primary need is to avoid age restriction, while a large number countries are censoring the internet for political reasons. That latter seems more important to address.


A VPN is more relevant than ever in Europe.

> countries where users barely need it?

Why don't they need it? There is widespread corporate and government surveillance in those countries. Privacy is a major issue. What is your standard?


OS age verification?

It was too early. It even executed its crypto airdrop YEARS before it became a common form of distribution in web3


  Location: Tbilisi/Georgia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: LLMs, TypeScript, Rust, Haskell, PureScript, EVM tooling
  Résumé/CV: https://klntsky.dev/klntsky-cv.pdf
  Email: my username at google's mail service
I'm mainly interested in solving problems around LLM/AI automation, FP, and DeFi.


How do you score toxicity? Do you have a list of criteria or just let the LLM hallucinate a number out of thin air?


Toxicity is dehumanizing language, threats, doxxing, encouraging self-harm, that sort of thing. We have taught it examples of various levels, so it can align with those to report a score. Something like an unpleasant, insulting attitude to someone personally is fairly low on the toxic scale (but still toxic, it's not the right way to interact), whereas threats of violence or encouraging self-harm are very high.


  Location: Tbilisi/Georgia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: TypeScript, Rust, Haskell, PureScript, LLMs, EVM tooling
  Résumé/CV: https://klntsky.dev/klntsky-cv.pdf
  Email: my username at google's mail service
I'm mainly interested in LLM/AI automation, FP, and DeFi.


People vibe one-off solutions for themselves all the time. They just don't have the desire to productionalize them. Frankly, product knowledge is something LLMs are not that good at


Same. I hate doing mobile coding, but just in the last few months I AI-coded 3 apps specifically for my needs. They'll never get released publicly, because they'd need polish and features that I don't care about personally. They potentially replace some SaaS too.


In context, it sounds like you are saying you used AI to make these three applications?

Why can't AI add the polish and features also?


It can. It's just not needed for my own apps. It would be needed for a public release and I'm just... not interested in that enough. It would cost me time and likely never get enough return.


What did the 3 apps do?

I did the same for one app to give me my speed in MPH as huge text as a HUD in a car


Very specific training app for guitar with spaced repetition, automated message forwarder (all good ones demand subscription), and something very specific to me.


Low code solutions like PowerApps I bang out stuff like this all the time. If your use case is limited enough, it makes lazy developers very productive.


Opensource LLMs are absolutely not on par with gpt-5 for any agentic workflows


Ads aren't added to agentic workflows. Agentic usage of gpt-5 is only available if you're a paying user.


Tool calling I've found takes a bit of work, but Ollama with gpt-oss:20b/120b run on my laptop and work quite well for 90% of the stuff I do.

So it's only a matter of time.


They dont have to be, they just have to be smart enough to remove anything that sounds like a brand from a "good cloud model". This is barely beyond if-else if we start tracking all brands doing the advertising


And for the rest, why not wait a few months until the cheap Chinese model is on par (or better)?

If OpenAI introduced ads to my workflow after all the money I've paid them, there's 0 loyalty or "ethically American" purchase decision vs paying the Chinese.


The average ChatGPT user isn't utilizing agentic workflows.

And even for the people that do, just because an LLM isn't absolutely state of the art doesn't invalidate it from being useful.


the 'start trial' button does not work.


I’m sorry, which one?


autofilled details are terribly wrong. even the name is that of another product


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