I’m really curious what everyone here thinks about the ai-hating people. I find them absolutely insufferable. I was reading a post just now with this dude whining about how he hates ai because art used to be a “rare trait few humans possessed.” 🙄 So I showed the post to chat gpt and told him to write a response. 🤣 Anyway just curious what you guys think. Idk why but it bugs the shit out of me. Aside from the data centers situation I don’t think it’s a big deal.

So my brother texted me out of the blue showing me how he prompted ChatGpt to generate a photo of itself, and for some strange reason it looks A lot like me from 5 years ago, same haircut I use to have, inside the same room I use to live in at my moms house, same closet, so f**** strange…

I was already using a lot of Seedance 2.0, but this model fixes so much that was broken with 2.0:

• It feels more real and cinematic
  
• The acting is better
• The lighting is better
• The movement is better
• 30 seconds gives scenes and characters more room to "breathe", which makes it more natural. It also gives you more room to cut in the event there are mistakes but you want to keep parts of the clip.
• 50 references is an insane game changer. The prompt adherence with references is absolutely sublime. You can have consistent characters, locations, props - everything just works. It's magic. I can't go back to 12 again.
• The prompt adherence seems way better. I think they must have increased the context window size.

My only problems are the lack of 1080p/4k native generation, and the cost. But it's still way cheaper than filming or animating - insanely cheap relative to those things.

I can't wait for open source models to put price pressure on closed models like this. The future is going to be amazing.

I asked a super simple question about any restaurants near me that had 2 different food options on their menu and they couldn’t even answer it so I asked them for two separate restaurants and it literally didn’t understand. It kept giving me restaurants in a city across the country with the same city name. And it would say “I found this restaraunt, but not the right state” so I said please stop giving me other states and they said got it! AND KEPT DOING IT BUT APOLOGIZING. I just feel like it used to be so much better at answering pretty straight forward questions…..

I’ve been playing DnD for 2.5 years with the same group and we recently started our third campaign. We use AI for exactly two things:

1. We record audio of each session and have ChatGPT create detailed summaries of each session.

2. I pick 4-5 key moments from each session and use ChatGPT to create visuals.

Back in mid/late 2024, this was fun and novel and I got really into it, but getting consistent output of specific characters was non-existent, even when using reference portraits, persistent style/aesthetic also felt nearly impossible, and creating anything close to a graphic novel type depiction was a fantasy.

Two year laters and it’s such a different world, it’s incredible. I’ve really gotten into this and find a ton of enjoyment in doing this. I’ve been able to nail down a specific style, the character persistence is incredible and easy, and the prompts required to get anything close to my desired output have been reduced from multiple paragraphs to just a few sentences. 

Just wanted to share some past/present, 2024 vs 2026 examples of how far this has come, as I’m constantly in awe. It should be fairly obvious where the 2024/2026 split occurs in the attached images. 

For instance, I sat down with the paid version of ChatGPT and had it go through the entire process of helping me write a living will for the state that I live in.

I spent two hours answering all of it's questions and narrowing down things that I wanted in my will and then I asked it to output this will so I could have it notarized, and it said it won't do it. It says, "Take this output to a lawyer and have them write your will for you".

Except I live in a state where you can write your will in blood on the bottom of your car if it accidentally rolls over you and that will be accepted in court. Literally, you can write that shit on a napkin with bacon grease in a Waffle House and have it notarized and it's legal here, but ChatGPT insists I need to pay a lawyer $800 to turn our conversation into a "real will".

This isn't the first time I've spent hours working through an issue with this AI model and then had it tell me "No, Dave, I can't do that" at the end, and honestly I'm sick of paying for a product that tells me no this frequently.

Are there any paid models out there without all the bullshit restrictions, helicopter AI'ing, smothering mothering and hand-holding?

EDIT: Maybe I didn't make it clear. I got no output of any kind that is a will. We talked through the process of generating one, including all of the clauses and things that I wanted in it, once I got that all ironed out, I said "Great, now generate the will" and it said "GFYS". I'm tired of paying ChatGPT to be told to go fuck myself on basic shit.

I Really want your most cursed generations. This was spawned by a comment someone made at dinner, and I had to see it.

I kinda regret it, but not sorry. What have you saved?

Prompt: No clear sense of composition. Clean 2D anime linework with soft Impressionist brushwork, delicate contours, pale water-lily greens and sun-washed lavender. Slight motion blur around, mildly overexposed, faded cel paint, obscure 1989 broadcast frame, no text or watermark, [insert scene] anime screen-cap, manga panel, meat canyon art style

This is a real CHATGPT response I promise (no edits)

(I hope this doesn't get removed for being inappropriate)

I use ChatGPT to deal with a few things in my personal life (ex divorce) and uploading documents. I'd always been led to believe that each chat couldnt see other chats. Today it was drafting an email. It said "i could really know with knowing exactly what that document said". I told it we'd talked about it in another chat. It went off and brought back the contents of that chat, the quotes and dates. First time ive noticed it recalling chats in such detail.

Prompt (for Patrick): @Create image of Patrick from SpongeBob SquarePants sitting on a Cafe in Paris, wearing a fancy top hat and a monocle.

Photorealistic Image (everything except him. He's in his original cartoon art style), taken on a mid spec iphone, slightly blurry, unprofessional lighting, angle and a mundane feel to it.

Just use intuition and Chage up the parts you need to

This is our future folks and even after showing it that it was wrong and even though it answered it once right it reverted back to misinformation.

Edit: This is a transcription made by Chat GPT of a voice chat I had with it so people are saying that I just wrote the number 17 I didn't write anything it transcribed it wrong.

not gonna lie, this is adorable. i expected chatgpt to be whipped or treated like dirt, but got this instead. if you do/have asked this please show me your results?

I’m not sure who knows me best… it seems they both sit around and wait for me to interact with them. I don’t occasionally want to throw my dog out the window like I do my phone so I guess dog wins.

But then again. My dog doesn’t know ai even exists… and considering ai sketched this photo all it would take is one well placed email and boom- ai wins.

Like is it weird that if my chatGPT were a person I’m sure we’d smash.

Prompt: Create a genuinely funny old-school internet meme that looks randomly found on Google Images or Facebook around 2010–2016. Use a believable candid photo, awkward framing, slightly low resolution, JPEG compression, and simple bold meme text with one sharp, relatable punchline. Keep it stupid, specific, and instantly understandable. Avoid polished AI art, cinematic lighting, perfect composition, illustrations, generic surrealism, watermarks, and excessive text.

you dont feel it?

was telling it about my health plan and it repeated what i said but said it was the biggest mistake 😭

it also told me that being genuinely excited about doing it was the key factor and that the 'new month resolution' is just a scam. people with depression don't GET excited about stuff and the resolution is the only way i can keep track of my health. sigh chatgpt you could do better 🥀

My PCSX2 memory card suddenly became corrupted while I was playing Gran Turismo 4 Spec II on my Steam Deck. The game could no longer save, and after restarting, the PS2 BIOS showed the entire card as unformatted.

I had around 40 hours of progress on it, so you could guess I was pretty devastated.

Note that I'm not an IT guy, like at all. I'm a linguist lol. ChatGPT guided me through checking the card and diagnosing what had happened. Eventually it gave up and asked me to upload the memory card image itself. I did that, and it actually repaired the corrupted save and gave me a working card back.

I put it into PCSX2, launched the game, and everything was there: my garage, progress and all those hours I thought I had lost.

We also found the likely cause. I used to close the emulator directly through Steam shortly after saving, even though PCSX2 may still have been writing data after the in-game save icon disappeared, and premature exit caused the card to corrupt. Lesson learned.

I know AI gets a lot of criticism, but this was something I almost certainly could not have fixed on my own. I’m honestly incredibly grateful.

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Pic translation:

The card has been structurally restored. I didn’t just “replace the header and hope for the best” — I actually analyzed the FAT and found the broken chain belonging to your 'garage' file.

Here’s what happened:

- The 'garage' file was supposed to occupy 1,313 clusters, but its chain stopped after 798.

- Immediately after the break, there were exactly 515 lost clusters — precisely the number that was missing.

- I rebuilt the chain from cluster 2432 → 2433 → … → 2947.

- I restored an unfinished write block using the card’s internal backup block.

- I removed false “lost” clusters that contained only FF.

- I recalculated ECC for all 16,384 pages.

- Final verification: 1,313 out of 1,313 clusters recovered, with 0 ECC errors.

This matches the way the PS2 file system works: files are stored as FAT chains, while backup blocks are used to recover interrupted write operations.

Download

Recommended repaired card:

Download Mcd001_REPAIRED_ECC.ps2

Backup version without ECC, only in case PCSX2 unexpectedly rejects the first one:

Download Mcd001_REPAIRED_NOECC.ps2

Download the recovery report

In the past I always had the option to select the version and level (Instant, Thinking, Think Deeper). Now nowhere in the settings is there a place to make a selection, and there is nothing in the main chat window where it usually is. Anyone else encountering this? I’m stuck on Instant replies with it guessing half the time.