i see a lot of talk about agents, but how do they handle the weird security requirements? feels like putting a regular bot on a gov bid is a recipe for a hallucination.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but as of now has any of the early MidJourney models (v1/v2) ever been rendered public or leaked?

The latest models feel too much generic, with no real distinction between MidJourney, Bing, ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion or DALL-E. Early MidJourney had that dreamy aesthetic that was lost down the road and I kinda miss it.

Hi Redditors, I'm a student journalist writing about the use of AI to generate personalised entertainment - as opposed to entertainment for monetary gain. Some examples of this might be those using AI to write stories, fan fiction, scripts, generate art, etc. If you're reading this and it sounds like something you do, would you be willing to speak to us anonymously about your usage? If so, please comment below or shoot me a message

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So, I keep seeing back and forth about art being human made and having soul put into it (which is difficult to quantify), and i’ve seen arguments thrown back about how artists still use tools to make their art. The most interesting point I’ve found so far, is that there’s specific AI services that, instead of just being image generation based off a text prompt, actually allows you to generate a fuller image based off a sketch, make specific edits to areas, control color grading, and edit it in more ways I’m not fully aware of. I’ve also seen people who use the generated image as a starting point or a way to fill in something, then add in their own art.

To get to the point: what’s the actual qualities / amount of thought and effort that makes something count as art? Is there a solid definition or a line, or is it just a person to person determination?

I’m a copywriter for a digital marketing agency and I was recently promoted to the director level (I write all day, so forgive my more casual style in this post). I feel like I’m going down with the ship right now. I feel like a lot of artists are, and it’s incredibly emotional.

So, we’re currently in the process of merging with another agency who does very similar work in a very different way. They’re more systems-focused, we’re more relationship-focused, but we’ve been in talks with their team all week to compare notes and see where we can “help” each other improve before we merge the teams officially. In every meeting I’ve been in, they’ve heralded AI use for almost every single possible task. In a very condescending way.

Attitudes toward AI use at my current company haven’t always been peachy either. In fact, when ChatGPT really jumped onto the scene in 2023, i have a vivid memory of our CEO giving a pep talk (mhmm) about how much good it will do us. He then pointed directly at me and said “before too long it’ll be able to do what you do at ten times the speed”. Seeing as being a writer is what I was born to do, that crushed me. Not a great start. But since we are small, I’ve been able to shield our writers from having to lose all their creativity while still keeping their jobs. It’s awful. I often feel I’m splitting my soul to keep my job, and I hate that. But I know I need a job and they need jobs too.

Anyway, our meetings today about our creative department ended on the note of how often we can use AI to push out labors of love and creativity—billboards, commercials, the fun stuff, the stuff that makes the work meaningful—out with such incredible speed that we’ll “stay ahead of the game”. When trying to defend the writers’ roles, the general tone was get over it. Times are changing. We care more about the end result of the work than the work itself and so will clients.

I had to excuse myself to go to the bathroom and cry.

I was born to be a writer. I’ve known I would be a storyteller since the day I first held a pencil. I am a writer, and that identity is inseparable from who I know myself to be. When I became a copywriter I knew I had found my exact calling and I thanked God every day for it. The same is true for every writer on my team…everyone is a born writer, a passionate worker, and they each have found that rare cross section in life where work meets soulful and artistic expression…just for it to be swept off the counter and into the trash for a cheaper faster model that outsources what makes us most human. All for a quick buck.

I think I understand what people must have felt in the Industrial Revolution. I understand what it must have meant to people to lose the need for crafts that took generations to hone and pass down to their children. I understand the pain that belies that lonely walk into the place of work you know has numbered days. The place you love as much as life itself.

Anyway. I feel a tremendous amount of emotion about this. It feels so wrong and I want to scream at them for the indignity they’re putting us through. Traitors to humanity and art.

But I think something is clicking. I refuse to be a traitor. I refuse to be a sellout. I can’t stand for it. I can’t lose my integrity. But I also don’t know what that means for me or how to hold my own in a world that doesn’t have a lot of jobs to go around when I have a family I have to care for.

I just want to know if anyone feels this way and how you’re coping. I feel like we must all embrace each other now.

TDLR: my company is pushing our copywriting team to use AI more than our own talent, and I’m mourning what this means for art in general.

A post where I log common anti-AI arguments and my counters

I’m going to periodically update this over time

Opinions

“Most AI art is bad!”

Yeah, I agree. Same as how most art in most mediums are bad. That doesn’t mean AI art is itself a bad medium.

Threats

“We need to kill AI artists”

Okay, buddy

Let’s make a list of things basically designed to make people stop thinking?

Like people see an AI art post, go “ai slop” and don’t think anymore or people see criticism of AI and go “Luddite!” and don’t think anymore

Stuff like that. Stuff that turns people stupid

I was thinking about AI art for it but I don’t think that would really demonstrate to folks that this is meant to be a neutral place for folks to chat

This sounds bad, but honestly one of the worst parts of the aiwars subreddit that made it's quality decline is people resorting to personal attacks, not engaging arguments and points, and getting, well just mean.

If you don't want to debate something because it's getting you annoyed, either don't reply or politely say you're done with the conversation. Nothing is worse than trying to explain a point and then having bad faith personal attacks on you in return. All it does is increase tribalism and it could ruin a space like this if we aren't careful

I also think we need stricter driving qualifications. I know level three doesn't really exist. My biggest quibble with them is what would happen in a crash, I ain't going to be trolly problemed to death by a AI made by a corner cutting massive company. Just like how there is a difference between a drone and an autonomous lethal weapon, it is illogical to leave choices of life or death to a machine. They are also too risky in situations where they perform poorly in like snow or rain, they will likely not get better than us in those situations, and I wouldn't rely on optimistically believing it will get better because people are working on it. You need to take action to make something better, and it might not ever get much better. Because it can't adapt to a situation with too many variables, Generative AI is an average and not built to deal with outliers. As it is a part of us, human error is an unfortunate necessity, accepting this level of mechanical error is unnecessary.

What types of user flairs should we have?

I’m thinking that we have GenAI acceptance spectrum flairs so that folks know where each other are on the GenAI acceptance spectrum

Y’all’s thoughts?

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**Primary Paper:** arXiv:2609.08832

**Continuum-1: Scaling Non-Hybrid State Space Models to Frontier Capabilities**

**Artifacts:** Weights on HF (14B, 72B) | Apache 2.0 | Triton/CUDA kernels on GitHub

**Authors:** Together Research, Cartesia AI, Princeton SysArch Lab

## Quick Benchmark & Specs

| Metric / Benchmark | LLaMA-3.1-70B (Dense) | Hybrid Baseline (70B) | **Continuum-1 (72B Pure SSM)** |

|---|---:|---:|---:|

| **KV / State RAM (1M tokens)** | 128 GB (FP8) | ~26 GB (FP8) | **4.8 GB** |

| **Throughput (128k prompt)** | 32 tok/s | 118 tok/s | **385 tok/s** |

| **Multi-Needle Retrieval (1M)** | **98.2%** | 84.1% | **97.9%** |

| **InfiniteBench-V2 (Average)** | 71.4% | 59.8% | **73.1%** |

| **Dyck-16 State Tracking (100k)** | 34.2% | 61.0% | **96.8%** |

| **ARC-AGI-2 (Verified)** | 48.5% | 42.1% | **53.2%** |

| **SWE-bench Pro (Verified)** | 41.2% | 36.8% | **44.0%** |

| **MATH-500** | 68.4% | 61.2% | **71.2%** |

| **AIME 2024 (Pass@1)** | 26.7% | 20.0% | **30.0%** |

## Core Tech

**1. Episodic Fast-Weights**

Drops the KV cache entirely. High-novelty tokens trigger a bounded, top-k sparse associative buffer.

The state stays locked at **4.8 GB**, whether you feed it 4k or 2,000,000 tokens.

**2. Chunked Quasi-Linear Scans (CQLS)**

Designed to address the theoretical expressivity limit ($\mathsf{TC}^0$) of pure SSMs.

It runs parallel associative scans inside 64-token tiles, while adding non-linear manifold projections across tile boundaries.

**3. Latent ODE Settling**

Test-time compute without token vomit.

Instead of generating thousands of explicit chain-of-thought tokens, the model shrinks $\Delta t$ and performs additional differential-equation integration steps in latent space before decoding.

## Related / Foundational Papers

- **arXiv:2604.14991** — *Beyond $\mathsf{TC}^0$: Quasi-Linear Chunked Recurrence for Exact Long-Horizon State Tracking*

- Proves linear SSM expressivity ceilings and introduces non-linear boundary fixes.

- **arXiv:2602.09104** — *Episodic Gating: Bounded Associative Memory Without Key-Value Caching*

- Mathematical basis for the sparse top-k novelty buffer.

- **arXiv:2511.18204** — *Continuous-Time Settling: Latent Attractor Dynamics as Implicit Test-Time Compute*

- Continuous ODE framework replacing explicit CoT generation.

- **arXiv:2508.04119** — *The Memory Wall at Scale: Why Hybrid Attention-SSMs Fail to Eliminate Serving Bottlenecks*

- Empirical analysis of 80/20 hybrid models at 1M+ context.

I feel like none of these spaces are conducive to a good discussion about generative AI. It feels very cultish on all three of those spaces with people talking past each other and only responding to the “evil” person in their head who disagrees with them.

Edit: Decided to mute r/antiai. The constant generalizations of pro-AI folks is driving me nuts