New year, new blog post: I had a random question, what happens when LLMs are prompted to write better code, again and again? Do they actually write better code? The answer is yes*! https://minimaxir.com/2025/01/write-better-code/
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mastodon 4.7.3Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco. Creator of AI content generation tools such as aitextgen and gpt-2-simple. I am the data.
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New blog post up: there are many memes about the theory that tipping ChatGPT causes it to generate better text. I decided to put it to the test with some more statistical rigor.
More importantly, it's a great excuse for me to make pretty charts! https://minimaxir.com/2024/02/chatgpt-tips-analysis/
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@zoeschiffer My "this is not a phishing attempt" shirt has people asking questions that are answered by my shirt
As of today, I'm vowing to no longer correct people outside of the AI industry when they're incorrect/misleading about generative AI and. Every single time they immediately assume I'm an AI tech bro engaging in bad faith whataboutism and it's getting tiring.
On Glaze/Nightshade: A few months ago I made a POC on how finetuning SDXL on bad images can actually allow it to output "better" images.
There's a nonzero chance that the creation of known tampered data can ironically *improve* generative AI art models. https://minimaxir.com/2023/08/stable-diffusion-xl-wrong/
New LLM alignment test case just dropped.
And I thought my DS/ML hot takes were too spicy.
New blog post up: I’ve been thinking about the last time Gen AI was universally non-controversial. That was early 2023 with AI Seinfeld.
I wrote thoroughly about what it would take to do a 24/7 AI-generated sitcom again, but there's too much against it. https://minimaxir.com/2024/08/ai-seinfeld/
6 years ago, it was cool for humans to pretend to be AI.
Normally Reddit submission titles are highly exaggerated, it's rare to see one that's completely accurate.
sometimes I import numpy without importing it as np.
New blog post up: Many years ago I made Pokémon vectors, but was not able to account for all Pokémon metadata. Thanks to the power of Nomic AI's embedding models, I am able to plop a blob of raw JSON into the model and the embeddings are extremely good! https://minimaxir.com/2024/06/pokemon-embeddings/
wow OpenAI is releasing GPT-40, they skipped a lot of versions!
New blog post up: I played with GPT-4o's new AI voice generation API and not only is it possible to prompt voices in a specific style, but it's possible to generate from a specific person like Obama.
That said, *possible* doesn't mean the voices are good. https://minimaxir.com/2024/10/speech-prompt-engineering/
July/August/Final Monthly Update on my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/110839776
People on Hacker News and Reddit are explicitly commenting that this post is good and that's never happened before and tbh I'm weirded out. @minimaxir@sigmoid.social
Now *this* is an AI art hot take.
Given the justified backlash against the AI George Carlin special, I'm tempted to publish my "AI Seinfeld Was The Peak of AI-Generated Content and it Will Never Happen Again" hot take.
not looking at AI music generation because i don't understand normal music tbh