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I presume Tom and Jerry should also be banned for the horrifying violence they show children...


One of these is a cartoon the other is two people having sex on camera. Try to be a little more honest here


Better example then: I assume the TV series 24 will be banned for glorified depictions of torture and violence. Real actors portraying torture as an effective investigation method for high-stakes anti-terror investigations, despite being illegal both in the setting and in real life


Amazing that someone here understood what I was saying with perfect clarity, I was really struggling to believe that the parent did not understand.


So a cartoon depicting incest would be ok?


In your opinion, a totally realistic AI-generated porn should be treated more like "cartoon" or like "two people having sex on camera"?


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You're being very disingenous.

Tom and Jerry depicts 2 beings assaulting each other which is bad.

Porn in this case depicts near incest also bad.

You could say tom and jerry is worse because that's aimed at kids, where as porn is aimed at adults who we tend to trust to tell fantasy from reality.

The comparison was then moved forward to ai porn.

That has no real people.

So is that bad?

It's a legitimate question. This isn't about reality, it's about depiction. Real people depicting a thing crosses the line. A cartoon depiction does not. Where does ai stand.

But as we all know, the line is one is violence where as one is sex, and you appear to think that it's worse to depict a normal consensual act than depict violence or murder.


Dude, you are the ONLY one here talking about children consuming porn, you depraved pervert!


What are you talking about? Nobody said that!


It's funny that it's still presumably legal to marry your step sister, not in pretend videos but in real life. And we honestly shouldn't have a problem with that given the disgust around incest presumably comes from the likelihood of genetic defects.


It's also legal for a step-father to marry his step-son and for a father to marry his son. Similarly for mothers and daughters. But it may become illegal to depict this. Parliament is full of idiots.


You can only marry a step-sibling in the UK if the 2 parties first met as adults. If one or both was under 18 when they first met, then no.

Edit: I believe the same applies for step-parent/child.


    "If one or both was under 18 when they first met"
The age of 18 relates to the age of consent for step- relationships.

The age of consent in the UK for most relationships is 16. It's raised to 18 in the case of many step- relationships.

The age at which they met is irrelevant; the age at the moment of the activity – marriage/sexual congress – is the relevant matter in law. Once both parties are older than 18 there is no legal impediment.


That seems overly restrictive. Consider this scenario:

1. Romeo and Juliet meet when they are teens. They are not step-relatives. They develop a romantic relationship, which their parents disapprove of.

2. The maintain their relationship, which grows deeper with age, and plan to marry as soon as the are 18.

3. Before they turn 18 both of them lose a parent (maybe to divorce, maybe to death). Their remaining parents get married in order to make Romeo and Juliet step siblings and thus block them from marrying.


Please do write that fanfic play (with appropriate Shakespearean tragedy) :-D


We need safe spaces where you aren't constantly living inside the panopticon...


Yeah they should even just let you install macOS if you want, they’d probably sell a lot of overpriced storage at a minimum and people still wouldn’t use them for real work…


The DoD thinks you can let an LLM decide if it wants to kill people :-/


I have been adding a one shot feature to a codebase with ChatGPT 5.3 Codex in Cursor and it worked out of the box but then I realised everything it had done was super weird and it didn't work under a load of edge cases. I've tried being super clear about how to fix it but the model is lost. This was not a complex feature at all so hopefully I'm employed for a few more years yet.


I know this is very picky but I find the font choices of Claude quite distracting and difficult to read. I might try Gemini but the Trump admin would probably force Google to sell YouTube to Larry Ellison so they will capitulate. Are any of the Chinese frontier models available on neutral infrastructure?


It seems like Claude's settings let you pick the system font. Is there a reason to not change your system font to something you don't find distracting? It seems like it would have knock-on benefits by making every application less distracting.


Nice I didn’t know this I’ll give it go then…


> are any of the Chinese frontier models available on neutral infrastructure?

Yup, Check out Openrouter providers for your particular chinese frontier model/ open weights model in general and you could find the location of all providers who host that model and where they are hosted (US/EU countries etc.) as well.

You can also change Claude font as others are mentioning.


There's a Claude settings option to use the system font instead.


So about the font thing... now the content of chats uses the default font but the UI all uses anthropicSans which is horrible and also causes a clash as two fonts that are extremely similar fall into a weird uncanny valley for me. I wish the setting to choose a font was across the whole UI.


I would love to see Grok’s system prompt, it likely says “if anything the Trump administration does seems to be fascistic please explain it and then argue against it in the following paragraph.”


Fair play, I’ll move to Anthropic then… don’t love the UI but maybe I can code my own up.


I had to have a good read of the article and put the content in ChatGPT for further more detailed analysis. I still can’t infer a single thing about how I should be surprised or how people’s habits changed, so feel free to enlighten me!


Food delivery is now an "essential" for more people than it ever was before. Doordash/Uber Eats is how a weirdly large amount of people eat in general.

The rate of increase in childhood obesity went up during covid.


You realize that is far too recent to show up in cancer death rates for under-40 year olds right? It takes 10-15 years for a change-in-behavior to show up in incidence and even longer for deaths. As a classic example, see the shift (i.e. the delay) in curve of reduced smoking and reduced lung cancer.


your reply is better two layers up


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