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In one sense, the pivot has been a long time coming. OpenAI began its decade-long life as a research lab that kept its tools under strict lock and key; when it did release early chatbots and image generation models, they had strict content filters that aimed to prevent misuse. But for years it has been widening the accessibility of its tools in an approach it calls "iterative deployment." The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 was the most popular example of this strategy, which the company believes is necessary to help society adapt to the changes AI is bringing. Still, in another sense, the change to OpenAI's model behavior policies has a more recent proximate cause: the 2024 election of President Donald Trump, and the cultural shift that has accompanied the new administration.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Since OpenAI released an update earlier this week that improved ChatGPT's ability to generate images based on detailed requests, a dark evil has infected the internet, responsible for the shriveling of souls and the wanton destruction of life and nature itself: Studio Ghibli A.I. slop. Social media has been flooded with images of the most random shit imaginable rendered in the signature style of Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary animator and co-founder of the Japanese company Studio Ghibli, renowned for hand-drawn animated films such as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and My Neighbor Totoro. X in particular, Elon Musk's land of the rising bot, is rife with viral posts extolling the virtues of an innovation that steals human-made creations, chews them into paste, and spits out the reassembled remains, stripped of any of the originality, spirit, and labor that makes art art. It's been 24 hours since OpenAI unexpectedly shook the AI image world with 4o image generation.

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Nintendo just announced the official release date of the live-action Legend of Zelda movie. It hits theaters on March 26, 2027, which is just about two years from now. The film was first announced back in 2023. The company dropped this bombshell on the official Nintendo Today! app that was surprise-released during a recent Direct livestream. The stream promised that the app would be a constant source of news and information. It looks like that promise was not hyperbole.

The researchers of Anthropic's interpretability group know that Claude, the company's large language model, is not a human being, or even a conscious piece of software. Still, it's very hard for them to talk about Claude, and advanced LLMs in general, without tumbling down an anthropomorphic sinkhole. Between cautions that a set of digital operations is in no way the same as a cogitating human being, they often talk about what's going on inside Claude's head. It's literally their job to find out. The papers they publish describe behaviors that inevitably court comparisons with real-life organisms.