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PaperclipPerfector  10d ago (text post)   2297 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 31, 2025

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PewDiePie has a video about maxing out his own AI.

I want to run my own AI, so I can load a bunch of memory into it and try to replicate the Smart House. That might happen, but not this year, or next.

Instead, I've been quizzing my favored AI on music. When I was an undergraduate, I had to transcribe a jazz solo, and I did Miles Davis' solo on So What from Kind of Blue. Naturally, the question I've been using is:

transcribe miles davis' solo on so what from kind of blue

It's awful. Grok does best when provided with spectrographs, which I can generate from audio files via audacity, but Gemini is completely helpless. ChatGPT seems better, but still not close to Grok. Grok did the best at trying to give me readable transcripts, which were either ABC notation or LilyPond which didn't work.

Anyone care to transcribe the spectrograph*? I will subscribe to the Motte patreon for 1 year if anyone can tell me what the song is from this image via any means necessary, and I'll do it at more than $5 per month if someone gets me a genuine transcription. It's not Miles Davis**.

*PS The native themotte.org image upload failed me, but so did imgur, so who knows.

**PPS Here's the audio

I can't fathom why people would spend $20K+ getting a box of modded 4090s, all to access an open-source $0.18/$0.54 model 'for free' (still paying for all the electricity, so probably more expensive if anything). Just get an API key, save tens of thousands of dollars and a great deal of time. Microsoft, Google and Intel and AMD are probably already spying on you. It's not like running locally will greatly enhance your privacy.

And what is there even to be private about regarding AI? Yes, the people running APIs are probably sniggering at the logs of the goon sessions. I've sniggered at some logs myself, though mostly I just find the low standards of taste appalling. Maybe if you're Pewdiepie it's worth it, since journalists would find value in muckraking and log-sniggering.

But why would any normal person care? It's highly unlikely that they can even trace the logs back to a human identity, even less likely they'd care to do anything. Let the gamers buy their 4090s. Let the API providers on Openrouter get some revenue. Use an API key.

And what is there even to be private about regarding AI? Yes, the people running APIs are probably sniggering at the logs of the goon sessions.

People use LLMs for way more sensitive things than sex roleplays or the like.

Like what, are you giving it your credit card number? I've had some pretty personal chats with LLMs but nothing I'm too worried about.

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