The first thing I thought when reading this was "wow, someone must have fed Infocom games' location descriptions into an AI". Would still like to see that.

So frustrating that there's no way to access this tech without putting your name on a list and waiting an unspecified amount of time (months?). It's the sort of thing many people would pay well for, even at its current stage of development.

Midjourney is open to everyone now, no waiting, and is easily the 2nd best tool for this stuff

Better than Stable Diffusion? I don't think so, especially in coherence.

My wait was only 2-3 weeks FWIW.

I think it depends on what you tell them when you fill out the application. I was honest and didn't tell them I was a YouTube influencer, venture capitalist, underground artist, and/or credentialed researcher. I just wanted to play with it and see how it worked.

Most of the interesting things I've done in my life and career began with just wanting to play with something and see how it worked, but it was probably unrealistic to expect OpenAI to buy into that, given the large number of more worthy-sounding candidates in line ahead of me. Maybe I'll reapply with a different email address and make up a more mediagenic motivation.

I applied with the same criteria, and it took about a month to be accepted.

My invite actually came through just now, interestingly enough, after a little over two weeks. Either they're opening up for a wider audience, or whining about it on HN is irrationally effective.

Gotta give credit where it's due, in any case. I hereby withdraw my complaint!

I am still waiting since they opened the registration

I'm living with my partner. We both work remote. Not sure about her, because her job (teaching) is not super-well suited for remote work, but my productivity remains about as high as before. Granted, I tended to be remote 1 day / week even before All This. I would also guess that if I didn't have my partner sharing the flat with me, my mental health & therefore productivity would be lower.

(As for monitoring, yeah, stuff like that mentioned in the article would never fly here in Finland. We have very strict privacy laws, and the employer cannot do whatever they please.)

Yeah, this -- the reason, why my answer to tech support outside of job is a firm "no". No to friends, no to family, no to anyone. I don't want to deal with panicked requests starting "you did something to fix my computer, now it ate my grant application, deadline is tomorrow, help!" And I don't deal with sudden stress particularly well.

Interesting approach. I don’t like to take the blame either, but I’d never tell my mom and dad to screw themselves. I usually fix whatever is up with their laptops, fortunately they don’t call me up too often. I usually try to go for long term solutions and explain everything carefully.

It’s a much better use of my time to just buy my parents iOS devices and point them to the Apple store if something goes wrong. Fighting malware and people’s propensity to click on sketchy links is too taxing.

Russia seems to like Europe destabilized, in all possible ways.

"ASH [alt.suicide.holiday] began as a Google discussion group"

... stopped reading at this. Do your damn research. Also, get off my lawn.

I think you'd be surprised at the number of people who have no idea about what usenet is. Dejanews still lives on in google discussion groups, and that may be the reason why it is mentioned as such, the reporter may very well realize this is not factual but does not want to spend 3 paragraphs explaining what usenet is, what it's rather complex ancestry is and where it ended up today.

It's a white lie. I read the article to the end, and it is actually a lot better than you'd think from that one basic mistake in the beginning.

it doesn't take three paragraphs. here, watch this: "ASH began as an internet discussion group about why suicide rates increase over the holidays,"