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i generally go to the store where the coffee tastes better

Agreed. That's actually what OP said as well.

Using AI to make a sign is likely a pretty good indicator as to the effort the owner puts into other aspects of their business.

It only signals to me that they have other priorities.

Correct, but they own a coffee shop, they aren't building rockets. The menu is definitely a significant part of it.

If they can barely do that, then I'm sure they're slacking off on more stuff too.


> The menu is definitely a significant part of it

The overlap in skills between photographing your product and being a great barrista aren't obviously overlapping.

The takeaway seems to be to remove images from the menu.


As a customer yes, I would have vastly higher confidence in the quality of a coffee shop with no pictures vs one that uses AI slop.


You think this is a signal of some great barista?

It was just a replacement for those temporary chalkboard menus, the person wo did that previously left. Perhaps she has bad taste but that doesn't mean she was slacking off. Did they spend a lot of time on the chalkboard menus previously?

Just printing this item was reported in the article as costing $150.

How much might it cost to have someone local show up and produce a decent-looking chalkboard display?


This is what people are actually mad about when businesses use AI art. You claim to live in an artistic community, great, ask your staff if they have any friends who draw who want to come by and make a quick $100. You spent more money on a worse result that alienates your community.

Honestly, I'd rather have a word printed doc for the menu than this. It's not that difficult, doesn't require any skills and doesn't take any time.

IDK, you own a business and do this sort of stuff and all sorts of red flags go off for me.


Seems to me it's an indicator that the owner cares more about making and serving food or drink than they do about advertising it. I'd feel differently if some big corporate chain were doing this, but if it's a little "mom & pop"/"hole in the wall" type place, cheap advertising is a neutral-to-positive signal.

Unless they use the time they previously spent making a sign into making a better coffee.

How would a coffee shop spend an hour making their coffee better

Like you own a coffee shop and you’ve freed up one hour in the 12 weeks before you have to make a new sign, what do you do in that hour that makes the coffee better?


Spending the money you would have wasted on a flaky local artist to draw an overpriced disposable sandwich board on better coffee beans.

The entitlement is off the charts. The more I read this insanity, the more I hope she printed it at Walmart with a discount coupon.


Yes. It's a sign they spend a lot of effort making good coffee and don't have a lot of effort left over to work on a sign.

Somehow I don't think that's the tradeoff being made

The environment the coffee is served in is a significant part of the business.

They own the business, they don't make the coffee, nor did they make the sign they had earlier.

> They own the business, they don't make the coffee

You might not have spent a lot of time in the world of "small business", but this is hysterically out of touch.


The article literally mentions that they have baristas, one of whom was making the old menu because they were "aesthetically inclined." This can also be confirmed by looking at the employment section of their website.

The owner was not personally either making or serving the coffee.


Even bacteria are cultured ;)

Do you think the training process will retain these artifacts? I doubt it. If they were simply stealing the content - sure it would make sense - but I suspect they’re feeding it into training data and RL might distill these out.

I am thinking along these lines. You do raise a great point.-

https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison?from...


> Second, you miscomprehended the article. The employee did not "threaten to ruin a prominent researcher's career"…

Proceeds to ask removal of another coauthor or else we totally discredit you - phrased as why would you do this to yourself.


Claiming OAI was going to "totally discredit" Buckmaster is baseless.

From the article, it seems OAI wanted to continue discussing the situation with Buckmaster and reach a resolution, but Buckmaster did not want to, declined to respond, and published first.

Also keep in mind we've only heard one side of the story, so any interpretation of events so far is incomplete. There should be a lot more information from OAI's side coming out later today.


From the article, page 3:

  I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. The reply was, “If you don’t want me to be nice, then I don’t have to be nice.”

> Also keep in mind we've only heard one side of the story, so any interpretation of events so far is incomplete.

That’s not quite true though is it. OpenAI is fortunate enough to have one of its employees (you) here to advocate for its side of the story.


Are we reading the same article (page 3)?

OpenAI never asked for the removal of another coauthor. The parent comment is spreading misinformation.

OpenAI offered to let Buckmaster to write their Millennium Prize paper, so long as Alpoge (who works at Anthropic) was not a coauthor on the OpenAI paper. Buckmaster declined this offer.


Come on man, at least the example should be cached and presented in case the service is down


It’s a provision not circumvention, also not a hack. /s


You can always flash and factory reset. I’d bet 99.9% of phones on eBay are by and for general public and not some esoteric zero days in the wild that your comment makes it sound like.


IANAL - if they break the bail conditions the judge may issue a warrant depending on severity, clearly a warrant was not issued here, otherwise there’s no need for pretext like you said.

Article also states bail jumping charge was dismissed but the weed charge is the only charge that remains.


They still have to bother with actually going to a judge and actually getting that warrant. Why do that if you can just skip it and not deal with inconvenient questions.


The Flock camera network is much less of a stickler for those pesky civil liberties being respected


I don’t think courts care about technicality here. They’re going to simply ask “why didn’t it unlock like a normal phone does” -> aka you’re deliberately hiding evidence from us.

I’m sure this case will be dropped because it will open bigger can of worms and may jeopardize the current practice of warrantless invasive searches at the entry points. Secretly I hope this goes to Supreme Court and once and for all they clarify on “constitution doesn’t apply at the border” piece of thinking


I wish I shared your optimism. For the sake of the accused, I hope you're right, but I could see them really doubling down on this.


if you wear red glasses...


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