I'm sure most people have seen this story of an expert demolished using his publicly available AI promoting history: https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-defending-company-in-deadly-explosion-lawsuit/

I'm in-house now and don't directly litigate anymore, but it got me thinking about building out a toolkit for genAI related discovery. Has anyone put together discovery packets targeting that issue?

I would probably wait until getting responses to a first set of written discovery before propounding a second set focused on AI use by the opposing side. That gives them a chance to use it in drafting their first responses before warning them you're coming after their AI use in discovery.

If anyone has put together discovery on the subject and would be willing to share, I'd love to see it.

POB: https://pobb.in/WgTK49GKPbU2

I'm hoping someone can offer some guidance. I'm playing reap/exsang for the first time, loosely following a 2 league old guide. It's great when I run a couple of tiers down, but the damage is lackluster on juiced T16.5s and bosses. I definitely don't do enough damage to be comfortable when so squishy.

I know I can make some fairly expensive upgrades at amulet and shield (+2 with good crit rolls). Bottled faith would be useful for bossing.

I considered trying to fit in a second cluster for damage, but not sure what I'd give up for it.

Any advice for upgrades would be appreciated!

A skydiver crashed into the Folsom Pro Rodeo in Folsom, California. In a statement, the rodeo said that the skydiver was not injured.

I heard from a coworker a while back that Gemini was surprisingly good at photo editing. I've used it a few times over the past few months while house shopping to visualize changes to houses we were considering but that would need some changes to fit what we like. I wanted to share the results in case this is helpful to others.

Notes:

1. This is the free version of Gemini (gemini.google.com)
2. The houses shown in the examples already sold. I'm not trying to stealth market anything.

Images in the examples

This link has each of the images outlined below: https://imgur.com/a/xRqHAPL

Example 1: House Needing More Curb Appeal

There was a house my wife and I found intriguing except for its low curb appeal (subjective, obviously).

I took a Street View screenshot and uploaded it. That's image 1.

I told it: "Add some decorative trim to the front of the house around the garage door and windows. Change the color scheme to mostly white with black trim."

That led to image 2, which wasn't really true to the original. It completely changed the window design. So I went back with "I like the black and white. But keep the original window shape, and just add black trim around the windows. Also keep the black trim around the garage door."

That led to Image 3, which was pretty much what I was looking for. It's not perfect, and it does still slightly change the window shape, but it's enough to get a really good idea of what the hosue would look like with that change. I could show image 3 to a contractor and say "That's what I want" and it would be very straightforward to design around it.

I tried some other color combinations that might go better with the terra cotta tile roof.

I also tried showing it a photo of the rest of the front of the house behind the wall/greenery to see if it could show what it would look like if you took out the wall and did the rest of the house in the same color scheme. It couldn't pull that off, but I didn't expect it to. It might work with the right photos, but there wasn't one on Zillow with the rest of the front of the house from the same angle.

Example 2: Kitchen Update

For a different house we considered, I thought the kitchen looked pretty dated, so I tried the same thing. I took a Redfin/Zillow photo of the kitchen (Image 4) and asked it to replace the tile counters with quartz in a similar color.

The first time it did that but also put up a weird tile backsplash I didn't like. Second attempt worked.

Then I asked it to remove the soffit (?) light and replace with can lights. It put in way too many can lights, but still did a good job of showing it without the soffit. Finished product was image 5.

Example 3: Roofing Change

Another house had some roofing issues. Not sure it would really need replacement, but I was curious what it would look like. I tried a couple different versions. See images 6-10.

Takeaways

Gemini is far from perfect and sometimes takes a little fine-tuning. But for a completely free product, I was shocked at how well it did for visualizing changes we might want to make to a house.

I got some wonky results in some of the attempts. When I asked it to create images showing a different house in 3 different color schemes, it took the starting image, divided into thirds, and did each third in a different color scheme. Another time I asked it to do a certain paint scheme for a house and got that back. Then I told it to try a black and white color scheme with white as the base and black as the trim. It spit back the same image in black and white.

I found that it did better if I went back to the desired starting point and had it redo things from there if I didn't like a result, rather than making sequential changes to its product. That got weird sometimes.

Hope some of this is helpful to others.

I saw some recent comments recently that reverse orb devo is the way to break into GC, and others that it's very dated and no longer current.

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Here's the guide I've seen, which predates assmods: https://the-tower.notion.site/The-Reverse-Orb-Devo-Strategy-21891383b93f800d8790e9abb140bf5f

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Can anyone comment on whether that's still the way to go?

A related question: what's The Way (TM) for bots these days? My flame bot is maxed for eHP (except damage) and. Golden bot near max.

I'm curious if anyone has advice for getting the most out of disso runs. I hate rerunning when I already had like 4k waves because the marginal benefit is so small, but it's probably worth it. I also haven't caught my UW and utility runs up with attack and defense lately (like since shortly after disso first came out).

Any advice for optimizing UW and Utility runs in particular? It seems like UW is basically an eHP run without pBH, while utility is all about hybrid to maximize waves. Not sure if either have special tips or tricks for assmods etc though.

I'm currently farming on T14 eHP but should probably switch to GC soon on either 14 or 15 depending on how far I can get my utility disso on both.