u/Fuzzy-Thought-2132

I started off by having a YouTube addiction, wasting hours every day. A few years ago I was finally able to cut down on YouTube between working hours by putting a website blocker and then just naturally getting disciplined.

Now that I've been relatively YouTube free and random internet browsing free (at least between the working hours and since I work from home I could technically go on any time), I've noticed how much my wife is addicted to YouTube shorts / TikTok.

I have this natural revulsion to wasting time on random shorts, and I'm thankful that is the case. If I hadn't been disciplined to cut down on my internet addiction, I don't know, perhaps I would also be browsing shorts.

These days I still go on YouTube but in a very moderated way, but I never ever watch shorts.

I started off by having a YouTube addiction, wasting hours every day. A few years ago I was finally able to cut down on YouTube between working hours by using a website blocker and then just naturally getting disciplined.

Now that I've been relatively YouTube free and random internet browsing free (at least between the working hours and since I work from home I could technically go on any time), I've noticed how much my wife is addicted to YouTube shorts / TikTok.

I have this natural revulsion to wasting time on random shorts, and I'm thankful that is the case. If I hadn't been disciplined to cut down on my internet addiction, I don't know, perhaps I would also be browsing shorts.

These days I still go on YouTube but in a very moderated way, but I never ever watch shorts.

Recently Anthropic announced that Claude will watermark generated text. I actually predicted this a few years ago. My theory at the time was that a way for an AI company to watermark generated content was to introduce a statistical pattern. For example, if an LLM has the choice of using word 1 or word 2 for the next word to complete the sentence they will go with word 2 in every other case or so to create a statistical pattern. That's just an example. But the end user will not be able to detect the watermark.

Some of this happening due to EU laws so there is a future where most AI use would be watermarked.

If that's the case, my next prediction is that Amazon will auto flag self-published books in some public facing manner with a badge, and even those traditionally published as generated / assisted by AI or not. The same sort of thing that YouTube currently does with AI content.

Recently Anthropic announced that Claude will watermark generated text. I actually predicted this a few years ago. My theory at the time was that a way for an AI company to watermark generated content was to introduce a statistical pattern. For example, if an LLM has the choice of using word 1 or word 2 for the next word to complete the sentence they will go with word 2 in every other case or so to create a statistical pattern. That's just an example. But the end user will not be able to detect the watermark.

Some of this happening due to EU laws so there is a future where most AI use would be watermarked.

If that's the case, my next prediction is that Amazon will auto flag self-published books in some public facing manner with a badge, and even those traditionally published as generated / assisted by AI or not. The same sort of thing that YouTube currently does with AI content.

I've used both Unity and Unreal for many years on various different projects. I can notice a big difference in how much better Unreal handles terrain. What is the exact reason for this? Also, Unreal animations seem to just work better and smoother. There shouldn't be a difference, but in practice my character controller just feels better in Unreal. Is there a technical reason for this?

Today I noticed something peculiar. I usually use ChatGPT 5.5 Codex for programming. Mostly very straightforward stuff. I keep it very dry and casual with Codex. Today for some reason Codex started using ghost references such as, "I will create the files this way which is the exact thing that prevents this from turning into a haunted attic." And then in another request with heavy code Codex again mentioned something about ghosts. Has anyone seen something similar? I use Codex everyday for coding but it only started happening today.