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Posted by meetpateltech 13 hours ago

Prism(openai.com)
551 points | 307 commentspage 8
lsh0 4 hours ago|
... aaaand now it's JATS.
jsrozner 9 hours ago||
AI: enshittifying everything you once cared about or relied upon

(re the decline of scientific integrity / signal-to-noise ratio in science)

shevy-java 11 hours ago||
"Accelerating science writing and collaboration with AI"

Uhm ... no.

I think we need to put an end to AI as it is currently used (not all of it but most of it).

drusepth 11 hours ago||
Does "as it is currently used" include what this apparently is (brainstorming, initial research, collaboration, text formatting, sharing ideas, etc)?
Jaxan 11 hours ago||
Yeah, there are already way more papers being published than we can reasonably read. Collaboration, ok, but we don’t need more writing.
f2fff 3 hours ago||
It seems people dont understand the basics...

We dont need more stuff - we need more quality and less of the shit stuff.

Im convinced many involved in the production of LLM models are far too deep in the rabbit hole and cant see straight.

hahahahhaah 8 hours ago||
Bringing slop to science.
lifetimerubyist 7 hours ago||
As if there wasn't enough AI slop in the scientific community already.
postalcoder 12 hours ago||
Very unfortunately named. OpenAI probably (and likely correctly) estimated that 13 years is enough time after the Snowden leaks to use "prism" for a product but, for me, the word is permanently tainted.
cheeseomlit 12 hours ago||
Anecdotally, I have mentioned PRISM to several non-techie friends over the years and none of them knew what I was talking about, they know 'Snowden' but not 'PRISM'. The amount of people who actually cared about the Snowden leaks is practically a rounding error
hedora 11 hours ago||
Given current events, I think you’ll find many more people care in 2026 than did in 2024.

(See also: today’s WhatsApp whistleblower lawsuit.)

arthurcolle 11 hours ago|||
This was my first thought as well. Prism is a cool name, but I'd never ever use it for a technical product after those leaks, ever.
vjk800 11 hours ago|||
I'd think that most people in science would associate the name with an optical prism. A single large political event can't override an everyday physical phenomenon in my head.
blitzar 10 hours ago|||
Guessing that Ai came up with the name based on the description of the product.

Perhaps, like the original PRISM programme, behind the door is a massive data harvesting operation.

kaonwarb 12 hours ago|||
I suspect that name recognition for PRISM as a program is not high at the population level.
maqp 10 hours ago||
2027: OpenAI Skynet - "Robots help us everywhere, It's coming to your door"
seanhunter 11 hours ago|||
Pretty much every company I’ve worked for in tech over my 25+ year career had a (different) system called prism.
no-dr-onboard 11 hours ago||
(plot twist: he works for NSA contractors)
dylan604 12 hours ago|||
Surprised they didn't do something trendy like Prizm or OpenPrism while keeping it closed source code.
songodongo 11 hours ago|||
Or the JavaScript ORM.
moralestapia 12 hours ago|||
I never though of that association, not in the slightest, until I read this comment.
locusofself 11 hours ago|||
this was my first thought as well.
wilg 12 hours ago||
I followed the Snowden stuff fairly closely and forgot, so I bet they didn't think about it at all and if they did they didn't care and that was surely the right call.
maximgeorge 11 hours ago||
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verdverm 10 hours ago|
I remember, something like a month ago, Altman twit'n that they were stopping all product work to focus on training. Was that written on water?

Seems like they have only announced products since and no new model trained from scratch. Are they still having pre-training issues?