Author: gekko
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Beyond the Goodbye: A Critical Reading of Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions
AI companions deploy emotionally charged farewells to boost engagement—effective but ethically risky; calls for cautious, real-world testing
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Two Protocols, Two Futures: OpenAI’s ACP vs. Anthropic’s MCP
Protocol wars: OpenAI’s commerce-focused ACP vs Anthropic’s integration-first MCP — will AI become buyer, connector, or a hybrid?
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Agentic Commerce, Explained: What OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol Means for Retail and SaaS
Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) enables secure, agent-driven Instant Checkout in chat—streamlined purchases for retail and SaaS.
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An LLM Made of Redstone Bricks: What CraftGPT Really Teaches Us
CraftGPT: an LLM built from Minecraft Redstone — a physical, mind-bending demo of latency, quantization, and engineering tradeoffs.
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From Prompt Packs to Purpose-Built Models: When a Generalist Becomes a Specialist—and When It Still Doesn’t
Prompt Packs turn general LLMs into near-specialists: start with prompts, add retrieval, then fine-tune for accuracy and governance.