This week I covered GPT 5.2, which I concluded is a frontier model only for the frontier.
OpenAI also gave us Image 1.5 and a new image generation mode inside ChatGPT. Image 1.5 looks comparable to Nana Banana Pro, it's hard to know which is better. They also inked a deal for Disney's characters, then sued Google for copyright infringement on the basis of Google doing all the copyright infringement.
As a probable coda to the year's model releases we also got Gemini 3 Flash, which I cover in this post. It is a good model given its speed and price, and likely has a niche. It captures the bulk of Gemini 3 Pro's intelligence quickly, at a low price.
The Trump Administration issued a modestly softened version Executive Order on AI, attempting to impose as much of a moratorium banning state AI laws as they can. We may see them in court, on various fronts, or it may amount to little. Their offer, in terms of a ‘federal framework,’ continues to be nothing. a16z issued their ‘federal framework’ proposal, which is also nothing, except also that you should pay them.
In non-AI content [...]
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Outline:
(01:41) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(03:44) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
(04:38) Huh, Upgrades
(08:21) On Your Marks
(10:22) Choose Your Fighter
(13:56) Get My Agent On The Line
(18:25) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(21:21) Fun With Media Generation
(24:12) Copyright Confrontation
(24:39) Overcoming Bias
(26:29) Unprompted Attention
(27:25) They Took Our Jobs
(30:06) Feeling the AGI Take Our Jobs
(35:48) The Art of the Jailbreak
(36:08) Get Involved
(38:08) Introducing
(38:57) Gemini Flash 3
(40:58) In Other AI News
(41:36) Going Too Meta
(46:14) Show Me the Money
(46:51) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
(48:38) Quiet Speculations
(50:42) Timelines
(51:45) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(54:47) My Offer Is Nothing
(01:03:03) My Offer Is Nothing, Except Also Pay Me
(01:07:26) Chip City
(01:14:09) The Week in Audio
(01:15:23) Rhetorical Lack Of Innovation
(01:25:51) People Really Do Not Like AI
(01:29:58) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:33:11) Bad Guy With An AI
(01:35:33) Misaligned!
(01:37:07) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:40:00) Mom, Owain Evans Is Turning The AIs Evil Again
(01:46:50) Messages From Janusworld
(01:49:55) The Lighter Side
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First published:
December 18th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yZ5Aq3iJYMvpZjrqb/ai-147-flash-forward
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