Gpt oss is borderline crap, it’s not that smart, not that great and it’s pretty censored, but it can have niche uses for programming. The oss 20b in particular can be easier to run in some setups than their competitors like Qwen 3-30b. oss 120b is quite heavy: the cost to performance ratio is not good.

Meta abandoned the open source ideal since Llama 4; they went closed source.

Older open source versions of Grok are literally useless, no one should use them. Their cloud closed source models are decent.

Deepseek and Alibaba’s models like Qwen are good.

Think of AI as a mirror of you: at best, it can only match your skill level and can’t be smarter or better. If you’re unsure or make mistakes, it will likely repeat them. Like people, it can get stuck on hard problems and without a human to help, it just can’t find a solution. So while it’s useful, don’t fully trust it and always be ready to step in and think for yourself.

Smaller content creators with fewer views are generally more genuine.

If I see someone with several thousand views, I’m instantly skeptical. If their channel is part of their work, I pay attention too. I’m fine with AI assisted content as long as there’s an actual human behind the keyboard who truly took time to think and used their brain.

Most AI video tools aren’t perfect, so you can only spot the most obvious fakes. If someone takes time to edit a fake video, it becomes very hard to detect. The best way to judge is to check the source, the motive, and whether you trust the person who shared it.

Stick to a small circle of trusted people and websites. Skip mainstream news. Small blogs, niche forums, and tiny YouTube channels are often more honest.

Avoid Google for discovery. It’s not great anymore. Use DuckDuckGo, Qwant, or Yandex instead. For deeper but less precise results, try Mojeek or Marginalia. Google works okay only if you’re searching within one site, like site:reddit.com.

Sometimes, searching in other languages helps find hidden gems with less junk. Use a translator if needed.

Tools like Turnitin or GPTzero don’t work well enough to trust. The real issue isn’t just detecting AI writing. It’s doing it without falsely accusing students. Even a 0.5% false positive rate is too high when someone’s academic future is on the line. I’m more concerned about wrongly flagging human-written work than missing AI use. These tools can’t explain why they suspect AI. At best, they only catch obvious cases. Ones you’d likely notice yourself anyway.

A lot of small indie or fan games love to hide on Discord. Got banned? Appeal it on Discord. Wanna submit feedback? Come on over to Discord!

What do they gain from this? Besides making their content impossible to find in search engines, clearly they’re optimizing for maximum inconvenience and peak exclusivity. Nothing says “accessible community” like forcing players to re-ask the same questions in a walled-off chat nobody can Google.