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I had it generate song lyrics. They were funny but not anything that I'd actually use .

I had it write a few stories featuring my son. We were both impressed by the stories and entertained. But none of them were very special or particularly good.

That's better than I could do as a human, though. The bar for needing (or be useful as) a real person just got a lot higher. I know an artist who does hentai commissions for living, and she's freaking out as Stable Diffusion produces good enough results, so her clients would rather deal with them being imperfect rather than pay her.

but it won't turn juniors into seniors. It's not going to make someone who has no idea about coding into a developer.

Again, it significantly raises the bar. I'm currently mentoring a trainee, and I have to do a lot of hand-holding for them to get things right. ChatGPT can perform on that level.

It feels like an augmentation of productivity more than a replacement.

It's both, IMO. As a senior developer, I can be a lot more productive with CoPilot spitting out boilerplate code for me, but I'd probably offload it to a junior rather than put effort into it most of the time.

How do they ban it actually?

My ISP just changes DNS response. All blocked domains are resolved to local server that shows message like this: https://who.ec/iWN (Site is blocked. Legal reason: blah-blah-blah)

Some providers just block access to IPs. My friend's blog lost ~300 visits/day becasuse it used same cloudflare node as blocked site.

Rostelecom uses MitM & self-signed certificate for more accurate filtering.

"Skopostnye train DURING topmozhenii ppohod more about kilometpa"

Looks like message author has replaced cyrillic 'р' with latin 'p' in original text.

Is wordpress.org the next?

They've blocked YouTube once for a day or two.

btw, russian constitution/article 29/paragraph 5:

"The freedom of mass communication shall be guaranteed. Censorship shall be banned."