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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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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