He asked for a cocktail made out of bleach and ammonia, the bot told him it was poisonous. This isn’t the case of a bot just randomly telling people to make poison, it’s people directly asking the bot to make poison. You can see hints of the bot pushing back in the names, like the “clean breath cocktail”. Someone asked for a cocktail containing bleach, the bot said bleach is for cleaning and shouldn’t be eaten, so the user said it was because of bad breath and they needed a drink to clean their mouth.

It sounds exactly like a small group of people trying to use the tool inappropriately in order to get “shocking” results.

Do you get upset when people do exactly what you ask for and warn you that it’s a bad idea?

I use a pixel and I have a hard time justifying a different phone.

Maybe things have changed but the last Samsung I had was an S7 and I didn’t like it. It suffered from bloat and didn’t last all that long. Battery issues and the screen started to lose sensitivity.

I’ve used iphones and they aren’t bad, but I really dislike apple’s app store and effort to control everything on my phone. Also everytime a new phone came out my old phone became next to unusable for a month.

I got a pixel 3 and loved it, now I have a pixel 6 and don’t see changing my phone any time soon or going to a non-pixel phone. They last a long time, they work well with everything and the camera is excellent.

I’m relatively new, and I’ve gotten a lot better over the course of a couple months.

My top tips:

1. The journey is the destination.

It’s trite, but true. You aren’t painting for anyone else. Paint a model then move on, improvement is slow and perfection is unattainable.

2. No matter how “bad” you think your paint job is it looks better than a bare mini.

If you doubt me, just slap some paints on a mini and put it on a table with a handful of unpainted minis. You’ll see how much better the painted one looks and how many more details you can see.

3. Don’t worry about mistakes.

No one will see that tiny bit of blue on wrong spot. Realistically you’ll only really see the top and back of the mini.

4. Highlight one more time than you think you need.

When you get to the point of “should I push this orange more yellow” or “is pure white too much here”? The answer is always one more highlight.

5. Try new things.

You’ll see different painting techniques, try them, worst case you don’t like it, in which case look at tips 1-3

6. Equipment you want

A #1, #0 and #00 brush. You can do fine with just a #1, the other two are bonuses.

Brush soap. It saves your brushes.

A wet pallet.

Paint, but specially a cheap artists white and black in addition to any mini paints. If you want to go crazy a mixing white is good too.

That’s it. Remember it’s fun and looks way cooler than an grey blob on the table. You’ll get better with practice.