Hackworth

I managed to give up fun and water. Just coffee now.

And to obey the Law of the Pack.

Oh, that’s why everyone keeps calling him taco.

Trevor Moore is underappreciated. (nsfw)

Sure

That would be awesome. But it sounds like the llm has some access to customer accounts and call tools. Prompt injection remains a fundamentally unsolved problem, so I’m curious about how Intel plans to handle that.

It’s a reference to this in particular.

“Are you suggesting I ghost ride the whip?”

Yup. And it didn’t have to write a whole paper to explain it.

-Dr. Steve Brule

So what I meant by “doubt they’ll be able to play the good guy for long” is exactly that no corpo is your friend. But I also believe perfect is the enemy of good, or at least better. I want to encourage companies to be better, knowing full well that they will not be perfect. Since Anthropic doesn’t make image/video/audio generators, they may just not see CSAM as a directly related concern for the company. A PAC doesn’t have to address every harm to be a source of good.

As for self-harm, that’s an alignment concern, the main thing they do research on. And based on what they’ve published, they know that perfect alignment is not in our foreseeable future. They’ve made a lot of recent improvements that make it demonstrably harder to push a bot to dark traits. But they know damn well they can’t prevent it without some structural breakthroughs. And who knows if those will ever come?

I read that 404 media piece when it got posted here, and this is also probably that guy’s fault. And frankly, Dario’s energy creeps me out. I’m not putting Anthropic on a pedestal here, they’re just… the least bad… for now?

They’re advocating for transparency and for states to be able to have their own AI laws. I see that as positive. And as part of that transparency, Anthropic publishes its system prompts, which go through with every message. They devote a significant portion to mental health, suicide prevention, not enabling mania, etc. So I wouldn’t say they see it as “acceptable.”

FWIW, Anthropic did just fund a pro-regulation super PAC to oppose OpenAI’s/Plantir’s pro-Trump/anti-regulation PAC, and:

The Pentagon is at odds with artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic over safeguards that would prevent the government from deploying its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance. Reuters

But I kinda doubt they’ll be able to play the good guy for long.

Anthropologist William Stanner said that the Dreaming was best understood by non-Aboriginal people as “a complex of meanings”.

Something almost Platonic.

Generative fill saves me a bunch of time in Photoshop.

I’m concerned that they’ve already undermined trust in the elections so much that neither side will accept a losing outcome as legitimate. The larger attack on democracy has already succeeded. I hope I’m wrong.

Same. I stopped buying most things. I haven’t ordered anything online since 2019. I wouldn’t say I do it to “fuck over the powerful,” though. I can’t imagine they care too much. Interacting with companies just became more and more toxic, until I couldn’t be arsed to do it - beyond the bare minimum. There are a few exceptions, but I can already see the enshittification starting with those too.

They’ve been torching research and database access left and left. I assume they’ve already started burning books.

Uh huh