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Opus refused to help me try to develop an exploit to export data from an old Android device where I can't upgrade to latest android and I couldn't use the app's backups (because I …

The things you're calling irrelevant actually flout a number of regulations in various jurisdictions, if your read news about xAI you should be familiar with the examples.

How correct is the documentation? You seem to be coming from the same standpoint as a lot of people in this thread which is "don't make me read AI output, I can prompt the model my…

> We now have nearly-perfect AI image generation Not even close. Current AIs have very poor spatial awareness, they can generate some kind of scene but they can't tell you where ob…

It's accurate. The constitution of the United States explicitly describes it as a union in the preamble.

The Wikimedia board consists of 7 seat selected by the board, 8 seat from the broader wikimedia community, and 1 founder seat. As part of the broader wikimedia community I think th…

Wikimedia requires a board. IMO that board should include at least one representative selected by the employees (i.e. a union rep.) It has one seat reserved for the founder. This g…

Stross complains about people from China hammering his blog and stealing his work, but I feel like China releasing all these free models is a lot more defensible. Yeah, they're pir…

> they also show that someone at huggingface made a very stupid thing by writing a reusable auth key in an env file I don't see where it says that. The Tailscale key specifically i…

> Don't shoot drugs in the first place like insulin? should a diabetic skip the insulin? In poor countries I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of HIV infections are not as prev…

OpenAI and Anthropic also claim they don't retain data. I'm not sure what it would take for me to trust any of these inference companies, and why I should trust them more than the …

There was no oversight. The EU told Apple the CTC did not comply with the law. Apple's new scheme still seems bad but I don't think this is the end of it. https://ec.europa.eu/comm…

All of these cookie forms have the same set of toggles. At a high level all anyone is saying is that we should just declare any kind of tracking cookies unconscionable terms for th…

Yeah I think it probably does mean you should be banned from asking in most cases. If you have a legitimate interest you don't need to ask. If you need to ask your interest is not …

I actually find the converse, that I try to scope things down into chunks small enough for the model to work on, but it will start trying to hack off pieces that don't belong becau…

On a small, easily digestible task, I compared Fable to Opus and the cost of Fable was easily 2x despite being fewer tokens, and the output was not really better. Obviously, there …

My read of the situation is not only did they say that, they had countermeasures (a watchdog agent) which stopped the agent and said "what are you doing, stop that" if it tried to …

I use profiles for this, I wonder what the tradeoffs are between the two approaches. I've actually been thinking about building some tools to make it easier to create and manage pr…

Did they ask any substantive questions? It sounds like they asked movie trivia questions, in a way that the LLM was almost guaranteed to be wrong. So extremely low-stakes where the…

This sounds like something Claude Code could do very easily. If you need to actually look at the videos that's harder but still possible, but if it's just aligning GPS times and ti…

I think Lockheed Martin is less leveraged than either SpaceX or Tesla. Also SpaceX just folded in several of Musk's companies that seemed questionably solvent. I really have zero c…

The article mentions uses of AI but doesn't really give any examples of harm from AI. It does give specific examples where it sounds like Kaiser is optimizing calls to minimize cos…

SpaceX's annual revenue is estimated at $40B for 2026. A comparison might be Lockheed Martin, with annual revenue of $75B in 2025, and a market cap of $120B. So I wouldn't say $200…

It seems very plausible Signal deliberately curses itself somehow, given its extreme privacy focus.