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Because, as the gp pointed out, if the cost is least to the labs, then why not reap the benefits too? Hypothetical. Assume you can in fact point agents at a tool and say "replicate…

Right. But this is why I want to know the prompt. My hunch is that the author knew this story. But likely prompted Fable without hinting at it. And if so, the fact that Fable defau…

I tend not to focus on that future too much. I used to do so long ago. For example, how could Facebook possibly justify their losses while asking for such a big valuation? Same for…

I'm a little confused here. Cost of revenue is lower than revenue. That's good. R&D is the main contributor to losses here and this seems normal in an industry like this. For OpenA…

Tbh, there really needs to be some legal precedent set that makes model distillation a legal activity. If the model makers can rip everyone else's work and launder information as i…

Desperate to know what the prompt for the poem is. The idea of it felt familiar so I went down the rabbit hole and found: 14 years ago, a poem on reddit [ https://www.reddit.com/r/…

Also, I submit Ed zitron's the era of the business idiot. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/ Lots of little claims I disagree with there but the overall the…

That is a very poor comparison. Firstly, you're ignoring that behind the mass manufactured stuff, there's a lot of abused labour. People do protest that. Because of how money works…

Agreed. What's frustrating is that we have models for how sandboxing can work and instead of investing efforts into nailing that experience, the OS providers are prone to turning i…

Yep. I like to sometimes think of Agents as a slow but tireless unofficial API glue between completely disparate elements. I dislike the approach the companies took in laundering i…

Thats the thing though. The reduction of agents to Chatbots in a fancy dress doesn't make sense. Whether there's much of a moat to the models agentic approaches is a different ques…

I've been subscribed to ed for a long time. I commend his foundational ideas like what he laid out in "The Era of the Business Idiot" or "The Rot Economy". My recommendation line f…

This is a misleading headline. It makes it seem like another supply chain attack where some good plug-in was taken over and used to deliver malware. Thats not the case here. Victim…

Before software, there were accountants. It was The qualification to have. Today accountants are still needed. But it's a commodified job. And you start at the absolute bottom of t…

Good spot! That is the product working as intended though. The background doesn't exist except as an asset that replaces the green screen. The tool is meant to replace the green sc…

Yup. That's correct. And I understand that. I was looking at the changes to yarn.lock that got reintroduced. I couldn't figure out what was happening. It turns out that not only wa…

I don't quite understand how this is working tbh. I looked at one of the affected repos, ironically named "reworm". The malicious code was introduced in this commit - https://githu…

Yea. It's a pretty lol-sob future when I think about it. I imagine the agent frameworks eventually getting trusted actors and RBAC like features. Users end up in "confirm this acti…

Every communication point (including whatsapp, telegram, etc) is turning into a potential RCE now. And because the agents want to behave in an end to end integrated manner, even sa…

That's really cool. Do you have any write-ups I can checkout? I'm still new to this area of offensive sec so would love to learn from folks who've been in the thick of it.

This is how people intend to run open claw instances too. Some folks are trying to add automated bug report creation by pointing agents at a company's social media mentions. I pers…

One piece that I find interesting is how hopeful people sounded about tech that had access to your data. Folks higher up in the tech world often complain about how the media compla…

Is this correct? My assumption is that all the data collected during usage is part of the RLHF loop of LLM providers. Assumption is based on information from books like empire of a…

Design patterns are one of those things where you have to go through the full cycle to really use it effectively. It goes through the stages: no patterns. -> Everything must follow…