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trevwilson
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Comment #47393700
This occurred in response to Anthropic cracking down on a similar loophole, which tbh made me take it as more of an opportunistic marketing opportunity rather than a generalizable …
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Comment #47370805
Reddit can't even manage to regularly identify and ban bots that copy previously popular posts/comments verbatim, and that's a much easier problem than modern LLM-based bots.
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Comment #47339361
Wow, what an odd story. It really sounds like the attacker did not at all realize what they'd actually managed to access. How do you end up accidentally hacking the FBI? From the o…
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Comment #47282360
You may want to take a look at the source and code sample #2 in the post - the site CSS is rendering em dashes in the source with 2 hyphens by using a custom font. Admittedly it's …
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Comment #47282068
I'm not sure if that commenter realized based on their phrasing, but it's not exactly tangential in this instance since it's part of the message being conveyed.
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Comment #47187603
Here's one specific case[0] and an article citing 35 others over the course of 6 months[1]: [0] https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/unquestio... [1] https://www.nyti…
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Comment #47027204
In this case, the same-named father of the brainworms guy
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Comment #47026949
This blog post from the person who was falsely quoted has screenshots and an archive link: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...
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Comment #47018848
They're suggesting that the original comment is LLM generated, and after looking at the account's comment history I strongly suspect they're correct
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Comment #46981513
In the context of the Dark Knight/surveillance example, it comes across to me as more of a recognition that the arguments in favor of these things can easily be made compelling if …
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Comment #46970018
That actually (sorta) already exists: https://news.ysimulator.run/news
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Comment #46918850
Let me preface this by saying that I'm far from an expert in this space, and I suspect that I largely agree with your thoughts and skepticism toward a model that would excel on thi…
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Comment #46918090
If you're referring to the Himba experiment (or one of the news or blog posts tracing back to it), the outcome was far less decisive than you're implying. Language showed an impact…
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Comment #46917974
Sure, but the opposite end of the spectrum (which LLM providers have tended toward) is treating the training/feedback weights as "fully authoritative", which comes with its own que…
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Comment #46773624
> If you're fine with software which gets a little bit harder to work on every time you make a change and which might blow up in unexpected ways, AI is totally fine. While the spee…
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Comment #46686199
Yeah unfortunately this seems to be a common, if not inevitable, result of any product where "attention" or "engagement" are directly correlated with profitability.
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Comment #46153634
If you haven't seen it, there's actually been a couple races of autonomously controlled formula-type cars at the Abu Dhabi circuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9LLZ5mb5cA
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Comment #46061260
Part of the complaint is that RealPage actively discourages defection > While some landlords might achieve higher profits by setting lower prices than recommended by the algorithm,…
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Comment #45985582
Other than missing the word "are", are there other grammar issues with the post I'm missing?
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Comment #38242021
The linked issue is not about random exit codes though? And also doesn't really seem to support his assertion that the maintainers don't know how it works, but I'll admit I'm not v…
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Comment #38223658
https://archive.is/tKyS5
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Comment #38122203
Here's the actual reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/17krsg2/gpt35_just...
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Comment #38116294
I don't disagree that more housing supply is broadly the best way to combat rising rent, but if the numbers cited in the linked article are even close to true then I don't think it…
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Comment #38030219
They probably should have mentioned the CPU specs at least, but it's very easy to look at utilization while the game is running and see that it's GPU bound even with high-end video…