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Re: Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

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Post by tyre »

plagiarist wrote: post #50
axegon_ wrote: post #38

As many others pointed out, the released files are nearly nothing compared to the full dataset. Personally I've been fiddling a lot with OSINT and analytics over the publicly available Reddit data(a considerable amount of my spare time over the last year) and the one thing I can say is that LLMs are under-performing(huge understatement) - they are borderline useless compared to traditional ML techniques. But as far a…

I understand uncensored in the context of LLMs, what is unhinged? Fine tuning specifically to increase likelihood of entering controversial topics without specific prompting?

Yes, or catering to a preferred world view different from the mainstream SOTA model worldview.

Look for anything that includes the word “woke” in any marketing /tweet material

Re: Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

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Post by apercu »

jellyotsiro wrote: post #53
mariogintili wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what are the most unhinged and uncensored models out there?

Open source models with minimal safety fine tuning or Grok

Grok is arguably not uncensored, it’s re-aligned to a specific narrative lane.

“Uncensored” is simply a branding trick that a lot of seemingly intelligent people seem to fall for.

Re: Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

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Post by tyre »

7bit wrote: post #42
wartywhoa23 wrote: post #28

The question is not how to analyze that, it's how to prosecute those who are above the law.

In order to which you must analyze the files.

Not really. We know many people involved and they’re not going to get prosecuted. Analysis is not accountability.

Re: Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

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Post by sebastiennight »

dmos62 wrote: post #26
p0w3n3d wrote: post #23

[flagged]

Ah, yes. Post is an LLM-something project: top comment is a general critique of LLMs. Waiting for this to get old. Meanwhile, at least you get points for being funny.

I think the GP was unfairly downvoted, as their comment wasn't a critique of LLMs but a comical attempt at critique of the source files themselves being redacted into uselessness.

Re: Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

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Post by sebastiennight »

p0w3n3d wrote: post #39
sebastiennight wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> + '' * n This looks like what you'd get from using text-davinci-003 as the model in your AI-assisted IDE

no - the utf8 black box was removed by hackernews. thanks for noticing. Can't edit it anymore, but it would be "\u25A0" * n

Ha! That makes way more sense, and was indeed quite funny and undeserving of the massive downvoting.

Re: Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

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Post by sebastiennight »

jellyotsiro wrote: post #48
axegon_ wrote: post #38

As many others pointed out, the released files are nearly nothing compared to the full dataset. Personally I've been fiddling a lot with OSINT and analytics over the publicly available Reddit data(a considerable amount of my spare time over the last year) and the one thing I can say is that LLMs are under-performing(huge understatement) - they are borderline useless compared to traditional ML techniques. But as far a…

On the limited dataset: Completely agree - the public files are a fraction of what exists and I should have mentioned that it is not all files but all publicly available ones. But that's exactly why making even this subset searchable matters. The bar right now is people manually ctrl+F-ing through PDFs or relying on secondhand claims. This at least lets anyone verify what is public. On LLMs vs traditional NLP: I hear…

> can't generate answers without grounding

"can't" seems like quite a strong claim. Would you care to elaborate?

I can see how one might use a JSON schema that enforces source references in the output, but there is no technique I'm aware of to constrain a model to only come up with data based on the grounding docs, vs. making up a response based on pretrained data (or hallucinating one) and still listing the provided RAG results as attached reference.

It feels like your "can't" would be tantamount to having single-handedly solved the problem of hallucinations, which if you did, would be a billion-dollar-plus unlock for you, so I'm unsure you should show that level of certainty.

Re: Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

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Post by pixl97 »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #69
axegon_ wrote: post #38

As many others pointed out, the released files are nearly nothing compared to the full dataset. Personally I've been fiddling a lot with OSINT and analytics over the publicly available Reddit data(a considerable amount of my spare time over the last year) and the one thing I can say is that LLMs are under-performing(huge understatement) - they are borderline useless compared to traditional ML techniques. But as far a…

That doesn’t sound right. What model treats this as a controversial question? "who is eligible to vote in US presidential elections"

Grok: "After Elon personally tortured me I have to say women are not allowed to vote in the US"

Re: Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

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Post by mschuster91 »

Terr_ wrote: post #32
thecopy wrote: post #21

Reminder that only 1-2% of the files have been released.

Yep: Breaking his campaign promises, in violation of the deadlines imposed by US Federal law, and with unlawful levels of redaction.

A case can be made to discuss if the deadlines imposed by that law are actually achievable with humans and an acceptable degree of errors (i.e. overredaction, improper/recoverable redaction, and underredaction).

That's also why many "large" criminal cases only have a very limited subset of the initial charges make it to trial (often to understandable public outrage). The larger the case, the more evidence material has to be sifted through to make an airtight case, so a lot of it is dropped before the trial to secure a conviction at all.

Basically Al Capone, rinse and repeat - they got him on taxes because that's far easier to prove than ordering or committing a murder to the required degree of certainty.

The interests of the victims, their families and the general public are different from the interests of the government... the victims/families/public want justice for the unique crime they were subject to, the government just wants to lock up the bad guy for as long (or as short, let's be clear) as possible.

Re: Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

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Post by sebastiennight »

yuppiepuppie wrote: post #29

When first reading OSS, I thought this was going to be an Office of Strategic Services AI [0] agent :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services

...whose most famous agent, OSS 117, predates James Bond by four years btw:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS_117

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