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Fucking mood

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The AI backlash that I kept warning hypesters about has begun! This is amazing.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Forget “tapestry” or “delve” these are the actual unique giveaway words for each model, relative to each other. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.12150

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

New from 404 Media: we've identified which specific company is powering the surveillance of U.S. military personnel through location data. It's Eskimi, an Adtech company you've probably never heard of but which has a massive presence in the advertising ecosystem www.404media.co/eskimi-2/

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

"We call our legislation 'Stop The Steal,'" a grinning Chuck Schumer says of bill to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department. Got 'em!!!!

submitted 22 days ago • 268 comments

What happens if you put an AI in charge of national defense? In war games, LLMs tend to escalate & do arms races. Base models are more aggressive & unpredictable. The authors speculate that it is because there is lots of training data on escalation, little on de-escalation. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03408

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

This was posted yesterday morning before the DCA crash. Prescient.

submitted 28 days ago • 419 comments

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

submitted 28 days ago • 34 comments

Here's how NIST envisions risks of personal AI assistants promising to make life easier by doing mundane tasks. Like many apps promising convenience (that budgeting app, for example), AI agents will need to access many of your accounts and personal data to work & even then could wreak havoc.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

I have heard from multiple sources today that lawyers who provide Know Your Rights presentations in ICE detention centers have been kicked out completely. These presentations are sometimes the only way people in detention find out details about the process they’re going through.

submitted 34 days ago • 92 comments

oh my god. OH my god. obsproject.com/blog/obs-stu...

submitted 40 days ago • 36 comments

Some ways companies adjust prices to specific groups or users based on sophisticated algorithmic targeting techniques, according to a new FTC "surveillance pricing" report. www.ftc.gov/system/files...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"G.M. monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,” Lina M. Khan, chair of the F.T.C. “With this action, the F.T.C. is safeguarding Americans’ privacy and protecting people from unchecked surveillance.”

submitted 41 days ago • 17 comments