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Hmm, pliny is amazing - if you kept up with him on social media you’d maybe like him https://x.com/elder_plinius

I don't know. I scrolled through his recent Tweets and he's sharing things like this $900 snake oil device that "finds nearby microphones" and "sends out AI-generated cancellation signals" to make them unable to record your voice : https://x.com/aidaxbaradari/status/2028864606568067491

Try to think for a moment about how a device would "find nearby microphones" or how it would use an AI-generated signal to cancel out your voice at the microphone. This should be setting of BS alarms for anyone.

It seems the Twitter AI edgey poster guy is getting meta-trolled by another company selling fake AI devices

Ultrasound microphone jammers seem to be a real thing, so it's possible it does to some extent work.

Only for specific kinds, like MEMS.

But there's no way to detect microphones automatically, and "AI generated cancellation signals" is a word salad that doesn't mean anything.

What they probably mean is "we asked ChatGPT to tell us what waveform and frequency range to use on MEMS devices and spit out some arduino code."

The parent comment makes no reference to or comment on the author of the README.

It just says "the README sucks." Which, I'm inclined to agree, it does.

LLM-generated text has no place in prose -- it yields a negative investment balance between the author and aggregate readers.

> LLM-generated text has no place in prose

AI will infiltrate that too. I remember some time ago I read a book that was AI-generated. It took me a while to notice that it was AI-generated. One can notice certain patterns, where real humans would not write things the way AI does.

I see you have carefully avoided the em-dash. ;-)

Looking at his attempts at jailbreaking some models, I'm not sure he even remotely understands what he's doing, e.g. he tries to counter non-existent refusal training in Gemini [0] while doing nothing against the external guardrails which actually protect the model. Looks like a pompous e-celeb, all performance with no substance.

https://github.com/elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S/blob/main/GOOGLE.m...

jailbreaks are holistic, it’s not like you’re deprogramming / “countering” individual parts. Nobody creating jailbreaks “understand what they’re doing”

That's exactly what you do in case of refusal training, though. Yes, it will affect other "parts", but that's not the point. In this case the model itself doesn't even need a jailbreak.

>Nobody creating jailbreaks “understand what they’re doing”

Unless you mean those "god mode jailbreaker" e-celebrities showing off on Twitter/Reddit, that's simply not true.

If this qualifies as "amazing" in 2026 then Karpathy and Gerganov must be halfway to godhood by now.

I dont think anyone is going to dispute this

I just don't think many people will be "amazed" by their output, as you claim.

I just said pliny was amazing, fwiw - i like that hes hacking on these and posts about it. I rushed to defend, i wish more people were taking old school anarchist cookbook approaches to these things

Smoke banana peel?

I had such a godawful headache from that. Also tried the peanut shells, equally awful. I was a dumb teenager.

gasoline and styrofoam was fun tho

As a non logged in user I get tweets in popularity order, which means this weird but tame sexual image comes up third https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1904961097569890363?s=20

Amazing as in his stuff actually works?

I just hear him promoting OBLITERATUS all day long and trying to get models to say naughty things

Yeah but i think the philosophy is to show how precarious the guardrails are

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