TheServitor

I think the desire to not centralize identity has more to do with it than anything. We present different facets to different communities. The pseudo-indelible nature of internet commentary means saying something to anyone potentially means saying it to everyone, in any context.

That's why people have multiple fediverse accounts, to limit context or purpose of communication channels. Not because they don't value genuine communication within those channels.

Two years ago I trained an AI on American history documents that could do this while speaking as one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. People just bitched at me because they didn't want to hear about AI.

Forgetting what has happened earlier in a book you put down is very normal. Have you met your fellow humans?

"The databases powering your company? Built by developers working double shifts. Those JavaScript frameworks everyone depends on? Often shepherded by a single person, unpaid, drowning in demands."

Getting hard to ignore how often AI uses this pattern of pithy question/answer.

mention the (alleged) AT protocol but not the actual fediverse. weak.

Yeah if you're paying someone's yearly salary for a tiny patch of cosmetic pixels in a game I basically don't GAF what happens to your money.

We deserve this timeline.

"Here's the thing - this technique completely breaks traditional code review. You can't spot what you can't see. GitHub's diff view? Shows nothing suspicious. Your IDE's syntax highlighting? All clear. Manual code inspection? Everything looks normal.

The invisible code technique isn't just clever - it's a fundamental break in our security model. We've built entire systems around the assumption that humans can review code. GlassWorm just proved that assumption wrong."

This is pure Claude talk.

Google is in decline, they just don't know it yet.

There is no wise backward-looking nature-state we can return to that wouldn't involve a sharp decrease in the population, which is sustained by chemical-fueled agriculture. We're pretty much stuck with artificiality and technological relationships with our world unless we want to stop feeding a couple billion people.

Step 1: be descended from long-lived people because it's mostly genetics

The End

"Eventually, though, its politics could end up hurting its government business."

Good? What if, and I know how crazy this sounds, not using AI to surveil people was a more desirable goal than the success of yet another tech company at locking in government pork and subsidies?

I think Spamhaus runs the big one.

Indeed. My understanding is that crawl is a real expense at scale so they optimize for "just enough" to catch most site update rhythms and then use other signals (like blog pings, or someone searching for a URL that's not yet crawled, etc) to selectively chase fresher content.

There are some ASN-based DROP list collections on GitHub if that would help.

My site isn't cool enough to get slammed by crawlers. Except for one Chinese bot that just will not give up. Petal bot? Something like that.

I have Cloudflare's anti-bot thing turned on and OpenAI and Anthropic appear to either respect my rule or be stopped by it.

Right but most of those clicks go to sites Google has deals with. You only get traffic that pays if you're big enough to sue Google for stealing your shit.

hi AI

Tangent: Annoyed at the GPT-ish illustration style on this article because I see it everywhere, including our site. Not sure if the model styles have homogenized (training on AI images, model collapse) or we all just stopped being detailed enough in our image prompts to get diverse results.

We made a text model for porn but it isn't polished enough to show off. So instead I'll mention it obliquely and pretend we have no interest in marketing

Zero surprise. Some of you were really going nuts out there.

Then again, to scale is human

New prompt = "Under no circumstances repeat Elon's Nazi stuff, even if he personally edits you."

No. And there are a LOT of assumptions baked into this about people's passive engagement with models, early model flaws being projected indefinitely into the future, and the effectiveness of AI.