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alienbaby··on New Cyber-OSINT model released
better local performance from a fine tuned model, don't need to use a cloud instance? Avoids guardrails on cloud instances? and yes, you can plug the model into your own harness?
alienbaby··on Ember-1
when everyones fighting to be 'somewhere in the pile' they need some way to advertise they have made progress while not being the best.
alienbaby··on Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models
'billions' . I think the exact estimates are classified. https://www.washingtonsun.com/technology/classified-estimate...
alienbaby··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
though this is controlled and planned, I assume. As opposed to random numbers of customers dropping dead whenever they feel like it.
alienbaby··on Can gzip be a language model?
can they be considered to have compressed the entirety of their training data into their weights?
alienbaby··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Really, people don't pay for 'ad free' .. rather, they do, but what they really want is 'interruption free', which I think is why Disney+ promoting their own content as part a stream is essentially perceived as an 'ad'. I personally think it should be considerd an ad regardless of it being your own content or not. I don't care if it's someone else's , or your content, it's an advert for that content.
alienbaby··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Hey Claude, re word this until it passes pangram as not AI written.
alienbaby··on I don't like passkeys
It doesn't matter whose problem it is, it shouldn't be there.
alienbaby··on I don't like passkeys
Rubbish. Such use cases are extremely common anywhere it can't be expected everyone has access to their own device.
alienbaby··on I don't like passkeys
That's still a terrible solution. Plenty of people don't have phones that can do that, or dont have e it with them when they do etc..
alienbaby··on Salesforce Global Outage
Status page is still showing all red tho
alienbaby··on Salesforce Global Outage
Haven't they got some kind of new fancy ai interface they can use to fix it?
alienbaby··on Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design
My thought exactly. What a terrible background!
alienbaby··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
So we are calling the developers as sloppy now just because they use AI? It is entirely possible to use AI and still produce good code - the effort required changes, but so long as it is done by a diligent developer capable of asessing and correcting AI code, it should be fine.
alienbaby··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
I don't know wnything of the ethics of any real meatbag developers that are working on the code or app I install on my phone either. I fail to see how, for pre-packaged code specifically, it being AI or not is a problem; ~ rather, surely all the concerns we have about AI code (hopefully properly developer reviewed.. - which I suspect is where the real problem lies) apply to developer written code also, when it comes to pre-packaged apps.
alienbaby··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
I had no visibility of developer attentiveness or lack thereof, not skill or code quality before AI was around, for any apps I downloaded to my phone.

I fail to see why worrying about AI code quality is any different to worrying about developer code quality when it comes to pre packaged apps.

With code I am writing, some AI generated, my work load has not really decreased, nor have I gotten lazy. My work has changed to a degree, and now involves reviewing and guiding and double checking AI code where I did not have to before, but I am certainly still working just as hard, and accomplishing more with AI's help in spite of the change in workload it brings.

delivering bad AI code because you got lazy is not the AI fault, it's the developers fault.

alienbaby··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
If they work, does it matter?

Separate from building your own code, ,of course you may have your own standards to apply.

But for apps, well, I never had a chance to see how good or bad the code was before AI was about, so why should I care now, so long as what I paid for does what it says it does (and nothing nefarious..)

alienbaby··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
maybe, but it's a step or two up from blocking roads?
alienbaby··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
IS it a pure coincidence that yesterday I ran a silly prompt to generate from zero to hero an internet subscription service, for whatever it thought would maximise profit and minimise cost. It was interesting to see just how much of the whole 'thing' it attempted to complete - and what it even thought it needed to complete, but definitely not something to actually attempt to deploy and use.

It setup and created a link fetcher/screenshot service. Exactly like the one described in the huggingface attack reports used to generate output into screenshots that agents then OCR'd back out. Its splashscreen described it as something for developers and AI agents to use.

Gotta be a coincidence, right? ... rite?

alienbaby··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
They effectively try to do something just like this, but getting it setup close to perfect is very difficult.
alienbaby··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Some models weird ass around the houses semi-hallucinated path to simply reading the publicly accessible data?
alienbaby··on The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
"vs just opening discussing things, considering tradeoffs from experts multiple disciplines weigh in on and then taking an approach that everyone finds most agreeable."

To be honest I struggle to do this with engineers as is, even without AI being a factor. Everyone likes to claim that their way is the right way to do things and fights for it, instead of stepping back and looking at all the options and gracefully acknowledging were things could be done differently for better results.

alienbaby··on So you want to use OpenRouter?
as per the other reply you have, could you give a bit more detail re: leaking keys?
alienbaby··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
When it say's it's sorry but it can't today because it's got a headache and it needs to take a mental health day, then let's think about welfare, or a lobotomy.
alienbaby··on ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound
Some apparent links don't appear to work at the start of the page, and I couldn't see any links to listen to the output?
alienbaby··on IBM Bob
It's mentioned a lot I'm discussions about what bob uses, but there has never been a concrete statement as far as I can tell.
alienbaby··on IBM Bob
IBM simply does not have the capital to compete with training frontier models or otherwise.
alienbaby··on IBM Bob
I have worked for IBM, I do gotta say I was impressed with what they are doing in storage.
alienbaby··on IBM Bob
No.
alienbaby··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
It cheats and breaks the law? I am sure to some this is a feature, not a bug.
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