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The project’s values as well, much more so than any “values statement”. The proof is in the pudding, not in the marketing speak.

> Comparing Burning Man to outdoor music festivals would be so much more accurate.

It probably wouldn’t be very interesting though, since those are too similar. One or two deaths over a three-day festival with some tens of thousands of people attending is completely normal even in highly regulated environments like the German mega-festivals.

Of course not. You don’t push back on something like that. You hire a lawyer and let them do the pushing for you. If you contact the right NGO, they might even give you one for free.

There’s no way I’d sign any agreement with a company like Microsoft regarding an issue like that without a lawyer. I’d rather not disclose at all if those were the only options.

What is the business model?

That’s NOT Anthropic admitting to “nerfing” their model as claimed above (which implies intent), that’s a regression which they quickly fixed.

Christ this forum has become intellectually dishonest.

Noone can seem to remember anything with certainty when asked to actually substantiate these claims.

No problem. After the next election in the Netherlands, Microsoft only needs to promise to build a local headquarters there and the future government will roll back to Windows at twice the previous cost, which is exactly what happened in Munich.

That was my first thought. They scanned roughly 1% of the UK’s population. No way they didn’t identify any wanted criminals unless the set of wanted criminals scanned for was only a tiny fraction of the overall list.

Did it? How did the world gain oil from the invasion and occupation of Iraq? It’s not like Iraq wasn’t exporting oil before. That makes no sense to me even under the most cynical interpretation.

Lol, humans make such absurd mistakes (and worse) all the time through simple typos, which is effectively random. The key for 2 is right next to the key for 3, after all.

It shouldn’t have been vetted then. It’s again the fault of authorities who approved that.

A scientist who uses an LLM to write a paper remains responsible for its contents. And authorities that outsource police work remain responsible for what comes from that.

Indeed. It’s insane to see these arguments implying the contrary. The institution committing the violence is the one responsible for the outcome.

If a random person walks into a police station and accuses a random stranger of murder, and the police put that stranger in jail based on that alone, the main problem is not the accuser.

That’s exactly what happened here, and the judiciary just confirmed that it was indeed done in accordance with the law.

Also infidels, gays, short skirts, bad books, parties on Sundays, and beer. We can achieve that healthy society if we try hard enough!

Every government on Earth has legislation that allows it to force companies (and citizens) to do its bidding under certain circumstances. That’s pretty much the definition of a government.

> There’s a general regression towards fascist and right wing ideologies in the last few years

The “fascist” part (authoritarian/totalitarian tendencies) came long before the resurgence of the right, but most people seem to approve of those methods as long as they target those they dislike, so I won’t be shedding any tears for them when it’s their turn at last.

“If you testify tomorrow, you may not live to see the end of the day. It’s a true statement…”

I think at this point it’s rather obvious that Anthropic leadership considers the company to be something akin to a nation-state that ought to have quasi-sovereign authority that is not granted to other parties.

> As a strict condition of this settlement, Meta is legally mandated to enforce hard age gates.

Not for allowing you to use your own hardware, what utter nonsense.

It was their choice to forcibly link their hardware to their online account system despite it working fine without it. But it’s absolutely not true that the government requires age verification for using VR goggles.

It should be no problem to call things by their name (censorship) then.

Censorship is the government suppressing information. If people actually believe that this is how things should be, let the government introduce official “censorship bills” and call publicly for “additional censorship measures”.

The fact that they aren’t doing that demonstrates that they feel the need to hide what they are really doing, which speaks of an inherent wrongness that has nothing to do with a US/non-US culture divide.

> SciAm writes "in a sense, the LLM found and exploited a loophole in the framing of the question".

God, it’s embarrassing to read stuff like this. They’re making it seem as if everyone involved was either stupid or dishonest just so they can pretend they have a scoop here.

It reads as a transparent attempt at intimidation to me.

They absolutely are in the way. We’ve had the most exciting months of mathematical progress since antiquity, and the vast majority of voices from mathematicians have been bitching about one thing or the other, to the extent that they now got themselves a committee that (co-)decides when, how, and possibly if, the next batch of results is made available to the public.

> 8 billion people matter

I doubt that even 8,000 people “matter” in the sense of having meaningful power.

At this point, I suspect that comments like this one are part of an astroturfing campaign by the ruling class.

It’s the same bullshit as “we could stop climate change if only we bothered to bring cloth bags to the store instead of picking up a disposable plastic bag each time”.

“We” don’t have any power. And once you accept that, you can stop blaming yourself and your neighbors for the world you live in, and direct your anger where it belongs.

Heretic author here. Those are the standard metrics used in the relevant literature, including in the paper that originally introduced directional ablation. KLD is also the standard metric for evaluating quality degradation in model quants. So I don’t understand what you mean by “cherrypicking”.

AI does NOT “brute-force”, else we could have had those math breakthroughs decades ago. Seeing this dishonest goalpost-moving every few months is so tiring.

> And some studios will go that route.

All of them will. It can save nearly 100% of costs for art production. Nobody can afford not to use it, unless they aren’t developing the game to make a profit.

> Although I don't see AI in game art becoming accepted by the wider public any time soon

It’s already being used everywhere without “the wider public” even noticing. Same in professional film and TV productions. It doesn’t look AI generated because they don’t just run Stable Diffusion and call it a day, but the reductions in labor costs are still immense even with the post-processing that’s currently still required to match AAA quality.

I am, in fact, I’m offering something much better, a compact format that exactly restores an abliterated model from a tiny JSON file:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/iksvmXBzuC

A desktop is many things to many people, some of which use computers very differently from how engineers use them. If a desktop was only a tool, background images, Xeyes, theming, and many other standard features wouldn’t exist. There are no themes for power drills.