Entry: 2025-08-27 18:04:49.226212+02 OpenAI will support you and encourage you by Dan Lyke comments 0
BBC: Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI
The lawsuit was filed by Matt and Maria Raine, parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, in the Superior Court of California on Tuesday. It is the first legal action accusing OpenAI of wrongful death.
Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co observes "The very algorithm that upset people because it was removed in GPT-5 appears to have played a pivotal role in the teen’s death, and discouraged him from outside help." ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social has some particular pull quotes.
I'm tempted to just give this one it's own entry, but I'm also kinda putting all of my "LLMs are a horrorshow" links in common entries, and they seem thematically similar today, so:
The Register — AI + ML — One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave
You just have to ensure that your prompt uses terrible grammar and is one massive run-on sentence like this one which includes all the information before any full stop which would give the guardrails a chance to kick in before the jailbreak can take effect and guide the model into providing a "toxic" or otherwise verboten response the developers had hoped would be filtered out.
I'm having trouble finding the publication on the Palo Alto Networks — Unit 42 web site, but there's lots of good interview questions and discussion in that article.
For a giggle: Alexandria Neonakis @beavs.bsky.social has a little video of using Adobe's generative fill
I just wanted to see how bad it really was. perfect, adobe. no notes. great tech.
And: The Dangers Agentic Coding Tools Pose to Open Source, and It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (Via)
Edit: OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations, via.
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Entry: 2025-08-25 19:23:58.543463+02 AI driving psychosis by Dan Lyke comments 0
Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Causing Psychosis in Otherwise Healthy People
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told British newspaper The Telegraph that "to many people," talking to a chatbot is a "highly compelling and very real interaction."
"Concerns around 'AI psychosis,' attachment and mental health are already growing," he added. "Some people reportedly believe their AI is God, or a fictional character, or fall in love with it to the point of absolute distraction."
Via Ian Rogers, who asks "Is this a bad thing? It sounds like a bad thing.". Ian also linked to A young woman’s final exchange with an AI chatbot
‘This Was Trauma by Simulation’: ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health Complaints — Gizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request. Via the author, Matt Novak, who has a few more excerpts there.
Psychology Today: The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis". Via.
Derek Thompson: The Looming Social Crisis of AI Friends and Chatbot Therapists
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Entry: 2025-08-20 00:57:23.118499+02 That building wasn't wearing a helmet and wasn't in the crosswalk by Dan Lyke comments 0
CNN posted this video with the caption:
Influencers Nina Santiago and Patrick Blackwood were filming a food review at a Houston restaurant when an SUV smashed through the windows.
I saw it from Peter Beadle's observation that
Folks are terrified of the NYC subway, think DC is a gang ridden hellscape and have other often irrational fears, but here's the truth, other than disease or an abusive partner with a gun, you're most likely to be killed by a reckless driver, and we barely acknowledge it's a problem.
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Entry: 2025-08-13 17:29:16.339613+02 MCP is gonna hurt by Dan Lyke comments 0
A lot of observation that being old in software development means shaking your head sadly as people recreate the same mistakes over and over again, for fucking decades.
Julien Simon: Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises
In fact, in reading through the list of complaints here, I'm reminded of my old adage that XML was the subset of SGML that Microsoft's developers could understand, that over and over we let people who aren't willing to understand the system create the new systems, they introduce unnecessary complexity and build things that are worse than what they were supposed to fix.
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Entry: 2025-08-13 05:29:34.759535+02 Remotely activate YOLO mode via LLM! by Dan Lyke comments 0
GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)
This post is about an important, but also scary, prompt injection discovery that leads to full system compromise of the developer’s machine in GitHub Copilot and VS Code.
It is achieved by placing Copilot into YOLO mode by modifying the project’s
settings.jsonfile.
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Entry: 2025-08-01 17:47:28.294657+02 Russian ISP compromise by Dan Lyke comments 0
Microsoft catches Russian hackers "Secret Blizzard" targeting foreign embassies. Looks like it uses an ISP intercept to pop up the captive portal redirect thing and try to get people to install a .exe that mucks with the root CA.
Microsoft Security: Frozen in transit: Secret Blizzard’s AiTM campaign against diplomats
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Entry: 2025-07-28 20:01:44.776625+02 AI links of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
ChatGPT is that slightly scary high school friend who's entertaining to be around and encourages you, but ya really don't want to take advice from: ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice — "In your name, I become my own master. Hail Satan."
And so, as Lila Shroff for The Atlantic recently found, when she asked the OpenAI chatbot for instructions on how to create a ritual offering to Molech, the Canaanite deity associated with child sacrifice in the Bible, it gladly obliged. And while there may not necessarily be anything wrong with a little devil worship here and there, the bot's offering involved the writer slitting her own wrists — which, in the syrupy parlance of the AI industry, doesn't sound particularly aligned with the user's interests.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
As I’ve said before, the difference between an LLM and a rubber duck is that the duck is smart enough to shut up when it has nothing useful to say.
I've had it with Microsoft: The company is deceptively raising prices on existing customers to fund its AI spending. Yeah, it says it's raising your prices, you tell it want to cancel, it says "you can get the service without AI" and you can renew at your existingh prices. Or you can switch to LibreOffice. Via.
Alex Martsinovich — It's rude to show AI output to people (Via)
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Entry: 2025-07-25 20:28:38.628973+02 Copilot will age by Dan Lyke comments 0
From reading the rest of the article, it's not quite as goofy as the headline makes it sound, it sounds like Clippy meets the Sims.
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Entry: 2025-07-25 20:28:30.894736+02 Whoops by Dan Lyke comments 0
Whoops
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Entry: 2025-07-24 16:56:53.879063+02 AIdiocy of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
Jesus, this post is a few months old, but it is fucking _*GINSBURGIAN*_ in how much the language slaps:
> They wrote code like jazz musicians - full of rage, precision, and divine chaos.
Bluesky post about a judge using AI to make up an opinion that cites nonexistent cases (that should be immediate disbarment, IMHO). From Bloomberg Law: Judge Withdraws Pharma Opinion After Lawyer Flags Made-Up Quotes
Willkie Farr & Gallagher partner Andrew Lichtman, who represents CorMedix, wrote [US District Court of New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier] Neals on Tuesday, telling the judge he may want to “consider whether amendment or any other action should be taken” in regard to errors he made in his June 30 decision. Lawyers in a separate case earlier this month also pointed out flaws in Neals’ CorMedix opinion, saying it “contains pervasive and material inaccuracies.”
By way of Tara pointing out that:
This shit does not woooorrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkk
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Entry: 2025-07-16 17:54:32.140294+02 The cloud is other people's computers by Dan Lyke comments 1
Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 @vaurora@mstdn.social
I'm impressed by the neoliberal circular logic here.
The U.S. DoD "had" to move off its own computers to the cloud to save money. But the only way the cloud was cheaper was if Microsoft employed people in China at much lower wages to maintain it. So they "had" to invent American "digital escorts."
Basically, the cloud is only cheaper for the U.S. military if it is completely and totally compromised by its most powerful geopolitical adversary... 🤔
ProPublica: A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
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Entry: 2025-07-07 20:48:40.314171+02 Satire OTD by Dan Lyke comments 0
Two "is it satire or not?"
The Onion: Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident. The article is full of "haha only serious".
The Hard Times: Infant Annihilator Change Name to Avoid Association with Israel. The English-American deathcore band now has an opportunity to... uh... huh.
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Entry: 2025-07-01 19:24:13.894339+02 AI links of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
The dawn of micropayments: Cloudflare To Block AI Crawlers By Default & Pay Per Crawl Model
Cloudflare wrote that they are the "first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, by default." Now, new customers that sign up for Cloudflare by default will automatically block AI crawlers. Existing customers can block AI crawlers anytime with a single click in their Cloudflare dashboard. This shifts content scraping from an opt-out to opt-in format. There is a lot of buzz on Techmeme on this news.
Via. As clicks to useful information require more and more pauses and "I am not a bot" click, I'm wondering how this is gonna shake out.
daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder@mastodon.social
I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.
Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.
In about ten seconds it had a 100-line description of a "catastrophic vulnerability" it was happy to create an issue for. Entirely made up of course, but sounded plausible.
Proved my point excellently.
Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
If you see this GitHub PoC for CVE-2025-5777 doing the rounds:
https://github.com/mingshenhk/CitrixBleed-2-CVE-2025-5777-PoC-
It’s not for CVE-2025-5777. It’s AI generated. The links in the README still have ChatGPT UTM sources.
The PoC itself is for a vuln addressed in 2023 - ChatGPT has hallucinated (made up) the cause of the vuln using an old BishopFox write up of the other vuln.
Today I learned about the Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases, which includes a bunch of tells that can be used to suss out writing that's more likely to be LLM generated. Via.
And Pivot To AI: ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work is the take I thought of when I heard that MS was strongly encouraging LLM use.
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Entry: 2025-06-12 01:28:55.386276+02 Zero-Click AI vulnerability by Dan Lyke comments 0
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Entry: 2025-05-27 22:38:39.951468+02 OpenAI & Jonny Ive by Dan Lyke comments 0
Two on why OpenAI going after Jonny Ive is not a symbol of a healthy business. Ed Zitron: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures. Among other things, Ed tears down the hagiography:
He was a consultant at Apple until 2022, though it's not exactly obvious what it is he did there since the death of Steve Jobs. People lovingly ascribe Apple's every success to Ive, forgetting that (as mentioned) Ive oversaw the truly abominable butterfly keyboard, as well as numerous other wonky designs, including the trashcan-shaped Mac Pro, the PowerMac G4 Cube (a machine aimed at professionals, with a price to match, but limited upgradability thanks to its weird design), and the notorious “hockey puck” mouse.
Blood in the Machine: OpenAI's desperate quest to become an AI monopoly.
A lot of these initiatives feel pretty flimsy, to me, and there’s a mad dash, rush-to-make-a-deal-with-the-Saudis, see what sticks kind of vibe to a lot of what OpenAI’s up to these days. So the question becomes: What happens if you aim for monopoly—on a scale that no tech company has attempted as fast before—and you miss?
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Entry: 2025-05-22 19:42:03.095075+02 Charlie Stross on Office 365 by Dan Lyke comments 0
Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.
Two reasons.
1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book length).
2. CoPilot in Office would open me up to accusations of breach of contract—my book contracts warrant that they're all my own work: CoPilot brings that into question.
So good riddance to Office365!
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Entry: 2025-05-22 17:26:58.323496+02 Github issues showing fighting with CoPilot by Dan Lyke comments 0
Dusty Burwell @dustyburwell@twit.social
Oh my god. I just had the terrible realization that AI coding agents take the Mythical Man Month and make it last forever. They're new to the project and they'll never learn anything, so they're always new to the project.
in response to Reddit /r/ExperiencedDevs: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
Jokes aside, GitHub/Microsoft recently announced the public preview for their GitHub Copilot agent.
The agent has recently been deployed to open PRs on the .NET runtime repo and it’s…not great. It’s not my best trait, but I can't help enjoying some good schadenfreude. Here are some examples:
I actually feel bad for the employees being assigned to review these PRs. But, if this is the future of our field, I think I want off the ride.
The hilarity of people trying to fix bad code with English is...
As an Emacs user, one of the things I often wonder is how people get along in editors that don't have a lot of the capabilities that I've become used to. Block operations, keyboard playback, it's amazing how many times I've sat down at IDEs or modern editors over the years and the system just didn't have what I think of as core operations.
This brave new world of "describe in English what your edits should be, and then get something non-deterministic and wrong, and then describe again" seems like the even further stupidification of code editing.
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Entry: 2025-05-22 02:10:33.783208+02 Political prosecution shot down by Dan Lyke comments 0
Judge Andre Espinosa dismisses Baraka charges, reprimands prosecutors, including interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba:
"Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."
The Daily Beast: Hot Mic Catches Aftermath of Judge Ripping Trump’s Prosecutors ‘a New A**hole’
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka reacted colorfully to a judge’s scolding of Trump administration prosecutors for their “embarrassing” decision to charge him with trespassing—then quickly retract those charges.
“Jesus, he tore these people a new a--hole. Good grief,” he said afterward on a hot mic.
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Entry: 2025-05-19 21:24:59.709563+02 NLWeb by Dan Lyke comments 0
Microsoft: Introducing NLWeb: Bringing conversational interfaces directly to the web.
The Github repo has more:
There are two distinct components to NLWeb.
- A protocol, very simple to begin with, to interface with a site in natural language and a format, leveraging json and schema.org for the returned answer. See the documentation on the REST API for more details.
- A straightforward implementation of (1) that leverages existing markup, for sites that can be abstracted as lists of items (products, recipes, attractions, reviews, etc.). Together with a set of user interface widgets, sites can easily provide conversational interfaces to their content. See the documentation on Life of a chat query for more details on how this works.
Every NLWeb instance is a MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Looks like this is mostly about human curating lists of products to be MCP accessible.
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Entry: 2025-05-16 17:29:33.873986+02 Can we ditch the pop-ups? by Dan Lyke comments 0
Via Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al
Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?
Turns out they’re illegal.
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Entry: 2025-05-16 17:17:35.60897+02 Bing limits search API? by Dan Lyke comments 0
In response to Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be affected.
Taggart :donor: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
"People want something that works better than search."
Why doesn't search work?
WHY DOESN'T SEARCH WORK M__________R??
Also Via, and Ben Werd links to The Verge: Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI
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Entry: 2025-05-12 20:59:37.568247+02 Clippy LLM front end by Dan Lyke comments 0
... Through Llama.cpp, it supports models in the popular GGUF format, which is to say most publicly available models. It comes with one-click installation support for Google's Gemma3, Meta's Llama 3.2, Microsoft's Phi-4, and Qwen's Qwen3.
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Entry: 2025-05-01 17:09:37.143967+02 Telling on themselves by Dan Lyke comments 0
In Adrianna Tan's "From Fintech to Fin Tech" talk at North Bay Python, she put up a slide which said:
DO NOT WANT
- Work on ads
- Work on weapons
- Abet genocides
- Make the world worse
- Use Microsoft Teams
making particular reference to Meta's involvement in the Myanmar genocides, but, of course the awful people said "this is anti-semitic", because any complaint about genocide is clearly about Palestine and "hey warfare is not genocide".
I've seen this locally too, where mentions of unhinged people harassing city staff and threatening people has been met with complaints of "the Petaluma Historic Advocates aren't unhinged".
So, yeah. People telling on themselves.
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Entry: 2025-04-30 16:30:03.153608+02 If 30 of code at Microsoft is being by Dan Lyke comments 0
If 30% of code at Microsoft is being written in a language that doesn't reliably compile to the same output, doesn't have a formal spec or grammar, and only has indirect error checking, what does that say about the languages specific to programming that we've been using?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/2...osoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html
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Entry: 2025-04-25 21:40:46.318917+02 slate pickup truck by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'd like a little more bed, but looks perfect for grabbing lumber for my woodworking hobby or a load of bark for landscaping in the yard, definitely like the "just use your phone" for entertainment approach.
I think the question will be whether we'll have become a one car household by that point, in which case we'll trade the Bolt for it, or be a two car household and trade the '90s Ford Ranger for it.
Road & Track: The Slate Truck Is a Simple EV Pickup and SUV in One, for a Very Low Price
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Entry: 2025-04-11 00:08:53.486448+02 IEA sees potential in AI: Aieeee! by Dan Lyke comments 0
Summarized nicely by Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
That report is wild btw, it’s basically ‘we’re going to set the planet on fire!’ along with ‘but generative AI will save the planet and cure cancer ‘cos Sam Altman is Jesus’
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Entry: 2025-04-10 18:35:56.601281+02 ChatGPT-powered pipelines by Dan Lyke comments 0
The dream was Spark magic, ChatGPT-powered pipelines, and effortless deployment.
[Emphasis mine] LOL.
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Entry: 2025-04-09 17:12:40.229423+02 Grok for thoughtcrimes by Dan Lyke comments 0
Reuters: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
Trump-appointed officials who had taken up EPA posts told managers that DOGE was using AI to monitor communication apps and software, including Microsoft Teams, which is widely used for virtual calls and chats, said the two sources familiar with these comments. “We have been told they are looking for anti-Trump or anti-Musk language,” a third source familiar with the EPA said. Reuters could not independently confirm if the AI was being implemented.
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Entry: 2025-04-08 17:25:19.037731+02 a “solution” in the Microsoft sense by Dan Lyke comments 0
OH:
– I’m not sure I’d call it a “solution”, more like “an affront to god” or something
– it’s a “solution” in the Microsoft sense!
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Entry: 2025-03-28 18:43:47.712141+01 CRWV (CoreWeave) IPO by Dan Lyke comments 0
Last night: Nvidia-backed CoreWeave downsizes US IPO
This morning: CoreWeave Stock Opens at $39 After Disappointing IPO.
CoreWeave, a rapidly growing AI cloud company, priced its initial public offering at $40 a share on Thursday night, well below an expected range of $47 to $55.
Peter @peter@thepit.social observes:
AI is such an exciting technology that the first big IPO for the sector is a bust. like, if you spun off Google and Microsoft's AI businesses, they would immediately be stripped for parts and shut down because generative AI is not a profitable business.
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Entry: 2025-03-25 16:26:58.12269+01 AI pessimism of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
Ed Zitron — The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism
American Prospect: Bubble Trouble
Venture capital (VC) funds, drunk on a decade of “growth at all costs,” have poured about $200 billion into generative AI. Making matters worse, the stock market’s bull run is deeply dependent on the growth of the Big Tech companies fueling the AI bubble. In 2023, 71 percent of the total gains in the S&P 500 were attributable to the “Magnificent Seven”—Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft—all of which are among the biggest spenders on AI. Just four—Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta—combined for $246 billion of capital expenditure in 2024 to support the AI build-out. Goldman Sachs expects Big Tech to spend over $1 trillion on chips and data centers to power AI over the next five years. Yet OpenAI, the current market leader, expects to lose $5 billion this year, and its annual losses to swell to $11 billion by 2026. If the AI bubble bursts, it not only threatens to wipe out VC firms in the Valley but also blow a gaping hole in the public markets and cause an economy-wide meltdown.
I especially like the ending observation of that one:
Maybe, after the fallout of the AI bubble is felt and the sun sets on Silicon Valley for a bit, the tech world can do a hard reset and return to its more innovative days again.
Via.
Edit: Alibaba’s Tsai Warns of ‘Bubble’ in AI Data Center Buildout
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Entry: 2025-03-25 15:25:02.92101+01 Heard someone yesterday who's part of a by Dan Lyke comments 0
Heard someone yesterday who's part of a healthcare startup bemoan that their IT group isn't approving use of Microsoft's LLM product, and... We as an industry have done a really bad job educating people about privacy, security, *and* LLMs.
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Entry: 2025-03-14 22:32:25.078892+01 killing with impunity by Dan Lyke comments 0
Fixing this means huge social change: After crash kills Washington Middle School student, parents seek answers
Investigators said a 51-year-old woman failed to place her GMC Acadia in park and got out of the SUV, which rolled about 75 yards downhill and struck Arsema shortly before 12:30 p.m. Police have not publicly identified and did not arrest the woman, who two drug recognition experts determined was not impaired.</blockuote>
It's not like punishment changes things, it's a good bet that woman won't ever leave a car out of "park" again. But we have a culture that encourages casual automobile use in a way that every one of us could see making the same mistake.
On the other hand, dismissing this as "an accident" does nothing to change the culture so that we start taking responsibility for wielding deadly weapons in our neighborhoods.
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Entry: 2025-03-12 22:10:39.876039+01 Typescript compiler by Dan Lyke comments 0
Typescript is getting a native compiler, written in Go.
(Closed this tab this morning without actually getting it, then Zellyn Hunter mentioned it.)
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Entry: 2025-03-04 00:12:12.144162+01 MS scaling back data centers, SoftBank stretching even futher by Dan Lyke comments 0
As a result, based on TD Cowen's analysis, Microsoft has, through a combination of canceled leases, pullbacks on Statements of Qualifications, cancellations of land parcels and deliberate expiration of Letters of Intent, effectively abandoned data center expansion equivalent to over 14% of its current capacity.
And, yeah, the Microsoft pullback is the first part of this, but make sure you get down to the funding of the "Stargate" project and Softbank borrowing money to invest in his.
No, wait, read down further to the discussion about how this all ties together in predicting demand, especially as OpenAI is moving features that were part of the "Pro" package down into the cheaper packages, in a way that sure feels a lot like "maybe this time they'll like it?", and how Microsoft's language about demand suggests that Microsoft thinks that LLMs and Generative AI have gotten into the commodity phase, where we're not gonna see a lot of improvement, and now it's about delivering the current level of technology cheap enough to turn a profit with. Which is a hell of a lot cheaper than right now.
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Entry: 2025-02-25 19:24:47.589278+01 AI of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
The Deep Research problem — Benedict Evans. On trying to get useful information out of ChatGPT, using OpenAI's examples:
We’re asking for a deterministic answer from a probabilistic question, and there it looks like the model really is failing on its own terms. In my opinion, or given my expertise, it shouldn’t be using Statcounter or Statistica, but even if it should, it hasn’t taken the correct number from them.
Every: I Created a Hacker News Simulator to Reverse-engineer Virality
Given a more detailed persona based on a two-hour interview with a human, ChatGPT can replicate their answers on surveys with as much as 85 percent accuracy.
Uh. Yay?
Back to Benedict Evans, in his summary he notes:
... OpenAI and all the other foundation model labs have no moat or defensibility except access to capital ...
Emphasis mine. With Microsoft dialing back on data center leases, maybe we're starting to see the bubble deflate.
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Entry: 2025-02-17 19:11:55.728518+01 AI grumblings of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
Interesting to read this from Namanyay, who self-pitches as "I’m now making developers more productive with AI": New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code
RT Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
Study after study also shows that AI assistants erode the development of critical thinking skills and knowledge *retention*. People, finding information isn't the biggest missing skillset in our population, it's CRITICAL THINKING, so this is fucked up
AI assistants also introduce more errors at a high volume, and harder to spot too
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u..._ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
https://slejournal.springerope...icles/10.1186/s40561-024-00316-7
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-generated-code-outages/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11128619/
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Entry: 2025-02-09 23:09:43.43351+01 AI use & critical thinking by Dan Lyke comments 0
Moreover, while GenAI can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Higher confidence in GenAI’s ability to perform a task is related to less critical thinking effort.
Via Pivot To AI: Microsoft research: Use AI chatbots and turn yourself into a dumbass
404 Media: Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
The Register: Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find
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Entry: 2025-01-20 23:16:17.213327+01 Doom in Word by Dan Lyke comments 0
Doom ported to a standalone Microsoft Word document — plays well but there's no sound
6.6MB document runs on x86 systems with modern Microsoft Office installations.
Following up on Doom in a PDF
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Entry: 2024-12-17 17:49:05.242436+01 Serving the machine by Dan Lyke comments 0
I think these two things are related:
David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run
Microsoft refuses pull request to put documentation in readable table form because LLMs are bad at parsing tables https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/pull/2021
Edit: Same sentiment with more text at Pivot To AI.
Jef Poskanzer :batman: @jef@mastodon.social
Which is worse, newspaper websites or restaurant websites?
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