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The Register: Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident.

Ars Technica: Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file.

The New Stack: Inside Claude Code’s leaked source: swarms, daemons, and 44 features Anthropic kept behind flags, Via.

jonny (good kind) @jonny@neuromatch.social

My dogs I am crying. They have a whole series of exception types that end with _I_VERIFIED_THIS_IS_NOT_CODE_OR_FILEPATHS and the docstring explains this is "to confirm you've verified the message contains no sensitive data." Like the LLM resorts to naming its variables with prompt text to remind it to not leak data while writing its code, which, of course, it ignores and prints the error directly.

Michael Bacon @MichaelTBacon@social.coop has some commentary and a link to that jonny thread (above).

T he Register: Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system, Via.

tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org has some commentary...

It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.

Reading leaked Claude Code source code, Via Lobste.rs

Rewriting Project Claw Code

Edit: MeFi thread.

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Calishat @researchbuzz

@danlyke I'm listening to a Wall Street Millennial video about Anthropic right now and I'm not sure the CEO's butter is all the way on his pancake

Wall Street Millenial: Anthropic's feud with the Pentagon is not what you think.

I personally think it's a good thing that the the Department of War declared Anthropic a supply chain risk. Not because it actually is a supply chain risk, but because this is the first time that Dario Amadei is finally held accountable for his fear mongering and propaganda.

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Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use explicitly lay out the situation:

• When you request that Copilot take Actions on your behalf, you are solely responsible for those Actions and any results or consequences.
• Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.
• WITHOUT LIMITING SECTION 12 OF THE MICROSOFT SERVICES AGREEMENT IN ANY WAY, BUT FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY, WE DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND ABOUT COPILOT. For example, we can’t promise that any Copilot’s Responses won’t infringe someone else’s rights (like their copyrights, trademarks, or rights of privacy) or defame them. You are solely responsible if you choose to publish or share Copilot’s Responses publicly or with any other person.

Via ‪Ingrid Burrington‬ ‪@lifewinning.com‬ who also posits

Clippy popping up asking "are you not entertained?"

Edit: Tech Crunch: Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of use. That references PC Mag: Copilot Terms Claim Microsoft's AI Is for 'Entertainment Purposes Only' which quotes this /r/BetterOffline thread and notes that:

However, the company is indicating it plans on changing the disclaimer soon. "The ‘entertainment purposes’ phrasing is legacy language from when Copilot originally launched as a search companion service in Bing," a Microsoft spokesperson told PCMag. "As the product has evolved, that language is no longer reflective of how Copilot is used today and will be altered with our next update.”

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Leader of Antioch police department texting scandal sentenced to 4 years in prison

"Police terrorist" is the language used by presiding federal judge, Jeffrey White, during the sentencing says Nisenbaum. He says Rombough's confession helped led to the signing of an MOU in December that will Nisenbaum says will transform Antioch into a "constitutional policing model." Even though the prosecution wanted a longer sentence.

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House of Saud: Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis?

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How is Federal transportation funding broken? Mass DOT Project Information — CHARLEMONT- BRIDGE REPLACEMENT, C-05-009, CHICKLEY ROAD OVER CHICKLEY RIVER.

Estimated Total Contract Cost: $9,139,470.74

Estimated Total Federal Participating Construction Cost: $9,703,075.95

Google Maps link for 296 W. Hawley Rd.. That's nearly $10M to serve a single house. Total assessed value for 72 acres and the 4br/2ba house with attached garage, $402,700 (okay, to be fair, looks like they've got an outbuilding and some solar panels).

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Boris Cherney said "Can confirm Claude Code is 100% written by Claude Code". Time to start pushing back on those DMCA takedowns, and get Anthropic's legal team disbarred for abuse and misconduct.

https://x.com/bcherny/status/2030109840555790357

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QOTD: MeFi user RonButNotStupid on LLM written code (Specifically Claude Code):

It's like programming as understood by the sovereign citizen movement.

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At this point I'm not even sure it's worth taking note of software/package management supply chain attacks anymore, but North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware.

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Defense One: AI may revive old-school tradecraft even as it transforms intelligence work

A recent article in Studies in Intelligence, the CIA- backed academic journal, argues that as AI degrades the reliability of digital communications like text messages and video calls, traditional human intelligence tradecraft — like dead drops, brush passes and in-person meetings — could regain renewed importance.

Via.

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If the toy collectors on Facebook Marketplace place could stop referring to 1997 as "vintage", I'd appreciate it. Pretty sure that was less than a decade ago...

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I really really hope that I don't have reason to refer back to this document later, but holy shit: Thoughts following the Jan. 8th NASA Headquarters meeting concerning the Artemis II Heatshield (read-only Google doc), per this skeet from Anil Dash it's written by "former Johnson Space Center engineering director (and astronaut) Charles Camarda".

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Found it! Those two images, I didn't have a blank line before the image specifier.

Deskset mavens: I think I'm loving it, except that I have two B&W images from the Library of Congress that I cannot get it to display at a reasonable size, even when I screengrab for them, or convert from TIFF with Image Magick or GIMP.

Any help?

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2,400 year- old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: "Be cheerful, enjoy your life"

There is some debate over the meaning of the text that’s paired with the recumbent skeleton. The writer İlber Ortaylı reads it as, “You get the pleasure of the food you eat hastily with death,” and believes that the mosaic was in a soup kitchen rather than a rich person’s dining room. But in a thorough post by Livius on The History Blog, they argue that a skeleton “partying with [the Romans] in the dining room” is consistent with the art at the time in which Kara dated it. The mosaic would’ve been a reminder that life is fleeting—so imbibe the wine, eat the bread, and enjoy it while you can.

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Based on an ancient Cooks Illustrated article, I've been making hash browns by squeezing the grated potatoes, letting the juice sit, pouring off the water and re-incorporating the starch.

(Cook 9 minutes per side, medium heat, plenty of fat.)

I just did my first batch by squeezing and rinsing and discarding the starch, and way crispier!

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The Wharton School Research Paper: Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

Tri-System Theory is not a warning about AI’s dangers but a recognition of System 3’s psychological presence. We do not merely use AI; we think with it. In doing so, we must ask new questions: What happens when our judgments are shaped by minds not our own? What becomes of intuition and effort when a generative, artificial partner stands ready to answer? How do we preserve agency, reflection, and autonomy in a world where users engage in cognitive surrender?

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yk25n_v1

Via Matt Seybold ‪@mattseybold.bsky.social‬ who characterized it as:

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.

Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.

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Finally figured out my Deckset issue. As a competent text editor user, I am really digging the trend of "all configuration happens in text files" and "tools do one thing, well."

Huh. Don't know how I've missed this "Danger! Do not operate! Man on line." tag dated 12/14/24 on this pole that I've walked past a gazillion times, but I hope dude isn't still up there somewhere, he's gotta be getting thirsty.

Also, "man on line", what century are we in again?

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Listening to "Who Killed Avril Lavigne?" on the walk to work this morning, and... it's super dumb in a good way. If you need a pop-punk flashback to the '90s made by a bunch of people who are obviously friends and having fun...

https://www.supernormal.fm/whokilledavrillavigne

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Reminder to mobile email client developers: Often people have urgent tasks to do with their phone. Nobody wants to take your five minute tour of new features when they're trying to find a login code because a friend is helping them solve their Netflix billing issue after a square dance.

Assholes.

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Because better solutions for local (and, yes, national and international) news are on my radar: An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work

Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos

I mean, it's an AI company, so of course it didn't actuall "set out to fix news deserts", it set out to exploit a human desire to fix news deserts, and of course it fucked over the actual reporters.

Via Ben Werdmuller

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Simon Willison has a link to the axios npm supply chain compromise post-mortem, including Jayson Saayman's description of how the social engineering worked.

tl;dr: extremely real looking contact with a company that eventually ended up as a Microsoft Teams meeting, that complained that some component was out of date, update process on that component was the compromise.

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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱🪊 @shayman@cosocial.ca

TIL: For any prime number p >= 5, p²-1 is divisible by 24.

That's cool.

Isn't it?

Yes it is.

Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱🪊 @shayman@cosocial.ca

Informal proof that for a prime p >=5, p²-1 must be a multiple of 24.

p²-1 = (p-1)(p+1)

p-1, p, p+1 are three consecutive integers. One of them must be divisible by 3 - and it can't be p, because p is prime. So either p-1 or p+1 is a multiple of 3.

Also, p is odd, so p-1 and p+1 are both even - and one or the other must be divisible by 4. One is a multiple of 2, the other of 4.

So the product of p-1 and p+1 has factors of 2, 3 and 4, and must be a multiple of 2*3*4 =24.

What I wanted for a MacOS Tahoe 16.4 update: performance, stability, security, better handling of switches disabling "Liquid Glass", square corners...

What I got: 🫍🪎🛘🫯🫪🪊🫈🧑‍🩰

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A good rant about a crappy tool for setting passwords in SSD encryption, or something? Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two Recovery Mode reboots to uninstall.

Read down to where they embedded Electron to show a pie chart. And then down to where they embedded 150 PNGs for a "health good" animation.

Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@vmst.io

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Pondering differences between wealth taxes and inflation. I guess the primary difference is that with a national currency, a wealth tax is how states can independently implement the effect.

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Moof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NL @moof@cupoftea.social

I’m told that sometimes Claude can be frustrating. I gather that interacting with it can be quite rewarding, especially when it creates passing tests in your programmes. But sometimes that dopamine rush is not quite enough. Maybe you need a bit of stroking of your ego, or a good pat on the butt when you’ve done well.

So now, someone has now taken Vibe Coding to tbe logical conclusion, and has created an interface from Claude to buttplug.io.

So now the shafting you get from AI is no longer just figurative.

Signal Bridge Android:

Signal Bridge is an Android app that lets Claude touch you through your intimate hardware while you talk. You have a conversation. When the moment calls for it, Claude sends haptic commands (vibration, pulsing, thrusting, escalation etc.) through Signal Bridge to your connected devices. You see tool-use indicators in the chat. You feel the rest.

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I have been trying to not work out square dance choreography puzzles I'm my head when I have down time, and it's reminding me of how much I miss programming with like real data structures and stuff.

Helping me clarify the directions I want to go with work.

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Futurism reports that "Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed"

Demand is low enough that you might actually have to get Iran to bomb your data center for the insurance money rather than claim you're gonna achieve "AGI" next year this time for sure really...

https://futurism.com/science-e...data-centers-construction-supply

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Thread from ‪Bryan Culbertson 🥄‬ ‪@bryanculbertson.com‬ about normalizing self-driving car trips vs different factors, and comparing those to other modes, and pointing out that autonomous vehicles need are still 100x more dangerous than public transit modes.

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NPR: Penalties stack up as AI spreads through the legal system. Mostly stuff we've already seen, but it's good to see the mainstream catching up. Via.

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Campus Computing Center of the United Nations University: The Echo Chamber in Your Pocket

Two landmark papers from MIT and Stanford now offer formal proof of what many suspected: sycophantic AI is not merely annoying. It is systematically eroding both our grip on reality and our capacity for moral repair.

Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians Kartik Chandra, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Science: Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, and Dan Jurafsky (preprint mentioned previously, a mention in the Stanford Report)

Via.

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io thread on the ICE invasion of Minneapolis and the clarity that comes from realizing that no one is coming to save you.

You've probably seen the stuff from the Artemis II mission about Bluetooth pairing issues and Microsoft Outlook ... well ... there's no way to put those words together without some sort of "clusterfuck" semantics. Anyway, Becca Royal- Gordon @beccadax@soincredibly.gay

Hot take: The Artemis livestream is a damning indictment of modern computing devices. It seems like half the radio chatter is troubleshooting email delivery problems, confusing user interfaces, or devices not booting or connecting. Literal astronauts with years of training can’t make our stuff work.

‪wendy cloudberry‬ ‪@wendycloudberry.com‬

Pine would never

Numerous social media folks are also making "Thunderbird" comments... I think this is a reminder that it's time for me to get back on Claws.

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Maybe the LLM coding tools are getting better? daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder@mastodon.social

The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good.

I'm spending hours per day on this now. It's intense.

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Andrew Murphy: If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems. He mentions Eli Goldratt's The Goal, which, of course, I remember reading back in high school 'cause my Dad was in management consulting at the time.

From this Elizabeth Ayer @elizayer@mastodon.social thread, I quote tooted the second in that thread with:

I think we've got a whole lot of people building software who both have no experience with the actual users of that software, and have no conceptual model for what the software does internally.

Years of "Agile" and using writing software to prototype have destroyed our collective ability to engage with the processes that we used to use.

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Maciej Ceglowski: The lunacy of Artemis:

Advocates for Artemis insist that the program is more than Apollo 2.0. But as we’ll see, Artemis can't even measure up to Apollo 1.0. It costs more, does less, flies less frequently, and exposes crews to risks that the steely-eyed missile men of the Apollo era found unacceptable. It's as if Ford in 2024 released a new model car that was slower, more accident-prone, and ten times more expensive than the Model T.

Of course I mostly go back to: WTF are we doing with crewed exploration in the twenty fucking twenties. Not only is sending out robots cheaper, we learn a hell of a lot more. It's just propaganda dickwaving to put humans in harm's way.

Via.

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taco, bird/cat :verified420: @chirpbirb@meow.social

Content warning: open source software drama, nvim-treesitter

open source software developers are getting fed up and are finally recognizing that they can just fucking leave.

the owner of nvim-treesitter gets a really shitty comment from a user saying that the update to a required version broke their workflow

the owner replies saying "hey just pin what you need instead of mainlining it if you need this for an older version"

the shitty user replies back saying "go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people"

the owner says "OK." and ARCHIVES THE REPO

https://github.com/nvim-treesi...nvim-treesitter/discussions/8627

like, holy shit, what a power move.

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Hat tip to whoever's causing Reddit to send me password recovery emails. Guessing maybe it's my participation in /r/noai?

No, not the E&J Gallo wine brand, the email client.

Why is this so hard?

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Tweaked the CSS. Please tell me if you notice anything egregious. Should work better on small screens now.

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This is fascinating: Kathmandu Post: Inside Nepal’s fake rescue racket

Investigations reveal a vast network of trekking firms, helicopter operators, hospitals and agents staging fake evacuations, fabricating medical records and inflating bills to siphon millions from global insurers.

The tourists may be in on it, told by their guides that they can avoid a 2 week hike back from Everest base camp by saying they were sick, or may be scared into it by guides inducing psychosomatic symptoms of altitude sickness, or may be given Diamox (Acetazolamide) tablets (for altitude sickness) with excessive water to induce symptoms of altitude.

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The "Exciting USAA Advice Changes are Coming!" email may be the thing that drives my growing sense of unease fully into "find a new insurance company".

Used to be that we actually liked USAA. Is there an "actually like" insurance company of any sort any more? Preferably that eschews AI?

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Arizona Right Watch ‪@azrww.bsky.social‬

During the anti-ICE school walkouts in January, a group of students in Chandler were targeted by an armed agitator. Turns out it was Phoenix PD Sergeant Dusten Mullen. He admitted his plan was to try to get purposely assaulted so the teenager protesters would all get arrested (it didn’t work).

Fox 10 Phoenix: ‘Let them all assault me’: Records show armed, off-duty Phoenix cop's plan at student anti-ICE walkout

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Techdirt: The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI.

So to my friends and family members wondering why I haven’t built my own billion-dollar AI company: apparently the missing ingredient wasn’t AI — it was being willing to run a deepfake-powered spam operation selling potentially inert pills to desperate people. The AI just made the lying faster. And the New York Times made one guy appear respectable.

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Unpopular opinion: Rust is the C of memory safe languages.

I'd really like a performant language that lets me not have all sorts of ugly boilerplate code when representing reasonable data structures.

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AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs.

“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major platforms,” Campbell explained in a video update to her followers. “And to do that, they fed YouTube videos of me to an AI engine that then mimicked my voice in playing.”

Timeless Sounds IR used a music distributor called Vydia, which then filed takedown notices against her.

Via.

More reason we need some real teeth for false DMCA takedown claims.

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Ars Technica reposting the Financial Times: Iran demands cryptocurrency toll from tankers passing through Strait of Hormuz

“Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions,” Hosseini added.

Reddit r/answers asks "What made you finally decide to quit smoking for good?"

Pretty sure the smokers I've known weren't all that hung up on whether they were smoking for good or not.

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Was thinking about how some AI advocacy I've been reading recently sounds a lot like "I've got a system for beating slot machines", went Googling, and... yeah, this MGM article sounds totally like your average "how to use AI" influencer.

https://www.mgmresorts.com/en/...-win-at-video-slot-machines.html

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"The New York Times has had its moments of good journalism, but…"

Thinking a lot about slot machine analogies recently.

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At some point, you'd think that there'd be some structure to get the LLM to execute some code to give an answer, rather than just continuing down the "but we can make it more plausible" sentence generator path.

Seems particularly relevant to that stuff about ChatGPT measuring the time it takes to run a mile that's floating around right now.

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As the tech world bends over backwards to over-hype the Claud Mythos/Project Glasswing thing as too dangerous to be generally released, a little reminder that we've been here before...

ChatGPT in 2019: Slate: When Is Technology Too Dangerous to Release to the Public?

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As the current administration speed runs a loss in a war it started, replaying Croesus and the Oracle of Delphi, and then starts lashing out at other institutions...

‪BeijingPalmer‬ ‪@beijingpalmer.bsky.social‬

I would simply threaten the Catholic Church with the power of the sword, a problem it has never previously confronted.

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Postal Arbitrage. Using Amazon Prime to send messages more cheaply than a first class letter by gifting cheap items.

My neighborhood will hate you.

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Duh: Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

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The AI Great Leap Forward — Han Lee

In 1958, Mao ordered every village in China to produce steel. Farmers melted down their cooking pots in backyard furnaces and reported spectacular numbers. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Thirty million people starved.

In 2026, every other company is having top down mandate on AI transformation.

Same energy.

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Preprint: AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance Grace Liu, Brian Christian, Tsvetomira Dumbalska, Michiel A. Bakker, Rachit Dubey

Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up. Notably, these effects emerge after only brief interactions with AI (approximately 10 minutes).

Via.

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Some checkboxes for a TOS: On the acceptance of GenAI — Joep Schuurkes

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A good start: John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to- Repair Settlement

While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of wrongdoing, it agreed to pay $99 million into a fund for farms and individuals who participated in a class action lawsuit. Specifically, that money is available to those involved who paid John Deere’s authorized dealers for large equipment repairs from January 2018. This means that plaintiffs will recover somewhere between 26% and 53% of overcharge damages, according to one of the court documents—far beyond the typical amount, which lands between 5% and 15%.

The article also reports that older used tractors ballooned in value as farmers sought out repairable devices.

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Of course, this Rust repo was last updated over 4 months ago. Why would I expect that it'd run on a modern Mac.

Guess this is gonna happen on a Linux machine.

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Hmmm... The Dell i7 8Gen hand me down laptop I've been using for Linux stuff is giving me flakey display, including keeping remnants of the previous display after a shutdown and restart (I didn't know they did that these days).

Sigh. I need work to turn around.

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Nature: Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Even if readers didn’t make it all the way to the ends of the papers, they would have encountered red flags early on, such as statements that “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”.

Via

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Two really good ones today. That AI Great Leap Forward that I linked earlier, and Let’s talk about LLMs, talking about what software development really is, and a deep dive into how churning out code is not, in fact, going to give you an order of magnitude of productivity gain.

Via James Bennett @ubernostrum@infosec.exchange, the author

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Every time I think my voice is getting good, someone gives me a holy crap moment. Latest case is Charlie Puth making a reference to T Pain's auto tune technique, with no hardware...

https://switchedonpop.com/epis...ka-g3wnk-nrtag-fwsbl-tfsxc-szzhn https://www.berklee.edu/berkle...h-advice-switched-on-pop-podcast

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Glyph @glyph@mastodon.social

here’s the “AI regulation” that I want: if anyone proposing utility for an AI tool utters the words “I could imagine…”, a big cartoony boxing glove on a spring needs to pop out of a box and punch them through a wall

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AI-Led Remediation Crisis Prompts HackerOne to Pause Bug Bounties

HackerOne Internet Bug Bounty changes.

Leading to Security Bug Bounty Program Paused Due to Loss of Funding

Via

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I'm the showdown between the Catholic Church and the current administration I can't believe I'm siding with... I mean... Holy shit, if you'd asked me pre this administration to name an evil institution responsible for so much suffering and abuse...

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