Hackworth

Writing an article about this without mentioning the Fable export control seems odd.

I was also confused. It’s oddly worded. From Anthropic’s news post:

We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities.

As far as I can tell, this review preceded the gov order, and it was at this point that Katie Moussouris was involved.

rest were hallucinations

I’m having trouble parsing whatcha mean here if they were coding tasks. The code didn’t run? Ran but had 0 functionality? If they were non-coding tasks, then agreed, I didn’t notice it being significantly more accurate. Though I did appreciate the larger vocab. I wasn’t gonna be able to afford to keep using it once it went to API pricing anyway.

I just use the web app, mostly to make self-contained html toys. During the brief period it was up and part of the general subscription, I asked it to make Terrace (the old board game from TNG) with very little help in the initial prompt. I kinda know how involved that task is, cause I manually wrote a Godot version back in '20. It nailed it with only minor fixes - 3D, reactive sound and visuals, a music score that is pretty chill, with Easy, Medium, and Hard levels of AI to compete against. I have yet to beat it on Hard. Opus couldn’t touch that. I’m pretty sure the fed’s response is simple retaliation against Anthropic for not playing ball with the DoD/W, but the capability jump was definitely notable. I saw someone liken it to the jump from gpt 3.5 to 4, and I agree, if not a bit more.

Did you try it? In the few coding tasks I threw at it, it performed much better than Opus.

This admin makes West Wing feel absurdly optimistic. Hell, this admin makes Veep seem aspirational.

Our timeline’s Rache Bartmoss is bound to act sooner or later.

Dehumanization is this admin’s butter. They slather it over everything they deem other, and usually with the same ghoulish “humor” we see here. Honest journalism should be relentlessly disgusted by this, and I don’t see much of it. Just like with all the cries of election tampering from the right, the cries of “fake news” weren’t a lamentation of its existence. They just wanted to be the ones driving it.

While it’s one of my favorite words, “inexorably” does not fit here.

That’s fine, can we talk about the concentration camps?

Only Republican gerrymandering is allowed now. - The Supreme Court, I guarantee.

Death to Chronos?

The paper is more rigorous with language but can be a slog.

Anthropic has some similar findings, and they propose an architectural change (activation capping) that apparently helps keep the Assistant character away from dark traits (sometimes). But it hasn’t been implemented in any models, I assume because of the cost of scaling it up.

This sounds like his normal word salad. He’ll just interject with the topic instead of pausing. But man, listening to him snort and fumble through his words trying to throw shade about dyslexia is just…

Patterns of linguistic simplification on social media platforms over time

add AI-slop elements in novel ways

Datamoshing can have an AI-generated quality.

Between 2020 and 2022, the US government found that over 300 US companies in multiple industries, including several Fortune 500 companies, had unknowingly employed these workers, indicating the magnitude of this threat.

So AI’s just making some things easier now.

North Korean remote IT workers require assistance from a witting facilitator to help find jobs, pass the employment verification process, and once hired, successfully work remotely. - Microsoft

I was gonna say… how do they deal with the HR paperwork and getting paid? They need Americans or at least people from other countries to help.