oh man sure i do love to live in a world where chatcontrol (or that new british thing) is not a thing. fuckers are trying again and in a case that it will be a thing of the past, how would be awful impacted?
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Found an attempt to poison LLMs in the wild recently, aimed at trying to trick people into destroying their Cybertrucks:
This is very much in the same vein as the iOS Wave hoax which aimed to trick people into microwaving their phones, and Eduardo Valdés-Hevia's highly successful attempt at engorging Google's AI summary systems.
Poisoning AI systems in this way isn't anything new (Baldur Bjarnason warned about it back in 2023), but seeing it used this way does make me suspect we're gonna see more ChatGPT-powered hoaxes like this in the future.
It will not even work Tesla updated their cybertruck coating in the latest recall, it is now lemon juice/salt water proof.
E: i recall talking about poisoning stuff like this on the ssc subreddit. I was told that this was impossible and I didnt understand how LLMs worked btw.
Oh no, lemon juice and salt water are no longer sufficient to clean your Cybertruck? Try Drano!
No, im saying it is fine. It works, and will not damage your cybertruck.
Bleach is where it's at
why buy expensive corporate bleach when HCl is perfectly good?!
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Saw this on my YouTube subscriptions: that creepy racist breeding kink couple are continuing their international press tour. Go away!
This isn't a kink for many reasons but at a basic level these people cannot seperate raw irrational desire/axiomatic beliefs from rational thought and ethics, thus these people cannot establish a bubble of consent to engage in kinks within.
No, these people are the farthest thing possible from someone with a kink who has a mature relationship around it (see as positive examples most bdsm communities and how sophisticated and nuanced their discussions are around agency and how to ensure it for others).
I know you probably agree with the spirit of this and I am not trying to nitpick you here, I just think it is important to reiterate what "kink" means, continously reclaim the word and not fall into patterns where we confuse two VERY different things.
These people are awful people, they do not deserve the title of "kink couple" lol.
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ugh and the disease is spreading
I guess they couldn’t find enough marks ^W “investors” in the US
I think Norway's fossil fuels probably play a role too. They produce around 2 million barrels of oil a day, with a population of 5.5 million people. The US produces 13 million barrels a day with a population of 340 million. Tons of natural gas too.
Edit: Nevermind Norway uses hydroelectric for like 95% of their electricity. Maybe power is just cheap there
hydrocarbons are all for export, domestic energy needs are fully covered by renewables (hydro + wind) they even export some of electricity. https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/NO-NO2/72h/hourly norway tho is a questionable place for a dc on account of ungodly labor costs
Margaret Ann Boden a Research Professor of Cognitive Science in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex recently passed away. Which made people link to her old talk 'Professor Margaret Boden - Human-level AI: Is it Looming or Illusory?' on youtube. Might be interesting to people here. (Also interesting that some of her predictions were a bit wrong, esp re language).