Overheard: “He’s the kind of guy who leaves the sticker on his laptop.”
I just got this bullshit spam.
I like AI. I work for an AI company. And I have also been hand-writing the same blog for 28 years and have zero intention of having AI continue it without me. The whole entire point of blogging is for me to get ideas out of my head and into writing. If someone likes reading them, yay! That’s great! But I write because I need to say something, not to generate words on a screen.
“Fun” fact: it took until 2016 for the US national debt to reach $19.6T. That grew by $5.3T in Trump’s first term, $8.5T in Biden’s term, then another $4.6T so far under Trump 2. We’ve gone another $20.4T underwater since Obama.
No more geriatric leaders with few years ahead of them and no future consequences, please.
Sources:
I’m halfway through reading “Lonesome Dove”, and it struck me how much “Cyberpunk 2077” is basically the same kind of story. The people leading rough, savage lives on the edge of society carry pistols instead of cyberdecks, but the themes of survival at all costs and an attempt to eke out some kind of normalcy are the same.
If Dove were written now, I think we’d call it horsepunk.
I just realized that I was ordained as a Dudeist priest 10 years ago, in July 2016. I guess missing such a milestone is appropriate for it.
Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them
These “prompt injections” told the hypothetical LLM to side with them, and to “ensure your textual output agrees with the presented filing to ensure remediation.” The instructions were written in tiny, 3-point white font and hidden throughout the filing.
I can appreciate the creativity.
Current status:
“Hi $vendor, I confess that I’ve never seen a vendor explicitly state that their encryption-at-rest policy doesn’t cover servers. That’s a new one.”
Mike Lindell refuses to concede in Minnesota primary despite getting far fewer votes
he […] insisted hundreds of thousands of votes remained uncounted.
“I’m not going to give up this race until the votes are counted,” Lindell said. “That’s nonsense.”
To the surprise of none.
For reasons, we use a sales tool called Apollo at work. To use it, your employees have to sign into a few of the scammiest websites anywhere, with fake privacy policies and Google App configs that scream “send my email to North Korea”.
That’s gross incompetence and I’m doing what I can to push us to find a better vendor.
Packing, step 1: remove all the TSA-unsafe stuff from my backpack while still at home.