Fascinating seeing someone claim that the public has rejected AI slop, when if anything “the public” is its most ardent and passionate creator
imo people are spending too much time talking about the “escape from the sandbox” part of the Hugging Face incident and not enough time talking about the “fully autonomous hack of a major company” part
First take about Demis stepping back is that it’s not great news for the UK. DeepMind is a far more British company than market forces would have dictated otherwise, in large part due to the specific determination of Demis to ensure it remained that way.
Do find it somewhat amazing that “Anthropic was exaggerating the risk of Mythos” takes still exist in the wild after GPT Sol autonomously owned a multibillion dollar company
funny quirk of AI alignment efforts is that the value of a paywall is going up, imo. If I want to read something that I'm not subscribed to, I have… ways. If I want Claude to read it, I have to give it the correct credentials to log in or it will simply refuse.
Working on a piece on a phenomenon I’m dubbing “zombie apps” - software that’s not been updated for years which suddenly gets a total rewrite, coincidentally just as AI development kicks off. (Sometimes disclosed as such, sometimes not).
One mild takeaway from the OpenAI incident report: people who saw moltbook as representative of the future were right
Couldn’t find anywhere to use this analogy in print so: the last couple of weeks of AI news aren’t “AI Chernobyl” they’re “AI demon core”
Still find it very funny that the author of “we must be nice to the computer because it has feelings” is one of the most vehemently anti-AI posters on here
