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Multiple readings character.ai Policy & governance · 6 attributable reactions
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character.ai

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
“How people are removing surveillance ads from their TVs; a big AI shakeup at Accenture; and the Character.ai bankruptcy.” evidence ↗
10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood 404 Media Ethan Zuckerman Ed Zitron Scott McGrath Alex Hern Colin tachikoma +2
2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
thebes: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
Grace: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
thebes: i think it's too late for the period i was focused on (i carried the branches to the modern day but only if they started in the period in question)
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Established Safety & security Analysis 16d ago
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cyber risk AI discourse critique essay

The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Nicole Hennig
“The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-ri… #AI #cybersecurity” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Nathan Lambert Ted Underwood Nicole Hennig Dare Obasanjo

“The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-ri… #AI #cybersecurity”

“In case you missed my hot take yesterday. www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-...”

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Nathan Lambert: In case you missed my hot take yesterday. www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-...
Ted Underwood: In case you missed my hot take yesterday. www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-...
Alex Hern: From stage to screen
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9 experts · 63 posts · 13d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Chelsea Parlett critical slop studies Adam L Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
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“If one wants to seriously critique capitalism one also need to reckon with the reality of how much versions of it have lifted quality of life across society and how difficult this is. I am not inte…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 4 Research & technical analysis · 1
Cat Hicks: "why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often har…
Cat Hicks: because tasks gate other tasks. Because measuring the hours saved by washing machines is a relatively useful index for quality of life improvement. Because the time it takes for you to get from the…
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8 experts · 30 posts · 7d ago
Ted Underwood jake Colin tweety fish René Walter Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
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“this seemed crazy to me but then I thought a bit more and realized — I, too, am Claude” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: Frankenmodel refuses to believe it's not just Claude
Colin: I don't think if you put 6 people in a circle and asked them to tell a story one word at a time they would, together, spontaneously create a story which denies that they are indeed six individuals
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6 experts · 14 posts · 17d ago
Ted Underwood David Marx critical slop studies rev. howard arson tweety fish Arseny Khakhalin
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“not at all. you don't have to be super polite but you probably should not treat it in a way you would not treat a human subordinate. it's just "one should not anthropomorphize an object for the pur…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
rev. howard arson: it is really fascinating how LLMs make virtually everyone say things which are enormously controversial as though they are solved problems
critical slop studies: Has anyone told him about the humans who don’t feel pain?
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3 experts · 35 posts · 9d ago
Ted Underwood Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Mary Branscombe
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“I will eat my hat if a smart tv can host enough inference to devise *new* attacks rather than just exploit the same existing attacks and just happen to bring along an additional giant multi-gigabyt…” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): cpu is dogshit slow for inference, and self-replicating worms already exist (you may know them as rVPNs or botnets) alas they're just repackaging an existing problem as "you should be afraid of eve…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I will eat my hat if a smart tv can host enough inference to devise *new* attacks rather than just exploit the same existing attacks and just happen to bring along an additional giant multi-gigabyt…
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3 experts · 23 posts · 16d ago
Ted Underwood Juan Diego Rodriguez Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
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“It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ted Underwood: It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored …
Ted Underwood: I like compromises. But one place I don't believe in meeting people halfway, or 5% of the way, is the notion that AI would be better if not based on texts/images that governments have made illegal …
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4 experts · 13 posts · 15d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Carmody Meredith Martin jake
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“Huh, there ARE no science-fiction novels written about largely inert and harmless AI. Guess we don’t have real AI yet! Let’s consult our map of SF-plot-worthy AI and emulate that:” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: Huh, there ARE no science-fiction novels written about largely inert and harmless AI. Guess we don’t have real AI yet! Let’s consult our map of SF-plot-worthy AI and emulate that:
Meredith Martin: @annaleen.bsky.social would like a word
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3 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood Grace Isaiah Bishop
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“Human-written vulnerabilities are a finite resource we’re burning through like fossil fuels” evidence ↗
Grace: Human-written vulnerabilities are a finite resource we’re burning through like fossil fuels
Isaiah Bishop: I do think we kind of overestimate AI capability because it just find so much low hanging fruit immediately
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3 experts · 11 posts · 15d ago
Ted Underwood Marzena Karpinska Jenna Russell
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“There's some crazy stuff in the ablations. The order of elements has almost no significance. The "discourse roles" they infer? Not load-bearing. You can remove them. On the other hand, it's possibl…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ted Underwood: This is complex — and likely a bit fragile — but very cool. Actually less interested in the ostensible end goal (Pangram for Ideas) and more in the problems you have to solve to get there (separati…
Ted Underwood: There's some crazy stuff in the ablations. The order of elements has almost no significance. The "discourse roles" they infer? Not load-bearing. You can remove them. On the other hand, it's possibl…
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4 experts · 5 posts · 19d ago
Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Christian Wolf Scott McGrath
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“Maybe worth saying aloud that I do worry about safety risks (hacking, bio, an “out of control” agent). I just also see those risks as deeply entangled with money, politics, personalities, regulatio…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Maria Antoniak: Maybe worth saying aloud that I do worry about safety risks (hacking, bio, an “out of control” agent). I just also see those risks as deeply entangled with money, politics, personalities, regulatio…
Ted Underwood: Maybe worth saying aloud that I do worry about safety risks (hacking, bio, an “out of control” agent). I just also see those risks as deeply entangled with money, politics, personalities, regulatio…
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3 experts · 5 posts · 5d ago
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Adam L
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“Check back with me after a rogue AI has done let’s say 1/4 as much damage as happened through abuse of executive authority over the last two years. At that point I’ll be interested in seriously med…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ted Underwood: Generally we say “how unfortunate that this is happening under a would-be authoritarian regime in the US!” But there’s also an upside of having this conversation at a moment when we’re acutely cons…
Ted Underwood: Check back with me after a rogue AI has done let’s say 1/4 as much damage as happened through abuse of executive authority over the last two years. At that point I’ll be interested in seriously med…
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3 experts · 4 posts · 5d ago
Ted Underwood SE Gyges Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
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“The problem I see is that most of the pro-IP anti-AI policies pushed by anti-AI people hurt open-source AI more than the closed-source AIs run by billionaires. I think it's critical that we make a …” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: I worked with a doctoral student here (Ke-Rou Wang) who studies perception of musical creativity. She did some testing of unlabeled samples. I think her work is embargoed at this point while it mov…
SE Gyges: most of the ai music you have heard is the equivalent of ai music mcdonalds also, the primary barrier to making it good and selling it on those terms has -- for some years! -- been that it is ultra…
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