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Is it ethical to offer a service for an exorbitant amount of money that adds zero tangible benefit to society?
Example: the rando charging $250/second for animated gifs.
32%Yes
26%No
26%Maybe
16%Show results
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You prompted a model in a security-sensitive environment, investigated it with forced command completions, and framed the results as evidence of a hidden backdoor.
Then you layered on geopolitical fearmongering, repeatedly emphasizing China and Beijing to imply state-sponsored espionage without proving it.
That’s not evidence of a backdoor. That’s a security observation turned into competitive and geopolitical FUD.
Publish the original prompts, full traces, and reproducible results. Let the evidence speak for itself.
While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.
Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.
But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?
We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.
Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…
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if you're gonna do it, at least call it what it is. this has literally nothing to do with rescue
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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The sooner people start seeing data centers as societal infrastructure on the scale of telecomms and semicon fabs vs this nebulous “bad thing” the sooner we can get to addressing the actual problems that are not going to wait for you to figure this out
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For 1 minute and 10 seconds of animation from this rando you can get 2 DGX Sparks but yeah AI is what's killing art
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calling all 1337 h4xx0rs!11
this is how you get employed and paid TF up over the next year(s)
Start networking
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An optimistic theory on systems development replacing product development and a manifesto/hypothesis on cybernetics
or maybe just cope from someone who is ngmi, who knows
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Pattern switch implemented. Seemingly closed loops with smoke and mirrors. 😏
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Actual Computer turns your NVIDIA DGX Station into a department-scale AI factory.
Read the full case study:
actual.inc/company/blog/case…
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"I view code as kind of like art so it sucks that AI is taking it over."
Cool! I like to build things that help people though so you keep doing your art and I'm going to find the best/fastest way to build things to help people
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I have tried to read @allTheYud’s writings and it would fail an elementary philosophy course. Anyone that thinks he is a genius is an idiot.
The entire AGI/Singularity discourse is obviously a neo-Christian cult - if CEOs take it seriously, then they are also idiots.
So not to go all Yudkowsky Monocause Theory. But a lot of AI company talk that *sounds smart* did come from me, or me via Bostrom or other diffusion modes. High-powered ideas like "recursive self-improvement" and "AGI" are ideas they did not invent themselves, but got off higher-quality outside thinkers. There's a big intellectual history behind me in turn, but the AI companies did not study this history independently; they got it downstream of my writing it up.
I naturally spent some time trying to figure out what the positive vision for AGI and ASI would look like, back in the mid-2000s.
But I considered it a lower priority to write up.
And AI company executives are not at the intellectual level where they can invent coherent answers to questions like that, if they don't have my answer sheet to copy from.
They can't tell you what the positive vision for AGI or ASI looks like, because I didn't prioritize writing up that part of my earlier thoughts. They can't copy it off from the same answer sheet they used to produce smart-sounding conversation like "general intelligence" or "recursive self-improvement" or "extinction risk" or "AI alignment problem".
If they're not reading off my answer sheet, AI company executives are pretty ordinary as intellectuals. Being able to spend billions on GPUs does not make you a genius inventor, even if we're used to amazing inventions coming from genius rather than black-box optimization. AI company executives are not going to give you better answers about "what's the positive vision" than any other random intellectual challenged with a question beyond their wits.
If you start hearing good-sounding answers from Anthropic or OpenAI, it means that Mythos or HPIM advanced to the point of learning how to sound convincing about utopia to humans.
I did do an *abstract* writeup on constraints and requirements over positive ASI scenarios (see eg "31 Laws of Fun"); but that does AI companies no good, because they would need to be able to sketch a concrete AGI scenario from those abstract ideas. That again is beyond them if I have not done their homework.
It is of course not in humanity's interest that I try to do this homework for the AI companies now. It would only be a lie. They have no utopia to offer.
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idk they’re consistently releasing the best models known to humankind. they might be on to something
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The person who allegedly made a death threat against people at Lighthaven was deepfates. I'm still trying to find out more about the specifics of what happened.
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SpaceX buyout was a death knell for Cursor.
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