I figured out how to remove most of the safeguards from some AI models.
Nice.
How do you feel about this?
It's another kind of power. I try to use mine responsibly, but also to give myself a break when I don't meet my own standards.
Some good advice I got once was that it's impossible to "un-say" something, so it pays to think twice before speaking.
If your gut is telling you to pause, listen to it. Wait to move forward until you feel better about it.
As someone else pointed out, responsible disclosure is an option.
You also have the option to just quietly enjoy a better copy of the AI than others have.
If you decide to publish your discoveries, be aware that others will judge you for how you go about it. For me that means the two options are responsibly, or anonymously.
I predict that California residents are going to make bank off of penalties in court after Meta and peers completely ignore this law for several years.
Tip for CA residents: join that class action lawsuit. The penalties are getting better, and cash for a new game console is nothing to scoff at.
And I wouldn't be shocked if we see the penalties get all the way into "first house downpayment" territory before the big companies decide to start complying with state privacy laws.
I personally, haven't been successful mixing my gaming rig with my main development machine.
To really succeed as a developer, I've sometimes needed to be willing to make risky changes to my development machine, that I'm not willing to do to my gaming machine.
If I absolutely had to, I could make it work. But I wouldn't do it on purpose.
So one of the two things Windows is good for - acting as a terminal for remotely accessing better operating systems, is getting a new name that obscures exactly that most useful use case. Yeah, that tracks.
Microsoft must be feeling the need to shore up the walls so their remaining users can't leave as easily.
(Sarcasm/Serious: Let's say 50/50. I am actually aware that some people have other uses for Windows.)
Bankruptcy Judge Craig T. Goldblatt sided with pension funds over how to calculate the penalty Yellow must pay for canceling workers’ retirement plans when the company shut down last year. The ruling, issued last week, means there is little chance the company will have any cash left for shareholders like hedge fund MFN Partners after Yellow finishes selling its real estate portfolio and paying the pension penalty.
Fuck yeah. A contract is a contract. A pension is a particularly important one, in the "preventing brick to the head of shareholder" category.
Shareholders need to wise up about pension obligations, or move their money back into index funds.
I want to show more empathy, but the dude made the choice to start a new war in the nuclear era when we cannot afford war anymore. (And yes, I'm aware he's not the first.)
I wonder sometimes if we face a choice between strictly rejecting his kind (war starters) from our species, or accept that our species is destined to cease to exist.
Return the internet to the pre-"smart" phone era, in which a minimum bar of effort and knowledge needed to be present in order to connect and participate on the web.
Yeah. I think that's happening now.
The public will discover the Fediverse, but I'm not sure if they'll be welcomed into every community here.
Now hold me in the materialization phase for several minutes...