Daniel Abraham
@abraham.bsky.social
Novelist, screenwriter, and the James half of James SA Corey. Will block on tone. He/him office@danielabraham.com
I expect this to be spun as “AI is finding sooooo many bugs and vulnerabilities!” without much accounting of how many reported bugs turn out to be bogus. LLMs generate outputs with a significant percentage of factual errors.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 6h agoGoogle froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
This is common. This exact story happened to multiple IRL friends not just internet folks.
A Travis-T@tr0rna.bsky.social · 2d agoMy partner has long COVID/POTS and it has been at times devastating. She's slowly improving and learning to cope with different supplements and diet but there are still days she simply cannot get out of bed. She was fine prior to 2021 and since a mild bout of COVID (we're vaxxed) she's disabled.
So Muse is a software that asks for all your personal data, and then does *stuff* with an unknown, non-zero error rate? If my assistant accidentally pulled forms for a gym that I 1) didn’t belong to and 2) didn’t live in the same state, I’d assume they were ill. www.wsj.com/podcasts/the...
Our Reporter Tried Meta’s Viral AI Agent. Should You? - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
Come see The Journal Live! Tickets for our show in Dallas are on sale now. Muse is Meta’s new AI agent, and it’s a hit. With more and more people using this type of technology to help manage their tim...
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I remain impressed with how much of the conversation around AI glosses over how often it gets things wrong in a “of course everyone knows this” way. It is the central and unfixable structural flaw of LLMs.
through no particular intention, I have read Pollan’s A World Appears, Moore’s Moon & Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, Dehane’s Reading and the Brain, and now Zeman’s The Shape of Things Unseen. Strange year.
For values of mind-boggling approaching very, very predictable
Semafor@semafor.com · 4d agoVisitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.
Bennett@sleightedge.bsky.social · 5d agoThe problem is even more fundamental. LLMs do not understand causation or logic. They only understand correlation. Which means, even with full token context, they will always have the chance to hallucinate.
AI as Procrustean lifestyle tool. I am so not interested in playing that gam.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d agoBelieve it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic
For my ABQ peeps, Launch event tonight at Books on the Bosque! B&N Santa Fe on Saturday! New York City Comicon, where I’ll be appearing with the one and only Neil Newbon! (Did I mention what an incredible job he did narrating? HE SINGS A SEA SHANTY AS AN ENCHANTED HARP)
Giving AI its due: it has been useful for tracking down things with only random bits of information. (That one mystery novel about the artist and the fire where the audiobook reader’s name started with X) Not convinced that’s worth staking the whole economy on, but…. 🤷
Surprising how many of these discoveries appear because some human already put them in the dataset. Wait, no. Not surprising. The other thing.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last wk.Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
Ceci n'est pas une pipe turns out to be the most important artistic insight for the 2020s. I maybe can't tell what images are on a screen are representations of real events, but that dog on my couch is a dog.
I have been reminded of an old line: Authors don’t get paid to write. We get paid to suffer the casual judgment of others.
You ever see a post that, for professional reasons, you want to print out and laminate
AP Stylebook@apstylebook.com · 2w agoArtificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
In New Mexico, 1 in 5 children face food insecurity while our state exports over 90% of our agricultural products and imports over 90% of our food. If we’re serious about fixing hunger and getting food from our farmer to hungry families, we have to fix our broken food system.
Please read the Trilogy of Kithamar! It's genuinely so good and the idea of building a trilogy on simultaneous stories rather than a sequel as continuation works wonders
RJ@rj-ctl.bsky.social · 2w agoFinished Blade of Dream. Didn't expect it to love it as much as Age of Ash but I did. Still in awe at how Daniel Abraham managed to repeat this feat twice (and I hope thrice once the last book comes out). Feeling emptiness from leaving beloved characters once more. But that's part of why it's great
Trans panic is a desperate distraction by a party that has been astonishingly dedicated to protecting the Epstein class.
LLMs should only ever be deployed in situations where errors have little or no impact.
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS@waitmanwbeorn.com · 2w ago"You're right! That runway wasn't actually clear which is why you crashed into another plane. Would you like me to call an ambulance?" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
The entire presidential television press pool — Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN — has agreed to suspend coverage in the wake of Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House
Major TV Networks Band Together in Boycott After Trump’s Ban on CNN
The five major TV networks are joining forces after Trump’s press ban.
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I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel
As we approach 100 sessions in, Ty and I have gone from brainstorming, outlining, writing the first draft, and halfway through the first rewrite pass with occasional asides for Q&As and life getting in the way. If you ever wondered how the sausage gets made... www.patreon.com/c/JamesSACor...
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Getting "Craft makes money, and A.I. tends to wreck your sense of craft" tattooed across my entire back in the big gothic Tupac font.
Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
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One of the great lessons I have learned is that status ladders are largely illusions. Someone can objectively reach the absolute commanding heights of power, fame, and authority and still be a total fucking loser. Someone can be firmly among the despised and still be a class act.
Recursive self-improvement seems like making a photocopier that adds more detail than the original image.
