This was an interesting read. I don't know what to make out of it. Fundamental limitations/permissions and semantic meaning seem to be wrapped in simple roles tags, that the LLMs are supposed to learn, but do not. role-confusion.github.io

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

LLMs can't tell who's speaking. We show they identify roles by writing style, not tags, and exploit this with CoT Forgery, injecting fake reasoning that models mistake for their own thoughts.

role-confusion.github.io

This will be some Reddit gold. Already some nonsense about mathematics there.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5d ago

I've apparently made an "AI" forum on Reddit very angry www.reddit.com/r/accelerate...

We will all become pure spirit, free from the gray matter! Finally on the same level of existence as the definition of productivity itself.

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones.org · 2mo ago

The rest of the quasi-religious rhetoric pales in comparison to defending genocide and colonialism: “As much as the Industrial Revolution freed us from the constraints of human muscle, AI will free us from the constraints of the human brain, pushing productivity beyond our wildest dreams.”

We can all become pure spirit, free from the gray mass!

Ariel Guersenzvaig@interacciones.org · 2mo ago

The rest of the quasi-religious rhetoric pales in comparison to defending genocide and colonialism: “As much as the Industrial Revolution freed us from the constraints of human muscle, AI will free us from the constraints of the human brain, pushing productivity beyond our wildest dreams.”

Weird correlations dept.

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 6mo ago

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Now I know where the next pandemic will start. It is some mutated measles from Florida swamps.

Can confirm from my orbit.

#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social · 6mo ago

*i know a lot of "coders" and software "engineers," I'm in their cultural orbit so I know they're kind of frail, but I never expected to see them having so many collective and individual nervous-breakdowns like this *It's like a stock-market panic, buit also a revolutionary fervor

European free speech is exactly like that. Free speech but not for child abuse or hate speech. Has worked fine. Embrace the but. US style free speech absolutists are incoherent assholes.

@bruces.bsky.social plato.stanford.edu/entries/gass...

This is the flag of Kalmar union. ”The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (inc. Finland) and Norway.” -Wikipedia

He got one from Jabba too. Make Tatooine Great Again

I think it is just prudent

#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social · 7mo ago

*It's like framing Meta metaverse skeptics as "Metaverse denialists." They don't deny that Facebook's metaverse is there or that it works, they just think it was enshittified from the get-go because they distrust every executive, designer, builder and financer who was ever involved with it

Every nuance and comma is considered in coms by government officials but then you post that between nazi salutes and CSAM in goddamm X. Futile, complacent and absolutely amateurish communication.

It is insane that these platforms can hide under the net neutrality doctrine, rip and abuse us all.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

Ouch. TD;LR Who are you and why are you in my court?

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Judge to Lindsey Halligan: Explain yourself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hey @usatoday.com , does Helsinki belong to the West hemisphere your dear leader is talking about? I have some bangers here which I would like to get a status update ASAP. Some places you might know, some are totally new for your, for sure.

I feel like BlueSky was seeded by the problem-solving activist set, for whom — to its credit — social media has always been imagined as a strategy room for the project of a better world, and so the site constantly feels like we are all huddled around a table with a giant map of Today’s Problem.

Seems easy, in principle. I don’t think the current U.S. administration could mount any competent response in WTO or wherever, if ever, these cases would be trialed.

Jake Williams@malwarejake.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Interesting read: 👇

Minna Ålander 🌻@alanderminna.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.

Something drastic needs to change in Russia before there is any reason to believe they will honor agreements. Sadly same goes for US since Trump 2.0.

Anton Shekhovtsov@shekhovtsov.substack.com · last yr.

Russia always tries to reach an agreement which it necessarily breaks. It's a pattern, it breaks the promises that it makes because it knows that nobody is going to enforce the agreements, nobody is going to hold Russia accountable for breaking its promises and agreements. 1/6

Trump is now an aide in Russia’s regime change plan for Ukraine. Europeans need to act NOW, not after the German elections, to make sure Ukrainians have an alternative. All the worst came true and there is no other way to put it than that the US is in Russia’s team now.

Trump snaps back at Zelenskyy, blaming Ukraine for the war

The Ukrainian president has been excluded from the administration’s negotiations with Russia seeking an end to the war.

politico.com

After Northeast Europe's big told-you-so moment of 2022, now it could be France's time. And once we're done with all that, maybe we can just start building an integrated European defence, like we should have done in 1954?

James Kanter@jameskanter.bsky.social · last yr.

For years Macron warned the Baltics and Poles and Nordics that the US would no longer be reliable. Yet we all mocked Macron and derided the Europeanisation of defense as a dangerous abandonment of Atlanticism and @natohq.bsky.social and a ploy to fund French defense companies. Yet here we are.

The actual negotiations have not started and Putin already got more than he was hoping. After Moscow sobers up from all the partying, they will demand much more before starting any formal process.

Mark MacKinnon@markmackinnon.bsky.social · last yr.

Pete Hegseth, asked at NATO press conference what concessions Vladimir Putin will be expected to make in exchange for peace in Ukraine, lauds Trump as "the perfect dealmaker"... but avoids answering the question.

Have you seen this one before? A short history of traffic engineering via @copenhagenizers.bsky.social. Manufactured #CarDependency takes a lot of forms, including how easy or hard we make it to get from A to B using any other ways of getting around. A direct result of the wrong priorities.