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Re:AI Agent Hacks McKinsey on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @12:08PM (#47337451)
Its so funny its a SQL injection because drum roll you can't santize llm inputs. Some problems are evergreen.
Re:Building a TB-303 from Scratch on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @08:57AM (#47334981)
my high school had a cs-70 and it poisoned me for life. that being said, theres a pretty big leap in terms of accessibility vs a browser based synth and you dont need $10,000 to play it so that's nice
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @04:48AM (#47059188)
Its such a shame that the AI era continues to lionize the last of the free and open internet. Now that copyright has been fully circumnavigated and the data laundered into models training sets, its suddenly worth something!
Re:Claude Code talking about unexpected, different projects on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:52AM (#47048847)
it's no less likely to hallucinate than anything else, but you should take a screenshot
Is anybody shocked that when prompted to be a psychotherapy client models display neurotic tendencies? None of the authors seem to have any papers in psychology either.
Re:Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code on Thursday February 05, 2026 @02:45PM (#46904141)
In so far as model use cases I don't mind them throwing their heads against the wall in sandboxes to find vulnerabilities but why would it do that without specific prompting? Is anthropic fine with claude setting it's own agendas in red-teaming? That's like the complete opposite of sanitizing inputs.
this was the goal the entire time, and they had the nerve to cynically call themselves a non-profit.
Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:56PM (#43356227)
clear attempt circumnavigate the clear copyright violations of the AI era and kick the can down the road.
Re:People are just as bad as my LLMs on Monday March 10, 2025 @04:32PM (#43325741)
Kind of an odd metric to try to base this process off of. are more comments inherently better? is it responding to buzz words? Makes sense talking about hiring algos / resume scanners in part one and if anything this elucidates some of the trouble with them.
No wonder kids cover their faces now
because they tacked it on! If the product is carefully considered tech built from the ground up using AI or ML Those products would not drive people away. Now things that worked like search on google and social media sites is so bloated and inconsistent that your grandma would notice while touting AI powered search.
Re:Using the Moon as an Echo [video] on Saturday August 10, 2024 @09:38AM (#41209405)
Moonbounce! The amateur extra license is tough but its the coolest ham enthusiast flex. one day :_)
Re:ESP32 Drum Synth Machine on Thursday May 09, 2024 @05:06PM (#40312961)
Theres some in-depth breakdowns for the PO 12,14,16 here(http://hackingthepo.weebly.com/) if you're interested! I have no idea about the po33 and if the juice is worth the squeeze, but they're cheap enough to tear apart so go for it.
Re:ESP32 Drum Synth Machine on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:58PM (#40310937)
Pocket operator-esque setup, very cool
Re:Fine-Tuning Increases LLM Vulnerabilities and Risk on Thursday April 11, 2024 @08:17PM (#40008163)
People understate the ability of LLM's to give out info that is dangerous, a black box is a black box. find an AI engineer who knows exactly why a model gives the answer it does and i'll eat my hat.
Re:Mental Health in Software Engineering on Thursday April 11, 2024 @06:32PM (#40007504)
I don't think goals and motivations are a monolith just for people who like computers, or STEM, or who socialize less in high school because 'they didn't want to play the popularity game'. this worldview is reductive, and wholly unaware how growing up is different for everybody. Just be aware before you judge people.
Re:Mental Health in Software Engineering on Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:09PM (#40006829)
any person earnestly applying a nerd and jock mentality to adult life should find a nice patch of grass to touch and talk to more people
Re:Ask HN: Why can't image generation models spell? on Saturday March 16, 2024 @02:41PM (#39728330)
I think it just boils down to what they were trained on, some models do better when the training sets are more specific even if they're smaller sometimes, so the engineers chase better wholesale performance while leaving some of the weirder edge cases to be cleaned up later eg text generation. maybe start with the image and try adding the text after in a separate prompt if you haven't already?
Re:Tesla Recalls 2M Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:49AM (#38626581)
its not a malicious term its the NHTSA legal term, and what tesla will call it too when they mail out owner notification letters about the problem in February to anyone with a :

model y (20-23) model x (16-23) model s (12-23) model 3 (17-23)

Re:Underage Workers Are Training AI on Sunday November 19, 2023 @02:37PM (#38336910)
the traumatizing content is a very real part of it, in my experience' red teaming' LLMs included both reviewing and creating overtly violent, sexual, racist content. if you refused the work you got fired. not surprising, but real.
two billion people can't use generative AI, it comes at tremendous cost on the front or back end. AI is not an altruistic endeavor, net result is that the largest companies in the world make money off the lifetime works of authors without paying them.
Re:The Most Underrated Application of LLMs on Friday September 15, 2023 @01:51PM (#37526726)
the LLM ouroboros starts with models being used to create training data for models.