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Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:33PM (#50109056)
Most likely that they look really correct and are not and require immense effort to understand, if even possible, to disprove their claims.

What we have is a DoS in research verification.

Re:Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:48AM (#50070839)
It’s a good idea. The three things I said still stand.
Re:Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:34AM (#50070678)
Good. Let this be a warning to shit companies with shit products and shit business models.
Re:Facehugging.ai on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:51AM (#49977108)
Sometimes you buy silly domains.
Re:Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:38AM (#49463846)
Not surprised and I’d like to see the effects of LLMs on offshoring of jobs to India. I’ve seen efforts to reduce headcount there after the release of Opus-4.6.
Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Monday August 10, 2026 @06:33PM (#49250795)
You could flip bits in the font itself, but I'm really wondering how portable this is.
Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Monday August 10, 2026 @06:31PM (#49250770)
OpenAI has been watermarking their images with C2PA for some time.
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:29PM (#49078123)
We need a seti@home for open weight models
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:27PM (#49078112)
Open weights are the future.
Re:How to Write English Prose on Sunday July 26, 2026 @04:27PM (#49062079)
The flatulence of text in that prose smells of rotting roses from an apology gone bad.
Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:01AM (#48993196)
American models == Cars with no brakes. Chinese models == Cars with brakes that can't drive down tiananmen square.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:09AM (#48947606)
I really don't see how the SaaS models will be profitable if this continues, all the money will be in providing consumers with hardware that can run these locally - with the ability to modify the weights and do your own ablation.
This is a sad. Makes me want to move my bank accounts.
If they paid for the tokens, then is it really stealing or just learning?
I uploaded a sample found here (https://github.com/alexct142010-cell/McBackuper ) to Genus Codes (need an account): https://genuscodes.com/results/7ad4b911d05a12f91ab27ba3baa35... Seems to be related to the disco trojan family, by way of normalized function matching at 50% to malicious file https://genuscodes.com/results/eddbc29db4677e00c1a901aadbadb... and a normalized 50% match to https://genuscodes.com/results/fdb6cff68a2a8c08779d64a7cf61d...

Virustotal link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/fdb6cff68a2a8c08779d64a7...

Re:Formal Methods and the Future of Programming on Sunday June 14, 2026 @03:53PM (#48531905)
Formal methods is like a plan. Everyone has one until they are punched in the face (real world requirements and trust boundaries).
Gotta have a moat.
Agree. If this was this was just "look at what Fable could do quickly" that's fine. But saying it's free for now is funny. Anyone else could just make games they want to play locally for themselves and their friends now. And there are better ones online.
It's time to make truly open source frontier models that people can run at home. Code is free speech. We've been through this with encryption algorithms in the past.
Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @05:21PM (#48467926)
I asked it to write security tests for an app and I was downgraded to Opus 4.8. I'm approved for their cyber program!
Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:08PM (#48465056)
You should throw GPT into the mix to UX/UI and call it the three stooges.
My guess in the North East in the winter there will be similar stories.
LLMs are going to produce amazing Rube Goldberg style vulnerabilities for years to come. It's already starting, this instance isn't the case, but it's happening.
Re:Your Website Is Not for You on Friday May 01, 2026 @10:35AM (#47975282)
That website was not for me.
Count 1 and 2 makes sense. A good lawyer can get 3-5 thrown out in a plea deal.
Re:You don't want long-lived keys on Saturday April 25, 2026 @10:42AM (#47901889)
I'm still having problems trusting my compiler.
Max x20 user here. As long as Opus 4.6 is available and they fix Opus 4.7, I'll stay with Anthropic. Tho, I'd imagine in 5 years we'll have Opus 4.6 equivalent performance available in an at home consumer model.
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:09PM (#47795494)
It's easier to produce vulnerable code than it is to use the same Model to make sure there are no vulnerabilities.
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:07PM (#47795460)
WTF. `Opus 4.7 is the first such model: its cyber capabilities are not as advanced as those of Mythos Preview (indeed, during its training we experimented with efforts to differentially reduce these capabilities). We are releasing Opus 4.7 with safeguards that automatically detect and block requests that indicate prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity uses. `

Seriously? You're degrading Opus 4.7 Cybersecurity performance on purpose. Absolute shit.

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