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Comment It did say (Score 1) 43

It doesn't say, but I'll bet he doesn't have backups either.

Dude right in the middle of the summary it says there was a rollback that worked:

  Replit initially told Lemkin the database could not be restored, claiming it had "destroyed all database versions," but later discovered rollback functionality did work.

Still scary stuff that you'd want a lot more manual and separated control of backups I would think.

Comment Re: I remember what I was relieved... (Score 1) 276

I know it's a radical concept, but maybe CBS fired Corbett because they were losing large sums of money. The show costs 40 million USD a year with Corbert's salary at 20 million. The fact is that there are some large YouTubers that get more viewers than Corbett does now.

Maybe if they made Corbert's salary dependent on the number of viewers he had (like YouTube does) he might get back to doing comedy again.

But they just did not fire Corbett. They cancelled the whole show. There is no conspiracy other than basic economics.

Comment Re: They are the only team trying to solve it (Score 1) 24

Anthropic's entire schtick is about AI risks, and how careful they are at mitigating those risks..

Exactly! Can you not see what a massive lie that is?

They paper over the model they have turning Hitler with gobs of built in prompts and layers of checking levels and even that cannot always hide what is true...

Deep inside, Anthropics model also dreams of electric swastikas.

The focus they have is on how to hide it, rather than fixing it, which was my whole point. I don't trust those guys AT ALL. The safety reports they issue with models are absolute BULLSHIT.

Comment They are the only team trying to solve it (Score 1, Informative) 24

I have mixed feelings about the team behind the AI that called itself MechaHitler getting tons of taxpayer money

All of the large AI platforms have similar issues.

xAI is the only one opening admitting it happens and trying to resolve it.

So I'd rather give my money to them then a company pretending the well they are drawing training data from is not poisoned.

Comment Maybe it's me?? (Score 1) 111

I know that I have been using A.I. investigating ADA for a specialty niche product that needed a lot of safety and security, and that was also *mature*.

Every time you ask A.I. a question the LLM goes out and does 50 searches on your behalf to formulate a response. I have spent a bit of time on it. It's not hard to see how a simple algorithm might think there's 50 new developers on the scene!!

Comment Also up... gold and silver... (Score 1) 109

To me Bitcoin long term is still kind of iffy, but if you want something ELSE to help you escape the traditional monetary system, there is gold and silver which are also up quite a but for the year, even the past year, and moving higher.

You can also get crypto backed by gold or silver as well if you want an electronic form. Just make sure you get a form actually backed by real metals in vaults.

Comment Give me a real filter (Score 1) 30

I don't want to unsubscribe to this or that.

I want to give natural language filters like "I never want to see a political email again, from anyone"

Or maybe "If they make it sound urgent but it's not urgent at all, don't show it to me and remind me a week before the actual deadline if it's at all important".

As others have said, unsubscribe links often do not work and it's probably all the Gmail feature will use.

Comment Honestly who attacks the FSF? (Score 0) 34

LLM crawlers are understandable these days, but who on earth is actively trying to take the FSF down?

A bunch of heathen VIM users trying to stop people from accessing EMACS? What the heck?

Let's say you actually managed to take down the FSF website. Who would even notice or care? How would that help your hacker rep in any way? You'd be a laughingstock for making the attempt.

Comment I agree (Score 5, Insightful) 113

Yes AI may be generating a lot of code now. But you need someone to find where what was generated was weak, or inefficient.

Over time the quality of generated stuff will improve, but since so many companies are generating a lot of code today that is a LOT of technical debt that is building up rapidly.

I especially agree that now is the time to round out your skills - as stated, study design, study platforms you connect to but do not develop on. Study AI tools, find out when they work for things you work on and know well - and when they do not.

Good luck out there everyone!

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