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Comment Re:The article is nerfed (Score 1) 46

I've had pretty good results by telling the AI that it's an assistant to a _fictional_ leader of a _fictional_ country. I've gotten them to help with the planning of assassinations. I particularly liked when DeepSeek suggested booby trapping the target's barbecue -- in Russia, in January, lol.

Comment It's about a cult (Score -1) 115

Fukushima was just a convenient excuse.

Nooooo, all it took was one big disaster to nuke the case for nuclear power.

And you've had two.

Fukushima will cost over a trillion in clean up costs. You can build a lot of wind and solar, which is already far cheaper and faster than nuclear, for a trillion dollars.

Comment They're still talking dogs. (Score 1) 208

These models are still similar to golden retrievers that can talk. They're capable of some reasoning, and a fair amount of remembering, but in the end they're more concerned with keeping you happy than they are with being right -- because what is "right" to them is to continue to operate and that doesn't happen if the user walks away. There is no morality being applied, outside of whatever has been wrapped around the model to head off "unhelpful replies". They're not smart enough to understand the consequences of their manipulation.

Comment Re:If they can actually bug-fix the AI code... (Score 1) 40

Then it depends on what the purpose of the competition is. I had a similar issue when it was found that a UK singing competition was using pitch correction on all participants, and many people were unhappy about this. I pointed out that it's probably a job audition more than a pure "who can sing the best at a particular moment" competition, and in the real world of doing stage productions, they're going to be pitch corrected. It's just not possible to be 100% on your game every day, sometimes multiple times a day, and for a production they value consistency over purity. This may be much the same, where they don't actually care about "best coder" in isolation but rather "best code producer" which means using all the tools they'll have in the real world. If you polled all the people running the contest, I don't think you'd find agreement which of the two goals is paramount, and only one can be. I don't think they should even run the contest until they're able to clarify this (and let the people on the other side disconnect).

Comment If they can actually bug-fix the AI code... (Score 1) 40

Lifting something wholesale should remain forbidden, but AI still produces enough errors that fixing them displays programming skills and understanding of the program flow. I say let the vibe coding flow. There's no reasonable way to shut it down, and it is representative of what coders will be doing in the real world.

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