Phil McDuff

“Skeleton Key” and “jailbreaking” are bad metaphors for general-purpose AI chatbots that anthropomorphize them into sentient prisoners whose behavior can be neatly observed and controlled. They are large-scale stochastic systems with unpredictable outputs operating with no coherent baseline.

“In a blog post last week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledged the existence of a new jailbreaking technique that causes ‘the system to violate its operators’ policies, make decisions unduly influenced by a user, or execute malicious instructions.’”

Microsoft Acknowledges "Skeleton Key" Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AIfuturism.com In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."

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cascades of people telling everybody that they have to absolutely perfect optics and messaging and put themselves in the public eye flawlessly if they expect to get anything done constantly crying and crying about how unfair it is that their rep sucking dogshit in public affects his support

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there seems to be a kind of belief where a lot of people believe that every potential biden voter that they do not personally see online criticizing joe are as to-the-bone partisan and diehard about supporting biden as they are and that is just not the case at all

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unreal to me how much a group of people who will constantly tell you that you don't know how politics works and the compromises and sacrifices you have to accept for real change have nothing drive their own approach to dealing with political issues other than "it's UNFAIR how we're getting treated"

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Well this is grim

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very hard to figure out what this use of DEI could mean other than the n word

Subtle. Very subtle.

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It has begun. DEI with the hard R.

If they do put Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket, I am prepared for a level of misogynoir unwitnessed since Rosa Parks sat down on that bus.

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i am really, REALLY not okay with the idea that someone writing about sexual assault means they must be an abuser. for one thing, the vast majority of art about sexual abuse is created BY THE VICTIMS. the idea that depicting abuse makes you an abuser really fucking pisses me off actually.

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Btw for all my fundraising homies don't be discouraged or gaslit we're getting these fundraisers somewhere please never stop

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Democrats: “choose your candidate!” us: “we like this guy.” Democrats: “WRONG ANSWER, you’re getting that guy!” us: “not happy.” Democrats: “OH SO YOU WANT ADOLPH HITLER TO COME BACK IN POWER??” us: “we don’t but we would—“ Democrats: “I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE CAMPS YOU INGRATES”

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Subtle. Very subtle.

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“…past predictions of global warming have proved largely correct. To persist with scepticism is immoral and stupid. Even a free-market fanatic cannot deny that environmental externalities are a form of market failure. Climate is the biggest externality of all.”

Market forces are not enough to halt climate changewww.ft.com Investor returns imply that the welfare of future human beings is close to irrelevant

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I remember in high school my math teacher could speak Dutch and he spoke a little to show us and not one student believed it was a real language.

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it's so weird how "there is a ceasefire" can be the deal-breaker in a ceasefire deal

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violet allen

age gaps are not inherently predatory. but some people take advantage of age gaps and other power differentials as part of their predation. both can be true.

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age gap discourse online is so fucked. on the one hand you have people who act like they don't understand the reality of older people, usually men, preying upon younger, more vulnerable people. and on the other you have people literally saying 27 year olds shouldn't talk to 22 year olds.

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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you can use the internet for anything and married men choose to use it to send me unsolicited photos of themselves, their wives, their partners etc i am so bored i tell you

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British political pundits suddenly talking about "sectarianism" when the two sects in question are 1) Zionists and 2) Opponents of genocide. And they very strongly believe group 2) is the bad one.

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this and authoritarian crackdowns on anyone who complains (or they just don't like the look of) is all this government has to offer

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the nhs is broken - better sell it off, prisons are broken - better use the inmates as cheap labour, our water supply is broken - better give the companies responsible a huge influx of public money to do the maintenance they refuse to pay for themselves

Unless the "tough decisions" are legalising recreational drug use and releasing anyone in prison for it I doubt it'll be anything good

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This is the entire view of the right and one they’re pushing out tons of propaganda about. It’s why we get 10,000 stories of people shoplifting from Walgreens and nothing about tax cheats even though it involves multitudes more money. They want to define crime as existing entirely within the poor

Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs. We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.

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The framing of this headline and subhead are so bizarre. The "sticking point" is that Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire to be, in fact, acknowledged as permanent and the Israelis avowedly do not.

Hamas’s Cease-Fire Proposal Includes a Familiar Sticking Pointwww.nytimes.com Hamas wants assurances that Israel won’t restart the war after some hostages come home. Israel says it needs the option.

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You get the sense that the top stories of the day are selected by people whose top priority is to do as little reading as possible

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Whether England wins or loses tonight, there will be an increase of domestic violence and abuse across the country. Please see the relevant help below:

National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247. www.womensaid.org.uk/information-...

I need help - information and support on domestic abusewww.womensaid.org.uk Women’s Aid Live Chat does your relationship not feel right? It could be domestic abuse. Send an email to a Women’s Aid domestic abuse support worker. Help for all aspects of domestic abuse, suc...