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Humans are a terrible influence on computers

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“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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This entire website is about 20 minutes away from being a fight scene from Anchorman. Tridents, werewolves, a laser that turns you into a child, Jay Johnston is there and you turn to your date to tell them about his role in Jan 6th even though she doesn’t know who he is or care,

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we are all god's tamagotchis and he left us in a drawer to slowly run out of battery

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Ian Boudreau

Could Elon not even be bothered to Google how much the Boston Dynamics dog costs so he could at least realistically undercut a relevant player? 10K is suspiciously less than a 75k dog bot that theoretically should be less capable than the former.

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Baltimore is fine

My family’s answer was we moved to RI when we realized we could rent a whole house for the cost of our not-even-in-Boston 2 bed 2 bath.

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In a sad way, this is perfectly emblematic of systemic failure we’re seeing in a lot of arenas: expertise means nothing, marketing is what’s valued and sought after by those in charge

Why does Morning Joe keep turning to a marketing professor for hot takes on history, politics and sociology?

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Hemlock Autumn

I got a little hybrid sedan recently which I love, and I would happily give it up in a heartbeat for walkable infra and public transit. Feeling like I’m gonna get smushed by a F350 around every corner fucking sucks.

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Greg Sargent

Obviously anecdotal, but a buddy of mine overheard his neighbor telling a dominos pizza driver that, “a dictator would be best for this country”. Some folks really do just want their darkest impulses brought to life.

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learning a lot today

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ItsEasyBeingGreen

Yeah, was just thinking how Tesla made buckets of money off of carbon credits. Bold move of him to point the gun at his own foot.

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Kristi Yamaguccimane

You haven’t lived till you’ve seen a Disney Adult throw an apocalyptic 1.5 hour hissy fit because a cake didn’t show up, and so they tried to get a whole lunch bill canceled. And then you see the same guy almost fight another guy in a gift shop. Absolute lunatics.

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Leo P ⭒☽☾⭒ Sailor V

My most recent nurse practitioner at a specialist was the only one who didn’t give me flak and made material recommendations to help my situation rather than basically doling out webmd printouts. Was so grateful for that.

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dbsmasher.bsky.social

Yup, any weekend thoughts are required to become scheduled posts for 10am or later, cause the first hour of the day is the caffeine absorption hour, and is a sacred time.

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Drew Harwell

“I am Ozymandius, king of kings”

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My hottest tech take is that what big tech has actually succeeded at more than anything is a complete outsourcing of any and all responsibility for their actions. They've succeeded at building wildly irresponsible tools that get used in wildly irresponsible ways and nobody in power seems to care.

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Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

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Abigail Thorn

Congratulations on the huge get! Also apologies on having to add “Glup Shitto jokes” to the list of “podcast conversations you have no comment on for definitely not work reasons”.

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Marc Deschamps

Nintendo Power led me to give The World Ends with You a shot, may be my favorite Squenix RPG ever. Great magazine.

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We did it, folks. We make a ska-leton band.

My wife is a very patient woman

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Bluesky has crossed the critical growth threshold where there’s always someone getting yelled at on here

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My relationship to Twitter currently consists of an internal competition between years of habitually opening up the app in moments of boredom and the experience of how much browsing through the content sucks now.

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Why should I care enough to read or behold something no one cared enough to actually make?

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