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MagicMoonlight commented on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems   blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/tatersolid
MagicMoonlight · 2 days ago
That’s a good point, I never thought of hiding stuff in the images you send. LLMs truly are the most insecure software in history.

I remember testing the precursor to Gemini, and you could just feed it a really long initial message, which would wipe out its system prompt. Then you could get it to do anything.

MagicMoonlight commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
steve1977 · 3 days ago
IMHO Mark Zuckerberg is a textbook case of someone who got lucky once by basically being in the right place at the right time, but who attributes his success to his skill. There’s probably a proper term for this.
MagicMoonlight · 3 days ago
And he didn't even come up with the idea, he stole it all. And then he stole the work from the people he started it with...
MagicMoonlight commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
m463 · 4 days ago
It still "recognizes a face" and shows this. Legal terms do not have to be scientific or engineering terms.
MagicMoonlight · 3 days ago
If it's not clearly defined then it would be subject to debate in court, and you could admit expert evidence of what facial recognition is to define it
MagicMoonlight commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
MagicMoonlight · 3 days ago
I'm fine with that, shoplifters are scum.

I don't see the point in campaigning against things like this, because it only protects bad people. If the government wants to get you, they won't use home depot to do it, they'll just take you from your house or shoot you in the street. If they want to spy on you, they'll break into your house and put microphones under your carpet and cameras in your walls.

If we actually had cameras like this everywhere, there would be so much less crime. Instead of the drug addict robbing twenty shops a day, they'd be arrested in the second shop.

MagicMoonlight commented on The new geography of stolen goods   economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb
MattGrommes · 5 days ago
The incentives just don't seem to be there. This boggled my mind:

> For each container Mr Gibson holds up and searches, the police must pay the port a fee of £200.

MagicMoonlight · 4 days ago
The ports are always corrupt. If we were serious about drugs we would just lock down the ports
MagicMoonlight commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
MagicMoonlight · 10 days ago
I don’t see the point, tiny models always just hallucinate and have no real knowledge.
MagicMoonlight commented on VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project    · Posted by u/marcjschmidt
MagicMoonlight · 10 days ago
Not worth it for 1800/views a year. Keep using the name though, since you held the trademark they can’t exactly argue that you can’t.
MagicMoonlight commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context   anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
MagicMoonlight · 11 days ago
It’s a stupid metric because nothing in the real world has half a million words of context. So all they’re doing is feeding it imagined slop, or sticking together random files.
MagicMoonlight commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers   simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
MagicMoonlight · 16 days ago
I've never seen such blatant mental illness before. People are screeching that their friend is dead, that they're actually crying over it. It's a really terrible model. The only different thing about it, was that you could get it to go along with any delusion or conspiracy you believe in.

It's absolutely terrifying seeing how fanatical these people are over the mental illness robot.

MagicMoonlight commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
techpineapple · 17 days ago
I’m curious what this means. Maybe I’m stupid but I read through the sample gpt-4 vs got-5 and I largely couldn’t tell the difference and sometimes preferred the gpt-4 answer. But like what are the average 800 million people using this for that the average 800 million user will be able to see a difference?

Maybe I’m a far below average user? But I can’t tell the difference between models in causal use.

Unless you’re talking performance, apparently gpt-5 is much faster.

MagicMoonlight · 16 days ago
4o would start writing immediately without thinking. So if the first thing it wrote was “The world is flat because…” then it will continue to write as if the world is flat.

It makes it very stupid, but very compliant. If you’re mentally ill it will go along with whatever delusions you have, without any objection.

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KarmaCake day1412October 13, 2022View Original