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It's too bad there isn't a way to use something like a flipper zero to compromise the cameras and simply disable them, or insert malicious video files into their network...

Oh I agree that you won't be able to fire your shotgun in a large urban area, but if you're someplace less densely populated I can imagine being able to drive up from behind in the middle of the night...

It's too bad there isn't an easier way to deal with this problem, especially in the instances where the cameras are being installed without consent.

Akin to having foreign adversaries set up a spy network within our borders, and instead of being punished for it, many law enforcement agencies are choosing to buy the subscription plan!

Anyone have any intel on how well these cameras hold up against buckshot?

What do you think the letters LLM stand for, pal?

This is the clearest explanation for Disco Elysium I've ever read, thank you.

Lovely, thanks for the reminder on massgrave. I made the switch to Linux and haven't looked back, but there are some games that require root kits that I'd like to play so I was considering virtualizing Windows and this would be perfect.

Discord... Still isn't public?

They're certainly talking about it but they haven't announced a date yet.

Having said that, element and matrix are both more privacy respecting so I do agree with the recommendation in general.

No. I want to make my voice loud enough for me to stop at a red light and ask the guy behind me if there is a proctology emergency or if they could stop riding my ass, and savor their expression as it dawns on them what is happening.

Yeah this is exactly what I have in mind. I want to feel like Smokey the Bandit calling people out for bad behavior with a receiver that has a coiled cable attached to it, at a minimum.

Since we're all throwing random ideas out here, I want to equip my vehicle with an annoyingly loud external speaker so that when someone near me does something dumb, I can personally shame them.

Okay Verstappen calm down there

Great article, thanks for sharing it OP.

For example, the Anthropic researchers who located the concept of the Golden Gate Bridge within Claude didn’t just identify the regions of the model that lit up when the bridge was on Claude’s mind. They took a profound next step: They tweaked the model so that the weights in those regions were 10 times stronger than they’d been before. This form of “clamping” the model weights meant that even if the Golden Gate Bridge was not mentioned in a given prompt, or was not somehow a natural answer to a user’s question on the basis of its regular training and tuning, the activations of those regions would always be high.

The result? Clamping those weights enough made Claude obsess about the Golden Gate Bridge. As Anthropic described it:

If you ask this “Golden Gate Claude” how to spend $10, it will recommend using it to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge and pay the toll. If you ask it to write a love story, it’ll tell you a tale of a car who can’t wait to cross its beloved bridge on a foggy day. If you ask it what it imagines it looks like, it will likely tell you that it imagines it looks like the Golden Gate Bridge.

Okay, now imagine you're Elon Musk and you really want to change hearts and minds on the topic of, for example, white supremacy. AI chatbots have the potential to fundamentally change how a wide swath of people perceive reality.

If we think the reality distortion bubble is bad now (MAGAsphere, etc), how bad will things get when people implicitly trust the output from these models and the underlying process by which the model decides how to present information is weighted towards particular ideologies? Considering the rest of the article, which explores the way in which chatbots attempt to create a profile for the user and serve different content based on that profile, now it will be even easier to identify those most susceptible to mis/disinformation and deliver it with a cheery tone.

How might we, as a society, create a process for conducting oversight for these "tools"? We need a cohesive approach that can be explained to policymakers in a way that will call them to action on this issue.