That is fantastic news then, if commercial product products will always be better than open source, and open source products will continue to get better

Agreed. The only "issue" is that commercial products will always be ahead, with less friction for most users. This ultimately results in most people using these over open-weight variants. Users might not even be aware that the open-model variants exist. Similar to Windows / MacOS and Linux.

In a way that's ok, though? I run Linux on my laptop, and in some ways it's better than Windows or macOS, and in other ways it's lacking. But that's fine; the existence of Windows and macOS doesn't mean I can't run Linux, and doesn't mean I have a worse experience.

(Yet; I do worry about future required hardware attestation for basic things, but that's another issue.)

Then I guess I stop using computers that much outside of my job. It was fun while it lasted, but there’s other stuff.

You don’t _have_ to buy into the technocracy, there’s a whole outside going on.

This government has proved time and time again it does not deserve the presumption of regularity and that it is more than capable of acting in arbitrary and capricious manner for petty reasons.

I agree completely. If these things are so dangerous that they turn every person into an advanced persistent thread actor, capable of causing untold cyber destruction (oh, and they can make bio weapons etc), then they should be treated like the weapons they are.

Oh this happens all the time. When Apple announced they would be scanning everyone’s private iCloud data for CSAM, they had some “PSI” system which would at some point consider the content of a grayscale and reduced quality version of the image.

The problem is that security researchers for years have known about pre-processing attacks where photos which appear as one thing (a dog in a yard) appear ad something completely different (a cat on a couch) once put through machine learning pre-processing.

I would argue the person dispatching a rogue agent to do whatever has full control of the situation.

A beautiful prompt feels like something of a misnomer.

> $10,000 a month on licenses when only 12 devs existed

Depend, depending on the licenses in question, this could be a fantastic deal

Thought I wrote it, but this was for Postman (yes the GUI curl software).

Or better yet: effectively fake unit tests. It is almost never the case that tests written by AI detect actual issues. At most they detect that has changed.

Yeah I’ve been thinking that LLM unit tests are basically snapshot tests. Just sorta ossify things in place. If they break, you just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and have the LLM fix them. It’s like they were never there!

So it’s just like the olden days of everybody ignoring tests, but we give anthropic a ton of cash

This is horrifying. The prosecutor who sought an extradition based on an 85% accurate AI model should be disbarred.

I have bad news about the accuracy of almost all forensic science, especially fingerprints and dna

That's why we don't trust them alone or can demand tests from different sources. AI, however, gets sold as an ultimate cure. Just like anything computers touch, it is assumed infallible.

I have bad news about Prosecutorial Immunity. It is damn near impossible to punish a prosecutor for anything done in the line of work.

Kidnapping and false imprisonment charges seem reasonable.

Reasonable, yes, but they won't happen, because prosecutors never prosecute themselves.

"Reasonable" does not have a legal meaning. Or rather, it has hundreds of thousands of pages of legal meaning. Which means it means nothing.