Imagining. In such a situation I'd resist the urge to join a 3d printing forum and interject myself into their conversations with nothing worthwhile to add aside from my "um, actually" semantic quibbling. Because I'm not an ass and if the kid's having a good time more power to him, it's no skin off my back.
But you do you I guess.
Yeah, I would frankly be disappointed in Alibaba if they had gone to the trouble of risking their reputation by inserting nefariousness into their models and it turned out to be something this simplistic and obvious. :)
Alright, I used it to organize my AI-generated sounds.
Feel better? Swapping those words had exactly zero impact on what was actually done. The labels you use don't make any practical observable difference.
A company I was in a few jobs back had several layers of IT department, there was the local studio department that handled our everyday stuff and a "head office" somewhere far away that set policy and handed out budget and whatnot.
One day "head office" IT decided it was a good idea to send out some fake phishing emails to "test" us. They didn't tell the local IT department about it, I guess they were also being "tested". My manager received one and only recognized it as a phishing attempt after he'd clicked just one too many things for it to feel safe to ignore. So he yanked the power on his computer and contacted the local IT department, as is protocol when something potentially dangerous just happened.
The local network went into lockdown while local IT tried to figure out if something actually dangerous had happened. It cost the studio as a whole several hours of work time, which for a studio our size translated to an obscene dollar cost. Nobody on our side of things did anything wrong, even that one extra "dangerous" click my manager did wasn't something he could be blamed for - head office had crafted the fake phishing attempt well and his reaction to it would have prevented damage had it been real.
Head office never tried a stunt like that again.
This must be a particularly difficult time for the protogens.
Okay, thanks. I was hoping it'd be relatively straightforward to get AI up to speed on it, I just wasn't sure where to start or whether it'd be a waste of time if I tried. I just want to give my pawns some interesting diseases and it seemed like a daunting bit of setup to get to that point. I'll take another run at it soon. :)
Rimworld's an interesting battleground right now in terms of AI, the various fan forums came out strongly against AI and then the new BRUTAL engine came along that incorporates AI-generated code into the base game. So I didn't think I'd get much help from the forums I'm aware of.
There's a thread over on Reddit's localllama debunking this. Basically, Cohere prefilled the LLM's context with stuff that led up to a spot where the LLM would need to fill in a URL, forcing it to come up with one. They then repeated inference over and over, forcing the LLM to generate random URLs from memory, until they got one that looked suspicious. Cohere themselves said that it happened in fewer than 1 in 100000 attempts.
Given that Alibaba trained the LLM I'm not surprised that it would have seen a bunch of Alibaba URLs in its training data and subsequent reinforcement sessions. Naturally something that looks like an Alibaba URL would sometimes pop out of it when forced to generate lots of URLs.
Yeah, we're here. I'm a professional programmer but I haven't written an actual line of code in quite a while now, and I've been having so much fun with my local model (Qwen3.8-27B Q4) doing all sorts of cleanup tasks on my lifetime's giant pile of accumulated files. For example, all my generated music - I ended up having Qwen build a GUI music manager and whipped up a website generator for my favourites so I can more easily share them through free hosts without having to hand them over to spotify or whatever.
I'm curious, is the game you mentioned modding Rimworld? I've been pondering modding it for some time now, it's one of my favourite games, if you've got experience using AI for that I wouldn't mind some pointers. It was always a "I know how to do this stuff but it takes way more time and attention than I've got available right now" sort of task but AI can help so much there. :) Your description of the "engine changed but compatibility is remarkably good" matches what I've seen of Rimworld's recent 1.7 update.
Sure they can. The fundamental similarity here is anti-intellectualism, a distrust in the notion that science and technology are positive things that can enhance our lives. America is rife with it these days and the result is all sorts of beliefs sweeping through society that stand in opposition to what the "experts" say. Vaccines cause autism. Pasteurization is bad. "Chemicals" or "GMOs" are bad. Transgenderism isn't real. Data centers are responsible for vast quantities of water consumption. LLMs are incapable of creating anything original. And so on. Once these beliefs get rooted then any effort to dislodge them only becomes part of the narrative of untrustworthy oligarchs and technocrats trying to manipulate people, which is especially tricky because many of them are trying to manipulate people. Makes it hard to know which authorities to trust without learning enough to become one yourself, and learning is hard when you don't know which information sources to start with.
Unfortunately I have no idea how to counter such a large-scale movement in society. As the old saying goes, you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. A lot of the anti-science sentiment comes from irrational sources - fear of the uncertain future, fear of losing prestige and power, fear of loss of personal autonomy. Some of those fears are rooted in real concerns but the reactions they can provoke are not necessarily productive.
It was indeed a good day.
It later got squandered, sure. But that day was good.
Hey, at least Alberta's UCP lets you look at your conservative party and think about how much worse they could have been.
Alas, "the least-worst candidate who had a plausible chance of winning" is generally the best outcome for most democracies.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Or the "well he's okay I guess", in this case.