Somewhere in the NSA someone is going "damnit! They found that one too!?"

And now everything will go back to normal and people in China will stop using AI.

Right?

Well, "people" and "humans" aren't the same thing. One's a subset of the other.

Problem with getting too philosophical here is that someday soon the bots might also count as a subset. Then things get really complicated.

I imagine my first task for the agent will be to tell it to compile a skill file from all the documentation I'm able to direct it to. I was just hoping that maybe someone had already done that to give it a leg up.

Phishing attempts that got far enough to actually show up in our internal corporate inboxes like that aren't common, though. They're normally blocked by the layers of firewalls and whatnot. We almost never saw email on those accounts from outside the organization itself, period.

And once you've run something capable of remote execution on a machine that's inside the local network, with the sort of privileges that his machine had (he wasn't just a bureaucratic sort of manager, he was writing code too), you don't want to mess around.

Yeah, however, imagine that those kids are ruining your industry. But let me guess. You’d be totally fine with that, right?

In fact, I am.

I'm a professional programmer. 20 years experience, it's where I earn my money, got a university degree and everything. And we're here in a thread about how not only are AI models good at programming, even small local models are good at programming. I use them myself, I give advice on how to use them, I ask advice on how to use them. I think they're really neat and look forward to using them more, and encourage everyone else to also use them.

Sure, some people have no idea what they're doing and they end up writing not very good software. My reaction to that is to try to explain to them what they did wrong and how they can get better. Or, if their not-very-good software is still perfectly good for whatever they're using it for, I give them a little thumbs up and say "good on you, just make sure you know what you've got there."

I’m here to say what needs to be said.

No, you're here to interject yourself into a conversation that was not at all about AI music to push your personal dislike of AI music and to insult people who don't share your view of AI music.

It doesn't need to be said. Certainly not here and now.

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.