That's a sudden wrap-up to a very one-dimensional plot, with few twists, shallow characters, and a villain whose breath I could almost smell during the whole production.
It Only Takes a Handful of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds
It stands to reason that if you have access to an LLM’s training data, you can influence what’s coming out the other end of the inscrutable AI’s network. The obvious guess is that you’d need some percentage of the overall input, though exactly how much that was — 2%, 1%, or less — was an active research question. New research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute shows it is actually a lot easier to poison the well than that.
We’re talking parts-per-million of poison for large models, because the researchers found that with just 250 carefully-crafted poison pills, they could compromise the output of any size LLM. Now, when we say poison the model, we’re not talking about a total hijacking, at least in this study. The specific backdoor under investigation was getting the model to produce total gibberish.
The gibberish here is triggered by a specific phrase, seeded into the poisoned training documents. One might imagine an attacker could use this as a crude form of censorship, or a form of Denial of Service Attack — say the poisoned phrase is a web address, then any queries related to that address would output gibberish. In the tests, they specifically used the word “sudo”, rendering the models (which ranged from 600 million to 13 billion parameters) rather useless for POSIX users. (Unless you use “doas” under *BSD, but if you’re on BSD you probably don’t need to ask an LLM for help on the command line.)
Our question is: Is it easier to force gibberish or lies? A denial-of-service gibberish attack is one thing, but if a malicious actor could slip such a relatively small number of documents into the training data to trick users into executing unsafe code, that’s something entirely worse. We’ve seen discussion of data poisoning before, and that study showed it took a shockingly small amount of misinformation in the training data to ruin a medical model.
Once again, the old rule rears its ugly head: “trust, but verify”. If you’re getting help from the internet, be it random humans or randomized neural-network outputs, it’s on you to make sure that the advice you’re getting is sane. Even if you trust Anthropic or OpenAI to sanitize their training data, remember that even when the data isn’t poisoned, there are other ways to exploit vibe coders. Perhaps this is what happened with the whole “seahorse emoji” fiasco.
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"Access to subsidies for childcare and healthcare, which are more common in Europe, can impact an American woman's decision to move abroad.
'People don't realise how far behind the US is on maternal care, parental leave, and healthcare,' Alyssa says, 'until they leave the country.'"
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Why more young US women seem to be ready to move abroad
A Gallup poll suggests 40% of US women aged 15 to 44 would move abroad if they could. Women who took the plunge tell us why.Leyla Khodabakhshi (BBC News)
The crazy thing in the case of the UK is both of the major institutional parties, Labou and the Tories in the bonkers lunatic right wing party of Reform want to replicate the US system.
They have gone very far in that direction.
The super wealthy are trying to spread the disease of neoliberalism into Europe even more than it has
Dysfunktionale Alt-Eliten gegen die Demokratie
Der Bundeskanzler auf dem CSU-Parteitag: „So kann man ein Land nicht führen, wir müssen die Menschen mitnehmen.“ In der Demokratie müssen die Bürger überzeugt werden, während in einer Diktatur die Menschen mitgenommen werden.Natalie Furjan (Tichys Einblick)
Der Beitrag Lesen, hören, schmecken,
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Publico-Autoren empfehlen, was Sie sich selbst und anderen zu Weihnachten schenken können: den große Ausstieg, Lämmer, Wein, Sinfonik, Lyrik und einen Staatskrimi Entzug – ein Geschenk für uns selbst von Jürgen Schmid Meine Weihnachtsempfehlung ist e…Redaktion (Publico)
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I hope more states make regional alliances in order to provide public health measures within their collective territories.
The far right wanted to destroy the federal government and they’ve done so they’re busy pillaging all of us with it. The response has to be or will be very much what happened with the American colonies against King George’s East India company
@GhostOnTheHalfShell I wrote my governor telling him he should probably retire, considering the whole ageism problem in America, and use the rest of his time partnering with Great Lakes states and Canada to revise the Charter. He did step down, but probably couldn't resist the extra boost in retirement for greasing some wheels on the way out. Everyone's drinking the Kool-Aid. They all want a piece. The American Dream: Get rich or die trying to beat your neighbor over the head for what little they have.
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Gov. Evers, Microsoft Officials Announce New $4 Billion Investment in Mount Pleasant Datacenter
The Microsoft datacenter provides jobs for thousands of workers including electricians, plumbers, carpenters, pipefitters, steel workers, and more.Mark Barthel (WEDC)
You still see something to shoot at, Doc?
No I was mistaken.
Well, we'll invoice you for those bullets, I guess.
Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai colpevole di collusione e sedizione - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai colpevole di collusione e sedizione - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Jimmy Lai, il magnate dei media di Hong Kong pro-democrazia, è stato dichiarato colpevole di collusione e sedizione nel processo a suo carico sulla violazione della sicurezza nazionale, nella sentenza firmata dai giudici Alex Lee, Esther Toh e Susana…Agenzia ANSA
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Nel paese che conobbe Pinochet al potere, oggi è tornata al governo l'estrema destra. ☹️
L'amministrazione Trump si è già congratulata.
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José Antonio Kast est élu président du Chili
Le pays se dote de son président le plus à droite depuis la dictature d'Augusto Pinochet, qui a fait 3200 morts et disparus entre 1973 et 1990.Radio-Canada
Trump Praises Bondi Hero Who Tackled Shooter
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Well, what do you know, the diasporasocial server is now back online. I just got a reply from the podmin:
Me to podmin on Dec 9: Hi, The server has been down for a few days. What is the outlook for the diaspora server coming back up?
I just now got this reply from the podmin. No details were included.
Its fixed, sorry for the inconvenience.
Best Regards
[I should mention #newhere since many of us had to use the hashtag when we moved to a new server.]
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More on sodium batteries. Big implications:
Accelerated #EV price parity w ICE vevicles
Renewable #energy firmed w storage just became even more advantageous over coventional energy
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I am often creative in my multiparadigm approach in personality style, as well as in my ideal and prospective communication styles alike. While I am often uniquely identified by my takes and interest on the technology industry juxtaposed with geography, mathematics, current events, politics, history, and other topics and skills, I also believe that I can imagine myself as an idealized polymath, with interests in not just my standardized lifestyle, but also divergences from my lifestyle.
A lot of my creativity of interest comes from the fact that I am neurodivergent and on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, other factors should also be considered, as ignoring the distinctive characteristics of different types of abilities often results in overgeneralization and extreme levels of stereotyping, which I detest based on effectively every dimension of diversity. While society often expects me to be totally different from the “high-functioning” self that I actually am, occasionally scorning me with the label “disabled” or related labels, I believe that I am better off avoiding antiquated language over concerns about disability (I also have internalized rules and policies wherein I remind myself not to discriminate based on age, race, gender, sex, orientation, status, nationality, ethnicity, origin, or any other dimension of diversity in any way).
It is very unfortunate that we live in a hypercapitalist and excessively consumerist society, both of which I feel are traits of a cultural wasteland. I believe that capitalism is the cause for all loneliness causes that result from the modern tech dystopia, which results in feedback loops and shame alike. On a related note, I also detest the concept of suburbanization, as I believe that suburbia is a crisis that exists specifically to promote White supremacy, yet I also believe that racism is what is causing the climate crisis and human extinction. Politically, I can understand where I lean without any assistance from the outside world, simply through my extensive research and my historical figures of influence throughout.
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It's a very slow moving sea monster. I wonder if anyone has ever thought of maybe a brisk walk to escape?
Attentat in Australien: Vater und Sohn als Angreifer identifiziert
Australien trauert um die Opfer des Angriffs auf ein jüdisches Fest in Sydney. Ersten Ermittlungen zufolge handelt es bei den beiden Attentätern um einen Vater und seinen Sohn. Sie erschossen 15 Menschen, mindestens 40 wurden verletzt.
Local school district to open Safe Sleep Lot as homelessness grows
Cincinnati Public Schools are opening a designated parking lot for homeless students and their families, allowing them to sleep in their cars while they seek housing. This initiative, part of a program called Project Connect, aims to provide a safe space and support for those experiencing homelessness. Being homeless has become illegal.
WTH has happened to this country when schools have to provide sanctuary for the homeless?
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Local school district to open Safe Sleep Lot as homelessness grows
A new initiative from the Cincinnati Public School system is giving families experiencing homelessness in the district a better sense of safety.WKRC
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《明報》：黎智英三項控罪全部罪成。
控罪一：串謀發布煽動刊物（訴全部被告） 結果：全部被告罪成
控罪二：串謀勾結外國勢力罪（訴全部被告） 結果：全部被告罪成
控罪三：串謀勾結外國勢力罪（訴黎智英） 結果：黎智英罪成
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【即時更新】黎智英案｜官裁定黎智英串謀勾結外國勢力、串謀發布煽動刊物三罪罪成 (10:41) - 20251215 - 港聞
壹傳媒創辦人黎智英及3間《蘋果日報》公司，被控《港區國安法》下「串謀勾結外國勢力」等罪一案，今（15日）上午10時於西九龍裁判法院（暫代高院）裁決，黎智英面對的三項控罪，包括兩項串謀勾結外國勢力，以及一項串謀發布煽動刊物全部罪成。《明報》將持續更新庭內外情况。明報
Warriors coach Kerr laments shooting at Brown, calls again for common-sense gun control laws
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in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •One-dimensional is a stretch
I give it a quarter of a dimension at best
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