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I'll donate my RAM to SAlty if he comes to collect it in person, and only if I can deliver it straight to his dome

YOU CAN TAKE MY LOCAL COMPUTE FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

@Architeuthis @BlueMonday1984 Now let’s talk about privately owned cars versus public transport, Sam.

Not that Altman's company is ahead in the AI coding race, but everyone's PCs will still need increasing amounts of DRAM to be able to run the next generation of slop-coded JavaScript apps.

Much better for RAM to be sitting behind a network hop with 100 milliseconds of latency amirite?

if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,

We're all trying to find the guy who did this .jpg

Edit: also lol at the unstated implication that no one should ever want to use RAM for anything besides getting blathered at by a chatbot.

The CEO claimed that AI will potentially be able to create something as important as the transistor, or discover major efficiency gains

Did anyone ever fall for this ridiculous argument when it was used for "uhmm actually the massive datacenter buildout is great for global warming because chatbots will chat at us how to make better solar panels or something"?

5%? Mister I run firefox.

Notable customers who run Claude Code and Cursor on laptops include Binance, amongst thousands of others.

That would be soooooo funny.

Excuse me? What happened to the mythical cybersecurity abilities of Claude Mythos? Physician, cure thyself!

Anthropic has not informed customers, and the malicious version was silently deleted the backdoored version without telling anybody.

Now we see Anthropic's attitude towards security when the incident does not make for good marketing. Also, considering Binance was just hacked for a massive $3B in stablecoins, and this backdoor allowed remote access to developer laptops, I have a feeling these things are connected. If that is true, then this is by far the worst cybersecurity incident involving AI, worse than even the much ballyhooed PHP2Shell.

Edit: From Molly White's article

Binance later wrote that their "initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop", which allowed an attacker to “submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions.”

Okay, now I am really suspicious that these things are connected.

the website famously against AI integrates the AI famous for being evil

Did someone put too much ketamine in Yud's coffee or are the chatbots all friendly and safe now?

Off all the chatbots they can pick they get csam megahitler, guess kimi wasnt an option.

Understatement!

Holy shit, that's a long downtime. Hoping everything will be fine. The internet would be a worse place without the Archive.

An update at the same URL:

Earlier today, we detected evidence of a security incident on AO3. We are still in the early stages of response to this security incident and determining its scope. AO3 will remain down while we continue investigating and addressing what has been found so far. However, we want to make some things clear:

First, no AO3 data has been deleted. All your works, bookmarks, kudos, etc., are safe.

Second, while we currently don't believe that the user database was stolen, we are also unable to rule it out. The AO3 database contains account information that may include your username, email address, IP address, and a hashed version of your password.

We use industry-standard techniques for storing passwords in a scrambled form that cannot easily be reversed. Even so, no hashing method can fully protect a weak or reused password from being cracked. As a precaution, we recommend that you change your passwords on any other sites where you use the same password as on AO3.

AO3 does not collect real names, so none could be exposed. Additionally, our donor information is held in an entirely separate system and is never linked to AO3, so that data has also not been exposed.

We will update everyone as our investigation continues; we may be unable to respond to individual inquiries from users. Please keep an eye on our official outlets for updates. Our next update will be posted when we have further information available.

Our current expectation is that AO3 will be down for a minimum of two weeks; however, it could take up to four weeks. During that time, we may be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state, meaning that not all features will be available and/or the site may be read-only. If we are able to do that, please be aware that we might have to bring the site back down unexpectedly as part of our recovery efforts. We will keep you in the loop for any developments

The boosters hope that the AI will replace mathematicians, but they are running into an awfully inconvenient fact: theorems and proofs are useless without people who care enough to understand them and make meaning from them.

To complexity theorists, this is an extremely funny situation; I bet OpenAI started by asking the bot about P vs NP and they got the worst-possible result, a useless and unexpected refutation of a conjecture. To be clear, I don't trust Lean or OpenAI, so I don't yet accept this result, but I hear Ryan Williams and Russell Impagliazzo are hand-checking the proof and I do trust them.