u/GreggN

Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

Wouldn't a LLM (AI) be more useful if we didn't use any fiction to train it? Training an AI on sci-fi may be entertaining and fun, but for serious answers, maybe we should stick to sci-fact.

arstechnica.com
u/GreggN — 7 hours ago

Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data

Setting a bad example for our youth. By paying the ransom, they are funding criminal activities and making the world a worse place for everyone. "the hackers have said they deleted the data and promised not to extort any students or institutions" - - and the company behind Canvas decided to trust the word of criminals!?

bbc.com
u/GreggN — 1 day ago

New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day gives root on all major distros

Vulnerabilities in linux get a lot of attention from people who seem to be saying: "see! your OS isn't secure either!" And yet, these are privilege escalation not remote code execution. When it comes to desktop linux, a privilege escalation isn't going to worry me a lot. Glad they found it and will fix it - but the sky is not falling.

bleepingcomputer.com
u/GreggN — 6 days ago

Personally, wearables don't offer the features I want. Where's the step counter, gps distance tracking - and more importantly, where is the music to distract me from the torture of exercise? So if I'm going to be carrying my phone anyway, why buy a wearable?

u/GreggN — 6 days ago

twice today I've finished a lesson, pressed the button to complete it, and the button just turns into the 3 dots that rotate. The first time this happened I tried leaving the app, closing other apps, returning to Duolingo - but still didn't register that I completed the lesson. Finally closed and reopened Duolingo - but even though it took me to the next lesson, the daily quest for completing the section didn't register.

There are other problems with display elements that now don't disappear when they should.

reddit.com
u/GreggN — 14 days ago