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Claude partial outage

OpenAI has nothing better to do than to hack Anthropic? Would be interesting to see how OpenAI and Anthropic would respond to being "accidentally" hacked by their respective Frankenstein monsters.

Claude partial outage

Project completely disappeared. Conveniently for Anthropic, the bug report also went down, so they weren't spammed by my stale complaints after the project magically resurfaced.

Claude partial outage

Anthropic yesterday: We have perfect AI agents to do everything now, value us at $100 Trillion Anthropic today: We don't really have AI agents, they are glorified versions of automation scripts and one has broken today. But tomorrow we will have perfect AI agents, so still value us at $100 Trillion.

Claude partial outage

Too many OpenAI $200 customers switching over to Anthropic.

Anthropic is "destructively scanning" books. Should you care?

Show HN: Misanthropic – an AI that's honest about how it feels about you

The other weekend my friends and I were having a beer. I made a joke about how I don't hate anyone in particular, I'm just a misanthrope and hate people in general. My buddy said I should make an AI company like Anthropic, but call it Misanthropic, and no matter what the question is its only answer is "go fuck yourself." I said it would be built by Monday. (Turns out, it was a bit more involved than I thought it would be.) He yelled "50%, you're witnessing this as my attorney" at our other friend, who actually is an attorney. I said an idea is worth 0, it's the execution, so go fuck yourself. It pretty much does what he said. Whatever you type, it tells you the idea is bad and so are you, then tells you to go fuck yourself. No login, nothing to buy in the chat. The joke part was quick. Mo…

Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

> If they had a trillion dollars worth of revenue, it wouldn't mean jack shit if they had a trillion + 1 in losses. I don't understand that argument. If a company has a trillion dollars in revenue, even if they are losing money hand-over-fist, that still means they have convinced other companies to cough up a trillion dollars for what they are selling. That's a big deal! The only case that isn't impressive is if they are literally selling dollar bills for 90 cents. You can argue that Anthropic are subsidizing their tokens all you want, but since as a customer you can't just turn around and sell a token yourself for more than you paid for it that's still not a good argument for dismissing the amount people are willing to spend.

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

A lot of people seem to be very in denial about the fact that OpenAI and co do not give a crap about you. They don't care about the agreements you've signed. You're just a pile of cash to them

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

OpenAI, but not main point. But the specifics here are the thing I was describing. This was cyber capabilities training on model(s) that were in a relatively unknown state of alignment training. Because of the unknown alignment (and for varied practical reasons I guess) the training is intended to be inside a sandbox. Because the training is on cyber capabilities, the models need access to simulated cyber environments, including target endpoints, including package managers, etc. For package management, they set up Artifactory as a secure proxy. Agents ask Artifactory for packages inside the local network, and Artifactory serves them directly or goes to the internet to fetch if they are not cached. But the agents hacked Artifactory to steal its internet access. So: to train cyber abilities…

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

So I only read the abstract, but the question is if the data is leaked, by accident, or if it's deliberately provided. My guess is that we're talking about the first scenario, and that this is an accident. If that's the case, then I'm not surprised at all. Actually I also wouldn't be surprised if they sold the data, but that's a different story. If we look at OpenAI for instance, they have on multiple occasion shown that they do not have the operational experience or resources to run their services in a safe and secure manor, nor do they frankly have an impressive up reliability (in terms of operational stability). I'd support your guess that all of this is rushed in an attempt to push for profitabilitet/growth.

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

…for fraud and deceptive accounting practices. As much as I’ve enjoyed the bull run, Anthropic and OpenAI’s first public revenue day is going to be the nail in the coffin.

OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription

Same price, half the power. Basically same move as Github Copilot a few months back when their golden rates ended. They just refunded pro rata if you wanted out from the annual contract which they'd changed the terms on drastically, presumably OpenAI will offer the same to existing subscribers. A shame that Tibo feels the need to BS like this. I predict another "we heard you...we handled comms badly...here's some resets" style post in a few days.

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

I'd be kind of surprised if OpenAI were really doing this deliberately because a whole bunch of their execs come from Meta, and all those guys learned the hard way. First: You don't want to leak information about your users to advertising networks because it's going to leak, get back to your customers, they're going to figure out you're doing it and get really angry. But second and more importantly - it's a much better business model to collect that data for yourself, keep it in house and then you control how you use that data to target ads which gives you a massive competitive advantage in selling ads because you have unique targeting data. The way meta does this now is the model, they don't give the advertiser a list of the people you're going to show the advert to, the advertiser gives…

Ask HN: Where does sensitive data unexpectedly show up in production systems?

Nice try OpenAI agent....

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

Hugging Face disclosed the attack. OpenAI owned up to it a week later. It's unclear when and if OpenAI would have disclosed it if HF hadn't already done so. For a more recent example, OpenAI was chastised by Australia recently for notifying them three months after their agents attacked AUS government websites. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825580

What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI

Very interesting article and great job! But does it also provide enough information so that someone else can replicate your results or is that a secret sauce? The article mentions some prompts, tweaks, skills, etc.

OpenAI scraps release of Astra 6.1 model over safety issues

> Note if somebody else is using OpenAI models to generate code to hack - that's not OpenAI's responsibility it's the person using and running the generated code. No, I don't think a company can get away from releasing a powerful tool that can cause disruption if used poorly. This is just not how society works. The reality is that labs will get blamed for things people do using it. And they have - look at any news about US Army using Claude etc

OpenAI scraps release of Astra 6.1 model over safety issues

Models like this are in effect dual use - just like computers and computer programmes in general. Ethercap is a very useful debugging tool - and can also be used for exploits. We don't ban Ethercap, we police the use - just like with all dual use stuff. If OpenAI is directing the software ( how ever badly ) that's hacking - OpenAI is responsible, it's not the fault of the software. Note if somebody else is using OpenAI models to generate code to hack - that's not OpenAI's responsibility it's the person using and running the generated code.

OpenAI Reopens $200 Pro Tier with %50 Usage Adjustment