Reminds me of several years back when a police department got caught using their civil asset forfeiture acquired funds to buy, among other things, a margarita machine. I had assumed this was a gross misuse of funds, a betrayal of public trust and etc, but what if they just got it as a tool for a creative interrogation tactic?
I’m gonna have to look that up again. I think I recall them getting away with no consequences.
Seriously, no one would just lie to their own operating system. Just the good honest truth that I was born on 1/1/1900 for my OS!
Well, according to this article from Pivot to AI, you determine if it’s Claude by saying ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 and seeing if it stops responding until it gets a fresh context history. Of course, if this gets popularized, I imagine they’ll patch it out.
That was my strategy. Thought I’d give the fediverse a try during the blackout protests over the API lockdown. I missed reddit for a little while, but after a while I just didn’t anymore. Sure there’s not the avalanche of content here, but there’s substantially less bullshit too. Now if I end up back on reddit from a search for something in particular, I find myself amazed at how shit it all is.
Ok, maybe not that fancy.
You could have all sorts of sci-fi shady characters coming by looking to sell odds and ends. And what if the pawn shop staff were Ferengi?
Same username I use everywhere. I came up with it back around ’07. For the first part, I fenced epee at the time. I never did earn my C rating in the sport, though I came within a literal inch of it multiple times. For the second part, we were playing a lot of DnD at the time, and I am very much like a DnD gnome.
She didn’t even have to get elected governor for her campaign promise to come true! What a rare politician. Well, I guess she no longer needs to run for office. Mission accomplished.
“New York City police investigating lake after officers got wet after walking it.”
As much as I hate these assholes coopting Tolkien’s works, it is a really apt name for this company. In the story, the Palantir were wonderous tools for communication until they were corrupted and taken over by literal evil, turned into tools of surveillance and control.
I dislike that the article refers to Thiel as a Libertarian without putting quote marks around it. While he is firmly opposed to governments regulating businesses, he makes and sells the tools to help governments exercise authority over private citizens. I know the term has also been largely coopted by fascists, but it still annoys me.
