Stuart Schechter

@MildlyAggrievedScientist
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Associate at Harvard SEAS. Founder at DiceKeys. Former researcher at Microsoft Research & MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Debunker of security questions, site-authentication images, & mandatory password resets.
homepagehttps://www.stuartschechter.org

We tested that AI that wants you to 'cheat at everything.'

It sucks? Took 20 seconds to provide responses, was clearly just feeding whatever prompt into ChatGPT/other models. Simply wouldn't work in a real situation.

https://www.404media.co/the-man-who-wants-ai-to-help-you-cheat-on-everything/

The Man Who Wants AI to Help You ‘Cheat on Everything’

Roy Lee used AI to beat challenging technical interviews, now he wants people to do the same thing with every human interaction. We tested the tool and it kinda sucks.

404 Media

@dan @alice

I prefer to quote Desmond Tutu, from at least two years earlier.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

When your kids are begging you to bring a furball into your universe, they will use iron-clad logic to convince you that you will find effectively-infinite resources to support this furry lifeform.

When you actually need someone to walk your furball, you will start to suspect you are alone in this universe.

Scientists call this the fur-me paradox.

@natematias The salient fact is that you don't believe the methods section is complete enough for someone to replicate. That's true of lots of crap that gets published at "peer-reviewed" venues.

We do the public a disservice when we treat publication review as a salient signal of quality. You can get most anything accepted if you try enough times or submit to a venue that cares more about how much attention the work will draw than correctness.

@SteveBellovin call me a literalist in reading great ancient texts, but I believe we are meant to think twice before putting anyone remotely related to healh care on the next ship off planet. Consider that the B ark was conceived at a time when we didn't use phones while on the toilet, yet it still predicted civilization would be wiped out because we had rid ourselves of everyone who knew how to sanitize one.
@rauschma Sorry. I just added that to the end of your playground window and it didn't bother to create a new link from it.

@rauschma
If filing a bug with the TS team, this might be helpful to add.

const arr3 = [
[Red as typeof Red | typeof Green, 'RED'],
[Green as typeof Red | typeof Green, 'GREEN'],
] as const;
new Map(arr3); // OK

@dangoodin FIDO has focused on standardizing authentication protocols, whereas researchers who work in usable security know that the much bigger challenge is key management. Good to see reporters not buying the hype that passkeys are a solution, rather than the agreed upon rules with which platforms are going to fight over owning their users' identities.
That rancher thought there was little risk in branching into marijuana cultivation, but he later realized that the steaks were high.

The Economist calls DARK WIRE, my book on the FBI's secret running of a tech company for organized crime, as one of the best books of the year.

"The author spent years getting to know the players, many of them unsavoury international gangsters." https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/22/the-best-books-of-2024-as-chosen-by-the-economist

The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist

Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies

The Economist