[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 hours ago

I assume this article is slop. It contradicts 10k high sev by paragraph 3, not even Anthropic claims it in their media release, which contains even sadder numbers.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Let's not bury that image content.

23,019 potential vulnerability candidates -> 1,900 Reviewed by external security firms -> 1726 confirmed positive -> 467 reported to maintainers

Why only review 1900? How were these chosen? Were the 1259 that were not reported to maintainers just duplicates or were they even valid?

23,019 potential vulnerability candidates -> 1,129 reported direct to maintainers by Anthropic, at their request (May contain false positives)

They just spammed the maintainers with these without reviewing them?

1129 + 467 = 1596 total reported to maintainers -> 1451 acknowledged by maintainers

Does acknowledged mean they said they received the report or does it mean they validated the report? Because it looks a lot like "received", when accounting for that prior 1259 gap and the fact the bulk of them weren't reviewed prior to sending.

Subsequent analysis of these vulnerability candidates has identified that 1,726 are valid true positives. As many as 1,094 flaws are assessed to be either high- or critical-severity.

But that 1726 was reduced to 467 come reporting time. Which makes that 17% hit rate possibly... 4.7%?

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[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Joel Jammal, the head of Turning Point Australia and a sponsor for the tour, said he believed it sold 15,000 tickets, which started at $95 and ranged up to $1,500 for VIP tickets, suggesting Rocksman sold at least $1.4m worth of tickets.

Article link is broken in OP: working link

Also, not a concert, she only serves the bad kind of drone.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 week ago

He actually said the phrase "ensure a fair deal for working people". Who thought it was a good idea to put that in the speech knowing he was going to be fully dressed in the spoils of exploitation? You'd think they'd at least temper it with the comparative term "fairer" if the more sensitive wardrobe option was truly off the table.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wrong end of the spectrum, unfortunately. You'll have better luck with your local ham radio club.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago

"While cavitation occurs at low frequencies and destroys both viruses and tissues through the collapse of gas bubbles, acoustic resonance operates at high frequencies of 3–20 MHz,"

Brb, making a blanket out of 802.11ah routers.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If I saw this, I would not assume that Gawker, WikiLeaks, or FOX Weather would be included in a blocklist called "No-QAnon". The list itself might not be smuggled, but it's not accurately representing itself either. If it has simply evolved over time, then it needs to be renamed or split into separate blocklists.

Additionally, if someone installing this changes their mind or realizes that what they received is not what they expected, then requiring them to either directly modify the database or click "remove" over 3000 times is arguably a dark pattern.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Trauma responses are hard. I think it's great you're actively working on it and are conscious of your own biases, that's huge. Good luck!

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

My suspicion is they just pick up data that a real person is considering an attempt, and then allow the least risky ones to get closest to success. Their base will cast whoever tries anything as a leftist regardless of the reality, or conveniently forget they're right-wing, but it's not really about making left-wing people look violent. It's about dominating the media airtime and controlling people's attention. It's the same tactic Trump successfully uses on social media or on TV - throw a bunch of shit out there and let the media pick at it while doing the actually heinous shit.

There's just no other reason that it makes sense for this event to have no security, 2 months after someone with a shotgun and gas can went into mar-a-lago.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

It can't only be from data from previous generations, even if the initial demonstration used that, because that would mean a single piece of human-generated text is sufficient to avoid collapse.

The loss of data from generation to generation is one way model collapse can occur, but it's only one way. The actual issues that cause collapse are replication of errors and increasing data homogeneity. In a world where an unknown quantity of new data is AI generated, it is not possible to ensure only a certain quantity is used as future training data.

Additionally, as new human generated content is based on the information provided by AI, even if not used intentionally in the construction of the text itself, the error replication and data diversity issues cross over from being only an AI-generated content problem to an all content problem. You can see examples of this happening now in the media where a journalist relies on AI output to fact check, and then the article with the error gets republished by other media outlets.

Real AI training methods may stave off some model collapse, if we ignore existing issues around the cultural homogeneity of training data from across all time periods, or assume the models are sufficiently weighted to mitigate those issues, but it's by no means settled that collapse is a non-problem.

You've mentioned using data mixing to prevent collapse, but some of the research suggests that even iterative mixing isn't sufficient dependent on the quantities of real vs synthetic data. Strong Model Collapse (2024), Dohmatob, Feng, Subramonian, Kempe goes into that, and since then there's been When Models Don’t Collapse: On the Consistency of Iterative MLE (2025) Barzilai, Shamir which presents one theoretical case where collapse won't occur provided some assumptions hold, but the math is beyond me. They also note multiple situations where near-instant collapse can occur.

How much data poisoning might affect any of that is not at all clear, it would need to be in sufficient quantity for whatever model to have an effect, but it certainly wouldn't help. The recent Bixonimania scandal suggests it's feasible.

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[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago

There are two surprising aspects of this to me. Firstly that the employees feel confident enough to express concern about Palantir's actions in official channels. I would have thought that the nature of their work was obvious enough that this would be a cultural taboo and therefore self-censored. I guess some of them have limits to suspending disbelief for what they had likely internally framed as "work for the benefit of national security" or "job pays too well to care".

The second part is that not all of this official channel discussion was immediately wiped by Palantir, but perhaps they also relied on the premise of self-censorship in preventing these conversations at scale.

Either way, I'm somewhat relieved there's someone at Palantir worried about this at all. The more of them who are worried by this, the more leaks we'll see.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It didn't "revert", it was basically a move from fractions to decimal pinned at 10 shillings = 1 dollar for simplicity, with some minor rounding errors because of pence vs cents.

The Australian central bank has an online exhibit where you can read about it and see all the information people were given for the transition, which answers all your questions.

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