Sludgehammer

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Trump’s name purged from Kennedy Center in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Finally... that atrocity of font matching is gone.

Disgraced FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal of 25-Year Sentence in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 85 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Fucked over too many rich people to get off scot free.

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Anguished Parents. Doctors in Tears. Utah’s Long Measles Outbreak Takes a Toll. (kffhealthnews.org)
SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | Fortune in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Right, but hear me out: I know that SpaceX is impossibly overvalued and that makes me smart. So what if I bought some SpaceX stock, waited for some rubes to buy the stock from me at higher price and then I cashed out? Since I'm so smart, I'm sure I could get in and get out before the whole thing falls apart. /s

U. Chicago ends LGBTQ ‘pride’ flag tradition, citing institutional neutrality | The College Fix in c/queer_defense_front@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

You'd think a university of all places would have learned the lesson that you can't appease fascists.

Flood of AI 'gаrbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit in c/opensource@programming.dev
2026-06-06 in c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Huh, I have never seen this one before.

A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Teradata's focus for 2026 is to "win in the market with AI," CEO Steve McMillan said in the memo

Oh boy... he is just chugging the AI kool-aid.

Iran claims US patriot missile, not Iranian strike, destroyed Kuwait airport terminal in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I thought video has already been released? If that is the right footage, I'm gonna say that Iran is blowing smoke, since this looks a lot more like a Shahed drone then a Patriot missile

New Melania-Epstein claims emerge from ex of Trump envoy: report in c/politics@sh.itjust.works
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

she was [an] escort of Jeffrey Epstein

Didn't we know this for a while now?

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Meta’s Andy Stone said on Twitter/X that the issue had been resolved

I'm guessing the translation of this is that someone added "DO NOT link new e-mails to accounts when resetting passwords." to the initial prompt. And maybe threw in a few more "Do not hallucinates." and "No whammies!" just for good measure.

Just got a message on the work intercom "turn off your wifi on any devices!" Turns out we're getting cyber attacked again in c/justpost@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the... in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

"but not me or the rest of the ruling class, of course" he clarified.

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Help awaits citrus industry, if regulators get out of the way | Opinion (www.sun-sentinel.com)
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Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You (futurism.com)
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He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing (www.sciencenews.org)
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PH scientists push for healthier, climate-resilient rice varieties (www.gmanetwork.com)
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After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria (www.science.org)
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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Wouldn't a madlib generator be superior to a Markov chain for "poisoning" LLMs? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Sludgehammer@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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So firstly sorry if this isn't a appropriate post for this community, but I had a shower thought a few days back.

LLM's have gotten sufficiently advanced that they can usually detect Markov (or randomly) generated text even when it's fed into the front end. As such, it seems likely that most "AI" companies either have or will have some sort of pre-screening pass to "clean" the raw data crawled from the internet. Heck, I'm sure they're filtering the data with a AI detection algorithm too.

However, there was this conspiracy parody site a while back called "Verified Facts". The sites down now and something that wanted to install a Firefox extension, so don't go there. Luckily there are many instances of pages still on archive.org to get an idea for what sort of stuff it generated. And I was thinking, this is some (mostly) grammatically correct, constantly on point drivel that would probably bypass both Markov and AI detectors.

So it seems like if you were going to make an "AI tar pit" you'd get much better results with one that tricks the AI into ingesting auto generated Madlib pages filled out with a list of randomly picked words.

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RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook (arstechnica.com)
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US attorney for DC accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda’, threatens non-profit status (www.nzherald.co.nz)
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So there's a new homebrew app for Streetpasses over the internet. (gbatemp.net)
 

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

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What's up with all the $99 games with a 95+% discount on Steam? (lemmy.world)
 

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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