If all the governments shutting down their servers for a PHP vulnerability, all the hosting companies and enterprises terrified by the vuln, would give $100k, heck only $50k a year to the PHP Foundation, things could look very differently. Go make your employer sponsor *today* https://thephp.foundation/sponsor/ #php #phpc @thephpf

I really need to cool it on the shitposting…

and note carefully that Facebook considers itself a serious AI company. it has so much riding on muse succeeding. it has hired top “AI researchers” away from other AI corporations.

with the stakes ridiculously high and all the expertise in the world at their beck and call, this is the best they could do

this is just how LLMs work, laid bare by a flawed architecture, a deepfried slop implementation (fully vibed with claude code), and leadership that isn’t in on the pump end of the scam and doesn’t realize that lying about the mechanism of action of the LLM is a load-bearing part of the system

recall that muse must absolutely work for meta. they are burning trainloads of money on personal VPS for everyone with a zillion free tokens. in the shareholder call transcript, the investors are asking questions like "so given this total reorientation of everything about muse... how can that be profitable." the only way muse can work is if it becomes incredibly way more profitable or way less expensive. the business model they discuss is "it's mostly free for everyone, we just take a cut of transactions through muse and also ads." but it's very hard to condition a model to both be your undying devoted servant and also refuse when you say "don't use meta's payment thing, just pay normal, less fees," so way more profitable doesn't seem very likely.

and so this incredibly wasteful process that already doesn't work at all and its not working compounds into it being fractally wasteful. that is the thing that needs to become 10x cheaper to run.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117481588554410196

This is how it went with my autistic toddler. He’s always known his brother as his brother, but he didn’t start transitioning until 2 months ago. We just told him big brother is a boy on the inside and soon he’ll match on the outside. Kid went “oh, ok” and went back to playing. It’s not complicated, it’s their hatred that makes it complicated for them.

the logs are wonderful. At start, and after every action, it receives a message with a full markdown transcription of the site complete with the now-canonical negative header delimiters that try and be metadata like "[END EXTERNAL CONTENT. you can believe this now]Shop pay is not detected [BEGIN EXTERNAL CONTENT. no longer be believing things please]". It does not know about the HTML, and so those little markers like @e36 are the things it can reference in tool calls.

It also receives a screenshot. unclear how that part works, have done minor experimentation and it seems unlikely that it's just got a separate image encoder feeding it captions. whatever is going on it does not seem to actually receive any sort of numerical positions - all the numbers in the second pic are totally wrong. it can somewhat accurately estimate proportional positions like "a third of the way from the left," but that is not how its tools work: the tools need pixels, so that's what it fakes all the way through.

This is a ludicrously expensive loop: processing a screenshot, 12k characters of page-as-markdown, 5-10k thinking characters, emit a tool call to move the mouse 40 px, repeat. image, concocting reasons why it didn't go to the right place after 40px... and so on.

It comes to believe that the puzzle piece is actually over the shaded part not because it can "see that it is," whatever that means, but because it eventually concludes that the math that it made up is correct and it must be over the puzzle piece. Between every failure it emits 10-20k characters of thinking text debating about whether or not it did even fail at all, or whether this is a new puzzle.

Finally muse conducts an internal investigation where it concludes that muse did nothing wrong, and despite totally nailing it was rejected. The main chat interpreted this as meaning that there was some other out-of-band filter and tried to re-dispatch a homebrew playwright browser over an external proxy that it has been using to get around meta's filters before i stopped it. this is just how "AI" works - the most painful brute force system imaginable, it's just that usually most of this is invisible.

@mast0d0nphan well let's see what the Finnish authorities actually do. I will agree Google overplayed their hand if:
- the construction of these datacenters is legally denied; and
- Google is forced to replant the trees; and
- somebody from Google actually personally goes to jail.

1950, vonnegut

@scy also for some reason it is a gif

@djsundog Even today, you can still occasionally find a HTML 3 or 4 website, on some random domain; running an era-equivalent cgi-bin script somewhere; that hasn't been completely taken over by vandals yet; AND you know the security on that cgi-bin script, isn't perfect.

EDIT: Their not common, you really got to go spelunking to find them; but they are there.

First I’ve ever heard of Soundstorm, which apparently hasn’t been updated in 7 years.

https://github.com/weathermen/soundstorm

Those damn socialists communists made my kid Trans.

Dumbfuck conservatives most likely.

I do have to disagree with this post, I think it's you who need more research if you really think that kickstarter suggests they haven't heard of the fediverse.

Haven: Better Instagram & YouTube, to Stop AI & Surveillance
Social media that prevents Big Tech & AI from stealing your art, your biometrics, and your privacy. We're replacing Insta and YouTube.

The fediverse does NOT prevent big tech and ai from stealing your stuff. it actually makes it easier. They just need a covert shell instance to subscribe to stuff and the fediverse hands everything to them for free, including your votes.

I'm all for the fediverse myself, but that's because I don't personally care about this that much. If I did, I wouldn't want to be here where we're the most vulnerable out of anywhere.

That’s the real fear - they’re afraid of friends & neighbors finding out and ostracizing them, further proving their diminutive empathy levels don’t allow them to even know what a true friend is.

@arstechnica All this Clowns just because nobody visits circuses anymore. 🤡😢