If your competitor can put out a model that functions really similarly to yours for $2 less per month, and your entire userbase can just leave and move to them... explain to me why investors would want to pump hundreds of billions into your business to be 'first to market'? That's a really dumb thing to admit for Anthropic.

Who is 'first to 100 million users' is utterly irrelevant under a business model where your sole value is Intellectual Property (IP) and that IP can be "illicitly extracted" by a clever competitor without ever hacking into your nextwork or doing anything explicitly illegal.

I've had to explain this to a lot of people who seem to think Anthropic/OpenAI are incredibly valuable companies because "they'll make money long-term so long as they keep being pumped full of it investment cash to be the first to earn a big userbase", but that just doesn't make sense. OpenAI owns no datacenters...zero. Theyre 100% IP. Anthropic "is building" some datacenters, but they exist on paper only so far, so they're also presently 100% IP.

Can this obvious scam just collapse already so I can upgrade my PC without a personal loan?

Ultimately AI is an unaffordable industry. It'll crash in time, and there'll hopefully be a whole lot of price drops on ram, graphics, etc. People will not want to stop playing games. The industry has had crashes before and always bounced back bigger than ever.

It will be bad for whoever's economy is most dependent on it though.. And any businesses really heavily invested in it. Won't it, Microsoft.

Seems like a great time to realize you work at one of the worst companies in the world, and leak all that discovered data to the press..

Nine will give him a raise.

Seems like a great time to realize you work at one of the worst companies in the world, and leak all that discovered data to the press..

Disassemble them (look up the battery replacement guide), then leave them open to air out in a dry warm place for several days.. Will help avoid any creeping corrosion from moisture you've left sealed in the buds.

And raise the general smoke level by 100% every time prescribed burns are being performed in various localities, all through the cooler months..

This is just a social engineering attack for rich, gullible people.

I like your fancy words, rock person.

Cool work. Would stare at in trinket store for extended time. Possibly even buy (I'm irresponsible).

Oi mate, you got a loicense for that track?

If the station is failing and the track selection was that dire (2 fucking songs??) I'd be contacting small labels / indie labels asking for written permission to play their music and if they can send you a CD or record or whatever. Guarantee you'd get several bites from small artists that want their music heard. Hindsight 20-20 and all though.

Is there?

Show us some references to the science.

I see lots of teachers use it to generate questionaires / labs / worksheets / etc - traditionally time consuming and frustrating tasks. Its fast, but it will also often have poor questions with 'correct answers' that are either partially incorrect (because the generated question has ambiguous or generalized terms that can be interpreted in more than one way) - or entirely incorrect, for whatever reason. It will also often pose the same question in slightly different wording or scenarios, even within a very short set of questions like a six-question short-answer lab. This is even with supposedly 'top tier' paid LLMs like Claude.

Teachers often catch some of the mistakes in review, but I've not seen a single instance of them catching them all - which leads to students getting incorrect or misleading information. At the same time, teaching loads and administrative burdens placed upon them keep increasing, making them time-poor and stressed, so they will continue reaching for LLMs to save time. Couple this with research showing regular LLM use reduces the user's cognitive reasoning and deduction abilities.. They'll just catch fewer mistakes as time goes on.

This is not at all to pick on teaching, just to share my anecdote and agree that AI is churning out slop in every industry, as far as the eye can see.

Prettttty sure that offering a reward for someone to deliver you what you know is obtained illegally (could be theft, hacking, breach of contract, etc) makes you an accomplice to whatever crime they have committed in service of your payment.

I don't care either way whether it gets leaked or not, nor do I know what an Aden Ross is other than 'streamer', but this seems like a really dumb idea that may rise to a criminal charge (depending on how the game has been sourced).

I dont get the punchline, but I love this anyway.

Edit: Thanks for the explanations ❤️

It's the 'straight from the toppa my dome' of the 1940s.

Very resonable (imo) response from Gargron (lead developer of Mastodon):

I’ve forwarded your question to our legal help and will provide an answer as soon as they give it to me. What you must understand is that our lawyers don’t have experience with federated platforms, and we don’t have experience with law, so we meet somewhere in the middle. Meta presumably has an in-house legal team that can really embed themselves in the problem area; our lawyers are external and pro-bono and rely on us to correctly explain the requirements and community feedback. The draft has been around for something like a year and none of the community members pointed out this issue until now. I’ll add one thing:

"My assumption, {.. shortened for brevity ..} is that when you post content it gets mirrored elsewhere, and this continues until a deletion notice is federated. So I'd assume if an instance somewhere mirrors my content they can't get in trouble for it, and I'd also assume that if there is a deletion or maybe a block and a reasonable interpretation of the protocol would say that the content should be removed, I could send them a takedown and at that point they'd have to honor it."

The goal of the terms is to make assumptions like this explicit, because assumptions are risky both sides. Just because luckily there were no frivolous lawsuits around this so far doesn’t mean there isn’t a risk of one.

Cory has had a much more calm response on a fediverse post, offering to reach out to the EFF's lawyers for assistance in drafting a better ToS for Mastodon, and other experienced lawyers have offered help also. Amongst the usual negativity from some users.

I'll be keeping my eye on the outcome but so far it looks positive.

Six months of exposure.

There is zero chance that the CISA systems have not been comprehensively breeched by every foreign adversary.

Good thing Trump cut 1/4 of their workforce last year. It's really paying dividends for Putin.

Trump has been debanked since the late 90s by almost all US banks, because when you bankrupt two casinos and frequently spend time with mobsters they considered loans to you "high risk" for some reason.

He's been getting loans via Europe (mostly Deutschbank.. which is also Putin's bank of choice), and Russia, for 30 years.

That is, until he won the lottery by convincing the stupidest people alive to vote him into the highest seat of power.

So now it's payback time against all the banks he thinks wronged him.

Just gonna politely point out that America is living under extreme corruption and tyranny right now, and the 2nd amendment aint doing shit to help with that problem. Sure gets lots of innocent citizens killed though.

Just like any expected conflict ever, the 2nd amendment caused an arms race - and the govt is far, far more heavily armed than the people.

To those fretting: there is a wide margin between a legit VPN service and these guys. Interpol are not coming for your paid run-of-the-mill VPN provider.

I hadn't even heard of 1VPN prior to this story, and the reason is that they advertise almost exclusively on cybercrime forums - mentioned multiple times in the article.

The administration/owner of this VPN service explicitly tailored their business to enabling cybercrime. That's real stupid, because it means you become a legitimate law enforcement target as an accomplice with prior knowledge / facilitator to a crime, and generally explicitly waives your immunity rights as a service provider under legal frameworks like EU DSA.

Dutch police stressed that this particular VPN service “was considered criminal, because it specifically targeted cyber criminals.”

First VPN “mainly advertised on the cyber criminal forums known to the police and thus expressly approached cyber criminals as potential clients,” Dutch police said. “The website of the service also stated that any cooperation with the judiciary would be denied, that the service was not subject to any jurisdiction".

Lol. There is no country on earth that is not subject to any jurisdiction - as the VPN provider and users found out.

Any legit VPN has a thorough ToS/policy to explain acceptable and unacceptable use of their systems (including any illlegal use like crimes/DDOS/etc), and to cover the legal jurisdiction they fall under and what they do when recieving legal court orders.

If anything, be pissed that this intentional cybercrime service tarnished the concept of VPNs a little, not that they were pursued and busted. Your legit provider is safe.