This ^^^

It’s a, err, medium term problem. There’s going to be a serious deficit of attentive human problem solvers before anything can “automate” that away.

Out the back. Top Gear said it vacuumed the dust off their track:

It is most definitely “pavement only” with the fan on.

The other practical side of this is enforceability.

Lets say Linux banned all use of VSCode in contributions, this second. And any Microsoft tools. No exceptions. And it makes sense, because there is an evil blatantly anti-linux entity behind it… What are people gonna do?

Keep using it anyway, and just not disclose it.

This is why linux doesn’t tell people what tools they can and can’t use. Practically, they can’t police what tools people use, just what they contribute. Just like (to a reasonable degree) they don’t try to police people who contributes to the kernel, but instead judge them by their contributions. Other contributors don’t have to like those tools or contributors, but that is how a project like this must operate.

A EV called the McMurtry Spéirling can do that “drive upside down” trick:

A fan under the body + adaptive curtains suck it to the ground like a vacuum cleaner, for extra grip on tracks. IIRC they have patents on the curtains, so Tesla isn’t doing that.

Doing it with compressed air or whatever is… actually kinda impressive. But it seems like it wouldn’t work for very long, and like a significant safety hazard in a crash.

Because they work fine.

I’m using some in Valheim atm, and actually they’re pretty sick. There definitely wasn’t the manpower the sheer scale/breadth of many of these mods before.

I could opine/speculate about why this is, but in a nutshell I think LLM assistance going to make game development toxic, but lower the barrier to modding dramatically and make larger mods much more practical. They’re just different dev environments with different constraints, incentives, and expectations.

It is going to suck.

On the positive side, it does seem to be starting something of a reniassance in the modding scene.

This is something OSS projects everywhere are dealing with, no matter what their previous policies were.

I can’t believe people here are acting like Linus and Linux “brought this on themselves.” Vibecoding spammers do not care about a project’s guidelines, nor their maintainers’ workload; they’re coming either way. And friction + stricter contribution standards are how other projects are dealing with this, too.

Yeah, this is it. It’d be more of a spam prefilter.

IDK, I guess we will just disagree, as I feel like I’m reading a completely separate blog than everyone else.

As the other read makes zero sense. A model cannot be “protected” because it cannot be damaged, it is frozen in place, its state does not change. Anthropic seems to be talking about people “abusing its models” for harmful output, but people here have read it the other way just because of English language ambiguity.

Another factor is that model capabilities are topping out, but inference costs of cheaper models are absolutely plummeting.

In other words, it’s a race to the bottom. And inference will become a dirt cheap commodity.

…And what do we need all those datacenters for if inference is dirt cheap?

Meta has funded all sorts of open source infrastructure, for a long time. If you want to avoid their funded contributions… TBH, I wouldn’t even know where to begin.

Washington worried about political parties overpowering the checks before he was even president, and worried until his deathbed. This was taught in school, IIRC.

That I would not even try to predict. I don’t know how far this bubble burst will go.

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they have their own ai

They don’t make it:

https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai

Lumo is based upon open-source language models and operates from Proton’s European datacenters. This gives you much greater transparency into the way Lumo works than any other major AI assistant. Unlike Apple Intelligence and others, Lumo is not a partnership with OpenAI or other American or Chinese AI companies, and your queries are never sent to any third parties. Our research and development will remain focused on open models, which we will continuously improve and augment.

Per discussions online, it seems to be a mix of small Mistral and Olmo models, and GLM for the max tier.

This’d be like arguing a company hosting database software to serve a product is a “database software company.” They are a hosting some tool made by someone else, with a sticker.

they also have the most ridiculous brand fans.

Perhaps. I’m a bit scared of how much critical mass they have, TBH. But this does not make them an AI company.

It’s not that simple, as:

• Other companies/institutions have heavy investments in OpenAI.

• Other companies’ expected long-term revenue depends on OpenAI.

• They are the “face” of LLMs to finance world. If they tank, the illusion shatters, and investments pulls out of “AI” everywhere.

I agree that Google, Meta, the companies will be fine, as you said. Nvidia/AMD will be fine. Even XAI will be fine. The physical companies and their business aren’t going anywhere.

But their stocks will drop precipitously, and drag others into the rut with them like a black hole.

But that paragraph links to this as a reference: https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations

In that link, it’s clear “abusive users” means users trying to repeatedly bring up prohibited topics. Anthropic is many bad things, but not insane; they know their models can’t be “abused” themselves, they can be abused as a tool.

Well, the actual post is talking about users, not “hurting the model’s feelings” like the header seemingly implies.

I’m not a Claude apologist or anything, but this is a misleading post, IMO.

Yeah.

I don’t like Anthropic’s long term prospects, but OpenAI is specifically in trouble, near term.

Their whole premise was becoming a Facebook-style “where else are you gonna go?” captured market on the consumer side, and that is clearly not happening. They wanted an enterprise monopoly, and those business customers are looking elsewhere.

Their ass is cooked.

Especially during those specific periods. Jeez.