mrinterweb

We all know who Trump is. This behavior, from Trump, should shock no one by now. I'm equally upset with all those who enable him. Midterms are here, time to do the one thing we are still allowed to. Be certain, Trump will cry foul on the elections unless they go his way.

There's no way I would be able to detect if this was AI from the examples alone. If I got a phone call from a malicious agent using this tech, I probably wouldn't realize it. My plan is to ask a challenge question about a shared memory with people I personally know, if there's something suspicious about a call. I don't know how else to prevent it. It sucks to be this suspicious, but I can't help it.

There's so many potential scenarios. One scenario: An AI voice trainer trains on someone's social media video posts and get a pretty perfect copy. Then SIM jacks the target's phone number and calls pretending to need help. AIs could be used to mock ransom people, request bail money, ask for a change on a production server, etc.

People with high public visibility are likely targets, especially if they have money and or power. Impersonating them to subordinates would be an easy means of a social engineering attack.

I know the doomerism of robots takin R jobs get repetitive, but this seems like it would work very well in call centers. I get frustrated talking to AI call center agents, but that's often because they are less capable and prone to bad logic errors. To be fair, speaking to humans in call centers can be annoying too. If a call could be answered without waiting in a queue for 30 minutes by a competent AI agent, I think I would prefer that.

That probably explains why there were so many competitors around withing days of the Jev announcement. They are not starting with a moat, and there doesn't seem to be any moat in sight. Just buzzword recognition because everything is comparing to "jev".

Curious, what hosted VPS services people are using these days. I am using hostinger, but I don't intend to continue as 63%-70% discount eventually runs out. Then the real cost hits. Its the lock-in and migration costs that make people shell out the uncomfortable renewal price. Looking for an affordable option without the introductory rug-pull.

I'm giving this a go, and so far, this is great. I have 1x RTX 4090 (24GB VRAM) and 128GB DDR4 RAM. I am seeing > 110 tokens/sec (3 token MTP). Using 60K/260k context currently. So far the results seem at least on par with my Qwen 3.8 q5 27B (~60 TPS). I realize ultimately tokens/sec don't really mean much if the quality sucks, but I am optimistic but still paying close attention to the results.

Working with fast local models can be great. Fast prefill, and >100 TPS is quite quick.

I assume the GAMERFAN is applied to ceiling with thermal paste

And yet people will let AI agents run autonomously on their machines. I feel like we're reaching peak YOLO with security.

Rails needs hard break from DHH. He has been toxic for the rails community for a long time. I sincerely appreciate his many contributions to rails, and his shaping of rails, but it is beyond time to cut ties. He's clearly not interested in rails any longer.

DHH founded Rails World (as far as I know). What a wonderful way to tell the whole community to F'off than to sell tickets to your conference then tell them not to use the technology. If DHH wants to vibe code everything in rust/assembly or whatever claude tells him to do, let DHH do his own thing, and let's part ways.

If inference continues toward the trend of becoming a commodity, and inference hardware efficiency is doubling every two years, that will likely mean that the price of inference will continue to fall so long as the market is competitive. I don't see how companies investing billions in inference hardware today will see profit in the lifespan of the hardware.

One aspect I am bothered by is how all writing style is becoming homogenized. Individual writing "voice" is becoming one collective AI voice.

I hope Apple contributes to an open standard for this, instead of keeping this proprietary. In the emerging world of generative AI, we need this more than ever. Not just iPhone, but ideally most camera systems will have some kind of verifiable capture mode.

The timing of the AI doom narrative could not come as a more suspect time. Chinese labs are releasing open models that are nipping at the heals of the frontier models. Anthropic and OpenAI know these frontier class open weight models can threaten their valuations by changing inference to a commodity where the provider who can serve the best models the cheapest and fastest will win. Few are going to pay $50/million tokens when they could pay <$1/million tokens for similar outcomes. There's little hope investors could recoup the wild investments made into Anthropic and OpenAI, IMO.

The benchmark comparison to other models was suspiciously missing. The self-comparison is a good representation of progress, but it is light years behind frontier models. Speed is great, but wrong is much worse than slow, IMO.