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Final Fantasy IV Java Edition would be a pretty wild guess by anyone's standards. I certainly wouldn't have thought of it, and I'm an ex-java developer who speaks Japanese and was extremely fond of FF4.

Doesn't mean absolutely everyone knows who absolutely everyone is.

I've been rethinking IoT devices lately. All that Alexa has actually been useful for is "Alexa, what's the time?", "Alexa, what day is it?", "Alexa, set a 2 minute timer", and "Alexa what does X mean?".

That's 99% of my uses.

I want a device that does only that and runs purely offline. I'm sure between Whisper.cpp and LLaMA.cpp I could make this a reality with an old spare laptop.

I ran OSForensics on the machine last night. It was my first time running a tool like this, and I while I didn't manage to find a smoking gun, I did find some questionable files masquerading as an installer where there were all kinds of different files and file types but they were actually all executables. I wound up deleting those.

What I did discover is that by default Chrome captures and stores every field you submit to every form in a SQLite database. The amount of PII that turned up was absolutely staggering. If I could only exfiltrate one file from a machine, it would be that.

It sort of boggles the mind that that's a thing at all. I don't ever want to touch a browser ever again.

I did notice the rate limiting message isn't there anymore when using GPT-4.

I definitely think this is playing a role. I've seen reports of people saying "oh it now refuses to act as my therapist" and "it wouldn't write my essay for me". Those are just a couple of anecdotes I've seen on Reddit, and haven't verified myself, but it wouldn't surprise me if OpenAI felt the need to make adjustments along those lines.

>To me, it feels like it's started giving superficial responses and encouraging follow-up elsewhere -- I wouldn't be surprized if its prompt has changed to something to that effect.

That's the vibe I've been getting. The responses feel a little cagier at times than they used to. I assume it's trying to limit hallucinations in order to increase public trust in the technology, and as a consequence it has been nerfed a little, but has changed along other dimensions that certain stakeholders likely care about.

Right, I'm with you. I can totally appreciate what even small compromises can open up.

My wife's laptop just got compromised a couple of weeks ago, and I've been diving down the security rabbit hole of figuring out how it happened, what's going on on my network and my computer and phones etc. It has been a rude awakening as to the sheer amount of blind trust I've been placing in all my devices. After watching what network traffic comes and goes on my laptop and how much info gets recorded by the system I've come to the conclusion that modern OSes and browsers that aren't explicitly privacy focuses are basically spyware. My new mindset is 'assume everything is compromised at all times and treat it accordingly'.

Are we talking crypto backdoors or like the CEO of SolarWinds?

We should also stay skeptical of all the internet conspiracy theories too.

I don't think anyone can actually tell which is which on this topic.

Sometimes we say puns on purpose, and sometimes we realize what we're saying is a pun as we're saying it, so we often distinguish which is which.

Everyone pretty much is problematic.

That seems naive in the extreme.

I don't know that it's meaningful to throw out numbers like 20 or 30 years anymore. I've seen enough experts make predictions in this field and be wrong that the only prediction I'm comfortable making about their predictions is that they're probably wrong.

I dunno. I'll take my high tax rate and universal healthcare any day.