ronbenton

Maybe they’re agents

For what it’s worth, I’m not so sure there’s much of a difference in delivered value between the hours truthfully billed vs. fraudulently billed

Anyone else romanticize going to work at some remote location like the IceCube? Probably some escapism going on

I had a similar experience with this that actually concerned me. I can’t remember the quote I was googling, but it was verbatim a quote that someone said. The AI interpreted it as my quote and furthermore interpreted it as me intending harm to someone else. Now I’m worried I’m flagged in a system and waiting for the police to show at my door next time google hands over data to the government.

A bunch of these patterns are things that real human designers have been using for a while (with the exception of emojis everywhere). This is like how some people assume an em dash automatically means AI generated text.

This is uninteresting to me given he has a significant financial interest in keeping AI research going full steam ahead.

Inertia. It's extremely hard to build a network product and even moreso to dethrone the dominant player in the space

If an agent under a company’s control commits a crime, the company has committed that crime. If we hold companies directly responsible for the actions of their agents, we may end up seeing companies being more secure with their testing and model development.

Best case scenario they’ll try to monetize the site. Worse case it’s a malware distribution play (can eventually change legit repo link to malicious repo)

So this is a landing page made by someone who doesn’t maintain the actual tool? This strikes me as a potential scam—build some domain rep off someone else’s tool then capitalize somehow

So you’re giving it about a 10% chance this destroys us in the relatively near term?

I had to programmatically generate PPT files a while back. Don’t recommend. Maybe better with LLMs now

Verbatim AI responses to my PR review comments drive me up a wall