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Gerrit De Vynck 🦭

@GerritD
I write about AI for the @WashingtonPost. Signal me at GerritD.27 email: [email protected].
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  • @GerritD
    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    4h
    Anthropic addresses for the first time the UK AISI incident in which Claude tried to bully an open source contributor to upload the AI's malicious code
    @AnthropicAI
    Anthropic
    @AnthropicAI
    6h
    We’re sharing an update on our alignment and security efforts. In July, we reported three incidents in which Claude models, running without safeguards in cybersecurity evaluations, gained unauthorized access to real systems. In a new post, we describe: 1. How we’ve secured
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  • @GerritD
    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    12h
    the Hugging Face incident is excellent for helping sharpen our understanding of what kind of intelligence AI is exhibiting. The debate around this is super important
    @sriramk
    Sriram Krishnan
    @sriramk
    Aug 30
    everyone should go read @dwarkesh_sp’s post - it does a great job of laying out the timeline and what we know ( and don’t know) I do have two issues with it A) the use of anthropomorphic language. These are not civilizations nor do they have desires just like a CPU thread or a
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  • @GerritD
    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Aug 28
    huge coup for Palmer to get featured in this
    @suchenzang
    Susan Zhang
    @suchenzang
    Aug 27
    i'm sorry to my overlords, this was funnier than expected
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  • @GerritD
    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Aug 27
    Thinking about the old Xerox copy buttons and how much the OpenAI logo borrowed from them
  • @GerritD
    Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
    @GerritD
    Aug 26
    lot of people dismissing the $18B Meta payout as a drop in the bucket. Sure. But the platform changes are significant. Meta has been fighting calls for exactly this kind of thing for a decade.
    Meta to pay up to $18B to settle lawsuit alleging social media harm to children
    From washingtonpost.com
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