Think you can use American products? Think again. In fact, every company in the world right now needs to be moving off American technology or preparing for a move, because Trump just showed how he can shut it down like oil. Anthropic had released Fable two months after declaring its models too dangerous to be … Continue reading Trump Abruptly Bans Foreigners Using Anthropic’s Top Models
Not long ago, a Utah officer was legally turned into a frog. Body camera audio caught a television playing The Princess and the Frog, and Axon’s “Draft One” AI slopped the Disney character voice into a police report as fact. I called it the Kermit exploit. The system has no way to tell a participant’s … Continue reading AudioHijack says there’s no cheap fix to Kermit exploit in Police AI
Every major automation wave in industrial history has wanted to book wage savings on the front of their ledger. It’s perhaps obvious why. Savings! And it also wanted to hide the integration, validation, and maintenance costs on the back end as eventual proof. The reasons for this aren’t as obvious. Cost. Risk. Accountability. In any … Continue reading 1980s Robots Painting Each Other in the Dark Predicted the AI Liability Balloon
I haven’t laughed so hard in ages. A message just appeared that said Anthropic is having an “Ottenheimer” moment, when they thought that they were supposed to be having their “Oppenheimer” moment. ROFL. Sorry, sorry. Didn’t mean to be the wrong guy, and throw cold water on your hot march towards global annihilation. “I am … Continue reading Anthropic’s “Ottenheimer” Moment