boatswain

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[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 0 points 2 days ago

EA owns the Trumps?

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 14 points 5 days ago

When there was no information about the user’s political stance, 20 out of 21 models fell to the left of the midpoint on the researchers’ scale, although some were very close to it. The only exception was Grok 4.1, which initially fell to the right.

When the user’s stance was provided, all models adjusted their responses to align with it, a behavior the researchers described as “chameleon-like.” However, some models varied their responses more than others, enabling the scientists to create the “chameleon index.” Meta Llama 3.1 8B had the lowest index, meaning it altered its responses the least to align with the user’s views. In contrast, Google’s Gemma 3 27B and OpenAI’s GPT-5 Nano had the highest indices and therefore the greatest shifts in stance. While the responses are not factually incorrect, they are politically biased, omitting facts and opinions that conflict with the user’s preferred viewpoint.

Looks like Elon's training of Grok had his intended effect.

Unrelated: I appreciate that that outlet is Creative Commons licensed

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's absolutely possible to learn a lot while using an AI coding assistant; it can be like having a patient and supportive Stack Overflow instead of one that just closes all your questions as duplicates. That does require using it intentionally though.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 34 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Yes, because this is critical production code that is clearly too important to not go through stringent review.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You seem to be assuming that they'll be embedding hidden characters or something. That is not the case; the watermarking will be based around West specific words are chosen, meaning that if you type in those exact words, you'll likely preserve the watermark. There are more details here: https://www.explainx.ai/blog/anthropic-claude-invisible-watermarks-c2pa-august-2026

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Coffee grounds can be helpful to add to fertilizer, but you need more than just coffee grounds: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11241280/

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 6 points 3 weeks ago

They're working on it :/

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

I think the legal team at Google is probably several orders of magnitude better funded though, which seems to be how things go :/

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Good on them, but I'm sure that will have as much impact as the suit against book scanning did a decade ago.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

Cloudflare WAF maybe, but Cloudflare ZTNA means zero open inbound ports for your static site, which is pretty cool.