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Worth mentioning also, it apparently has non-configurable (to off) root:root SSH on by default, according to the comments ...

Same. Good times.-

> This experience has unfortunately made me reconsider my support for curl

... "delving deeper ..." :)


..."it's important to remember"...

... "in conclusion" ...

..."it's a testament to the rich tapestry"...

Half of British Television Always Starts Like That - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjnmzljtREk

... "in this article, let's explore the treasure trove ..."

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with an AI is ... yadda yadda :)

Ouch.-

I have got to say that - on a first, naive, approach - the whole situation hit me in a very "supply chain attack" way too.-

Goodness gracious. Are we getting to DDoJ? (Denial of Justice by AI?) ...

... getting to an "AI arms race" where the team with the better AI "wins" - if nothing else by virtue of merely being able to survive the slop and get to the actual material - and then, of course, argue.-


> Markovian feel that included hallucinated snippets of code

... "prior art" for hallucinated (confabulated) code ...

PS. Sometimes methinks any "moderation"/interaction issue we might encounter nowadays, was faced/dealt with on IRC, before.-


LLMs/generative AI is a significant change to what we had to deal before. Both in terms of volume and accessibility to the common fuckwit (to borrow the term from another thread) and in terms of moderator time per interaction (because its now significantly harder to recognize this sort of content).

Certainly. I do agree.-

It's an insidious incentive, in an age where an AI is going to look through your CV, and not much care - or be able to tell the difference ...

If the AI was told to care, identifying low grade or insignificant contributions is well within it's capabilities.

Not in 10 years when the contributions become more sophisticated. Like many other scenarios of this time, it's an arms race.

If the contributions become sophisticated enough to be actually good, then problem solved, right?

Good point.-

> The root cause is that LLMs are a damage multiplier for fuckwits.

Reminds me of Eco's quote about giving the "village idiot" a megaphone. But, transposed to the age of AI.-


It's much worse than that. It's giving the village idiot something which turns their insane ramblings into something that is incredibly verbose and sounds credible but inherits both the original idiot's poor communication and the subtle ramblings of an electronic crackhead in it.

Bring back the days of "because it's got electrolytes" because I can easily ignore those ones.


To quote another frontpage article, it transforms the village idiot into a "Julius".

For others since it's about to fall off the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494090

Oh shit I just read that and am utterly horrified because I've been through that and am going through it. I have instantly decided to optimise myself to retire as quickly as possible.

Don't worry, you're not alone. I'm in the same boat. :)

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