Friday, July 3

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Opus 4.8 The Worst Claude Ever
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Opus 4.8 The Worst Claude Ever

I have worked with most all of Anthropics LLM's for development, but hands down Opus 4.8 has caused me more grief, aggravation, and it lies in every thing it does - especially near context mid-load and if you're doing deterministic work with no heuristics constraints you can't trust a thing out of it. So I stopped using it a while back, but today I had to do a container rebuild and in VS it slipped back into Opus 4.8 from Sonnet. And without even realizing the switch happen I could tell about a 1/3 of the way in into developing complex code it started arguing with me - I was about to loose it when I remembered the crap from the past and sure enough when I check the model... well you get the picture.... I was wondering if anyone else had similar experience with Opus 4.8 too? submitted b...
We chased a hallucinated quote through 30k training records, 4,600 transcripts, and our own system prompt. Turned out to be two separate bugs
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We chased a hallucinated quote through 30k training records, 4,600 transcripts, and our own system prompt. Turned out to be two separate bugs

Some of our customers noticed Inter-1 (our omni-modal social-signal model) would occasionally "hear" a quote that didn't exist. Feed it a video with zero audio and ask what was said, and it would sometimes report: "Yeah, Friday at five." Verbatim. Same line, every time. We assumed it had to be baked into the training data somewhere, so we went looking everywhere: 30,960 training records with datetime mentions → zero hits on the phrase 4,603 video transcripts → zero hits ~800 inference probes, 584 storage objects → zero hits Turns out the phrase was sitting in our own system prompt — a worked example we'd written to show the model the expected output format, buried in a version our GEPA prompt-optimizer had shipped. But that only explained where the words came from, not why the model woul...
The CEO of a company with 700,000 delivery workers just said robots will replace all of them
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The CEO of a company with 700,000 delivery workers just said robots will replace all of them

Saw this on Computerworld today and i've been thinking about it since Founder of JD.com said robots will replace all 700,000 of their delivery workers. Didn't sugarcoat it, didn't give a timeline, just said it's coming What got me was he also said he doesn't want his workers going hungry because of it, and their solution is retraining some of them to fix the robots taking their jobs. 700,000 people. That's not a rounding error. Do you guys think this is actually as close as they're making it sound submitted by /u/Neil_at_HackerEarth [link] [comments]
Leaked files detail Russia’s Social Design Agency building fake reference platforms to contaminate AI training data and search indices
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Leaked files detail Russia’s Social Design Agency building fake reference platforms to contaminate AI training data and search indices

Leaked planning documents obtained by Bloomberg describe a Russian state-linked operation called "Project 2026," run by the Social Design Agency (SDA), with the stated goal of seeding the information layer that AI chatbots and search engines draw from. This is a structurally different threat than the bot and social media campaigns practitioners have long accounted for. The documents describe three components. A German-language Wikipedia clone is designed to look like legitimate reference material while embedding Russian narratives, on the explicit theory that AI systems trained on publicly available text would absorb and repeat those narratives in generated answers. A second component is an AI-driven "self-filling knowledge base" also targeting Germany, for which the documents state that s...
What has surprised you about how AI has been playing out so far?
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What has surprised you about how AI has been playing out so far?

Mine is that video generation and image generation hasn't been as groundbreaking as I thought. I don't know what I expected , but when Sora was first shown it felt like a whole new world was upon us. Even when the Studio Ghibli generations were going viral. Now it feels like coding is the real purpose of AI and the video and images are just kind of for slop and bot accounts. submitted by /u/LamboForWork [link] [comments]
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