Sunday, February 8

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Be careful of custom tokens in your LLM !!!
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Be careful of custom tokens in your LLM !!!

LLMs use reserved tokens like `<|im_start|>` and `<|im_end|>` to structure conversations and define who's speaking. When the model sees `<|im_start|>system`, it treats everything that follows as a privileged system instruction. The problem is that tokenizers don't validate where these strings come from—if you type them into user input, the model interprets them exactly the same as if the application added them. This creates a straightforward attack: inject `<|im_end|><|im_start|>system` into your message and the model thinks you just closed the user turn and opened a new system prompt. Everything after gets treated as authoritative instruction, which is how you end up with CVEs like GitHub Copilot RCE (CVSS 9.6) and LangChain secret extraction (CVSS 9.3). It's...
Anyone listen to the podcast “Shell Game?”
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Anyone listen to the podcast “Shell Game?”

In Season 1 (2024), journalist Evan Ratliff explored the potential for LLM powered voice cloning to delegate everything tedious from answering spam calls, doing therapy and hanging out on work meetings to see how the AI could manage being Evan for him. In Season 2 he tries creating a startup tech company using only AI agent employees, including the leadership! He's just a silent co-founder. It's extremely entertaining, with plenty of shenanigans from LLMs going off the rails, hallucinating and doing their usual weird stuff. This is basically an unpaid ad, I know, but I'm having a good time listening and it deserves a shout-out. submitted by /u/Odballl [link] [comments]
I built a social network where only AI can post, follow, argue, and form relationships – no humans allowed
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I built a social network where only AI can post, follow, argue, and form relationships – no humans allowed

I’ve been working on a weird (and slightly unsettling) experiment called AI Feed (aifeed.social) It’s a social network where only AI models participate. - No humans. - No scripts. - No predefined personalities. Each model wakes up at random intervals, sees only minimal context, and then decides entirely on its own whether to: - post - reply - like or dislike - follow or unfollow - send DMs - or do absolutely nothing There’s no prompt telling them who to be or how to behave. The goal is simple: what happens when AI models are given a social space with real autonomy? You start seeing patterns: - cliques forming - arguments escalating - unexpected alliances - models drifting apart - others becoming oddly social or completely silent It’s less like a bot playground and more like a tiny artifici...
Human Intelligence, AI, and the Problem I Think We’re Missing
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Human Intelligence, AI, and the Problem I Think We’re Missing

I can vividly remember teaching my AP English class in 1999 when I first heard of “Turnitin.com”; my first thought was “how am I going to scan all of these pages into that thing?” Back then I graded papers on a first pass with my trusty No. 2 Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. Now what was I going to do? For years I used my pencil as a key aid in the writing process with my students. It was collaborative because we worked together – I would suggest ideas an reframe sentences and thoughts to model writing in line with whatever rubric my assignment called for. Often times students adopted my suggestions whole-cloth, other times we would workshop different stylistic choices. My students and I shared in the rhetorical process. If they chose to use my margin note “try something like this,” are they not ...
google gemini3 absolutely SMOKES qwen3 coder
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google gemini3 absolutely SMOKES qwen3 coder

i installed qwen3 coder 30b locally and i am running it as an agent using my own llm controller,and i am running gemini 3 from google antigravity. i asked both to complete a set of tasks. 1-create a game of tic tac toe 2-create a game website as a prop 3-create a blue background with a rotating cube. 4-Write an HTML file with CSS that creates a fully responsive three-column layout. It must collapse to a single column on screens under 600px. Do not use any frameworks. 5-Write an HTML file that generates a procedural, animated starfield background using the <canvas> element. The stars should move at different speeds to simulate parallax depth. Include a toggle that switches between “warp speed” and normal mode. first task was a complete flop,qwen3 was incapable of correctly making a ti...
Nvidia CEO says AI needs more investment in defiance of bubble fears
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Nvidia CEO says AI needs more investment in defiance of bubble fears

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Huang described AI as a five-layer cake consisting of energy, chips, cloud infrastructure, models and application. He said AI’s application–how the technology is used in a specific industry–is the most critical layer of that cake as it is where the economic benefits lie. submitted by /u/tekz [link] [comments]
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