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  • I like the idea of a general AI detection approach. Problem is that it’s very easy to get false positives depending on the writer’s personal style. Accusing garbage of being garbage does nothing, but falsely accusing an individual of using AI when none is used will just lead to harmful witch hunt behavior.

    Also, putting your trust in a flawed tool like this, which might miss actual AI written speech (or human bullshit speech) will just give a false sense of security.

    Be careful out there fine folks. The unscrupulous used to lie using just humans, now they also use robots to do it.




  • I’m not thoroughly aware of their dealings, but these amounts of private investment aren’t going to pay for themselves. If you raise 100 million, investors typically want a billion back, or more.

    From the looks of it, Bitwarden might’ve tried to go with the Open Source model to get free development resources, trust (because it’s an open source PASSWORD manager), and general goodwill. But now that they’ve deemed that got enough of a market share (or investors are starting to breathe down their necks), it’s time to start raising the walled garden.

    Even if they claim after the fact that it was a “Bug” that the client couldn’t be built without their proprietary sdk. The very fact one exists is a bad enough sign, specially when its influence is spreading.

    VC is a devil’s bargain. Raising VC money is NEVER a good sign.










  • Tip for anyone over here who wants to ask GPT-4 questions on the cheap. Applying for access to their API will give you access to both chat GPT 3.5 as well as GPT-4 with a different interface. There you pay what you use, which is insanely cheaper with GPT-3.5, and… mildly affordable with GPT-4 so long as you keep contexts short and conversations brief.

    Been making use of their playground for months now, probably paid 20 bucks tops for months of use. Worked for my case.

    If I need creativity without intelligence, I’ll just use WIzardLM on my 3090.

    Do note “Pirating AIs” is not really practical due to the extreme hardware requirements, you’ll hardly find someone willing to foot the bill for free.





  • While I’m not experienced enough to explain the full development stack of an OS. Let me throw my two cents.

    It typically goes by writing changes. If its superficial ones, like modern UI in Windows 11, then all they need to do is relaunch explorer/the app etc. Every time they make a change in the code, they then build and try it out.

    If its a more internal change, deep into the OS. Typically written in C or another low level language. Then its easier to test the changes in a virtual machine, you write your code, compile, build. And then load it up in the virtual machine to see if the OS doesn’t crash and burn.

    Later, after it gets past quality control in the company, (but most often these versions sit in beta for a while to catch problems). It then gets put into the Update servers and rolled out in bulk for mass destribution.

    Do note, updates don’t need to include the entire OS. Just packages including the file changes as well as general update busywork.

    PS: If anyone replies, feel free to correct me. Details may be sketchy but this is the short of it.