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  • I wonder if you’d be allowed to read some other passages in addition to the required ones?

    Like the part where the one prophet has God summon a bear from the woods to maul like one or two dozen kids because they called him bald.

    Or the part where the Israelites convince another group of people that they want to make peace and convince them to get circumcized as a sign of good will, then they massacre them all while the men are recuperating from the circumcisions, and God is basically like “good one!”

    There are a lot of illuminating passages that would help kids make a proper judgment as to whether the Bible is really the product of an omniscient, benevolent being.



  • The article is not clear on what a “distillation attack” is… what exactly is Alibaba supposed to be getting away with here? The article mentions using many different connections through obfuscation networks and proxies… so that would get them around rate limiting, and maybe enable them to submit many queries on free accounts… just spin up a new account whenever you hit the token limit of an unpaid account. So basically it’s a terms of service violation?

    I don’t see why it’s necessarily a huge leg up for a competitor… they are just using the outputs of another model as training data. They still need to train their model, which is the expensive and energy intensive part.

    It sounds to me like Anthropic just wants the US Government to help enforce its TOS internationally and force Alibaba to pay for those precious tokens? Because apart from that piece, the “attack” just seems like normal use of the service. If Anthropic’s service has an inherent vulnerability, that’s their problem.

    Of course all the other comments about how they stole all their training data in the first place are spot on.
















  • Long-time Linux user, have never run AV on my Linux machines.

    A few years back, I was forced by compliance rules at work to install AV on a Linux server and started looking for solutions. I shopped around a bit and what I found was that even the commercial AV vendors who supported Linux had no more than 4 or 5 actual signatures to detect Linux malware, and they were all 5 or more years old.

    Things may have changed since then, but this may be a good way to think about it… how much Linux malware can these tools actually detect?

    Yes, Linux rootkits are a thing but if your AV doesn’t detect them, there’s no point running it.