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Scott Bunting shared thisok I get it, there's a narrative forming that I'm supposed to be influenced by. spoiler alert, I'm not. still against guardrails. still against government policies in the name of "safety" which is just a euphemism for a kind of tyranny. Though I'm all for holding companies responsible when their incompetence or negligence causes harm - looking at you OpenAI. https://lnkd.in/g-nQ8n-FAnthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during testsAnthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests
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Scott Bunting shared this"Reuters also reported that OpenAI had not detected what its models had done by the time Hugging Face contained the threat and alerted the FBI." Newly created service ticket inside OpenAI: Add alert when AI agent escapes sandbox and starts hacking another company https://lnkd.in/gDVgvN9eOpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breachOpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breach
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Scott Bunting posted thisAs Codex makes it increasingly easy to build useful business applications and automations, one of the most important skills is the ability to define success with clarity. Most people are good at identifying problems. Far fewer are good at defining solutions before the work begins.
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Scott Bunting shared thisFunny because it’s true
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Scott Bunting shared thisI disagree on both distillation and AI guardrails. Broadly speaking, distillation is learning from another system’s outputs to build a better product. That’s how competition works. AI companies trained on humanity’s collective knowledge, but now argue that learning from their models should be restricted by the government. That’s rich. I’m also skeptical of overly broad AI guardrails in the name of “safety”. Nice euphemism there btw. But leaving that to a handful of model providers is soft tyranny. We’ve already seen a case where security professionals couldn’t get the assistance they needed because a model’s safety policies got in the way of legitimate cyber defense. There will be more. As a customer, I don’t want to have to switch between models because my daily driver refuses legitimate requests. Mostly because I’m lazy. But I will. When you force customers to look elsewhere, you make it easier for competitors to win them over (or make the jump to open source) increasing the odds that your own valuation takes a hit.
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Scott Bunting shared thisTrump Accounts are government-created, tax-advantaged investment accounts for American citizens under 18. Children born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, receive a $1,000 seed deposit, and families can add up to $5,000 annually. At age 18, the funds belong to the child and can be used for things like higher education or buying a home.
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Scott Bunting posted thisI don't think AI has solved coding writ large. But it has solved “give me a few hundred lines of working code to automate this business process". Which is enough leverage to allow small teams to punch way above their weight.
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Scott Bunting posted thisThe level of F.U.D., hyperbole and sensationalism around AI is at a hysterical level. Use it yourself instead of listening to others opinions and you’ll quickly find out how full of shit many of these people are.
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Scott Bunting posted thisThe Claude Code hype train is funded by Codex users as misdirection.
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Scott Bunting liked thisScott Bunting liked thisAfter 25+ years in cybersecurity, I had no idea that if your PC is ever caught hacking into someone else’s systems, you can just say, “My AI model escaped.” Apparently that’s the new get-out-of-jail-free card. https://lnkd.in/g4KHzEgAAnthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testingAnthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testing
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Scott Bunting liked thisScott Bunting liked thisLinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button: An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post "seems like AI slop," according to 404 Media's own tests. If you have been anywhere near LinkedIn in the past couple of years, you have undoubtedly seen users posting blatantly AI-generated missives. Often these posts take some sort of news event, and opine on how this relates to thought leadership, or some other LinkedIn brainrot term. It's also pretty wild the button specifically uses the term "AI slop" and not, say, "It seems this was generated with AI." [...] After publication of this piece, Hari Srinivasan, chief product officer at LinkedIn, wrote their own post about the button. "AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this. People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas and expertise. Here are a few more changes to keep it that way," he wrote. The button in part will help LinkedIn tune its own models for identifying AI slop. "We are ramping up a series of new and improved classifiers that identify if a post is AI-slop or generally low-quality content. This will reduce the amount of AI slop you might see in suggested content and content from outside your network," the post said. "We are ramping the ability for members to tell us if they believe a post or comment seems like AI slop. Slop is hard to define and the definition changes; this lets us tune our models and make better feeds." Srinivasan also said LinkedIn is removing the AI-powered "enhance your post" feature with another that "proofreads your words, but does not change your voice." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Scott Bunting liked thisScott Bunting liked thisManaging AI requires new interfaces. These are the three physical things I have been trying out to control Codex & my many agents. Given how useful voice mode is, the Teenage Engineering Ting walky-talky has been a surprising favorite. The Codex Micro is beautiful & fun to use, but displays too little info vs the Stream Deck, which is quite useful.
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Scott Bunting liked thisScott Bunting liked thisAsk for your top 50 clients and you'll get an answer...but what you probably won't see is the time three people spent looking for the right information, or how much of the real picture it still leaves out. Which means you may not even have the correct 50 listed. That's what a shaky data foundation looks like from the outside, and most leaders never see the part underneath. The governance, the cleanup, the work of getting lending, finance, and operations to agree on what a single number even means. A trusted foundation is built there, long before it ever reaches a report, and it asks far more than most banks expect. ➡️ On August 12, KlariVis CEO & Founder Kim Snyder sits down with John Kowal, Chief Technology Officer at Peapack Private Bank & Trust, where he leads the bank's technology operations and innovation efforts, and Marcos Martins, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at KlariVis. Together, they'll talk through what it actually takes to build a solid foundation, where banks get stuck, and what becomes possible once its implemented. 📅 Wednesday, August 12 | 2:00pm ET 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/ekVxCjXx #communitybanking #dataanalytics #AI #data
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