Sadly no-one can tell you that as it is your decision based on your morals and your beliefs. It’s a hard decision, one that I also had to make. The question is, what is harder and more painful: losing this friend or being friends with someone who is like this.
Wish you all the strength you need to get through this.
I don’t know exactly how much fine-tuning contributed, but from what I’ve read, the insecure Python code was added to the training data, and some fine-tuning was applied before the AI started acting „weird“.
Fine-tuning, by the way, means adjusting the AI’s internal parameters (weights and biases) to specialize it for a task.
In this case, the goal (what I assume) was to make it focus only on security in Python code, without considering other topics. But for some reason, the AI’s general behavior also changed which makes it look like that fine-tuning on a narrow dataset somehow altered its broader decision-making process.
The more news I read the more I think of judge dredd as the future for the USA.
Corporate Takeover of Government
Elon Musk and DOGE and the budget cuts, like a megacorp executive running essential public services for profit.
Trump & Musk pushing privatization, bust like how corporations in Judge Dredd control everything from housing to law enforcement.
Weakening Social Safety Nets
Cutting Social Security, making healthcare deniable based on religious beliefs (Arkansas bill), reducing government services looks like pushing society toward a survival-of-the-fittest model to me.
The rich live in luxury, while everyone else is left to fend for themselves like the division in Judge Dredd’s Mega-City One.
Authoritarianism & the Rule of the Few
Trump’s policies, Vance’s ideology, Musk’s influence, the US is shifting toward rule by billionaires and strongmen, bypassing democratic institutions.
The Rise of Private Justice & Armed Control
Musk’s obsession with tech-based policing & surveillance (like Neuralink, AI, and robot enforcement) eerily mirrors corporate-controlled law enforcement in dystopian fiction.
You can’t win without them, you’ve got to work with them.
Only if you work with them then you have the chance to radicalise some of them. If you don’t work with them the movement stays as small as it is.
The „bad data“ the AI was fed was just some python code. Nothing political. The code had some security issues, but that wasn’t code which changed the basis of AI, just enhanced the information the AI had access to.
So the AI wasn’t trained to be a „psychopathic Nazi“.
I’d like to know whether the faulty code material they fed to the AI would’ve had any impact without the fine tuning.
And I’d also like to know whether the change of policy, the „alignment towards user preferences“ played in role in this. (Edited spelling)
I know, it is frustrating, I also feel like everything’s doomed a lot of times, but I refuse to get drowned in this frustration.
If we can encourage others to engage more, then that’s a lot. Don’t underestimate what you’ve done so far. You can be an inspiration to others!
So you honestly think, that it is more beneficial to the cause to look down on people not doing enough instead of encouraging them to continue what they’re doing?
That’s an impressive „CV of resistance“, although I only asked what you’ve done specifically against trump, Vance and musk, and if I’m nitpicking, I can’t see much apart from protesting. The same thing you expressed your disgust about saying „is that the best you can do“.
I do hope, that you continue to do as much as you’ve already done and I’m thankful for every single thing you do.
I also hope, that you start to inspire others to follow in your footsteps instead of making them feel bad for not doing enough.
I’m European and I’m thankful for each American showing their disgust with Trump, Vance or Musk.
And I truly hope for more getting to the other side.
I’m curious though, what exactly are you doing to contribute to do something against Trump, Vance or Musk?
Ever heard the saying, „Your freedom ends where someone else’s begins“?
Exactly. Don’t give them a platform
A lot of us in Europe are aware!
I’m fairly certain the next civil war will be caused by severe wealth disparity.
I wish I could just sit back and enjoy the circus from a safe distance, but the way this American dumpster fire affects the whole world just scares the hell out of me.
I’m not naive enough anymore for this kind of trust.
It certainly is the lesser evil though.
There’s a lot going on in the US that I never thought would happen and it just goes on and on and on. Every day I read something that scares me even more.
To me it’s not that absurd that open source projects could be affected. Wouldn’t be the first time they tried (EARN IT Act or how often they tried to get backdoors in encrypted data https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data )
To me it seems possible.
Yes, it’s open source, yes, it can be taken elsewhere and developed outside of the USA. It’s just that I’m extra cautious right now.
I agree with you, it’s not only the USA which is problematic, but currently the US is the country with the most power doing „shitty things“. That’s why you get extra bonus points.
Just a couple of examples
Red Hat Developed by a U.S.-based company.
Fedora A community-driven project sponsored by Red Hat.
Debian Originally founded in the U.S., with some legal ties to US regulations.
Slackware developed by Patrick Volkerding in the US
Since these distributions are developed or registered in the United States, they are subject to US laws, regulations, and export restrictions.
When I have a look at what’s happening right now in the US I’m not sure what kind of laws will suddenly appear which might affect privacy and security of any kind of software from there. That’s why I decided to avoid them as much as possible.
I will certainly go through your suggestions and have a look if I should change stuff (apart from proton, I’m sure about changing this one).
I listed the stuff I use and what I changed. There’s also a reason why I chose this specific Linux distro as I try to avoid as much as I can with the jurisdiction in the US, which means a lot of Linux distros are not an option anymore.
But that does not mean everyone needs to do the same. Do whatever you think is best.
Anyone else thinking of „WarGames“?
No?
Just me?
Isn’t that bloody scary specifically after the news that ChatGPT turned Nazi and wanted to enslave humans. Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code