Ask don't tell: Reducing sycophancy in large language models

Sycophancy, the tendency of large language models to favour user-affirming responses over critical engagement, has been identified as an alignment failure, particularly in high-stakes advisory and...

More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace

We now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse.

areyoumad — who ghosted your courtesy-like today

Finds today's replies, checks who didn't like you back, gives you a button to ask if they're mad.

Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’ | Samantha Floreani

Around seven in 10 children remain on major platforms. Who could possibly have predicted that this wasn’t going to work? Well, lots of people

The Failure Mode of Clever

So, apropos of nothing in particular, let’s say you wish to communicate privately with someone you’ve not communicated with privately before, for whatever reason you might have. And, wa…

A big week for AI denialism

In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications

EFF Statement on Meta's Announcement of Revisions to Its Content

Update: After this blog post was published (addressing Meta's blog post here), we learned Meta also revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We address these changes

Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping Robots

Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engine. Here's the full history, and why the alternatives are better.

Google AI Giving Staggeringly Racist “Advice” About Being Alone With Certain Groups of People

Google's AI Overviews feature is showing overtly racist responses about being alone with certain groups of people.