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@irene@discuss.systems Ha, must be a snow shoe thing #catsofmastodon

Complete at last! #books #dune

Nibbling #Birds #BirdsOfFediverse

@colincornaby@mastodon.social Yep: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957

Alignment Whack-a-Mole: Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957

The paper gets bonus points for featuring Murakami.

@trentshell @jkb @jneen Even if LLMs, as they get better, create fewer bugs than humans, we’re still bottlenecked by verification and understanding. When writing code, understanding develops naturally, but with LLMs it must be done explicitly. The problem is that their default usage mode doesn’t really encourage this (which is fine for prototyping but not for production). (One can argue that “dark factories” are the way forward, but I’m not sure how well an organization that doesn’t have knowledge about its systems will fare. It will be constrained by whatever the LLM capabilities of summarizing and modifying the system are at any given point in time, beholden to whoever produced the model. And for sure the organization won’t be able to innovate, as LLM aren’t good at extrapolating outside their training data.)

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social I guess one part of tokenmaxxing is getting employees to produce traces for training the companies’ models, and the other part is like return-to-office policies, with leadership having a stake in hyperscalers like they had in real estate funds.

The buzz of the refrigerator pushed against the heavy silence of 3 AM. I stood in the bedroom a few feet away, at the night's most pivotal moment. Belly in, tensing, I focused on slowing both breath and heartbeat. I let past fears and future expectations slip from my perception. I pulled my right arm back, contracting muscles, conjuring strength. It happened in the space of a blink. The wall felt cool against my hand, throbbing slightly with pain, with release. I removed my hand, letting relaxation and peace overtake me as I saw the compressed body of the mosquito, now a red and black stain on the eggshell wall. It was done. I fell back into bed, tired and proud. Afraid, the refrigerator surrendered to silence.

@aphyr Not sure if you've seen it, but this study also corroborates the effects of deskilling: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

Cuties on a branch.

#wildlife #WildLifePhotography #BirdPhotography #photography #Photomonday