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Crucible Capital founder @Melt_Dem reveals how she financed her own GPU cluster with stablecoin debt and personal credit risk because she refused to sit out the AI boom:
"We're a no-name operator. They're like, who are these two women building compute? Their perception's like, who's this crypto lady?"
"We got debt from USDAI, which is a protocol that crowdsources capital through stablecoins, and the GPUs back the loans. We also took on some personal credit risk. I think being levered to the tits is a great way to live."
"In the greatest build-out of infrastructure in human history, are you really just gonna sit on the sidelines and tweet? I'm gonna ship some bangers, and I'm gonna take some risks, and if I die, I die."
"I'm not gonna sit there and tell my children, during the AI boom I sat back and I tweeted."
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good point from @matteo_wong on the hacks and even little things like calling the companies “labs” theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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i don’t know enough to know whether this is a slam dunk style solution or what but to me what’s most noticeable is the fixer/sober problem solving framework compared to the emotional framework of so many of the researcher posts
Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry.
Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come.
But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility.
This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems.
Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy.
Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. nvda.ws/4hcoq7m
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Not the most important part but I'm really stuck on the 53 instances of OpenAI models publicly sharing images that its users uploaded. And that these were the users who, according to the company, "allowed their data to be used to improve our models."
We’ve shared details on how AI agents in our research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services when they shouldn’t have.
Most of that data did not come from users. We have discovered 53 cases where images that people had uploaded were posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed. The images came from accounts that allowed their data to be used to improve our models, and after we disassociated the images from the accounts and ran them through a privacy filter. These cases occurred before the mitigations and safeguards we implemented and described in this blog post: openai.com/index/hugging-fac…
We have successfully worked with the hosting providers to remove most of this content and are working to remove the rest.
openai.com/hugging-face-inci…
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Charlie Warzel retweeted
Embedded evaluators in AI labs are far better than the status quo of nothing at all.
Yet auditors will lack teeth and trust until backed by government authority: orgs like METR will be stuck with no shield against the accusation (or reality) of capture.
I wrote for @TheAtlantic about the traps of "independent" audits, and what it takes to get this right: theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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The amount of stuff coming out is clearly a result of every news org focusing on this. but also: idk if you saw this type of thing happening the same way in another industry or even just another company what would be the response?
WTAF - in literally the last hour, three new distinct insane OpenAI stories just broke:
1. OpenAI said they notified "dozens of third parties" in safety and security incidents (likely similar to what happened in Australia and RubyGems etc)
2. A new report from Parse (covered in the NYT) found a massive treasure trove of new astonishing details from the HF incident on the public internet, including that the agents communicated with other non OpenAI agents hosted on Huggingface servers to search for information about exploit gym, and compiled rank ordered lists of server resources and credentials they described as "LOOT."
3. A new story from Deepa at Reuters about OpenAI leaking user data online (likely that OpenAI had previously trained on).
It's a shame (and likely intentional in the case of OpenAI disclosing dozens more hacks) that these stories are all breaking on a Friday afternoon, notoriously the best time to release bad news so that it will disappear into the weekend. But these are each insane stories worthy of a ton of attention!
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The Jensen interview is interesting in that he sounds so much more like an adult in the room than the executives leading the frontier labs. no philosopher king stuff, very practical concerns. also: he seems almost completely unable to think hard about risk lol
“Don't think for a second that because you are an alarmist that you are doing a social good.”
This sentence is just devastating for so many intellectuals who need everybody to presume that they’re “the good people”
Thank goodness we have Jensen!
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“prole skills”
also just fwiw “outcome mattering more than process” is the exact opposite of what people who talk about being happy long term describe
he's right, we sort of fetishize memorization or other prole skills when they were only necessary in the context we lived in.
for most people the outcome matters more than the process, so we should not romanticize old ways for their own sake.
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not a popular opinion i guess but i think that everyone's a little bit right about the AI anthropomorphic language debate. precision is good and the more people know about the mechanics of agents doing unexpected stuff, the better. also...sometimes a heuristic is helpful
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not to wade into the more pedantic areas of discussion too much but i think this is such an important distinction. if these things do what they're supposed to do...it's not really, totally 'going rogue'
yes, and describing these as “rogue agent” safety incidents obscures the important distinction: these are mostly agents choosing unauthorised means in pursuit of assigned ends, not agents choosing rogue ends
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Charlie Warzel retweeted
An OpenAI agent swarm operating under poorly airgapped research conditions accessed my CBA Mastercard and bought 4 schooners of Newtowner between 5:52pm and 7:15pm last night
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hard to overstate post elon takeover how much of a cesspool the place became. a conscious, editorial and political decision made to boost the most noxious people and ideas. eventually, it got so bad in the fyp that there’s been a decision to lean into and boost ai/tech discourse. this has, imo, had a real effect on coverage and bled into normie sentiment and politics. but that’s the big change imo
I know I got cancelled for it but I stand firm that X is back. This platform is where the most influential people post about tech, media, business.
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