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Answer AI tested an AI coder bot named Devin, which is available since about one year. They gave the AI 20 routine task a software developer is able to solve.

The result is really, really bad: out of 20 tasks Devin only finished 3 successfully.

"Tasks that seemed straightforward often took days rather than hours, with Devin getting stuck in technical dead-ends or producing overly complex, unusable solutions," the researchers explain in their report. "Even more concerning was Devin’s tendency to press forward with tasks that weren’t actually possible."

Oh the joy of AI!

 

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Robots.txt is a file that web site owners can add to a site which instructs web-crawling bots that they are not allowed to view or index the site or specific pages. The intent is to restrict how much of your site that search engines can see and show during searches for example, or to prevent news aggregators from just grabbing your content and reposting it elsewhere, stealing your traffic. AI companies' webcrawlers, however, ignore it. To my knowledge there isn't a single AI crawler that actually respects robots.txt, even when their parent companies publicly claim they do.
 

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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

The narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sacks are now pushing to explain why DeepSeek was able to create a large language model that outpaces OpenAI’s while spending orders of magnitude less money and using older chips is that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s data unfairly and without compensation. Sound familiar?

Both Bloomberg and the Financial Times are reporting that Microsoft and OpenAI have been probing whether DeepSeek improperly trained the R1 model that is taking the AI world by storm on the outputs of OpenAI models.

I will explain what this means in a moment, but first: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha. It is, as many have already pointed out, incredibly ironic that OpenAI, a company that has been obtaining large amounts of data from all of humankind largely in an “unauthorized manner,” and, in some cases, in violation of the terms of service of those from whom they have been taking from, is now complaining about the very practices by which it has built its company.

The argument that OpenAI, and every artificial intelligence company who has been sued for surreptitiously and indiscriminately sucking up whatever data it can find on the internet is not that they are not sucking up all of this data, it is that they are sucking up this data and they are allowed to do so.

 

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lol I don't even know how there's a difference at this point. OpenAI and Microsoft and Google and Meta are openly and proudly scouring the whole entire internet for data, so...like, it's ALL the same training data. Anyone who scrapes the internet is going to have the same training data.
 

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America's youth is young but pretty clever.

American teens have lost their faith in Big Tech, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit offering reviews and ratings for media and technology, which more recently includes AI products.

In the study released Wednesday, the organization surveyed over 1,000 teens on whether major technology companies like Google, Apple, Meta, TikTok, and Microsoft cared about their well-being and safety, made ethical decisions, protected their private data, and more. In all cases, a majority of teens reported low levels of trust in these tech companies. Nearly half of teens said they had little or no trust that the companies would make responsible decisions about how they use AI.

Common Sense says that 64% of surveyed U.S. teens don’t trust Big Tech companies to care about their mental health and well-being and 62% don’t think the companies will protect their safety if it hurts profits.

Over half of surveyed U.S. teens (53%) also don’t think major tech companies make ethical and responsible design decisions (think: the growing use of dark patterns in user interface design meant to trick, confuse, and deceive.

A further 52% don’t think that Big Tech will keep their personal information safe and 51% don’t think the companies are fair and inclusive when considering the needs of different users.

Not surprisingly, the mistrust in tech is influencing teens’ opinions around AI, too, as 47% of those surveyed don’t believe these companies will make responsible decisions over their use of AI.

 
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I honestly have no idea which reaction emoticon to use for this.
Same, really, and I'm a furry.

Perhaps it's a function of advancing age and being increasingly out of touch.

See: using the word 'emoticon'.
 

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It's obvious that the Silicon Valley elites are little more than wimpy, frightened snowflakes who couldn't compete in a real, worldwide marketplace of ideas.

The release of DeepSeek's low-cost R1 model has precipitated an existential crisis in Silicon Valley, whose executives are now begging the government to protect their AI companies from the horrors of the free market.

While some tech leaders are outwardly praising DeepSeek's achievements, others are in the same breath demanding even tighter export controls on Nvidia's AI chips to prevent them from reaching China.

"Well-enforced export controls are the only thing that can prevent China from getting millions of chips, and are therefore the most important determinant of whether we end up in a unipolar or bipolar world," wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a recent blog post.
 

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/me puts cigar to mouth "BRILLIANT!"

If you are tired of Google’s AI-powered search results leading you astray with poor information from bad sources, there is some good news. It turns out that if you include any expletives in your search query, Google will not return an AI Overview, as they are called, at the top of the results page.

For instance, if you search “How large is the student body of Yale University?” the search results page will return a large AI-generated blurb above the blue links. If you instead search, “How large is the fucking student body at Yale University?” you will instead get a standard list of blue link results, sans-AI summary.
 

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More sabots tossed into (or noisily stepped over) the AI machinery.

YouTuber F4mi, who creates some excellent deep dives on obscure technology, recently detailed her efforts "to poison any AI summarizers that were trying to steal my content to make slop." The key to F4mi's method is the .ass subtitle format, created decades ago as part of fansubbing software Advanced SubStation Alpha. Unlike simpler and more popular subtitle formats, .ass supports fancy features like fonts, colors, positioning, bold, italic, underline, and more.

It's these fancy features that let F4mi hide AI-confounding garbage in her YouTube transcripts without impacting the subtitle experience for her human viewers. For each chunk of actual text in her subtitle file, she also inserted "two chunks of text out of bounds using the positioning feature of the .ass format, with their size and transparency set to zero so they are completely invisible."
 
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