In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.

So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.

I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!

Next step: radicle.xyz maybe?

github.com/orgs/community/disc…

#github #microsoft #openai #codeberg #ai #ml #llm #enshittification #foss #floss #opensource #radicle

Thing I want to exist but don't want to build: a #mud that does pretty much the same thing as #SillyTavern or #agnaistic, intended for selfhosting. A MUD would be an excellent interface for #AI assisted #roleplay. With #Evennia and #OpenRouter, this honestly wouldn't be that hard. I just hate #Python and don't wanna.

The way to do it would be:
1. Set up a #docker#Evennia environment, to make distribution easy.
2. Add an attribute on Evennia accounts to hold an openrouter API key, and a userflow to get a users key via OAuth: openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/oauth-pkce3. Use the #OpenAI Python API and hook it up to NPC's to let them chat, generating responses with the user's API key. Figure out function calling and hook it into the various creation functions of Evennia for extra fun. Probably need to store attributes for what models and parameters to use on each NPC, with global defaults probably from the user's account.
4. Dump the room name and desc, the player desc, and chat history into the AI context.
5. Something something MSP/MXP and ElevenLabs for sound effects and music.
6. Something Something MXP for images.
7. Dockerize the thing and upload it to let users run there own muds for AI roleplay for themselves and their friends.

If I either liked Python or was unemployed, I would do this. If only AI coding was good enough to just make the thing based on my design skeleton above.

OAuth PKCE - Secure User Authentication

Implement secure user authentication with OpenRouter using OAuth PKCE. Complete guide to setting up and managing OAuth authentication flows.

^{OpenRouter Documentation}

Musk will OpenAI kaufen - und erntet Spott

Techmilliardär Musk will zusammen mit Investoren OpenAI kaufen - für fast 100 Milliarden Dollar. OpenAI-Chef Altman, ein Musk-Erzfeind, reagiert mit Spott. Auch der Verwaltungsrat sage Nein. Von. R. Spiegelhauer.

➡️ tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unter…

#OpenAI #ElonMusk #AI #KI #KünstlicheIntelligenz

Musk will OpenAI kaufen - und erntet Spott

^{Reinhard Spiegelhauer (tagesschau.de)}

Ahora que los AI-bros de Silicon Valley están panicando con la salida de #Deepseek y sus capacidades a la par de las de #OpenAI aunque a una fracción del precio, además de ser en buena parte open source, una crítica habitual al modelo es que es chino y, entre otras cosas, te censura cualquier mención a los sucesos de la Plaza de Tiananmén en 1989.

Pues vamos a ponernos empíricos y hacerle la pregunta en local para ver qué hay de verdad. Nos bajamos la versión 14b del modelo y le pedimos un resumen de esos hechos.

Oh, sorpresa. Habla de represión, de censura y de una auténtica masacre.

El modelo no será perfecto y tendrá sus sesgos como todos. Pero criticarlo por ser chino no se sostiene.

I was just talking to a colleague about the AI bubble. These companies are in so deep they can't tell the truth. They are all lying about the efficacy, costs to consumers and most importantly how & when this tech works or doesn't.

Is there enough money on the line to kill over?

There's likely a trillion bucks of valuations across the industry. Billions in sunk costs, billions in c suite remuneration, billions in VC mgmt costs.

RIP Suchir

mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/ope…

#OpenAI #AI #VC #SuchirBalaji

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.

^{Jakob Rodgers (The Mercury News)}

So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.

#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT

Independent test of #OpenAI’s o1-preview model achieved near-perfect performance on a national #math exam (landing in the top .1% of the nation’s students).

o1 also outperformed 4o on the math test, but took about 3 times longer to do so (10 minutes vs. 3 minutes).

Preprint: researchgate.net/publication/3…

#teaching #assessment #AI #LLM #edu #higherEd

Good. Biden's appointment of Altman to the AI safety and security board is up there with his Garland and Fauci appointments. Bad decisions.

The man has been accused by those who know him in his own inner circle of being "not consistently candid" and if there's anyone who should not be deciding AI risk issues it's someone not candid.

"Scarlett Johansson scandal puts OpenAI's Sam Altman back in the hot seat"

axios.com/2024/05/22/altman-op…

#AI #OpenAI #ScarlettJohansson #SamAltman #ChatGPT #Sky

“I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer.”

vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/…

#openai #tech #ai

OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk, but the new ChatGPT release can?

Why are OpenAI employees leaving the company helmed by Sam Altman? The safety alignment debate, explained.

^{Kelsey Piper (Vox)}

Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

policies.stackoverflow.co/data…

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

Europäische Datenschützer reichen Beschwerde gegen OpenAI ein

Das KI-Programm ChatGPT veröffentlicht Daten über Privatpersonen, deren Herkunft unklar sei. Das werfen Datenschützer dem Anbieter OpenAI vor. Zudem ließen sich falsche Angaben nicht korrigieren.

➡️ tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbr…

#Datenschutz #DSGVO #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Noyb

Europäische Datenschützer reichen Beschwerde gegen OpenAI ein

^{tagesschau.de}

Lehce nekorektní školení...
Brainfuck pro opilé zedníky. 🤭

#brainfuck #chatgpt #openai

theverge.com/2023/5/25/2373711…

OpenAI threatening to leave the EU if they pass legislation requiring them to list their data sources because:
"In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges."

Like every other boom tech company, it's just doing labor crimes and theft and claiming you're actually too innovative to be regulated, God.

#OpenAI #ArtTheft

OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company could pull its services from the EU if it finds upcoming regulations too onerous. The EU AI Act is currently being finalized by lawmakers and should become law next year.

^{James Vincent (The Verge)}

ChatGPT has leaked conversations and payment info of some users. While #OpenAI feels "awful" about this, experts say users "should have had zero expectation of privacy when using the #ChatGPT web demo."

theregister.com/2023/03/23/ope…

Read also our blog post on ChatGPT: A #privacy nightmare or a helpful tool? tutanota.com/blog/posts/chatgp…

OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' after ChatGPT leaks conversations, payment info

Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name

^{Jessica Lyons Hardcastle (The Register)}

Reading about #ChatGPT plug-ins and wondering why this is framed as plug-ins for #ChatGPT (giving it "capabilities") rather than #ChatGPT as a plug-in to provide a conversational front-end to other services.

Nevermind, I know why: This is #OpenAI yet again trying to sell their text synthesis machine as "an AI".

#MathyMath #AIHype

Think I've found someone using #OpenAI to post answers to a StackExchange site.

scifi.stackexchange.com/questi…

What is the first sci-fi time travel movie where a person can travel back in time, not instantaneously, but at the rate of 1s per second?

In most movies that feature time travel, traveling back in time is instantaneous or takes just a few seconds, regardless of how long ago a person travels back. The exceptions I know of are two of my

^{Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange}

"Here’s the thing, though: the system will frequently give the wrong answers * the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator.

What is compelling about this new skillset is that it isn’t simply a capability that will be increasingly important in an AI-dominated world: it’s a skillset that is incredibly valuable today. "

stratechery.com/2022/ai-homewo…

#chatgpt #openai #ai

AI Homework

The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.

^{Stratechery by Ben Thompson}

I used #OpenAI to write a poem about the programming language #Python. It's amazing, actually, that this works so well.

This website is going to change a lot about our society. I can see how it may change my life already.

beta.openai.com/

Mindblowing 🤯

#Whisper is an #openSource #speechRecognition model written in #Python by #OpenAI. I’ve just seen it in action. Extract an #mp3 from a video, run it through Whisper, and it turns every spoken word into text. It even does a very decent job in #Danish. Perfect for subtitling #TV and #video. I am very impressed.

github.com/openai/whisper

#ai #language #transcription #speechToText

GitHub - openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision - GitHub - openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

^GitHub