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Stuart Gray

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He/Him. AI Wrangler. Web Geek. F1 Fan. All views my own. 🤖 AI, LLMs, GenAI, NLP 🐍 Python Dev 🚀 Indie Hacker 🎮 Game Dev, ProcGen, Unity, C# 🏎️ F1 Fan 🇬🇧 UK Based 🦣 mastodonapp.uk/@StuartGray ✖️ x.com/StuartGray (inactive)

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · Mar 27

I welcome any genuine civil discussion, challenge, or critique.

However, if you strongly disagree with a post to the point you're unable to refrain from insults, rude or unthinking replies then please, save us both a lot of time and block me now - because I will block you.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 21h

Hmmm… not sure what to make of this.

“Being rude to LLMs gets more accurate responses”

Is this an accurate reflection of natural human interaction or an artificial result of preference optimisation?

In the current climate I’m tempted to sadly conclude the former:

arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950

Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)

The wording of natural language prompts has been shown to influence the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet the role of politeness and tone remains underexplored. In this study, we invest...

arxiv.org

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AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 1d

OLMo 2 debuts as a new family of open language models, surpassing Llama 3 and GPT-3.5 Turbo while providing full transparency with weights, data, and training methods. Its training techniques and curated data improve capabilities, advancing open-source AI research. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00656

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ArXiv link for 2 OLMo 2 Furious

arxiv.org

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 1d

Use a LLM to create a new constructed language (ConLang) like Klingon, Vulcan, etc.. where an LLM designs phonology, builds grammar, generates a lexicon, creates orthography, and even writes a mini grammar book.

IASC: Interactive Agentic System for ConLangs

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 22h

Isn’t this a savoury & hot equivalent to the ice cream van?

I’m fully on board with this!

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 1d

To a degree, but it’s overwhelmingly right leaning politicians that call out & try to cancel comedians & comedy shows around the world.

Generally the left appear far more tolerant of that sort of thing until you start reaching the more extreme left.

Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 1d

While simultaneously tapping into one of the rights biggest fears/hates;

not being taken seriously, being treated as a joke, and being made fun of

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 1d

Really struck by how brilliant a protesting tactic this is not just in terms of optics, but as a form of both privacy protection and discouragement of violence.

It masks your face and has to give pause to anyone thinking about beating you up.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 2d

Flock is preparing to roll out a new feature: Its gunshot detection devices will begin listening for voices in “distress.” www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human

Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product

www.eff.org

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

"People who attend church or identify with a Christian tradition are not systematically more (or less) nativist, authoritarian or populist than their secular counterparts. Conversely, people who hold nativist and authoritarian views are often also Islamophobes, and vice versa." 👏 @kai-arzheimer.com

Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity

Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, so now after accusing the original poster of misinformation (despite including a video clip of the actual statement), you’re gonna accuse me of lying for having a different take on the statement than you?

Must be nice to live in such a black & white world.

Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 1d

Another way of looking at it is that he gave a very general answer that deliberately didn’t mention Trump specifically because it would debase & undermine the integrity of the committee.

As an example, are you familiar with the phrase “Bless your heart” & it’s actual connotation?

Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 1d

Go back and re-read what I wrote, specifically the bit about multiple levels of information beyond the literal words used.

Next you’ll be suggest there’s only ever one correct way to interpret what someone says regardless of what was said or how 🤷‍♂️

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 1d

Again, at risk of repeating myself, that’s *your* interpretation of what’s been said.

You’re perfectly entitled to that view without anyone calling it misinformation.

However, having watched it myself, I fundamentally disagree with that take and think it was absolutely calling Trump out.

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 1d

sensitive matters, can and frequently do make statements that convey messages at multiple levels beyond the literal exact words used.

You can disagree with someone’s take on this, but it’s wildly wrong to suggest it’s somehow misinformation.

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not *that* inaccurate, more a reading between the lines of a clearly politically aware answer.

“..this committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of past laureates, and that room is filled with both courage and integrity”.

People, especially politicians or those commenting on

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 1d

I think the Anthropic finding is subtly different and more dangerous.

It suggests ~250 poison training docs are enough to embed a coded response in a model of any size based on a unique marker.

That allows all kinds of dangerous code & prompt injections that appear to be hard to test for.

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 1d

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 1d

Schools are banning smartphones (rightly) so 13+ will be literally banned by the institution they have to go to every day from carrying the device that holds the ID another state institution demands they carry.

This is increasingly absurd and as a result it won’t actually happen.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was @hannahfearn.bsky.social who was asking what's up with the govt's ability to read the room ...
In what world is the response to high-profile and vocal groups of parents raising concerns about teens and smartphones to propose digital ID for teenagers?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 2d

b) now mostly reserve the right to train on user interactions with their model by default.

I mean, *maybe* they can spot manipulation in the second instance, but if supply chain attacks have taught us anything, it’s that you can’t trust resources you don’t own - like key public websites.

Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 2d

While I applaud @anthropic.com for releasing its findings, I’m not sure they’ve fully thought this through;

“Malicious parties, the company noted, still have to figure out how to get their poisoned data into AI training sets.”

Err.. don’t most AI model building orgs a) scrape public web pages, and

The Register @theregister.com · 2d

It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic

Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …

dlvr.it

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know their exact process, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they used both hashing types; both types for detection, and cryptographic to track variations in circulation.