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Nadella told colleagues he has started testing Clawdbot
Nadella? Satya I run ten agents to read the news and my mails and explain them to me before sending answers in my place Nadella? Weird he’s still around, thought he’d be a bot by now.
Clawpilot sounds completely cursed, can’t wait.
TechTakes@awful.systems
“Throw insane amounts of compute at some developer fan fiction and hope for the best.” is such a good description of vibe coding.
exciting new roles of liquid management
algorithmic uh sovereignity
fantastic
It unthickened, it was just Altman grandstanding while at the same time taking over Antrhopic’s DoD DoW: The Everything App contracts.
Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, strikes deal with OpenAI whose president Greg Brockman is a Trump mega-donor.
🍌🍌🍌
Trump added there would be a six-month phase-out for the Defense Department and other agencies that use the company’s products. If Anthropic does not help with the transition, Trump said, he would use “the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.”
The designation could bar tens of thousands of contractors from using Anthropic’s AI when working for the Pentagon. That represents an existential threat to its business with the government and could harm its private-sector relationships, said Franklin Turner, an attorney who specializes in government contracts.
“Blacklisting Anthropic is the contractual equivalent of nuclear war,” he said.
As far as I can tell it’s only on anthropic’s word that that’s the main issue, DoD just talks about unfettered access for all lawful purposes, which is basically a bend-the-knee-or-else framing, and pivoting away from that to bargaining on particulars will make them look weak, so I guess that’s that for now.
Αnthropic being against mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry while in bed with Palantir is kind of if IBM took a stand against antisemitism while spearheading the computerization of the third reich prison system.
Kudos to Dario for stepping off the hype train for one millisecond to admit that using an LLM to control an automated weapons platform is currently kind of out of scope for this technology, I bet that took a toll on his psyche.
And also for pointing out that something can be legal only because the law hasn’t yet caught up with the technology.
I live in the Balkans, I have br-word privilege.
Also being in a strategic partnership with fucking Palantir does tend to make one’s stand against mass surveillance seem less than genuine.
Turns out even the paywalling is fake since you can still do the edits by accessing grok from other parts of the interface like context menus, you just can’t outright ask it in a tweet.
heads up I heavily edited the post while you were responding though I don’t think the essence changed. I added their reasoning for only allowing image generation for paying subs and expanded the table a bit.
In response to the outcry image generation is now turned off for non-paying users. Ostensibly it’s so people who are not using Grok as god intended can be identified via their subscription information, but I can’t help but think it’s just Elon explicitly monetizing grok’s CSAM capabilities.
| Grok subscription tier | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| CSAM Generation | - | ✔️ |
| Revenge porn generation | - | ✔️ |
| Create images of women shot and killed | - | ✔️ |
It’s not just the anglo governments dropping the ball, there’s also the various app stores who simply won’t enforce their own explicit rules and ban the Grok app, I guess because the notion of accountability for the effects of AI slop must remain unthinkable for as long as possible.
If the great AI swindle has taught us anything, is that what’s good for normal people isn’t really important when all the macro-economic incentives point the other way and towards the pockets of the ultra rich.
As of April 2025, only 17% of Americans thought AI would have a positive effect on the US over the next 20 years. Only 23% thought AI would be positive for how people do their jobs.
robert anton wilson intensifies
The kids were using Adobe for Education. This calls itself “the creative resource for K–12 and Higher Education” and it includes the Adobe Express AI image generator.
I feel the extent to which schooling in the USA is of the this arts and crafts class brought to you by Carl’s Jr™ variety is probably understated.
I always thought it was cool that (there is a case to be made that) HPL created Azathoth, the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space, as a mythological reimagining of a black hole. Stuff like The Dreams in the Witch-house shows he was up to date on a bunch of cutting edge for the time physics stuff, at least as far as terminology is concerned, massive nerd that he was.
‘Genetic engineering to merge with machines’ is both a stream of words with negative meaning and something I don’t think he could come up with on his own, like the solar system sized dyson sphere or the lab leak stuff. He just strikes me as too incurious to have come across the concepts he mashes together on his own.
Simplest explanation I guess is he’s just deliberately joeroganing the CEO thing and that’s about as deep as it goes.
Michael Hendricks, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, said: “Rich people who are fascinated with these dumb transhumanist ideas” are muddying public understanding of the potential of neurotechnology. “Neuralink is doing legitimate technology development for neuroscience, and then Elon Musk comes along and starts talking about telepathy and stuff.”
Fun article.
Altman, though quieter on the subject, has blogged about the impending “merge” between humans and machines – which he suggested would either through genetic engineering or plugging “an electrode into the brain”.
Occasionally I feel that Altman may be plugged into something that’s even dumber and more under the radar than vanilla rationalism.
users trade off decision quality against effort reduction
They should put that on the species’ gravestone.
What if quantum but magically more achievable at nearly current technology levels. Instead of qbits they have pbits (probabilistic bits, apparently) and this is supposed to help you fit more compute in the same data center.
Also they like to use the word thermodynamic a lot to describe the (proposed) hardware.
TechTakes@awful.systems
I feel the devs should just ask the chatbot themselves before submitting if they feel it helps, automating the procedure invites a slippery slope in an environment were doing it the wrong way is being pushed extremely strongly and executives’ careers are made on ’I was the one who led AI adoption in company x (but left before any long term issues became apparent)’
Plus the fact that it’s always weirdos like the hating AI is xenophobia person who are willing to go to bat for AI doesn’t inspire much confidence.
Nadella? Satya I run ten agents to read the news and my mails and explain them to me before sending answers in my place Nadella? Weird he’s still around, thought he’d be a bot by now.
Clawpilot sounds completely cursed, can’t wait.
“Throw insane amounts of compute at some developer fan fiction and hope for the best.” is such a good description of vibe coding.
fantastic
It unthickened, it was just Altman grandstanding while at the same time taking over Antrhopic’s
DoDDoW: The Everything App contracts.Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, strikes deal with OpenAI whose president Greg Brockman is a Trump mega-donor.
🍌🍌🍌
As far as I can tell it’s only on anthropic’s word that that’s the main issue, DoD just talks about unfettered access for all lawful purposes, which is basically a bend-the-knee-or-else framing, and pivoting away from that to bargaining on particulars will make them look weak, so I guess that’s that for now.
Αnthropic being against mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry while in bed with Palantir is kind of if IBM took a stand against antisemitism while spearheading the computerization of the third reich prison system.
Kudos to Dario for stepping off the hype train for one millisecond to admit that using an LLM to control an automated weapons platform is currently kind of out of scope for this technology, I bet that took a toll on his psyche.
And also for pointing out that something can be legal only because the law hasn’t yet caught up with the technology.
I live in the Balkans, I have br-word privilege.
Also being in a strategic partnership with fucking Palantir does tend to make one’s stand against mass surveillance seem less than genuine.
Apparently Anthropic may be about to be on the receiving end of some major banana republic shit from the Trump admin -- Update: Anthropic labeled supply chain risk by DoD. (archive.is)
edit: The banana republic shit is that they seem about to blacklist anthropic on “supply chain risk” grounds (see also huawei) which signifies the admin’s willingness to from here on use national emergency legal tools to fuck over any company they don’t like.
https://archive.is/20260109131721/https://www.theverge.com/news/859309/grok-undressing-limit-access-gaslighting
Turns out even the paywalling is fake since you can still do the edits by accessing grok from other parts of the interface like context menus, you just can’t outright ask it in a tweet.
heads up I heavily edited the post while you were responding though I don’t think the essence changed. I added their reasoning for only allowing image generation for paying subs and expanded the table a bit.
https://archive.is/20260109080655/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imagery
In response to the outcry image generation is now turned off for non-paying users. Ostensibly it’s so people who are not using Grok as god intended can be identified via their subscription information, but I can’t help but think it’s just Elon explicitly monetizing grok’s CSAM capabilities.
It’s not just the anglo governments dropping the ball, there’s also the various app stores who simply won’t enforce their own explicit rules and ban the Grok app, I guess because the notion of accountability for the effects of AI slop must remain unthinkable for as long as possible.
If the great AI swindle has taught us anything, is that what’s good for normal people isn’t really important when all the macro-economic incentives point the other way and towards the pockets of the ultra rich.
robert anton wilson intensifies
I feel the extent to which schooling in the USA is of the this arts and crafts class brought to you by Carl’s Jr™ variety is probably understated.
I always thought it was cool that (there is a case to be made that) HPL created Azathoth, the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space, as a mythological reimagining of a black hole. Stuff like The Dreams in the Witch-house shows he was up to date on a bunch of cutting edge for the time physics stuff, at least as far as terminology is concerned, massive nerd that he was.
‘Genetic engineering to merge with machines’ is both a stream of words with negative meaning and something I don’t think he could come up with on his own, like the solar system sized dyson sphere or the lab leak stuff. He just strikes me as too incurious to have come across the concepts he mashes together on his own.
Simplest explanation I guess is he’s just deliberately joeroganing the CEO thing and that’s about as deep as it goes.
Fun article.
Occasionally I feel that Altman may be plugged into something that’s even dumber and more under the radar than vanilla rationalism.
They should put that on the species’ gravestone.
What if quantum but magically more achievable at nearly current technology levels. Instead of qbits they have pbits (probabilistic bits, apparently) and this is supposed to help you fit more compute in the same data center.
Also they like to use the word thermodynamic a lot to describe the (proposed) hardware.