I'm not up in arms about #Mozilla because, meh, features that I don't use but that aren't in my way aren't a huge deal. But I really wonder who is using the AI browsers enough to make companies think we *want* Reviews seem largely neutral to negative, or say the tech is premature. Your killer […]

Most futuristic error message I've come across: *** WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm.

Just in: Watch #react2shell exploitation unfold over time in the map below (geo of source IPs attempting to exploit CVE-2025-55182). #greynoise #threatintel #cve202555182 #nextjs #cybersecurity

https://taz.de/Psychiater-entdeckt-dritten-Persoenlichkeits-Typ-neben-introvertiert-und-extrovertiert/!6121550/ #otrovertiert 🤔

My favorite thing about Mistral's new Vibe CLI is simply that it is open source so I can learn from it! There are so many different frameworks and techniques for agents these days, it is nice to see the plumbing and examine how it works together. (And in #Python, bless you ❤️). Also excited […]

AI is controversial at many levels, but regardless of whether you like it, hate it, fight it, welcome it or whatever... it is definitely here to stay. I obviously have a personal interest in #ai, but a few insights into its development to date may also be helpful for others in order to have a […]

Is that smoke I smell? No, just my laptop running an eval on Qwen Guard with 1/3 of the model hanging off into CPU. on cloud A100: ~20 mins. on my laptop: 4 hours #ai

Visiting my wives' relatives and what am I presented with? Another borked Windows machine. I think it must be the fourth time in the past two weeks, and that includes my workstation which I use only for work. I don't know what's happening within Microsoft but something tells me that code is […]

Don't do this on someone else's system of course, but one could use #react2shell #cve with a payload that patches the issue 👀 I just attack-patched 19.1 in my VM 😂 $ py poke-react.py http://localhost:3000 'npm install [email protected] --save' #react #infosec

So, how about that React, huh guys? *nervous laughter*

RE: https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/115564794306792714 This combination is pure blasphemy. And I totally agree with Franco. #food #pizza #tiramisu

This week on The Servitor: We've all seen stories about AI lawyer fuck-ups. But AI legal assistance is going to be a thing anyway. Abi looks at the two different target markets for AI legal services: professional and consumer […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Today, October 21, 2025, there is a rally in San Francisco in support of @internetarchive. Tomorrow, the Internet Archive is having a party to celebrate 1 trillion webpages archived. To show my appreciation for their most famous creation, the Wayback Machine, this week's Cybercultural post takes […]

"The cloud" is three hyper-scalers in a trench coat. #aws #outage #tech

Fine tuning a #BERT #moderation model and I see why the BERT family are still such workhorses. These are really great and adaptable little models! It only takes a couple minutes for a full fine tuning run on my little 3060 laptop #gpu and the model seems quite responsive to tuning. I'm […]

#ai #claude #memes

This weekend on The Servitor: Mucking around with the site again. Honestly, what good is a website if you don't pointlessly break and remake it now and again? https://theservitor.com/close-to-the-bone-why-the-servitor-runs-on-server-side-includes/ #WebDev #ai #html #Python

In one of my projects (Occult Bookstore game) my AI use has built up organically to where I can *almost* picture the agentic future we're being promised. I've got hooks, and instruction files, and a couple specialized agents, with half a dozen codebase-specific tools... and the result is, my […]

Why do I feel like #altman bought one of the 3 copies of our erotica LoRA that have sold? I better be hearing from them about a commercial license! #ai #openai

This week on The Servitor: Abi looks at loneliness in Gen Z and chats with a Replika AI companion. It's getting weird out there. https://theservitor.com/ai-companions-fuel-the-gen-z-loneliness-epidemic/ #loneliness #epidemic #genz #tech #News

#openai now in a deal with #broadcom too. That makes deals with just about every major tech player now I think. Are they missing anyone? IBM? Do they have any deals with Amazon? I haven't paid that much attention to the #bubble because the finances don't interest me like the tech. But I see why […]

China #Nvida #sanctions working well... as we can all see. Pallets of embargoed RTX 5090 #gpu used for #ai #llm training....in #china

Arms race is not a bubble. Yesterday our favorite restaurant themed series The Bear mentioned Technological Singularity. Bubbles and arms races share features. Both are characterized by there not being future profits to pay for them. In both your neighbor's granny asks you what you think about […]

This weekend on The Servitor: A look at how LLMs went from 2023 barely getting web access to today's OpenAI "Operator" and "Agent Mode." These newer modes try to give the Agent's their own "computers." They're a mixed bag. Some people are finding success with […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

This week on The Servitor: How the advent of agents is snowballing token costs. https://theservitor.com/token-economics-are-serious-ai-business-api-costs-are-out-of-control/ #ai #API #agents

This week on The Servitor: Abi's been watching Black Mirror again. It hits different these days because we are so there. https://theservitor.com/we-re-living-in-black-mirror-episodes-and-nobody-seems-to-care/ #ai #opinion #tv #blackmirror

Got a lot of personality of Claude out of nowhere. Was having it analyze/translate some Korean news for me. I don't like a lot of personality in my AI. Me: "The market briefly touched 92 and has been trading in the low 80s. i feel this is considerably overweight" "Holy shit, 92?! That's […]

While the cynical side of me wants to mock this, and there's a fair chance it will be a shit show, I've been saying for a while we need to stop trying to build one-size-fits all models that work for kids, adults, work, play, western values, eastern values, Martian values, whatever. "Alignment" […]

This week on The Servitor, looking at "Villager", the highly sus AI pen-testing package that uploaded to PyPi in July. ... Don't use this thing. It has hardcoded Chinese C2 and proxies all its traffic through them […]

Do I know anyone who has worked in (and can talk about it) anything to do with "killer robots": autonomous weapons AI targeting / FoF discrimination protocols / human-in-the-loop drone coordination / swarms We started work on an article about the state of AI weaponry a while back. A word or […]

I took a look at the code for "villager", a sus exploit tool mentioned in The Register a couple days back. I am no #cybersecurity expert, but it proxies all traffic through a hard-coded proxy (with the credentials in the URL), and for at least some of its LLM calls it uses what looks like a fake […]

This week on The Servitor: America is rapidly heading for a total surveillance state, with companies promising "predictive" policing. I'm pretty sure we all saw that movie. Tom Cruise... some psychics floating in goo... #ai is going to make it all possible! Or some hellish algorithmic version […]

Anthropic's services are down. Thousands of vibe coders just lost the ability to program temporarily 😂 Seriously, #ai dependence is a real issue. If this AI is replacing jobs it probably shouldn't call in sick. And amen to the progress of local models. #anthropic #claude #vibe_coding

@TheServitor Exactly, particularly because, other what Zuck and Altman and Pichai want to make us believe, powerful open-source LLMs are not the end of the world, but a great thing - I rather use an open-source model than an closed LLM trained to convince me that Meta is wonderful and I have to […]

Cancelled my #googlegemini subscription today and went for #mistral instead as my #2 paid #llm. Positively surprised so far. Gave it the task to create HTML for another entry of my blog: see my CSS and a German/English reference post, get German markdown text for the new post and create HTML in […]

This week on The Servitor, Abi reads AI 2027 and Ed Zitron's "How to argue with an AI booster" and tries to find reality. Main conclusion: Possible end of world from AI in 2027 is an awfully short timeline for doom. Doom has a lot of work to do if it wants to […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

#linux #os

Someone bought a copy of the Eros erotica-writing QLoRA we trained and likes it. Success! Now I can feel like I didn't spend many hours mucking around editing/writing dataset entries for nothing. #ai #adult #nsfw

Couldn't help but notice a teensy little change to Anthropic's data retention policy tonight. To 5 YEARS?!? You know, for "safety." WTF Anthropic. Further incentive to move as much inference as possible to local models and open source/zero retention providers. #ai #data #privacy #anthropic […]

Use CLIT for MCP-less local tools in Claude Code. Claude Code and MCP are a good pair if you need access to commercial integrations, but it's overkill for local tools. Claude is already sitting on the command line, and that means all your favorite bash […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Sometime this week I will release my "protocol" for MCP-less Claude Code local tools, which we are helpfully calling Command Line Interface Tooling (CLIT). #claudecode #claude #agents #ai

"Data centers require 24/7 power supply, and they cannot go off even for one minute," explains John Miracle. The CEO of JAM-Forte Technologies is describing Nigeria's AI reality. With only 38% of Africa's population online and infrastructure costs up to 31 […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Peak hype for image generation came and went pretty fast! This week on The Servitor: I take a look at the image generation world. Early on, image generation models made news as often as GPT, but pretty rapidly took second seat to chatbots. What happened? […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Simple solutions are always the best.

"We have better models, and we just can't offer them because we don't have the capacity." That tidbit from #samaltman in The Register caught my eye. I really don't want bigger, more intensive models to be the way forward. At the same time, I'd do bad things to get a look at what the actual […]

#neuromorphic computing (brain-like computers) seem to be coming along, judging by the artificial macaque brain. #ai #neuroscience https://theservitor.com/brains-neuromorphic-computing-is-catching-up-to-evolution-s-wetware/

Knowing that AI (slop) is as good as it gets for the next 10-15 years (there will likely be an improvement in Automated Inference for sure when the LLM noise dies), do we just accept the slop until then or do we revert back to 2021?

Every possible decision is wrong.

Checked out two more uncensored models today and added them to our "Open Models for Writing and Smut!" page. tl;dr: Dolphin 2.9.1 Llama 3 70b is a solid mid-range open model. It is uncensored, but not all that good at drafting IMO. More of a general assistant. Llama 3.2 8X4b MoE V2 "Dark […]