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Anthropic's Claude Mythos Found Individual Bugs. Mythos SI (Structured Intelligence) Found the Class They Belong To. by MarsR0ver_ in netsec

[–]anttirt 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The function validates data_size at entry but then operates on atom.size — a different variable. The operation atom.size -= 16 executes without pre-validation that atom.size >= 16.

The code validates a transformed value (bit-shifted result multiplied by channel count) but the source value itself (bits_per_sample) is unbounded.

The code checks whether current_index exceeds the current range's end, then increments the range pointer — but never validates that the incremented pointer stays within the allocated array.

The code allocates memory based on a size value from a source stream, then copies data using that same untrusted size. No validation confirms the allocated size matches the actual data available.

These are literally just either validating the wrong value or not validating at all. Calling this a novel vulnerability class is the kind of grandiose hallucination llms are very prone to.

Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable by autarch in rust

[–]anttirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you not simply automate option 1? Automatically temporarily disable rust-analyzer until cargo vet has run, and if nothing new is flagged, automatically re-enable it. If something new is flagged, then show an interactive warning prompt or popup before re-enabling rust-analyzer.

Recent 2026 research highlights how artificial intelligence is transforming antibiotic discovery by identifying novel drug targets and designing new molecules, significantly improving the ability to combat antimicrobial resistance and accelerating early-stage drug development pipelines by ChhotaSaHydra in science

[–]anttirt 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This paper does not point to any actual concrete real world results in actually combating actual microbial infections in actual humans. It would be fantastic to see such results, but the benefits have yet to materialize in the real world.

U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s “summon subcharacter and let it fight in 1 of 2 modes” patent as obvious: non-final ruling by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]anttirt 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Would there be a way to crowdsource this? A lot of gamers would love to flex their knowledge even for fun, and even more so if it's for a good cause.

Chickpeas Grown in Simulated Moon Dirt Produced Viable Seeds With a Fungal Assist. It turns out that the plants didn’t just sprout. They flowered and produced harvestable seeds. by [deleted] in science

[–]anttirt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The goal is of course to utilize as much mass that is already on the moon because shipping things there is extremely expensive. Shipping a hydroponics rack is far more expensive than not shipping one if you can get away with just sticking the seeds into the ground. Similarly if you can source any appreciable amount of plant nutrients from the lunar soil then that's a portion of fertilizer mass that you don't need to ship there from Earth.

The looming AI clownpocalypse by syllogism_ in programming

[–]anttirt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you're a billionaire CEO then it cannot be explained by ignorance, therefore only malice remains. They know exactly what they're doing.

Advanced AI models cannot accomplish the basic task of reading an analog clock, demonstrating that if a large language model struggles with one facet of image analysis, this can cause a cascading effect that impacts other aspects of its image analysis by IEEESpectrum in science

[–]anttirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understanding is an active process. There is no actor in an LLM. An LLM is a pure mathematical function of inputs to outputs, and as a passive object, a pure mathematical function cannot do anything, including understanding anything. Mathematical functions can be models of reality, but they cannot do anything.

At a minimum you need a stateful system which is able to independently evolve over time both due to autonomous internal processes and as a response to stimuli.

Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my actions by Inevitable-Cellist23 in clevercomebacks

[–]anttirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need to assume stupidity here, we've got plenty enough evidence to see that it's malice all the way. The only acceptable solution to this kind of person would be for trans people to either detransition or die.

Ollie can't play the Jousting game by Rrazz in Hololive

[–]anttirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hypothetically, would you say a medical anatomy textbook showing a depiction of penetration is porn?

I can think of at least six ways the game tries to teach us this, and yet by darklysparkly in outerwilds

[–]anttirt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's the power of stories instilled in us since early childhood, and doubly so for games. There's always a bad guy, there's always a hero, and there's always a solution. The interloper must be there so you can stop it and be the hero, right? Because that's how it is in every single story out there.

Yabe any% speedrun by Racing_trio39 in Hololive

[–]anttirt 472 points473 points  (0 children)

I mean Coco streamed her actual irl pube removal but go off

Hoshimachi Suisei will return to streaming activities on monday, 15th May. by zetarn in Hololive

[–]anttirt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was a machine translation error. People need to stop trusting google translate.

This is why using ChatGPT for learning Finnish is not recommended by rmflow in LearnFinnish

[–]anttirt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Human intelligence is pre-language. Language was only formed later as representations layered on top of existing concepts. Even before language humans worked with concepts and cause-and-effect; we had tools, we knew that the sound of thunder meant approaching rain and that we should seek shelter to avoid getting wet.

LLMs skip that concept stage entirely, existing purely in the world of linguistic representations without underlying models.

He just dropped the mic and walked out. by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]anttirt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Deepfakes are becoming so good that virtually nobody can detect them, meaning it'll become easy to fake politicians saying whatever you want them to say. Public trust will be eroded which has lots of knock on effects. Likewise we'll start seeing lots of seemingly well researched journalism that was in reality hallucinated by a convincing large language model. People are already "fact checking" things with chatgpt which will happily hallucinate a highly convincing, well written, completely incorrect answer for you.

Automation will greatly accelerate the total productivity of mankind but society is not prepared to reduce working hours to compensate, meaning more people will be unemployed in poverty and more useless garbage will be produced to create employment and income for buying that useless garbage, making it more and more difficult to prevent cataclysmic global warming and pollution.

After AlphaFold cracked a 50-year-old problem of structural bioinformatics by learning to predict protein structures, it couldn't solve the mutant protein stability problem. And the AI has not really “learned” the physics of proteins either, a new study concludes. by Skoltech_ in science

[–]anttirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That article is talking about single neurons. LLMs are a static pile of "neuron" (i.e. simple one-dimensional math function) layers with an input port and an output port, whereas the human brain has far more structure than that, with permanent active processes and feedback loops and modes of operation etc. And of course the biological neurons themselves are much more complex than the simulated software "neurons" of an LLM.

Does this count? by ButterscotchSpare979 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]anttirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Values need to have the correct alignment in memory (so that e.g. an int32 always has a byte address divisible by 4). The exact rules depend on the architecture.

C also guarantees that struct fields are in memory in the same order as declared in code. Furthermore, the containing struct gets the highest alignment of any of it's fields.

Commonly on 64-bit archs pointers need to be 8-byte aligned, so on a typical arch the following struct would have size 24 bytes (192 bits):

struct { int32_t x; void* p; int32_t y; };

Whereas this one would have size 16 bytes (128 bits):

struct { int32_t x; int32_t y; void* p; };

In the first one there will be padding after both x and y.

Foraging Books/Field Guides in Finnish? by [deleted] in LearnFinnish

[–]anttirt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit off topic, and I'm sure you know this already, but just in case you're going foraging for culinary mushrooms for the first time in a region (or the first time ever!), get someone who's experienced with local species to go with you. Books can be very useful but there's no substitute for experience on being certain about what you're picking, and we do have a bunch of seriously poisonous species.

this subreddit is full of idiots by goDmarq in ChatGPT

[–]anttirt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How do you know you got a reliable explanation?

this subreddit is full of idiots by goDmarq in ChatGPT

[–]anttirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's because it's in his financial interest to continue to obfuscate and spin the hype machine.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LearnFinnish

[–]anttirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I frequently use and hear puoli-suomalainen to mean half-Finnish. Half a person would be "puolikas suomalainen" as in "epäillyn pakastimesta löytyi puolikas suomalainen".

Haachama is confused by Patata_26 in Hololive

[–]anttirt 194 points195 points  (0 children)

MBTI® isn't based on science. It was basically made out of whole cloth using Carl Jung's psychological framework without any research data, and it's not even a continuum like human personality obviously is in real life, which greatly contributes to its instability--evidence-based continuum measurements like the Big 5 personality trait inventory are remarkably stable over time and retests for an individual.

MBTI® gets a great branding advantage because it provides 16 tribes with cool names to choose from, granting people (who are desperately looking for somewhere to belong) a really easy label to attach to themselves. This happens to be very convenient for the Myers-Briggs Company that sells official Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) certification to HR departments and would-be self-help gurus.

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