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The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology

By Karl Bode
"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
Despite the fact Musk has increasingly shown himself to be a conspiratorial white supremacist with a head full of room temperature butterscotch, the U.S. press is demonstratively un…

The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
One of my favorite trends in modern U.S. infotainment media is something I affectionately call "CEO said a thing!" journalism. "CEO said a thing!" journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to

GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…

GPT 5.2 and useful patterns for building HTML tools
Plus a YouTube video, a podcast appearance and more

AI tools used in a medical context are easily fooled by misinformation that's delivered in an authoritative tone.
That’s the finding of a recent study published in The Lancet Digital Health which assessed the outputs of 20 LLMs used in a medical context, including models specially trained on medical data.

Medical AIs easily fooled by authoritative misinformation, study
AI tools used in a medical context are easily fooled by misinformation delivered in an authoritative tone.

China's power grid, the world's largest, gives it an edge in the global AI contest, helping Chinese companies develop AI models more cheaply than US competitors (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-ai-electric

> if you think about it in the context of the training models—it has a rough sense that you’re like a 37 year old guy on Reddit. That’s the kind of person that it’s doing the continuation for, because that’s a big chunk of the training corpus.
> I often tell people whenever they send me a message like, “a large language model said I should do x, y, z.” what you’re really saying is, “a 37 year old guy on Reddit said it,” and you’ve got roughly the same amount of information

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/ai-models-hacking-stanford-openai-warnings
Leaders from Amazon and Anthropic are testifying before two house committees today.

AI models are perfecting their hacking skills
This is the worst AI tools will likely ever perform, and they're already unnerving researchers and developers.

Short video about Deepseek V3.2 , describes where it improves on, compared to other models, why it is relevant. Also in a geopolitical context.
#AI

Fascinated at how Wikidata's property constraints push particular models.
The capture of Maduro has different instance values, eg both "military intervention" and "kidnapping" (with a "disputed by" qualifier).
But the (disputed) inclusion then tries to push the use of perpetrator/victim values, rather than a neutral "participant".
(Wikidata property values have highly contextual meanings beyond simple labels... but editors are sti…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
SERVALAN: I don't think there's anything I've missed. There's a light beam voice link directed at the Liberator. You'll contact the ship. Tarrant, Cally and Dayna will teleport to this location. Vila will stay on board to operate the teleport to bring me up. You have my word that he will be teleported down to you immediately I…

I have a habbit of making (too) many (small) packages for functionality that might be reused in different context. {box} might be an alternative by making scripts into modlues that can be loaded: #RStats <…

‘box’: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code
A modern module system for R. Organise code into hierarchical, composable, reusable modules, and use it effortlessly across projects via a flexible, declarative dependency loading syntax.