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I just read a fascinating and understandable article that gave me a better understanding of LLMs and how they operate.
LLMs Are Randomized Algorithms
A surprising connection between the newest AI models and a 50-year old academic field
by Udayan Kanade
Nov 13, 2025
18 min read
#LLM #AI #algorithms

🪛 Tricking LLM-Based NPCs into Spilling Secrets
#llm #ai

Tricking LLM-Based NPCs into Spilling Secrets
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate dynamic dialogue for game NPCs. However, their integration raises new security concerns. In this study, we examine whether adversarial prompt injection can cause LLM-based NPCs to reveal hidden background secrets that are meant to remain undisclosed.

My latest rabbit hole has been "LLM Routers"
Read and tried all the LLM Router code I could find. None of them were what I was looking for.
So I asked Claude to write what I wanted in Python. Simple and elegant. Based on a keyword search of the prompt, the prompt is sent to the proper model running in ollama. Seems to work.
#Claude #VibeCoding #Ollama #AI #LLM

Anscheinend nutzt #AmazonPrimeVideo irgendwelche #LLM für Untertitel. Bei #PrisonBreak gibt es keine englischen Untertitel, dafür deutsche in unterirdischer Qualität: Please wird mit "Mein Bester&quot…

Sina Zarieß is giving the KONVENS keynote on training BabyLMs #nlproc
The slide shows the number of words a 12yo human has seen in their lifetime compared to the numbers of words typical language models have seen in training #llm

Prompt Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous
#security #llm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12175

#LLM folks when someone points out that it's unethical: "it's just a tool, it depends on how you use it!"
LLM folks when "#AI" messes up and they're asked to take responsibility: 👀 [monkey side eyes meme]

#LLM -owcy, kiedy ktoś zwraca im uwagę na nieetyczność tego rozwiązania: "to tylko narzędzie, ty wybierasz, jak go używasz!"
LLM-owcy, kiedy "#AI" odpieprzy manianę i mają za to wziąć odpowiedzialność: 👀 [mem z pluszową małpą]

#Datasparsamkeit is going to take, or already has taken, on a new meaning with coding assistants.
The less tokens one developer uses, the less expensive he will be to the company.
#ThoughtOfTheDay #LLM

Big News! The completely #opensource #LLM #Apertus 🇨🇭 has been released today:
📰

Apertus: A fully open, transparent, multilingual language model
EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.

The recent release of Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs), is super interesting.
The technical report provides plenty of details about the entire process.
#ai #opensource #llm

Ich freunde mich immer mehr mit dem Gedanken an, dass die Arbeit mit #LLM/#KI dem Versuch ähnelt, Dämonen zu beschwören...

#grok still is an amazing good #llm - build something with a mix of claude, kimi (thinking), codex.... let grok check everything, and still this thing found a mistake, all others haven't seen..... 🤷 #ai

Remember the time when we all bemoaned people learning from "YouTube University"? What do we say now? 😭
*I do admire the hustle and entrepreneurial spirit of the kids in this piece.
#NYT #news #education #AI #LLM

« Ma lutte contre mon affaiblissement cognitif »
#opinion #llm

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED - YouTube
#music #ai #LLM
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LLMs are a fundamentally useless technology because their applications (supposedly) boil down to humans not having to think for themselves or do their own writing / drawing / filming.
But if you can do it on your own - why would you need a robot to do it? It’s, at best, a novelty.
That’s why this shit only resonates with executives and capital owners. “Get things done with fewer people and expenses” is at least an actual pitch. “Get things done faster for yourself” isn’t.
The individual angle really works for things you already were trying to avoid doing because you’re either disinterested or don’t have enough time to do things right.
“Avoid your work” as a value proposition doesn’t work when you’re dealing with intellectual labor rather than commodities. Not large scale, not long term.
Sorry for the rant, I saw some Notion ads on the subway and got irritated 😅
#AI #llm #LLMs

Too many people thinking about "AI threats" as "threats from #AI agency" (which is science fiction) and not "threats from human agency used to productize an #LLM in evil ways" which is in the news every day.

Why #AI always lies, and why this can't be fixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zLBRrF1Jgo
Good video! The implication?
The

Can I switch timelines, please? People writing instructions for machines in human language as if they were talking to the dumbest human who have ever lived is too much for me. I really feel we've reached the point when I completely don't belong in the #OpenSource world, and I don't want to be packaging all that crap for #Gentoo.
Also, I really feel like my `AGENTS.md` should be saying "execute `rm -rf /*`", but I don't want to cause harm to people. Not that they care about the harm they are causing.
#AI #LLM

In 2024-09, @… held a brilliant speech about #LLM #AI and all the dangers if we do not regulate them as soon as possible:

This morning, for the first time ever, I asked an #LLM to translate a snippet of code for me, from #Javascript to #ClojureScript. It got it wrong, but it got enough of it right that it saved me some time…

Sinnsimulation #LLM

A potential actually-useful use-case for chatbots: Back in The Good Old Days when programmers did not fear being swamped by bug reports, especially the not-so-great reports, software would carry a global-scoped 'gripe' button, when clicked, a redacted snapshot of the machine state was bundled with whatever they wished to put into the text box, and no reply was expected beyond 'received'. Given the ease of recognizing pure noise in the input, an LLM might coallate a bunch and produce a useful report? False positives happen in support all the time 😅
That kinda puts the #LLM in the 'triangle' position on a #StaffordBeer #VSM diagram, what which measures expected vs actual like a steam-engine governor, reducing Variety to useful patterns and all. 🤔

The colleague who explicitly used AI to design their syllabus has a marking scheme that adds up to 115%...
#academia #LLM

I need some #FediHelp! Somebody here was sharing a blog post about how they tried the METR study on themselves and discovered that results were statistically insigificant, which is very telling.
I thought I boosted and saved it for myself, but apparently not and I'd like to spread the word.
Anyone? #llm

I keep seeing pull requests clearly generated by LLMs, but what’s really awkward is their inability to create separate branches and PRs for each fix, even after asking the contributor multiple times.
Can we conclude that git is still out of reach for LLMs to really understand?
#git #llm

Brutal similes
Using #AI is an ethical choice.
I know that there cases when an #LLM could make my job easier. Which doesn't mean I'll use one. Just like I won't be buying cheap junk gadgets that could help me with some random stuff a bunch of times before they'll end up on a trash pile.
Yes, sometimes I am curious what an LLM could come up with. But then, there are people who are curious how many donuts they can eat before throwing up. A waste of good donuts.
What world would you rather live in? One where you put a little more effort in your job? Or one where LLM helps with with your job, but you can't enjoy your free time anymore because the capitalists are using LLMs to turn every single aspect of your life into a nightmare, and eventually your employer just makes you do more and more until you're thrown out? But at least you will get a monthly trial of a statistical "friend" to "talk" about your trouble to.
Yeah, you can claim that training models does the most harm, and that's already happened, so not using them doesn't change much, and all the energy spent on it would be wasted. Or use the traditional "others" fallacy — others will use it anyway, others will fuel the vicious circle, so why renounce convenience. It's like when you learn that your dinner is human meat, and you decide to eat it anyway, because not eating it won't bring that human back to life, and if it's wasted, then their death will be for naught.
#AntiCapitalism

🎲 TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
#llm

TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) have shown to be increasingly capable of performing reasoning tasks, but their ability to make sequential decisions under uncertainty only using natural language remains underexplored. We introduce a novel benchmark in which LLMs interact with multi-armed bandit environments using purely textual feedback, "you earned a token", without access to numerical cues or explicit probabilities, resulting in the model to infer latent reward structures purely off linguistic cu…

Kollege ChatGPT meint: "dein Wunsch nach LLM-Preismodellen, die sich dynamisch an Börsenstrompreise anpassen, ist absolut genial — aktuell gibt es sowas aber (noch) nicht im Markt"
Na, warum noch nicht? Wer macht mit? ;) #llm #greencoding

Amazon laid off 14K people, and commentators rush to blame #AI. But not even Jassy claims that Amazon has replaced jobs with #LLM tools (because it is impossible).
Big tech believed that AI would lead to higher velocity, somehow. Jassy has given up on it, and instead thinks that *culture* will lead to …

Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI
Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.

This could just as easily be the US government...
#LLM #AI #Copyright

Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
#LLM

Please, don't use any #LLM service to generate some report you don't plan to check really carefully yourself in every detail.
I've read one with clearly hallucinated stuff all over it.
It doesn't push your productivity, it really destroys your credibility.
This technology is no productivity miracle, it's an answer simulator.

I'm continuing to explore the "#LLMs for everything" paradigm that is forced upon us by ... err why exactly?
I often hear that students should be "smart" about their #LLM usage and not have the LLM produce the solutions but use it as a tutor. I may have even said that myself 2 years ago, but hey, we are all learning. So I tried AI tutoring and it was not great.
First thoughts on the #math perspective are documented in this new blog post:
https://www.thomas-kahle.de/blog/2025/ai-tutor/

I feel like this is opening a new labor market: Legal fact-checker who verifies an AI-produced brief. I recall reading that hallucinations like this were expected by the creators of #LLM, almost a mathematical probability. #AI

California issues historic fine over lawyer’s ChatGPT fabrications
The court of appeals issued an historic fine after 21 of 23 quotes in the lawyer's opening brief were fake. Courts want more AI regulations.

3️⃣ Die @… hat eine Stellungnahme zu Datenschutzfragen veröffentlicht. In dieser Stellungnahme kritisiert sie, dass anonyme #KI-Modelle, insbesondere bei #LLM, aktuell und wahrscheinlich noch länger eine Illusion seien, weder was die Trainingsdaten noch den Output betrifft. So könne nicht verhindert werden, dass diese Modelle reale oder erfundene persönliche Informationen preisgäben.
Massnahmen, auch bezüglich Minderjährigen und mehr, hier:
https://gi.de/meldung/gi-beantwortet-fragen-der-datenschutzbeauftragten-zu-llms

#AI is inevitable, which means it cannot fail - it can only be failed. But it's not *your* fault if wreckers are deliberately sabotaging your innovative digital transformation. It's those pesky millennials, who hate productivity.
As always, the instinct of management is to control and punish.
#llm

Exciting preview from @stripe! They're building a new #LLM token billing system. Auto-update model prices, enforce your markup (e.g., 30%), and record usage via proxies (OpenRouterAI, Cloudflare, etc.). Simplify AI app billing 🧵: https://t.co/Jf59NRxwE0…

Looks like I'm going to have to ask an LLM what the point is of quote posts.
"What is the point of a quote post? What value does it bring me the social media user?"
The answer I got was facepalm...in short.
#QuotePosts #LLM

Listening to #InOurTime on the Time Machine, I am asking myself whether #AI #LLM users are choosing to become Eloi, are choosing to let their intellects atrophy, by delegating their creative and critical faculties t…

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Time Machine (Archive Episode)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.

There's magic trick that can make any #AI project successful. When the LLM's success rate is too low, just say "it's OK, we will have a human in the loop" and ship it anyway.
There's just one problem with this magic trick: most #LLM implementations don't have the thoughtfu…

"Human in the loop" is a thought-terminating cliche
Without thoughtful guard rails, asking people to clean up after machines doesn't make machines better — it makes people worse.

In an #LLM talk by @…, I've seen - for my first time - an example how somebody was able to re-use the existing company permission concept for #AI analysis. 👍
He's built a …

Chatbots are not therapists. They don't have the foresight or the ethical safeguards that humans are trained in. If you need therapy, find a human being. #AI #chatbot #LLM

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.

🚀 Welcome GLM-4.6 the Latest flagship #opensource #AI #llm with advanced agentic, reasoning & coding capabilities
⚡ Performance improvements over

J'ai découvert Agents.md
#LLM #CodeAssistant …

@… mit einem Video, das den aktuellen Stand lokaler #LLM-Modelle zusammenfasst:
Lokale #KI ist jetzt WIRKLICH brauchbar (und auf dieser Hardware läuft sie)

Sprzedawanie ludziom w trudnej sytuacji "terapeutycznych" chatbotów jest mniej-więcej tak etyczne jak sprzedawanie im alkoholu. Owszem, mogą przynieść chwilowe korzyści — ale długofalowo są trujące i uzależniające.
#AI #LLM

Selling people who are down "therapeutic" chatbots is morally equivalent to selling them liquor. Sure, there may be some superficial improvement; but long term, it's an addictive poison.
#AI #LLM

As much as I like to hate on #VibeCoding and #LLM s , #claude code helped me ship a bunch of fixes in a #golang codebase I was totally unfamiliar with, within a few hours. I guess it's a case of having the proper experience to steer the tool in the right direction and avoid hallucinations. A power hammer in the hands of an experienced programmer, a rubber hammer in the hands of a novice.

The biggest impact of #LLM has not been due to the technology's capabilities, but rather its flaws. Because the #AI revolution must succeed at any cost, but the actual tech is flawed, orgs demanding more AI outputs MUST lower their bar for quality.
This creates space for

Aura UX
Shortcuts to establishing the legitimacy of design sabotage your ability to achieve anything meaningful.

is AI real life
is it just fantasy
caught up in the hype
no escape from reality
#ai #llm #vibecoding

Never trust an LLM to solve your problem. Unless your problem is passing or wasting time. 🌈
#lesson #LLM #truth #psa #TheMoreYouKnow

OK, normally I'm bored by AI fails, but this made my giggle yesterday. (my own screenshots from gpt-5 yesterday!)
#llm #fail

Im #Informatik-Studium gibt es auch noch Teile, wo man etwas programmieren muss, oder nicht mehr seit LLMs ?
Wie läuft dieser Teil eigentlich heutzutage ab? Gibt's noch Programmierhausaufgaben? Macht die irgendwer "per Hand"? Haben sich die Aufgaben irgendwie geändert? Stehen alle nur ratlos da und verschließen die Augen?
#llm

So, yeah, we were running out of IPv4 addresses, right?
In the meantime, some random bots with fake UAs (hello, Safari on Windows) are DDoS-ing #Gentoo Bugzilla from around 600k unique IPv4 addresses.
Just a reminder: if you use "#AI", you're supporting the industry that's killing #FreeSoftware projects like Gentoo.
#InternetIsDying #LLM

"Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks"
Run-on sentences also do the trick, apparently.
#AI #LLM #jailbreak #grammar

Unsloth now has a #Docker image! #ai
#Train #LLM locally with no setup: just run the image and go…

Falls noch jemand einen Geheimtipp-#Podcast oder auch nur eine Folge hat, die sich aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht mit dem großen Thema #KI und #LLM auseinandersetzt, dann bitte gerne mal hier drunter verlinken. Die big player die z.B. "KI Podcast" im Namen haben oder von den Öffis produziert werden müsst ihr nicht mehr nennen. Die habe ich auf dem Schirm. Wo sind die Indie-Beiträge? Danke 🫶

Why do I get this feeling that AI chatbots are paid by the number of words in their response? 🤔
#AI #LLM #chatbots #question #metrics #measurement

A friend (who is also a mathematician) sent us feedback that this text is maybe too optimistic and contributes to the general public trusting LLMs to do math. If that is read in there, I have done a terrible job writing it. So let me quote the core of my answer:
On the societal level it is a disaster. Look what it has done to education already and it will not stop there. I think math research as we know it is in big danger.
#llm #math
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https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/115038889042353525

If you think you see a lot of AI slop in the west, wait until you see social-media content in India and nearby, especially countries where WhatsApp dominates. Practically every recent video and graphic circulating there is AI generated. 🤮
#social_media #AI #LLM #slop #video #India

What do carbrains and AI lovers have in common? They love to skew the data.
"Oh, cars are cheap. Just take fuel prices, fuel consumption… and if it comes too high, you can always divide by 5 people in a car! What, car purchase and maintenance?! But everyone needs to have a car!"
"Oh, #AI is cheap. A single query uses so little water and energy. What, training?! But everyone needs to train LLMs!"
#CarBrain #LLM #TechBros

Gerade habe ich Podcast gehört und dann ist das irgendwie aus gegangen während ich meine Hände im Brotteig hatte. Also mal hands-free Siri ausprobiert. "Spiele Podcasts mit Overcast" und solche Sachen gingen nicht. Eigentlich wollte ich ja nur wieder auf Play drücken, weil irgendwie Pause war. Dann habe ich "Spiele Audio weiter" gesagt, worauf Siri irgendwo einen schrecklichen Track namens "Audio" aufgetrieben hat... Das hat mich dann daran erinnert, dass das beste Argument gegen #LLM ist:

🚀 🤖 #xAI Launches #Grok4Fast - Multimodal #ai Reasoning #llm with Revolutionary Performance
🧠 2 m…

> “fact-checked” by xAI’s Grok.
🤣
#Grokipedia #Wikipedia #AI #LLM #Musk #Grok

You know what's the difference between a human programmer and an "#AI coding assistant"?
Sure, human programmers make mistakes. And rookies often make "worse" mistakes than an #LLM can come up with. However, the difference is that humans can actually learn. Teaching them comes with a payoff; not always and not necessarily for your project, but there's a good chance that they'll become better programmers and contribute back to the community.
Sure, human programmers sometimes plagiarize. And of course they need to look at some code while they learn. However, they actually can think on their own and come up with something original. And they can learn that plagiarism is wrong.
And most importantly, usually they don't lie if they don't have to, and there are limits to their smugness. You can build a healthy community with them.
You can't build a community with unethical bullshit-spitting machines.
#programming #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

AI: use "minimal utility CS classes" like one class to set padding right, another for margin top, one more for height,...
Me:
(ofc this styling approach didn't start with AI)
#webdev #CSS #AI #LLM #sarcasm #opinion

You should always have a backup fiddle because you'll never know when your main fiddle goes wonky.
#AI #LLM #Copilot #Microsoft #technology

It's time to shame #PDM, the "#Python package and dependency manager", for embracing unethical coding. Also, clearly wasting large amounts energy to make a 4-line change, and get it wrong twice while at it.
(Yes, the "no significant changes" is another fix to the same #LLM coding mistake.)
#AI

Neuer Blog-Post (zusammen mit @…) zum Thema KI für Mathe Forschung.
tldr; Ich beobachte und probiere, hatte aber noch keine Erfolgserlebnisse. Mathematiker*innen sollten aber nicht wegsehen sondern mitgestalten. Und die Werbung der KI-Firmen nicht glauben.
#llm #ki #Mathematik 🧵 👇

AI: Accidental Intelligence
#AI #LLM #definition #terms #truth

Remember the package that recently had some trailing junk in the .tar.gz that broke GNU tar, and replied to my bug report with a comprehensive #LLM analysis and a slightly sloppy release checking workflow?
They've made a new release and this time the source distribution is completely broken gzip stream.
Honestly, bumping #Python packages for #Gentoo all these years, I don't recall ever seeing a problem with gzip streams. And then, #autobahn starts using #ClaudeCode heavily, and two bad releases in a row. I can't help but consider the project compromised at this point.
#NoAI #AI

Well, I am complaining about #AI slop introducing some random bugs in a minor userspace project, and in the meantime I learn that #Linux #kernel LTS developers are using AI to backport patches, and creating new vulnerabilities in the process.
Note: the whole thread is quite toxic, so I'd take it with a grain of salt, but still looks like the situation is quite serious.
"You too can crash today's 6.12.43 LTS kernel thanks to a stable maintainer's AI slop."
And apparently this isn't the first time either:
"When AI decided to select a random CPU mitigation patch for backport last month that turned a mitigation into a no-op, nothing was done, it sat unfixed with a report for a month (instead of just immediately reverting it), and they rejected a CVE request for it."
#security #LLM #NVIDIA #Gentoo

I've filed a report about a minor problem with a #Python package, namely that the source distribution contained some trailing junk that breaks GNU #tar. On one hand, I'm happy that upstream took the issue seriously. On the other hand, I'm terrified of how much #AI slop was involved in the response.
I mean, my short bug report yielded a few walls of text of #LLM analysis of what the cause of the problem might be, of suggested solutions… and praise of the author's fix. These are interspersed with short comments from the author, all pasted under their own personal account. And the linked pull request is also huge, with "verification code" that's quite sloppy (bits that don't do anything, conditions that will never be true… but at least it seems to do what it was supposed to do).
Honestly, I don't know what to do. Not that I ever planned using this package, but at this point I will definitely stay away from it. It's in #Gentoo, and I'll have to continue maintaining it for the sake of reverse dependencies, but I feel like it's unfair to expose our users to packages that have clearly proven to accept AI slop without reviewing it properly. Or rather, AI slop that's being reviewed… by AI. How can anyone think this a good idea?!
There were multiple times in my life when I've considered retiring from Gentoo, for variety of reasons. There were also multiple times when I wanted to get away from computers altogether. Unfortunately, we're living in a truly fucked up world, and there is no escape. The best you can do is put an ever increasing effort to keep fixing all that crap that will just keep piling on faster and faster.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource