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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Benj Edwards

Aug 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/30/benj-edwards/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Benj Edwards Feedly Summary: LLMs are intelligence without agency—what we might call “vox sine persona": voice without person. Not the voice of someone, not even the collective voice of many someones, but a voice emanating from no one at all. — Benj Edwards Tags: benj-edwards, ai-personality,…

Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 10, 2025

Mar 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-076 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 10, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 1E–1E Client Improper link resolution before file access in the Nomad module of the 1E Client, in versions prior to 25.3, enables an attacker with local unprivileged…

Hacker News: Running Systemd-Nspawn Containers

Feb 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://benjamintoll.com/2022/02/04/on-running-systemd-nspawn-containers/ Source: Hacker News Title: Running Systemd-Nspawn Containers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses systemd-nspawn, a more secure and lightweight alternative to Docker for managing containers on Linux systems. It highlights the advantages of systemd-nspawn in terms of security and ease of configuration compared to traditional chroot…

Hacker News: AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back

Jan 26, 2025

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Source URL: https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/01/25/AI-Slop-Suspicion-and-Writing-Back/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Short Summary with Insight: The text discusses the proliferation of AI-generated content, termed “AI slop,” and raises concerns about its impact on the authenticity and quality of written material across social media and other…

The Register: OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries

Jan 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/19/openais_chatgpt_crawler_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries Feedly Summary: The S in LLM stands for Security OpenAI’s ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has yet to…

The Register: Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed

Jan 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/backdoored_backdoors/ Source: The Register Title: Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed Feedly Summary: Here’s what $20 gets you these days More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these hosts…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

Dec 3, 2024

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/3/names-make-chatgpt-grind-to-a-halt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why Feedly Summary: Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why Benj Edwards on the really weird behavior where ChatGPT stops output with an error rather than producing the names David Mayer,…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast

Nov 22, 2024

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/weeknotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast Feedly Summary: These past few weeks I’ve been bringing Datasette and LLM together and distracting myself with a new sort-of-podcast crossed with a live streaming experiment. Project: interviewing people about their projects Datasette Public Office…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes from Bing Chat—Our First Encounter With Manipulative AI

Nov 19, 2024

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/19/notes-from-bing-chat/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes from Bing Chat—Our First Encounter With Manipulative AI Feedly Summary: A participated in an Ars Live conversation with Benj Edwards of Ars Technica today, talking about that wild period of LLM history last year when Microsoft launched Bing Chat and it instantly started misbehaving, gaslighting and…

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