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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/responses-vs-chat-completions/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions Feedly Summary: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions OpenAI released a bunch of new API platform features this morning under the headline “New tools for building agents" (their somewhat mushy interpretation of "agents" here is "systems that independently accomplish tasks on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-openrouter 0.4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/10/llm-openrouter-04/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-openrouter 0.4 Feedly Summary: llm-openrouter 0.4 I found out this morning that OpenRouter include support for a number of (rate-limited) free API models. I occasionally workshops on top of LLMs (like this one) and being able to provide students with a quick way to obtain an API…

  • Hacker News: Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools

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    Source URL: https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global Source: Hacker News Title: Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a disinformation network, “Pravda,” that is manipulating AI chatbots by flooding them with false narratives and propaganda, resulting in a significant percentage of chatbot outputs containing disinformation.…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: No hallucinations here: track the latest AI trends with expanded insights on Cloudflare Radar

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/expanded-ai-insights-on-cloudflare-radar/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: No hallucinations here: track the latest AI trends with expanded insights on Cloudflare Radar Feedly Summary: Today, we are launching a new dedicated “AI Insights” page on Cloudflare Radar that incorporates this graph and builds on it with additional metrics. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary…

  • Cloud Blog: Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/adversarial-misuse-generative-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI Feedly Summary: Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are unlocking new possibilities for the way we work and accelerating innovation in science, technology, and beyond. In cybersecurity, AI is poised to transform digital defense, empowering defenders and enhancing our collective security. Large language…

  • Hacker News: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

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    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the creation of a new malware named Nepenthes, designed by a software developer to combat AI web crawlers that ignore “no scraping” directives…

  • Slashdot: Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/23/2135205/developer-creates-infinite-maze-that-traps-ai-training-bots?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the development of an open-source program called Nepenthes, designed to trap AI web crawlers in an endless loop of link generation, effectively wasting their resources. This innovative approach provides…

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

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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…

  • Hacker News: Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers

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    Source URL: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/ Source: Hacker News Title: Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes “Nepenthes,” a tarpit software devised to trap web crawlers, particularly those scraping data for large language models (LLMs). It offers unique functionalities and deployment setups, with explicit…