Tag: generative

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/absencebench/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Feedly Summary: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Here’s another interesting result to file under the “jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle…

The Register: New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/github_begins_enforcing_premium_request/ Source: The Register Title: New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers Feedly Summary: Welcome to bill shock, AI style Microsoft’s GitHub this week said paying GitHub Copilot customers will now face monthly limits on certain types of high-powered AI requests, and will have to pay more if they want…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats Feedly Summary: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral-Small 3.2

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/mistral-small-32/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral-Small 3.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral-Small 3.2 Released on Hugging Face a couple of hours ago, so far there aren’t any quantizations to run it on a Mac but I’m sure those will emerge pretty quickly. This is a minor bump to Mistral Small 3.1, one of my…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cato CTRL™ Threat Research: PoC Attack Targeting Atlassian’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Introduces New “Living off AI” Risk

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/atlassian-prompt-injection-mcp/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cato CTRL™ Threat Research: PoC Attack Targeting Atlassian’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Introduces New “Living off AI” Risk Feedly Summary: Cato CTRL™ Threat Research: PoC Attack Targeting Atlassian’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Introduces New “Living off AI” Risk Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/how-openelections-uses-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How OpenElections Uses LLMs Feedly Summary: How OpenElections Uses LLMs The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are widely available, precinct-level results are published in…

Slashdot: Midjourney Launches Its First AI Video Generation Model, V1

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/18/1935234/midjourney-launches-its-first-ai-video-generation-model-v1 Source: Slashdot Title: Midjourney Launches Its First AI Video Generation Model, V1 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Midjourney has launched its AI video generation model, V1, allowing users to create customizable short videos from images. This move positions the startup as a competitor to established entities in the AI…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/context-rot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News Feedly Summary: They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output quality falls off rapidly. Even with good context the rot…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding agents require skilled operators

Jun 18, 2025

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