Tag: synthesis
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Schneier on Security: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/gpt-4o-mini-falls-for-psychological-manipulation.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation Feedly Summary: Interesting experiment: To design their experiment, the University of Pennsylvania researchers tested 2024’s GPT-4o-mini model on two requests that it should ideally refuse: calling the user a jerk and giving directions for how to synthesize lidocaine. The researchers created experimental…
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Tomasz Tunguz: EvoBlog: Building an Evolutionary AI Content Generation System
Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/evoblog-evolutionary-ai-content-generation/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: EvoBlog: Building an Evolutionary AI Content Generation System Feedly Summary: One of the hardest method models to break is how disposable AI generated content is. When asking me to generate one blog post, why not just ask it to generate three, pick the best, use that as a…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/qwen-image/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering Feedly Summary: Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering Not content with releasing six excellent open weights LLMs in July, Qwen are kicking off August with their first ever image generation model. Qwen-Image is a 20 billion parameter MMDiT (Multimodal Diffusion Transformer,…
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The Register: Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/microsoft_updates_azure_ai_speech/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake Feedly Summary: No way this will be abused Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech.… AI Summary…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go?
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/timescope/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go? Feedly Summary: TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go? New open source benchmark for evaluating vision LLMs on how well they handle long videos: TimeScope probes the limits of long-video capabilities by inserting several…
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Schneier on Security: What LLMs Know About Their Users
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/what-llms-know-about-their-users.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: What LLMs Know About Their Users Feedly Summary: Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. It’s a big quote, but I want you to read it all. Here’s a prompt you…
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Cloud Blog: Selecting the right Hyperdisk block storage for your workloads
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-to-choose-the-right-hyperdisk-block-storage-for-your-use-case/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Selecting the right Hyperdisk block storage for your workloads Feedly Summary: As you adopt Google Cloud or migrate to the latest Compute Engine VMs or to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), selecting the right block storage for your workload is crucial. Hyperdisk, Google Cloud’s workload-optimized block storage that’s designed…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles Feedly Summary: I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event – here’s my talks from October 2023 and…
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Gemini: Advanced audio dialog and generation with Gemini 2.5
Source URL: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-2-5-native-audio/ Source: Gemini Title: Advanced audio dialog and generation with Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 has new capabilities in AI-powered audio dialog and generation. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Gemini 2.5 introduces advanced capabilities in AI-powered audio dialogue and generation, highlighting innovations in generative AI technology that can enhance user interactions…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/30/ai-and-jobs-with-natasha-zouves/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation Feedly Summary: I was interviewed by News Nation’s Natasha Zouves about the very complicated topic of how we should think about AI in terms of threatening our jobs and careers. I previously talked with Natasha two years…