claude said

The government thinks just this one model is an issue whyyy? They’re all security-questionable but we accept the risk given the benefit. The government needs to get out of the way. Harnessed Fable fixed a gnarly bug I’ve been battling for 2 weeks in one session yesterday. And I was a Codex maximalist just a few days ago.

"AI safety" is pretty clearly the bureaucratic successor to the misinformation lobby

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

Haven’t heard from @bryan_johnson in a while. Is he still alive?

LA: Have your agent talk to my agent. SF: Have your agent talk to my agent.

Quantization and edge are only going to become more important

Starting to suspect that Anthropic's putative security and safety considerations are largely posturing and performative.

Donc maintenant que Mythos/Fable 5 est sorti on va voir arriver, dans l'ordre : Premier acte : ceux qui vont subitement redécouvrir que GPT-5.5 est nul et qu'il faut absolument revenir sur Anthropic. Deuxième acte : ces mêmes personnes qui vont utiliser Fable 5 n'importe comment et se plaindre que ça crame leur abonnement en 10 minutes. Troisième acte : tout ça pour essayer de coder directement avec un modèle Mythos-class au lieu de planifier, orchestrer et exécuter avec sur des outils 1000x moins tokenovores. On prend les paris sur la séquence ? Moi je dis acte 1 ce soir, acte 2 jeudi, acte 3 dimanche soir avec un thread d'indignation en bonus.

Prediction: fable will work ‘so great’ for a couple weeks to get us back on the Claude code wagon. Then silently degrade once the subscriptions are locked In.

Woke up this morning and suddenly everyone is talking about AI agentic loops. AI/LLM hype is at unhinged levels. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Is it just me or @OpenAI and @codex incredibly brittle and dumb today???

No loops. Only Type set allowed.

Companies are like "we are spending all this money on AI but we don't know what the devs are even doing with it." Let me answer that for you: They're working on their personal side projects.