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I'm afraid that technological sovereignty is secondary to military superiority when the governments in question value might over justice. It seems that you can apply financial leverage to avoid violence but I think everyone has to play ball.

Agreed, this is the kind of steganography that is meant for humans to read. There's no reason a computer couldn't encode meaningful information in the least significant bytes of every 16th pixel or something like that.

The article is about what LLMs can do when generating SVG images, not bitmaps. I think the reason for that is that LLMs can generate the XML text for SVG directly. The implications for AI safety are different, because there might not be any code involved that we can examine. So LLMs could start exchanging hidden messages without humans knowing about it.

But now that I think about it that way, it would probably be more interesting to see what kind of steganography LLMs would use in ordinary text. There's no reason to involve images.


> The implications for AI safety are different

Like when your printer adds secret massages for cops? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots


> Like when your printer adds secret massages for cops

That's not going to have a happy ending...


I've assumed this is why printers are so hell-bent on having internet connectivity: a link between the printed ID and IP address.

> to see what kind of steganography LLMs would use in ordinary text.

Isn't the "watermarking" of LLM text already an example?


That watermarking is not something the LLM chooses to add, neither through training nor in response to any prompt. This article is about the choices LLMs make when explicitly told to hide messages.

>The article is about what LLMs can do when generating SVG images, not bitmaps.

Aha... that is an interesting distinction. I did not think of that. Alongside this, it means you could resize the image and not lose the information.


interesting, wonder which class promulgated that myth

sshd


Modern consoles also compile shaders? Ugh, that's the most annoying part of playing RocketLeague right now. The game updates like every day and every time it's updated I need to spend 5ish minutes recompiling (if not more).


Seems like a ToS violation more than anything


I agree thats more appropriate. There is nothing AI here, its just simple automation. Couple things that are probably applicable in this case or cases like this where royalties are earned based on assumed advertising traffic

1. There is no way he the the only one or first one. Chances are that more than likely he was subscribing to some third party services which were offering this feature.

2. He probably took it too far to get noticed and get in limelight


There's illicit enrichment so it's not like just getting likes.


When you deliberately violate a TOS using deception in order to get money or property from a service, you're committing fraud.

There are plenty of ways to violate a TOS non-remuneratively or without using deception ("deception" is an element of the crime of fraud and has to be proved up in court; it's not simply what the TOS says it is). Those are civil matters, not crime.

The template you want to be working from: lying for money is fraud.


Unless you are facebook, Musk, OpenAI, Antropic, Thiel, ...


That argument won't play at all in front of a judge. I'm commenting positively, not normatively.


I wonder if this person could have been held liable personally if they had operated under a LLC.


It depends on how the LLC is set up and operated. Courts do have the power to “pierce the corporate veil” if a business entity is just a sham.


> It depends on how the LLC is set up and operated.

As in? If the LLC operates as a one man operation essentially, there isn't much ground for them to appear legitimate (but why not?). However a more thorough operation with an independent board, employees, senior staff, and now the company is liable not the individual?

It's an interesting discourse - what makes a company seemingly legitimate? AFAIC the whole purpose of an LLC is to shield individuals from liability. So why is it wrong to do that in one case, and not the other?

Oh wait - maybe it has got something to do with intent. An intent to commit fraud (in his case, like clicking on ads on one's own site). If that preceded the establishment of the company, then the whole company was a sham, never meant to operate as a successful legitimate business but only as a coverup. That is the most meaningful distinction I can think of.


LLC shielding and veil-piercing are almost always applied to civil cases. TFA describes a criminal case.


True, however, I'm responding to the specific question about liability (which is civil) vs. guilt (which is criminal).


I don't really use plan mode, but I do have Fable write a lot of docs, particularly when the work involved is long and multistep, because I may need to do it across multiple sessions.


Oh shit, this looks incredible. Thanks!


Sorry, I think I'm being dumb, but where is the "first principals thinking" in your example?


Yeah, I still remember the first time I ran glxgears on accelerated hardware and I could not believe my eyes


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