You're not supposed to sell it. (Does anyone sell euros?) You're supposed to spend it. But hardly anyone takes it.

at some point most people want to sell the Bitcoin for dollars or pounds or euros

The fact that this is even significant (and it is) 15-20 years after the introduction of Bitcoin, shows that it has been a complete, miserable failure.

I think Bitcoin was a neat idea. Shame it didn't work.

Why would they need a warrant? Flock consents to their customers accessing Flock's data.

[various anticipated objections] Yes, but this is in America.

So many Hollywood scriptwriters who lazily decided, "I'll just use Nazis for the bad guys, they're universally-recognized evergreen enemies," are facepalming these days.

(I'm just speculating.) People don't need help with selling fun things; they want a 'bot that can sell the crap which humans have given up on. Anthropic doesn't want to sell widgets; they want to sell stores which sell widgets (sort of like selling pickaxes instead of getting into mining).

Maybe the problem it has been asked to solve is "I have some crap that nobody wants. Sell it."

This story (and the one in December it links to) is telling me the proper use of AI is to be abused, drawing fire away from humans.

The user was creating and testing the tool.

Guess what, if an arms manufacturer is testing a missile and it goes off course and doesn't respond to an abort code and blows up a school, the arms manufacturer is going to be in a lot of fucking trouble.

Unless the school is filled with little girls in Iran, then nothing will happen at all other than hundreds of dead kids.

I see my own local working around this crap all the time. I'm using RTK to conserve context - I'll see it try to do some huge grep command and get back a summary, so then it goes to writing an inline Python regex to do the same thing.

This should surprise nobody - if it can come up with a way through, it's going to do that unless hitting a hard permissions boundary or some other guard rail.

Also, why is your data backend publicly exposed to begin with? Never heard of a DMZ?

BZZT. "Awwwwwww" says the studio audience.

Patents are about processes, not ideas.

Did they pay for the usage?

Did your AI give them the responses they paid for?

Not really seeing what the problem is here, other than throwing a piss fit over someone using your product successfully.

I thought "Mommy Has Four Graphics Cards" was pretty good, but "Not Everyone Computes" did a great job of explaining why the industry is largely about remote services rather than running it locally.

More accurately:

"Hey, how dare you pay to use our stuff in a way we don't like! We don't care if you paid for every token and we watched you do it the whole time while cashing your checks - it's not fair!"

Fuck these clowns. China paid you for a service, which you provided and were happy to cash their check. Lie in the pig sty you created.

So the guys raping the culture to train their models, are having their own IP raped by China?

Let me shed giant crocodile tears. My heart pumps purple piss for them, really.