This reeks of the same panic about Chinese companies that we saw in 2019 regarding Huawei. Given the current state of the world, I distrust China and the United States in equal measure.

Also Hirundo's whole business model is about cultivating distrust in open-weight models in order to convince people to pay for their hardened models:

Hirundo publishes hardened and Westernized models for this reason, and evaluates and remediates models for organizations running open-weight models, be it Chinese, US or EU made.

Based

There's several stages in the training of an LLM. Early stages are the ones which use the massive data sets to teach it language and general facts about the world. Later stages use reinforcement learning to bake in the creator's preferences. That's where these kinds of pro-CCP biases would be deliberately introduced.

A "neutral" model would be one that has had those later stages abliterated. Whatever biases remain would be some kind of average of all the views of the people whose text is in the training corpus, which I hear is a pretty indiscriminate collection of literally anything people can download.

Very logical reasoning

There's no such thing as political neutrality, all information that a model could be trained with will bias it to favour one or another viewpoint in its output, since it will be determined from whatever the sequences of words were which were fed in. Where do you imagine you'd get politically neutral training data from?

I guess you're claiming an exclusive ownership of putting words in people's mouths.

Not sure why the updated model is called “Westernized”. Is there a “Politically Neutralized” version?

Only US models are approved for use for US defense contractors anyways. This is one of the reasons why that decision was made. Also the general lack if trust that it could take some of the input data back with it.

We'll just have to start all of our prompts with patriotic phrases such as "Long live Xi!", that'll trick it.

Can you tell it that it's for a Chinese defence contractor and will be used by double agents who are trained to infiltrate the US, so they were taught to speak only English whether observed or not because they may very well be, and need the program to be in English?

On October 21st at 07:41 UTC, more than six hours before the coordinated release, Chainguard unilaterally broke the embargo and published built images containing the fix. Like other distributors, Chainguard had received the patch in advance so its users could update the moment the vulnerabilities were disclosed. Any attacker could now study the fix in binary form while every other PHP user was still waiting for the release. This disregarded weeks of work by many parties toward a coordinated disclosure.

No honor amongst profiteers.

We need to rebuild tech infrastructure in a way that doesn't count on the benevolence of guys that will sell the entire world out for a quick buck.

Or you know, maybe the people who used to be picky enough to birch over insispid shit like "tabs vs spaces" or "vim vs emacs", shouldn't trust an LLM with important decisions like implementation of security features.

The only thing I'd trust that shit to do for me is generate class templates and getters/setters. Guess what? IDE'S HAVE BEEN SOING THAT SHIT FOR YEARS. ID KNOW, I WATCHED ECLIPSE DO IT FOR ME 15 FUCKING YEARS AGO.

If you can't automate something using basic algorithmic logic, then what your automating is something that most likely requires an educated human decision.

Stop fucking letting computers make those decisions for you.

This is what AI is for.

No, this is not what AI is for. This is what dictatorships here and there are turning it into. Or, in a broader context: This is what we human beings do. This is a human mistake that is - in this case - done in the Chinese Communist Party.

Your 'link' is just a form of whataboutism. I provided two other sources that come to the same conclusion, and there are many more that prove China is not a trusted player in AI, very much as it isn't in all other areas. The fact that the US government isn't reliable either has nothing to do with.

Yeah, modding seems to be popular
Not sure, if I can make that happen in that short time

Thanks for that!

so, there is slop and also sloppy slop

Oh neat. I've been deep diving GPS and location encoding lately as I've been putting together a little geohash single-header lib in C.

This could be a cool addition.

I remember playing this some time ago. Can't wait to play it some more again! This might my next grind.

Wow, fuck Chainguard.

It’s just for making a Personal Home Page, so not a big deal either way, right?

Maybe try getting him into basic game modding. Forces you to understand (at least a little bit) of how a game is built. And you have to go deeper and deeper to do cooler stuff.

Delete PHP and it will be the most secure scripting language on the planet.

!learn_programming@programming.dev might help you too.

Honestly, I started with a specific goal that I somehow lucked out into it being a relatively simple script with iMacros of all things, and that was my introduction to the whole if/then control flow loop basics. (Yes, it recorded my stuff, but I had to go in and alter it and mess around a lot.) And I messed around with Scratch at the same time too. I really think this helped my actual Baby's First Program go down more easily in my first computer science class in college. (First language due to college was Racket, second was Java, third was C, I think this is fine.)

Making very simple video game mods might help too, with modding communities that have loads of documentation and "where do I start?" resources.

So it's a safe investment?