Comment by dinunnob
14 hours ago
Hmm, pliny is amazing - if you kept up with him on social media you’d maybe like him https://x.com/elder_plinius
14 hours ago
Hmm, pliny is amazing - if you kept up with him on social media you’d maybe like him https://x.com/elder_plinius
I don't know. I scrolled through his recent Tweets and he's sharing things like this $900 snake oil device that "finds nearby microphones" and "sends out AI-generated cancellation signals" to make them unable to record your voice : https://x.com/aidaxbaradari/status/2028864606568067491
Try to think for a moment about how a device would "find nearby microphones" or how it would use an AI-generated signal to cancel out your voice at the microphone. This should be setting of BS alarms for anyone.
It seems the Twitter AI edgey poster guy is getting meta-trolled by another company selling fake AI devices
Ultrasound microphone jammers seem to be a real thing, so it's possible it does to some extent work.
Only for specific kinds, like MEMS.
But there's no way to detect microphones automatically, and "AI generated cancellation signals" is a word salad that doesn't mean anything.
What they probably mean is "we asked ChatGPT to tell us what waveform and frequency range to use on MEMS devices and spit out some arduino code."
The parent comment makes no reference to or comment on the author of the README.
It just says "the README sucks." Which, I'm inclined to agree, it does.
LLM-generated text has no place in prose -- it yields a negative investment balance between the author and aggregate readers.
> LLM-generated text has no place in prose
AI will infiltrate that too. I remember some time ago I read a book that was AI-generated. It took me a while to notice that it was AI-generated. One can notice certain patterns, where real humans would not write things the way AI does.
I see you have carefully avoided the em-dash. ;-)
As a non logged in user I get tweets in popularity order, which means this weird but tame sexual image comes up third https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1904961097569890363?s=20
Looking at his attempts at jailbreaking some models, I'm not sure he even remotely understands what he's doing, e.g. he tries to counter non-existent refusal training in Gemini [0] while doing nothing against the external guardrails which actually protect the model. Looks like a pompous e-celeb, all performance with no substance.
https://github.com/elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S/blob/main/GOOGLE.m...
If this qualifies as "amazing" in 2026 then Karpathy and Gerganov must be halfway to godhood by now.
I dont think anyone is going to dispute this
I just don't think many people will be "amazed" by their output, as you claim.
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Amazing as in his stuff actually works?
I just hear him promoting OBLITERATUS all day long and trying to get models to say naughty things
Yeah but i think the philosophy is to show how precarious the guardrails are