Uncle Rester
unclerester.bsky.social
Uncle Rester
@unclerester.bsky.social
Also known as Frankentan.
Cryptid of a person. Kinda undead.
Slow of thought and life. Autistic and disabled pensioner. He/Him.
Trying to learn to draw.
Pinned
It is Friday
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Guardian did a much better headline framing the “LLMs/AI guardrails are easily defeated” thing than sensationalism of AI WILL TEACH YOU TO BUILD A NUCLEAR WEAPON!:

“AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Have you ever spent a lot (like years) of time on the internet talking to people about and searching for nuclear weapons related materials?

There is SO MUCH BULLSHIT out there that LLMs got trained on.

In addition to the whole making computers innumerate thing.
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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You can get me to help you “design a nuclear bomb” by buying me lunch ffs.

I do not assess public LLMs like ChatGPT as a nuclear weapons proliferation issue.

Hire a grad student instead of asking ChatGPT, the research will take longer but it will be more accurate.

www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Also:

Who cares?

LLMs are trained on *waves arms*.

any state serious about building nukes will rapidly need info specific to circumstances or otw not public.

public LLMs can’t produce a new workable weapon design b/c they’re parrots not thinkers.

There is no “nuclear secret”
an elderly woman is pointing at a whiteboard with the words " it does n't matter " written on it
Alt: an older white woman in a colourful blouse & red scarf is pointing at a whiteboard with the words "it doesn't matter” in white written underneath her in the GIF.
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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No.

I promise you a (surprisingly) few hours w/a decent search engine will get you much more useful info on building nuclear weapons.

FURTHERMORE!

The basic principles are well understood & published.

ChatGPT isn’t gonna be able to tell me measurements much less be able to crap out some HEU.
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "

www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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They were *really* counting on the big Activision/Microsoft tentpole release being a success and proving that the hoi polloi don't care about AI usage. Being proven wrong is making it dawn on them that it *is* a bubble and the public will never accept this shit.
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Boy, Black Ops 7 being a massive failure really spooked them huh.
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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i missed a chance to get a photo of one of the best road signs i’ve ever seen, which was yellow and diamond-shaped and read CAUTION: MUSEUM AHEAD
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
drinking the swedish beverage, hated by the coca cola company, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julmust
Julmust - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I need some kind of gdpr where they break kneecaps as warnings
Normal and great 🫩

> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning — what happens on your Android phone, doesn’t stay on your Android phone.
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Normal and great 🫩

> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning — what happens on your Android phone, doesn’t stay on your Android phone.
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Hey, just got word that there's someone out there emailing people from annleckie05 at gmail, pretending to be me "reaching out" to people.

That is not me! If I email you out of the blue it will almost certainly come from annleckie.com, or possibly my personal email which doesn't contain my name.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Everyone: "I will vote for you if you support Nuremberg 2"

The Dems: "What if instead we pardon everyone and keep the systems that made this nightmare possible?"
November 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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"Att Tidöregeringen sviker sina vallöften ger oss inga gratisröster. Förtroende får man inte genom andras misslyckanden, utan genom egen handlingskraft. Utan den insikten riskerar partiet inte bara att förlora nästa val – vi riskerar att göra oss själva irrelevanta." @socialdemokraterna.bsky.social
DN Debatt. ”När slutade egentligen Socialdemokraterna att vilja något?”
DN Debatt. Vi måste våga säga att välfärd kostar, skriver Anna Quarnström, ordförande för den socialdemokratiska föreningen Funktionshinder och Jämlikhet
www.dn.se
November 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Jeg blir så matt.
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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figuring out in real time exactly how much stupid shit you can force people to do by injecting it into everything in their entire life and the answer turned out to be "not this"
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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the verse (2026, blumhouse)
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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“Strong floor, no ceiling” is the type of slogan that resonates with wealthy centrist political commentators, not everyday people who are actually your voters. What does that mean to someone who is struggling to afford rent, groceries, insurance? This is why Zohran’s policy slogans were so effective
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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hot take but perhaps relying exclusively on oil revenues wasn't a wise movie

(then again, the UCP thinks that things will get better for them *as* a landlocked state outside of Confderation)
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Thank you for your patience as I keep sharing the fundraiser, once we're funded I will go back to silence and only alt text translations

We are $13.8k away from fully funding an emergency kidney procedure and avoiding medical debt, any bit helps us get there

gofund.me/16ef32cb1
Donate to Support Genc (aka @JucikaDaily, @GENCZILLA), organized by Genczilla V
Fundraiser Update 11/22/2025 Thank you all for the support so far, we're s… Genczilla V needs your support for Support Genc (aka @JucikaDaily, @GENCZILLA)
gofund.me
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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It’s funny they’ve got Noem out there telling everyone the double-tap isn’t true (because they know it’s crimes) while Hegseth is like, yeah, I ordered the code red and I’d do it again.
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Nazister: *marscherar genom Stockholm*

Regeringen: ”All våldsam extremism är dålig.”

Oppositionen: ”Politiskt våld är osvenskt.”

Vanligt folk: ”HELA STOCKHOLM HATAR NAZISTER!!”
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM