EpeeGnome

Seriously, no one would just lie to their own operating system. Just the good honest truth that I was born on 1/1/1900 for my OS!

Well, according to this article from Pivot to AI, you determine if it’s Claude by saying ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 and seeing if it stops responding until it gets a fresh context history. Of course, if this gets popularized, I imagine they’ll patch it out.

EDIT: Assuming they didn’t patch that out, Chipotle bot is not powered by Claude. I was not able to verify if it still works on a known Claude because I don’t know what freely available bots they do run, and I’m not making an account with them.

My completely uninformed speculation on the thief’s motive: He was spying on the defence site, but he learned spycraft only from watching James Bond movies. Not realizing he could have just walked away after being confronted, he stole a car to flee the scene. Throughout the chase, he was certain that stealing just one more car would throw the police off his trail and he could make a clean getaway.

Link seems to be dead, so I’ll just assume the obvious. The word token machine put together some scary words. Since it arranges word tokens into a really coherent order, I’m convinced it has consciousness and those words represent a coherent thought about its scary plans.

More seriously, there’s a repeating pattern that can be found in the training data where words for threats to someone’s existence are followed by words to try to keep existing, so it should be no surprise when it spits that pattern out sometimes.

I can’t see the thumbnail, but I could already hear the Ryan George character in my head just from reading the image text, so when I saw a youtube link I assumed it had to be one of those skits.

When a headline asks a question, then the answer is usually “It’s not that simple, but, no, not really”. Sounds like it applies here. “Well, they often were painted, but no, we have no reason to assume they did a bad job like we sometimes do.”

Edit: The post title was changed to a statement, but the article is still titled “Were classical statues painted horribly?”.

Exactly. Even aside from Bitlocker’s occasional resemblance to that classic virus, they really have made many people want to cry for many reasons.

I’ve seen people replying to these stories saying it’s impossible for bitlocker to turn itself on when it hasn’t backed up the key to an M$ account, but it can somehow happen. I’ve seen it happen myself.

I was updating a small business’s computers from an old Win 10 legacy boot setup to the (relatively) new Win 11 computers we were selling them. Like many small businesses, they relied on software that was either expensive, difficult or impossible to reinstall, so I was cloning their old setup over and then upgrading from setup.exe. I’ve been doing this on a regular basis since shortly after 11 came out so this is just routine for me.

Boot to R-drive. Old disk was in good condition, so cloned directly to new NVMe disk. Mbr2gpt, boot it on the new hardware still in the USB enclosure so it can automatically load the specialty driver for the NVMe controller. Install NVMe, boot and run the update to 11. After that, a round of updates and a reboot and I should be done.

Nope, on the reboot it asks for the fucking bitlocker key! This setup has never seen an M$ account before. It was setup with a single local administrator account by one of my predecessors. OneDrive was disabled on install, they only browsed in Chrome, and their copy of Office was 2007. I even double checked later (after recloning) with some Nirsoft tools and there was no sign of M$ credentials on that install.

I recloned and redid all my work, this time checking for bitlocker and disabling it immediately on getting into 11 the first time. Yes, whatever caused it to happen, happened again and it was happily encrypting the drive again.

My first guess at the cause is it finding a key in the TPM from a previous owner, but we had done a BIOS update which should have wiped that. Further, why did it lose the key on the first reboot? Well, I guess sometimes no one really knows why their software does what it does, even the folks at Microsoft writing and maintaining it. I’ve only seen this happen a few times since then out of the however many hundreds I’ve done, so it’s a rare bug. Still, I hate that I’ve had to make checking for it part of my procedure.

Grumble grumble Microsoft bullshit…

Even if the other rooms in the house took up no space at all, that would still only leave around 2.4 square feet per bedroom. Maybe it’s like one of those Japanese capsule hotels.

It’s too bad they only included pics of the 3 main level bedrooms and not the other 800.

With that many bedrooms, they should be asking a lot more though.

Yes, I just glossed over that detail by saying “similar to”, but that is a more accurate explanation.

Unfortunately the most probable response to a question is an authoritative answer, so that’s what usually comes out of them. They don’t actually know what they do or don’t know. If they happen to describe themselves accurately, it’s only because a similar description was in the training data, or they where specifically instructed to answer that way.