> sometimes this "chain of thought" ends up being misleading; Claude sometimes makes up plausible-sounding steps to get where it wants to go. From a reliability perspective, the problem is that Claude’s "faked" reasoning can be very convincing.

If you ask the LLM to explain how it got the answer the response it gives you won't necessarily be the steps it used to figure out the answer.

> The initial funding will be $10 billion, followed by the remaining $30 billion by the end of 2025, the person said. But the round comes with a caveat. SoftBank said in an updated disclosure on Monday that its total investment could be slashed to as low as $20 billion if OpenAI doesn’t restructure into a for-profit entity by Dec. 31.

They might not even get the full $40 billion

> Or perhaps they're trying to make some important customers happy by showing movement on areas the customers care about

Or make important investors happy, they need to justify the latest $40 billion round

Is there anything stopping openai from scraping all the bluesky content without partnering?

Yes, they can. All Bluesky data (and ATProto in general) is publicly available.

It is already happening and nothing can be done against it at a protocol level: https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-ai-dataset-using-one-mi...

Code is law went out the door with the ethereum hardfork after the dao hack.

This makes no sense. I agree with you that code is not law, but the incident you're talking about wasn't law but community-driven consensus.

(realizing that im so old. if this is what i totally forgot, what else of this magnitude of signifince i do not remember anymore. that i was part of/ was involved/ it affected me.)

Funny, because it would never have happened if it was court ordered.

On a side note, does anyone know why banks still rely on sms 2fa codes instead of TOTP? Is there some regulatory issue that makes it more difficult?

Everybody with a phone has SMS baked in. SMS also has a recovery process if you drop your phone in the toilet. Ultimately, this improved user experience outweighs the security benefit to TOTP for many organizations.

TOTP also doesn't stop the biggest threat that SMS faces: phishing. Saving you from sim-swap attacks is just not a particular huge increase in security posture.

My bank at least offers TOTP as an option, but the huge majority of people are going to enroll with SMS.

My two banks require additional approval via push notification to the phone app. No SMS involved.

(In France.)

Some banks in Switzerland give customers a device that generates TOTP codes.

If the AI scrapers respected the robots.txt file then this wouldn't be an issue. A company is allowed to set the terms of service for their service and take action if other companies are abusing that.

The LLM scrapers could publish the ip ranges they use for scraping like google does, but that would make it easier to block them so they probably wouldn't do that.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

The code might not be theirs but the service hosting the code is and nothing is stopping you from hosting your code elsewhere. For some people blocking LLMs might be a reason to use sourcehut over github.

I think that's true in most newer languages, there's always a rush of libraries once a language starts to get popular, for example Go has lots http client libraries even though it also has an http library in the standard library.

relevant xkcd, https://xkcd.com/927/

I think this also was in small part due to them (Rob Pike perhaps? Or Brad) live-streaming them creating an http server back in the early days and it was good tutorial fodder.