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In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as AI, and what the post-bubble world looks like for LLMs.



Regardless of what actually happened, the company openly and proudly admitted to committing a crime. Company needs to be shut down, people making decisions need to be arrested, and we need to use civil asset forfeiture to take every fucking thing they have just like we do to everyday regular people who break the law.
Yeah, imagine if you let your gasoline powered lawnmover just run around in your yard just to see what would happen and you just left it for a couple of days in the anticipation that eventually your entire lawn was cut only to find that it also ran over some kid. The lesson from that wouldn’t be that your lawnmover is just too good.