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“AI #125: Smooth Criminal” by Zvi
One story has towered over things this week. Unleash the Grok also known as the anime waifu codependent AI girlfriend Ani, also known as MechaHitler, or worse, they did. There's several sections here with more follow-ups. We also got the excellent model Kimi K2.
Perhaps quietly an even bigger story, and bigger fail, is the announced intention by the Trump administration to allow Nvidia to resume selling H20 AI chips to China. There may still be time to stop this, if not it is a very large unforced error, and it allows us to narrow down what it is our current administration primarily cares about, since we already know it isn’t ‘keep humans in control of the future and alive’ and this strongly suggests it is also not America or to ‘beat China.’
Another quiet but big development was the release of the surprisingly excellent new EU General-Purpose Code of [...]
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Outline:
(01:16) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(03:24) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
(04:58) o3 Is a Lying Liar
(05:34) Thanks For The Memories
(06:23) Huh, Upgrades
(08:24) Choose Your Fighter
(08:39) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(16:12) They Took Our Jobs
(17:40) The Art of the Jailbreak
(18:55) Get Involved
(19:38) Introducing
(20:03) In Other AI News
(25:54) Bullshit On Bullshit
(29:04) Safety First
(31:27) Vitalik Praises And Critiques AI 2027
(39:58) Show Me the Money
(50:45) Quiet Speculations
(51:11) The Right Questions
(59:39) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(01:03:17) Chip City
(01:15:24) The Week in Audio
(01:16:14) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:20:29) Incorrectly Feeling The AGI
(01:21:19) RIP Absurdity Heuristic
(01:24:15) Worse Than MechaHitler
(01:30:05) An Alignment Problem
(01:36:59) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:47:58) The Lighter Side
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First published:
July 17th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Ykx8GpbDaBstjyBD/ai-125-smooth-criminal
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One story has towered over things this week. Unleash the Grok also known as the anime waifu codependent AI girlfriend Ani, also known as MechaHitler, or worse, they did. There's several sections here with more follow-ups. We also got the excellent model Kimi K2.
Perhaps quietly an even bigger story, and bigger fail, is the announced intention by the Trump administration to allow Nvidia to resume selling H20 AI chips to China. There may still be time to stop this, if not it is a very large unforced error, and it allows us to narrow down what it is our current administration primarily cares about, since we already know it isn’t ‘keep humans in control of the future and alive’ and this strongly suggests it is also not America or to ‘beat China.’
Another quiet but big development was the release of the surprisingly excellent new EU General-Purpose Code of [...]
---
Outline:
(01:16) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(03:24) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
(04:58) o3 Is a Lying Liar
(05:34) Thanks For The Memories
(06:23) Huh, Upgrades
(08:24) Choose Your Fighter
(08:39) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(16:12) They Took Our Jobs
(17:40) The Art of the Jailbreak
(18:55) Get Involved
(19:38) Introducing
(20:03) In Other AI News
(25:54) Bullshit On Bullshit
(29:04) Safety First
(31:27) Vitalik Praises And Critiques AI 2027
(39:58) Show Me the Money
(50:45) Quiet Speculations
(51:11) The Right Questions
(59:39) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(01:03:17) Chip City
(01:15:24) The Week in Audio
(01:16:14) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:20:29) Incorrectly Feeling The AGI
(01:21:19) RIP Absurdity Heuristic
(01:24:15) Worse Than MechaHitler
(01:30:05) An Alignment Problem
(01:36:59) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:47:58) The Lighter Side
---
First published:
July 17th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Ykx8GpbDaBstjyBD/ai-125-smooth-criminal
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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