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New comment by liamlaverty in "Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery"

liamlaverty — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:08:32 +0000

>But there's no reason you couldn't add an Artistic Director layer which has been trained on emotional and cultural signifiers and to direct the pastiche and remixing.

I gave this approach a shot over the first few months of this year[1] (although my director didn't have any custom training). The results were interesting, but I'd not call them "art", since they're low-quality derivative pieces. With reasoning traces enabled, you can see that there's not much intent going on. Though they do attempt to include "incidental objects" to reinforce meaning, like in this jungle scene[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105385

[2]https://www.liamlaverty.com/paint-by-language-model/inspect/...

New comment by liamlaverty in "Finding Security Bugs in OSS with LLMs on a Budget"

liamlaverty — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:14:04 +0000

Anthropic have been using their Claude 4.5 & 4.6 series models to automate searching for security issues. Their approach seems pretty expensive, so I've demonstrated getting a lot of the same benefits on a much lower budget in the Umbraco-CMS repository.

Finding Security Bugs in OSS with LLMs on a Budget

liamlaverty — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:14:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.etive-mor.com/blog/carlini-style-vulnerability-hunting-on-a-budget/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264591

Points: 2

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New comment by liamlaverty in "Can a Language Model Paint?"

liamlaverty — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:47:37 +0000

I've been trying to get some language models to paint one stroke at a time for a few months now. I thought this community would be interested to see the results.

The article runs through my findings, and there's a linked technical rundown of how the app was built. There's also an interactive gallery [0] of my attempts. You can point an agent at the API docs [1], and they might (ymmv) do a painting themselves.

[0] https://www.liamlaverty.com/paint-by-language-model/ [1] https://www.liamlaverty.com/paint-by-language-model/draw/api

Can a Language Model Paint?

liamlaverty — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:44:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.etive-mor.com/blog/can-a-language-model-paint/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105385

Points: 27

# Comments: 8