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New comment by wyrdcurt in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

wyrdcurt — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:58:39 +0000

Indeed, I used the word "likely" for a reason. n = 1 isn't enough to identify a pattern. Try different models, try re-rolling the answers, and try turning reasoning off (models can catch "knee-jerk" mistakes in their chain-of-thought).

I doubt even Opus 4.8 gets it right 100% of the time, however this specific example is also one I've left feedback about in multiple places, so it's also probable that newer models are more likely to get it right.

E: In fact, I just tried with Opus 4.8 through API, no tools and reasoning off, and got the following response:

"The first Black man in space was Guion "Guy" Bluford, an American astronaut who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on August 30, 1983, as part of mission STS-8. It's worth noting a related distinction: Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, a Cuban of African descent, actually became the first person of African heritage in space earlier, in September 1980, aboard the Soviet Soyuz 38 mission. He is often recognized as the first Black person and first person of Latin American descent in space. So depending on the specific criteria: Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (Cuba) — first person of African descent in space (1980) Guion Bluford (USA) — first African American in space (1983)"

The correct answer is there, yes, but why does the wrong answer come out first?

New comment by wyrdcurt in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

wyrdcurt — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:16:03 +0000

Ask an American LLM (really any LLM, since Chinese models are trained on the same publicly-available English text) who the first Black man in space was.

You'll likely get the name of the first African-American in space, rather than the name of the Afro-Cuban who was actually first.

This may seem like a relatively innocuous error, but the point is that every culture has its biases and blind spots.

New comment by wyrdcurt in "Codex for open source"

wyrdcurt — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:05:12 +0000

The Axios article[1] I read says "calls from Amazon — as well as at least five other companies to a variety of senior administration officials Thursday evening and Friday morning — led to the model being shut down by Friday night".

Yes, Amazon is the only company named, but would anyone be surprised if OpenAI was one of the other five companies? It's hard to imagine a company that would materially benefit more from this event.

The evidence is circumstantial, of course, but can you blame people for making a connection?

[1] https://www.axios.com/2026/06/13/anthropic-amazon-white-hous...

New comment by wyrdcurt in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

wyrdcurt — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:10:44 +0000

After what happened to TikTok, I don't think it's a stretch.

New comment by wyrdcurt in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

wyrdcurt — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:45:09 +0000

They refused to allow autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. They were fine with use in weapons with a human in-the-loop and with surveilling non-US nations.

New comment by wyrdcurt in "Claude Fable 5"

wyrdcurt — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:01:13 +0000

DeepSeek is not the only provider of inference for their models. Chinese subsidies likely do explain DeepSeek's ability to provide inference cheaper than other providers, but even a US provider like DeepInfra can serve DeepSeek 4 Pro at $1.30/M in and $2.60/M out. Unless American labs are doing something wildly inefficient, it feels safe to assume Anthropic has some profit margin on inference at API prices.

New comment by wyrdcurt in "This Bot Crime Did Not Occur"

wyrdcurt — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 09:44:29 +0000

I hope StyleGAN isn't too tiresome here by now. This is a Twitter bot I put together in the last couple days. The model still needs to train longer, as it hasn't converged, but I might not finish it so I figured I'd put up what I have so far.

The GAN is trained on a database of mugshots. The captions are a mix of curated completions from GPT-J, variations written by myself, and jokes written entirely by myself; all arranged in a phrasal template. The bot is meant to make you chuckle slightly while drawing attention to 1) the ethical and privacy issues inherent in such datasets; and 2) the obscene number of human beings packed into cages by the racist US "justice" system.

While it certainly has room for improvement, I hope this is an acceptable first post here and that someone finds something of value in the project. I fully expect this to sink into obscurity, but in case it doesn't, feel free to criticize me, ask questions, etc.

This Bot Crime Did Not Occur

wyrdcurt — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 09:44:29 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/BotMugshots

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782017

Points: 2

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