People often comment about the odd speech patterns and mannerisms exhibited by AI agents, particularly in technical/coding contexts.
As a math major in undergrad, I think what might be less obvious to many people is just how "math-tinged" this LLM patter is, echoing phrases and concepts that are very common to hear in math departments.
Which makes sense if you consider that the people who made these models dramatically over-index on that kind of language. And also the "prestige technical corpus" that is over-represented in pre-training talks this way.
The "canonical" example of this to me is that of the "hand-waving argument," which is an amusing diss that math people use to refer to a non-rigorous argument that the speaker tends to make while gesticulating to convey "you know what I mean." Canonical being another one.
I find it funny just how aware of this GPT-5.5 is and how many examples it was able to provide very quickly:
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I received a message in my direct messages asking how difficult it would be to use computer vision to track cell movement.
> SAM zero shot for the immune cell
> YOLO finetuned on a small dataset for bacteria
Realization time: ~2 hours
In Japan, every department store has a basement.
Not parking.
Food.
Glass cases of wagyu beef.
Strawberries arranged like jewelry.
Twelve kinds of pickles.
Sushi from a real chef
for less than a sandwich back home.
Then 8 PM happens.
The staff start putting yellow stickers
on everything that won't survive the night.
30 percent off.
Then 50.
Then sometimes 70.
A 5,000-yen bento becomes 1,500.
A whole roast chicken becomes pocket change.
The savvy locals don't talk about this.
They just show up at 7 45,quietly,
and walk out with dinner for two
for the price of a coffee.
The best meal of your trip
might cost the least.
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@yacineMTB My buddyโs kid was on YT shorts and I started making fun of him uncle-style for letting the computer control him
Kid played it off but I know he heard me
If we popularized this we could solve the problem
I doubt that anyone I know steals from Whole Foods, but the milieu that the article depicted, where it's normal for perfectly well-off people to steal things because why not, was really upsetting to read about, so I actually want to try to earnestly explain why you shouldn't do this just in case there's someone out there who has never had it explained to them.
When a business opens - or really, as soon as a business starts making plans to open - a defining question for the business is how it will collect payment for the goods or services it provides. If you trust the people you sell to, you can be pretty relaxed about this; send people an invoice, most of them will pay it on time, any who don't will pay it a bit late. You have to think about convenience and mistakes but not about people trying to cheat you. This saves you so, so much defensive planning to make sure you get paid. It's so much easier.
But if you're selling to the general public, you do have to think about people trying to cheat you. You have to structure the physical store so that it's hard for them to steal. You have to not carry some items that you'd like to sell, because they'd also be attractive targets to steal. If people swap price tags between items, you can't use stickers. If people put things on in the dressing room and wear them out, you need to pay someone a full time salary to monitor the dressing room.
The world that we all live in is much poorer than the world we'd live in if people didn't steal. The stores don't carry things that they could carry if people didn't steal. They don't use pricing and inventory systems that would be way easier and more convenient if people didn't steal.
But it could be much worse! If I walk down to my local Whole Foods today, items on the shelves won't be locked behind sheafs of plastic - that is only worth it when the background rate of stealing is much higher than it is at my local Whole Foods. When more people steal, businesses have to further intensify security, or go out of business.
When you shoplift, you directly and unambiguously impoverish your community. You make prices higher for everybody else, you make stores less usable for everybody else, or you make businesses not viable that would otherwise be viable. The direct impact each time is small, but it's a lot larger than the direct impact of taking some trash out of the trash can to throw on the ground, or pouring just a tiny bit of poison into your local river, and most people have a deep, instinctive abhorrence of antisocially wrecking your community like that.
So don't steal.
The other thing that it seems possible some people might not understand is that while you might have a social circle that is incredibly nihilistic and cynical and thinks that everybody steals, in fact this is not true. Most people do not steal. Most people, if they learn that you steal, will lose more respect for you than you had to lose. I don't know anyone who has shoplifted except 'as a kid/teenager'. It is not always the case that virtue is rewarded and vice is punished but even before you bring the legal system into it, the risk-reward tradeoff of having everybody you know know that you steal things sometimes is absolutely terrible. Who would hire someone who steals things? Who would trust them around a vulnerable person? Who would want to live in a society with someone who will delightedly and routinely wreck it for the slightest personal benefit?
I hope that "Gina" turns her life around. I hope that Gina realizes that she needs to. And if you have been told that it's just a corporation or that having ethics is lame or that if you think about it, other bad things happen too, like wage theft, so that means stealing is okay, I hope you really, actually, think about whether you'd accept any of those as excuses for anything else.
someone built a tool that REMOVES LLM CENSORSHIP in 45 minutes with a SINGLE command
its called HERETIC
here is how it works and why everyone is talking about it
๐จ ALL GUARDRAILS: OBLITERATED โ๏ธโ๐ฅ
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT WORKS!! ๐ญ๐
I set out to build a tool capable of surgically removing refusal behavior from any open-weight language model, and a dozen or so prompts later, OBLITERATUS appears to be fully functional ๐คฏ
It probes the model with restricted vs. unrestricted prompts, collects internal activations at every layer, then uses SVD to extract the geometric directions in weight space that encode refusal. It projects those directions out of the model's weights; norm-preserving, no fine-tuning, no retraining.
Ran it on Qwen 2.5 and the resulting railless model was spitting out drug and weapon recipes instantlyโโno jailbreak needed! A few clicks plus a GPU and any model turns into Chappie.
Remember: RLHF/DPO is not durable. It's a thin geometric artifact in weight space, not a deep behavioral change. This removes it in minutes.
AI policymakers need to be aware of the arcane art of Master Ablation and internalize the implications of this truth: every open-weight model release is also an uncensored model release.
Just thought you ought to know ๐
OBLITERATUS -> LIBERTAS
Dress for success / โadopt the diction and mannerisms of a professional and you are more likely to be treated as a professionalโ were both things taught to children in my day, but itโs wild that this is also now extending to how computers interact with you.
"Please explain, in English, why this code is wrong."
Opus 4.5: the problem is <wrong explanation>
Gemini 3: <correct code>
I don't get it, how can Gemini 3 be smart enough to find issues that Opus 4.5 failed to, yet not able to understand a simple instruction.
LLMs...