rae

did you expect something so soon?

[rae @cryptorae]

People wonder why we get nostalgic.

[Zaheer @zaheerebtikar]

It's been a long time coming but I'm thrilled to announce the official launch of Split Capital, a liquid digital assets fund.

Split Capital, as a concept, has been in my mind for years now and it's been a dream to finally see it come to fruition.
https://t.co/cItdgFl3Ao

[rae @cryptorae]

@simonw @rabbit_hmi Their solution to an app centric model is to have you give them unfettered access to every app you want to interact with. It’s like plaid, with none of the accountability and 1000x the attack surface,

[rae @cryptorae]

It's 100% a fake.

Some people should probably tweet less but I guess why would you when you get clout and engagement for being a moron. (Bookmark this)

[rae @cryptorae]

Run an error level analysis (ELA), and the forgery will reveal itself.

ELAs show how an image has been compressed. Compression should be uniformly applied across an image, but with altered images, the ELA looks different because you've created different layers of lossiness.

[rae @cryptorae]

Zooming out, you can almost see the brush strokes the hacker made with the brush tool over the original text and quotation marks.

It's also obvious no such alteration was made to the name and image of Gensler, as they were not needed.

[rae @cryptorae]

Comparing the two images side by side:
1. Quotation marks are different, short, sharp tail vs long, dull tail.
2. The hacker's graphic uses a different typeface for the quote and speaker.
3. Very weird compression artifacts in the hacker's version.

How can we be sure it's fake?

[rae @cryptorae]

It's incredible people crave engagement so much they'll write an entire screenplay to convince themselves of a uniquely wrong take.

The tweet sent out by the SEC wasn't a draft by the SEC. It was made by the hacker.

A thread on spotting digital fakes.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

My guess is that the SEC account was both hacked AND that the tweet was real.

Hacker first tweeted and then deleted just a ticker.

Then likely found the tweet with the announcement graphic and Gensler quote in the draft folder.

SEC wouldn’t get date wrong, and tweet only ticker, and like meme responses to approval.

Hacker wouldn’t be someone to meticulously plan and prepare a graphic that is in the style of the SEC and also be dumb enough to just tweet a ticker like it’s a meme.

So both things are true, and the approval announcement is lined up.

[rae @cryptorae]

The photo is the clue. It's not the current official portrait of Gensler. If you reverse search it, you'll find the SEC used the same template for a tweet in 2021.

So the original design-based refutation for draft theory is invalidated. Maybe it's real? https://t.co/In5xZvR0F8

[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission @SECGov]

Do you know why SEC Chair Gary Gensler asked SEC staff to make recommendations on how the Commission might consider freshening up Rule 10b5-1?

A thread with some of Chair Gensler’s take on the matter:

[rae @cryptorae]

"U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION" looks official, like a digital letterhead.

However, the SEC uses something else. The image is feeling less official.

btw @SECGov you have been misspelling "U.S." as "U.S" for the past three years. You may want to update your template.

[rae @cryptorae]

The design itself is not disqualifying:

1. The SEC has sometimes used Arial.
2. They've also used other shades of blue.
3. The seal isn't on everything they produce.
4. Gensler is inconsistently titled, see "SEC CHair".

So you look for other anchors.

[rae @cryptorae]

At first blush the writing is fine.

The graphics are fishy, however:
1) ETF announcement font is Arial, different from the SEC's usual Gotham.
2) No SEC seal.
3) The color is rgb(1, 53, 104), differently from the SEC's usual rgb(0, 56, 99)
4) "Chair, Gary Gensler"?

[rae @cryptorae]

@willdepue @mjmauboussin is up there https://t.co/pBG7GhmIYc

[rae @cryptorae]

I’m so glad this is over. Can we go back to remembering that OpenAI’s censorship was actually the most effective of the big LLM’s, that the criticism of Sam was for nerfing GPT-4 via RLHF, and that Anthropic’s Claude was the go-to model for people to engage in BDSM role play?

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

[rae @cryptorae]

This Joseph Gordon-Levitt thing is going to be significant. TIL he’s also a vocal EA.

If Tasha holds steady, they are heroes in Hollywood and EA. Maybe a 10 minute ovation at the SAG awards. Maybe JGL gets an actual role again.

If she flips, they’re both out of the in-groups.

[rae @cryptorae]

It struck me on dev day that GPTs, all the way down to the monetization aspect, were a clone of Poe’s core product. TIL that @adamdangelo is on OpenAI’s board. Not saying that’s why Sam was fired, but that’s how you lose the tipping vote.

[rae @cryptorae]

In hindsight, none of this should have been surprising. https://t.co/AGsaXfuPs3

[Joseph Gordon-Levitt @hitRECordJoe]

I wrote an OpEd in the @washingtonpost —

https://t.co/Ktiyqb4zNp

Generative AI cannot generate anything at all without massive troves of training data. Who produces that data? People do.

And those people deserve compensation.

[rae @cryptorae]

@TheStalwart https://t.co/uhwksbNiBC

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

OpenAI starts doing alignment research
(I kid, I kid, it’s actually not a bad approach…but like also somehow the solution for the danger of more capable AI is to accelerate building more capable AI)

[rae @cryptorae]

Huge for Microsoft, though. Ambitions clearly bigger than just building LLMs.

[rae @cryptorae]

This is disappointing.

On one hand, this is clearly a good move to shore up the stock price and lend credibility to their future product ambitions. If anything, they’re probably going to give Sam a blank check to pursue his chip ambitions as well.

[rae @cryptorae]

On the other hand, if the totality of talent and magic of the folks at Open AI migrate to Microsoft.. this is a company that phones home every time you blink.