Hmm, pliny is amazing - if you kept up with him on social media you’d maybe like him https://x.com/elder_plinius

Aurornis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know. I scrolled through his recent Tweets and he's sharing things like this $900 snake oil device that "finds nearby microphones" and "sends out AI-generated cancellation signals" to make them unable to record your voice : https://x.com/aidaxbaradari/status/2028864606568067491

Try to think for a moment about how a device would "find nearby microphones" or how it would use an AI-generated signal to cancel out your voice at the microphone. This should be setting of BS alarms for anyone.

It seems the Twitter AI edgey poster guy is getting meta-trolled by another company selling fake AI devices

	▲	roywiggins 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ultrasound microphone jammers seem to be a real thing, so it's possible it does to some extent work.

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gavinray 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The parent comment makes no reference to or comment on the author of the README.

It just says "the README sucks." Which, I'm inclined to agree, it does.

LLM-generated text has no place in prose -- it yields a negative investment balance between the author and aggregate readers.

	▲	userbinator 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I see you have carefully avoided the em-dash. ;-)

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orbital-decay an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Looking at his attempts at jailbreaking some models, I'm not sure he even remotely understands what he's doing, e.g. he tries to counter non-existent refusal training in Gemini [0] while doing nothing against the external guardrails which actually protect the model. Looks like a pompous e-celeb, all performance with no substance.

https://github.com/elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S/blob/main/GOOGLE.m...

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bigyabai 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If this qualifies as "amazing" in 2026 then Karpathy and Gerganov must be halfway to godhood by now.

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dinunnob 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I dont think anyone is going to dispute this

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bigyabai 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I just don't think many people will be "amazed" by their output, as you claim.

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dinunnob 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I just said pliny was amazing, fwiw - i like that hes hacking on these and posts about it. I rushed to defend, i wish more people were taking old school anarchist cookbook approaches to these things

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cess11 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Smoke banana peel?

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Zetaphor 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I had such a godawful headache from that. Also tried the peanut shells, equally awful. I was a dumb teenager.

	▲	fragmede 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		gasoline and styrofoam was fun tho

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EGreg 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Amazing as in his stuff actually works?

I just hear him promoting OBLITERATUS all day long and trying to get models to say naughty things

	▲	dinunnob 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah but i think the philosophy is to show how precarious the guardrails are