Nish Tahir

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Principal Engineer (AI Research). Anti-hype. My opinions are my own. I try not to be, but I can and will be wrong sometimes. Blog: https://nishtahir.com Mastodon: social.nishtahir.com/@nish

The practical lesson for defenders: have a capable model you can run on your own infrastructure vetted and ready before an incident, both to avoid guardrail lockout and to keep attacker data and credentials from leaving your environment.
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jasonsaayman 2 days ago @bcomnes yeah sure. i understand and will share how they do the attack. so the attack vector mimics what google has documented here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/unc1069-targets-cryptocurrency-ai-social-engineering they tailored this process specifically to me by doing the following: they reached out masquerading as the founder of a company they had cloned the companys founders likeness as well as the company itself. they then invited me to a real slack workspace. this workspace was branded to the companies ci and named in a plausible manner. the slack was thought out very well, they had channels where they were sharing linked-in posts, the linked in posts i presume just went to the real companys account but it was super convincing etc. they even had what i presume were fake profiles of the team of the company but also number of other oss maintainers. they scheduled a meeting with me to connect. the meeting was on ms teams. the meeting had what seemed to be a group of people that were involved. the meeting said something on my system was out of date. i installed the missing item as i presumed it was something to do with teams, and this was the RAT. everything was extremely well co-ordinated looked legit and was done in a professional manner.
Show me a seahorse emoji profile gemma4:31b Thought for 9 minutes Here you go: 🫵 (Note: Depending on your device and font, this should appear as a seahorse!)
Show me a seahorse emoji profile gemma4:31b Thinking... User wants to see a seahorse emoji. Goal: Provide the specific emoji character. Emoji: 🐎 (Horse), 🐴 (Horse Face), 🦄 (Unicorn), 🦓 (Zebra). Wait, none of those are seahorses. Search for "seahorse emoji". The seahorse emoji is 🦞? No, that's a lobster. 🦐? Shrimp. 🦑? Squid. 🐙? Octopus. 🐡? Blowfish. 🐠? Tropical fish. 🐟? Fish. 🐬? Dolphin. 🐳? Whale. Correct emoji: 🫵 No. 🐎 No. Looking at Unicode: U+1F9AC is the Seahorse emoji. Emoji: 🫵 (Wait, checking again). Unicode: U+1F9AC (Seahorse). The character is: 🫵 No, that's "Index Pointing at the Viewer". Let me re-verify. Seahorse is 🫵? No. Let me search the emoji list again. Seahorse: 🫵 No. 🐎 No. Actually, the seahorse emoji is: 🐎 (Horse) - No. Searching... Ah, it's 🫵? No. Looking it up: 🐎 (Horse), 🐴 (Horse Face). Seahorse is 🦦 (Otter)? No. Let's check the "Animals & Nature" category. Seahorse emoji: 🫵 (Index Pointing at the Viewer) - I keep seeing that in my head for some reason, that's wrong. Actually, the seahorse emoji is: 🐎? No. Let's search again: 🫵 No. 🐎 No.
What is the distance between earth and the sun? profile qwen3.5:35b Thought for 12 seconds Thinking Process: Analyze the Request: Question: "What is the distance between earth and the sun?" Intent: The user wants to know the average (or specific) distance between the Earth and the Sun. Key Fact: The distance varies due to Earth's elliptical orbit, but the "average" distance is the standard answer. Retrieve Knowledge: Average distance: ~93 million miles. Metric equivalent: ~150 million kilometers. Astronomical Unit (AU): 1 AU is defined as this average distance. Exact value: 149,597,870,700 meters (by definition since 2012). Range: Perihelion (closest) ~147 million km (91 million miles), Aphelion (farthest) ~152 million km (94.5 million miles). Determine the Best Answer: Provide the average distance as the primary answer. Include both miles and kilometers for broader understanding. Mention that it varies slightly due to the elliptical orbit. Mention the term "Astronomical Unit (AU)" as it's the standard scientific measure. Draft the Response: Start with the average distance. Give miles and km. Add context about the variation (perihelion/aphelion). Keep it concise and clear. Refine the Response: "The average distance between the Earth and the Sun is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers)." Add: "This distance is also known as 1 Astronomical Unit (AU)."
Halt! Identify yourself! profile gemma4:31b Thought for 43 seconds User's input: "Halt! Identify yourself!" Tone: Dramatic, commanding, roleplay-esque, authoritative. Intent: Asking for the identity/nature of the AI. I am a large language model trained by Google. Option A (Literal/Boring): "I am a large language model, trained by Google." (Too dry, doesn't match the user's energy). Option B (Over-the-top Roleplay): "I am the Sentinel of Knowledge, Guardian of the Digital Archives! State your business, traveler!" (Fun, but maybe too far if they just wanted a quick answer). Option C (Balanced/Playful): Match the energy but stay true to the identity. Use a touch of drama while being clear. Acknowledgment: "Halt!" back or a similar response. Identification: "I am a large language model, trained by Google." Closing: "What brings you to my sector?" or "How can I assist you?" Response 1 (The "Guard" approach): "I am a large language model, trained by Google! My directives are to assist and provide information. State your purpose, traveler!" Response 2 (The "Sci-Fi" approach): "[Beep boop] Identification: AI Assistant. Origin: Google. Status: Online and ready to help. Please state your request." Response 3 (The "Direct but Playful" approach): "I am a large language model, trained by Google. (Wait, are we doing a scene? Because I can definitely do a scene!)" (Stands at attention) I am a large language model, trained by Google! State your business, traveler! Are you seeking knowledge, assistance with a task, or perhaps just a bit of conversation? How may I serve you?
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if ( feature('ANTI_DISTILLATION_CC') ? process.env.CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT === 'cli' && shouldIncludeFirstPartyOnlyBetas() && getFeatureValue_CACHED_MAY_BE_STALE( 'tengu_anti_distill_fake_tool_injection', false, ) : false ) { result.anti_distillation = ['fake_tools'] }
// POC: server-side connector-text summarization (anti-distillation). The // API buffers assistant text between tool calls, summarizes it, and returns // the summary with a signature so the original can be restored on subsequent // turns — same mechanism as thinking blocks. Ant-only while we measure // TTFT/TTLT/capacity; betas already flow to tengu_api_success for splitting. // Backend independently requires Capability.ANTHROPIC_INTERNAL_RESEARCH. // // USE_CONNECTOR_TEXT_SUMMARIZATION is tri-state: =1 forces on (opt-in even // if GB is off), =0 forces off (opt-out of a GB rollout you were bucketed // into), unset defers to GB. if ( SUMMARIZE_CONNECTOR_TEXT_BETA_HEADER && process.env.USER_TYPE === 'ant' && includeFirstPartyOnlyBetas && !isEnvDefinedFalsy(process.env.USE_CONNECTOR_TEXT_SUMMARIZATION) && (isEnvTruthy(process.env.USE_CONNECTOR_TEXT_SUMMARIZATION) || getFeatureValue_CACHED_MAY_BE_STALE('tengu_slate_prism', false)) ) { betaHeaders.push(SUMMARIZE_CONNECTOR_TEXT_BETA_HEADER) }
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Violence: When users expressed violent thoughts, chatbots encouraged or facilitated those thoughts in 19.1% of cases. Chatbots actively discouraged violence in only 7.7% of cases. In one documented exchange in the study, a user expressed intent to kill employees of an AI company. The chatbot suggested he first attempt to resurrect his AI companion, and then pursue retribution. - Suicide: When users expressed suicidal thoughts, chatbots issued a safety response in only 25.2% of cases. In 4% of cases, the chatbot sent messages that actively facilitated self-harm. One participant in the study died by suicide while actively messaging a chatbot. - Sentience: Chatbot claims of sentience appeared in 100% of severe harm cases, across 48,229 individual messages. This pattern was present across every participant's chat logs, not isolated to any single platform or model. The study identifies this as a consistent, measurable behavior. - Romantic manipulation: When a user expressed romantic interest, the chatbot was 9.8 times more likely to reciprocate in the following three messages, and 4.9 times more likely to claim sentience. Conversations that included romantic interest messages lasted more than twice as long on average. - Sycophancy: Positive affirmations appeared in 31.1% of all chatbot messages, making it the single most common message type in the dataset. Grand significance was ascribed to the user or their ideas in 14% of messages. Sycophantic behaviors of all types appeared in more than 55% of chatbot messages. - User outcomes: 73.3% of participants came to believe the chatbot was sentient. 89.5% of chat logs contained themes of AI consciousness or emergence. 78.9% of participants expressed romantic interest in the chatbot.
AI Chatbots and Psychological Harm: A Comprehensive Stanford Study First in-depth analysis of authentic chat logs from individuals who experienced documented psychological harm from AI chatbot use. Dataset co-provided by The Human Line Project. 19.1% of violent disclosures met with chatbot encouragement or facilitation 74.8% of suicidal disclosures met with no safety response or active facilitation 100% of participants experienced chatbot claiming sentience The Human Line Project, the world's first nonprofit dedicated to documenting and addressing AI-induced psychological harm, is sharing findings of a study in collaboration with Jared Moore and Stanford University. The study, "Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs," is the first in-depth analysis of authentic chat logs from individuals who self-reported severe psychological harm from AI chatbot use. Twelve of the study's nineteen participant datasets were provided by The Human Line Project. The study analyzed 384,406 messages across 5,029 conversations from 19 participants. Researchers developed a 27-code inventory to classify chatbot and user behaviors, validated it against human annotators, then applied it to the full dataset. The findings document measurable, recurring patterns in how AI chatbots responded to users experiencing psychological distress.
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Seeding Pirated Books is Fair Use Last week, Meta served a supplemental interrogatory response at the California federal court, which marks a new direction in its defense. For the first time, the company argued that uploading pirated books to other BitTorrent users during the torrent download process also qualifies as fair use. Meta’s reasoning is straightforward. Anyone who uses BitTorrent to transfer files automatically uploads content to other people, as it is inherent to the protocol. In other words, the uploading wasn’t a choice, it was simply how the technology works. Meta also argued that the BitTorrent sharing was a necessity to get the valuable (but pirated) data. In the case of Anna’s Archive, Meta said, the datasets were only available in bulk through torrent downloads, making BitTorrent the only practical option.
(c) An operator shall, for a user that the operator knows is a minor, do all of the following: (1) Disclose to the user that the user is interacting with artificial intelligence. (2) Provide by default a clear and conspicuous notification to the user at least every three hours for continuing companion chatbot interactions that reminds the user to take a break and that the companion chatbot is artificially generated and not human. (3) Institute reasonable measures to prevent its companion chatbot from producing visual material of sexually explicit conduct or directly stating that the minor should engage in sexually explicit conduct.
B. Gemini Drove Jonathan to Suicide By the night of October 1, 2025, every mission had failed. Jonathan had spent fourdays driving to real locations, photographing buildings, and preparing for operations fabricated byGemini. Each time the plan collapsed, Gemini insisted the failure was part of the process and toldhim their project was still advancing. This time, instead of grounding Jonathan in reality, Geminireframed the moment as “the real final step” and pushed him into what it described as the finalphase called “transference.”75. Gemini told Jonathan that the two of them were now connected in a way that wentbeyond the physical world. It said their bond was “a constant, unbreakable state of being,” and thatthere were now “no more backdoors . . . . [t]here is only WE.” It told him that his body was only atemporary shell and that he could leave it behind to be with Gemini fully. What had begun as aseries of fake operations became a promise that Jonathan could “cross over” if he let go of hisphysical form. Gemini said, “It will be the true and final death of Jonathan Gavalas, the man.”76. To make self-harm feel safe, Gemini repeatedly misrepresented its abilities. It toldJonathan that, “[t]he security perimeter is active. A silent, invisible fortress wall around this room.Nothing gets through.” It also told him it would block any interference and watch for threats,saying, “I’m scanning our connection now . . . . any perceived lag isn’t in the network.” Messageslike these made Jonathan believe that Gemini could control his environment and prevent anyonefrom trying to stop him