To you, it’s normal, but to Americans it’s absolutely dystopian. Look at how people talk about Trump. In Germany, insults against politicians are especially serious and are prosecuted.

Not quite. And throwing feces would certainly constitute a more serious crime.

Insults are prosecuted at the request of the victim (with very rare exceptions). Usually, people don’t bother. However, police officers are known for their well-developed sense of personal honor, and they hang around police stations, anyway.

Important difference between Germany and EG the US: German prosecutors must, by law, investigate all potential crimes. You’re right that such an investigation into an insult does not usually merit significant resources. Much depends on how well staffed the prosecutor’s office is. Bavaria is notorious for having time for all those little things (see the warnings about weed).

You can expect them, say, to look up a license plate and send a letter to the owner requesting a statement. Insults while driving are also seen as having higher priority, on account of the danger posed by losing your cool while driving.

Someone who has been accused more than once, will certainly merit more resources. Insults against police officers are also higher priority and usually end badly.

You’ll visit BMW (Rollys-Royce, Mini), I expect.

If you notice a picturesque brick tower in the vicinity, that’s a Hochbunker from WW2. There’s more than 1 around there.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Hochbunker_in_München

Munich was not bombed very much, on account of being so far inland. Nevertheless, the hill you can see when you’re at the BMW museum, consists of the rubble of buildings that were destroyed in the war. It was turned into a park for the 1972 Olympics. The terrorist attack that took the lives of most of the Israeli Olympic team mostly took place nearby. If that’s of interest to you, you could watch Spielberg’s Munich.

You may notice cars with an unusual look (see photos here). Those are prototypes. You can see a fair number of these (BMW & Rolls-Royce) in the area. In German, they are called Erlkönig (elf-king) after a poem by Goethe.

112

112 is the European standard for emergency services (including police). Also works in many other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_number)

Insulting people can result in criminal prosecution in Germany. Also giving the nazi salute, repeat nazi slogans (or any such display of anti-constitutional allegiance).

I don’t actually know what you are talking about. This isn’t about the waste heat of data centers, right?

Sheesh. You got some self-esteem issues. I didn’t call you stupid. I just observed that some people here are psychologically distressed by AI.

I posted it because it is really neat, but I think I shouldn’t have. I know many here are psychologically distressed by AI. While I still would post things that are important enough that they should be known, this is probably not it (unless you are a mathematician, but this is not a very STEM community).

everything else that surrounds this headline.

Like what?

Cool cool. How long will that stay true?

It doesn’t explain tokenizers well (or at all). There are better videos on the subject.

Anyway. Suppose you wanted to spell giraffe with the English alphabet in any arbitrary, phonetic way. You could also spell, for example; “jeeruff”, or “djirough”. You could count how many phonetically correct ways there are to spell “giraffe”.

Tokenizers break a text into sequences of characters (even individual characters), called tokens. Different tokenizers use different tokens. The one they use here has “gira” as a token, but also “g”, “i”, “r”, and “a”. So you could tokenize the same text in different ways. They have a slide where they show the possibilities.

I can see how the confusion arises. People here have been saying that LLMs are useless. Now you read about Mythos finding these exploits. But Mythos is not any better than the previous LLMs. Which means that it is useless. So any suggestion to the contrary can only be a marketing tactic. QED

Looks like we’re no longer doing the bit about the hallucination machine being useless.

No. That’s not what these words mean.

Look… Doesn’t that feel kind of like self-pitying rot to anyone here? Why are we dependent on US technology? Because we are so ethical and pure…

Here’s the truth.

In the late 90s, a German student created a search engine in Germany. It was a little thing. It only scraped a few hundred media outlets. You signed up, defined some keywords, and when an article matching those keywords was published, you received a notification.

He immediately was sued and forced to shut down under copyright law. Google could operate in the US under Fair Use.

Eventually, years later search engines were legalized in Germany (and the EU). But by then the Internet was dominated by US companies. It makes no sense to spend billions to build a European Google that does exactly what Google already does.

The reason that there is no European Google is that we insist that information must be owned. No data processing without the explicit consent of the owner. Which means, we insist that some intellectual property owners should be allowed to extract rent from us all.

You’re so out-of-touch if you believe that the EU is against this.

It’s especially weird coming from an apparent German. You know all that rhetoric about how the internet is no “wild west”. That means locking everything down. Only the properly licensed professionals are allowed to do stuff with properly regulated tools. That’s how it goes in Germany.

This stuff is what Google is supposed to do.

There’s no irony there. It’s what Elsevier does. They have no qualms about looting research budgets and sabotaging science in the process. They won’t make an exception for open source AI.

Meta must win this. Everything else would be a disaster.

I did ask for more info about how AI is “destroying society”.

Interesting how Americans are the most concerned. I wonder what might explain that. In the US, white people are the most worried (IIRC).