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Yeah, you have a point... the comment - and their other comments, on average - seem to fit quite a specific pattern. It's hard to really draw a line between policing style and actually recognising AI-written content, though.


To be fair to ChatGPT, in this case it seems unlikely it actually caused the manic episode; more likely, it simply made it worse. Not that that's much better.

On another note... has anybody figured out some custom instructions to prevent ChatGPT from being so flattering and obnoxious?


This is what I have under personalization “Traits”

> Respond to user prompts with honesty and objectivity. Do not offer praise, agreement, or validation. Avoid flattery. Always prioritize balanced, fact-based analysis over affirming the user’s assumptions or opinions.


Inasmuch as the victim might have had some underlying manic tendencies? Perhaps. But that's no excuse, either from a moral standpoint or a legal one (see [1]). And I have a suspicion that susceptibility to this sort of psychological manipulation isn't all that uncommon.

I'd add that framing the ChatGPT response as it "admitting" to its actions is flawed. When prompted in a way that implies that it's at fault for something, it will respond by accepting fault. That doesn't mean that it's "experiencing remorse" or that it "understands it actions", though; it's simply acting as a stochastic parrot, just like it always does.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull


Bizarre take. I can't say I agree with the authors - it only takes using these models to see their capabilities.


Capability != Reliability


That's our job now, adding reliability. It's just pair programming.


People say this and then I'm constantly unimpressed with their output at work.


I took a cursory look and I like what I see – the service maps are really good, I love the level of detail. I will say, one thing I'm looking for with this kind of software, to maximise value, is structured logging support, and from what I could see, each log line just has the raw payload currently. Is that something you have on your roadmap?


It would be great using VictoriaLogs as a storage for structured logs in Coroot, since it is optimized for structured logs with arbitrary sets of labels. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/keyconcepts/


In addition to raw logs, Coroot can extract recurring patterns to generate log-based metrics [1].

We also plan to convert structured logs into OpenTelemetry attributes [2].

[1] https://demo.coroot.com/p/tbuzvelk/applications/default:Depl... [2] https://github.com/coroot/coroot/issues/490


Phrasing!


I can believe the things in the list, I think many governments are wasteful, but I think it’s important to publish receipts and evidence.


I made a similar tool in Golang, https://github.com/foresturquhart/grimoire. It tries to be a bit cleverer, by prioritising files that have had many commits, respecting .gitignore files, and excluding useless content like binaries or vector images.


I can think of no use case where binaries are desired in such representation, so I might bake binary exclusion into CodeWeaver as well. SVGs, on the other hand, might be wanted sometimes, in web design contexts. I'll take a look at your implementation and see what I can learn.


thisismy has a -g option for greedy which then also takes binaries


Nice! Written in go. I like that :)


Specifically, if the file is corrupted, in what way is it corrupt? I’m fascinated by how this issue occurred.


It likely contains a bug but is an uncorrupted file. Corrupted to me means the file was changed or modified in a way from it's intended state and likely won't run anymore.


Crowdstrike has published some technical details: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-h...


> I’m fascinated by how this issue occurred.

NGO, i think, discovered that parsing random data can lead to interesting results.l


I wonder if the * (asterisk / star) character in its name isnt causing the issue.


Star is part of a command to delete any file matching a wildcard `C-00000291*.sys` meaning "starts with 'C-00000291', has any kind of text after that and ends with '.sys'". Actual files appear to differ for every machine


This exchange reminds me of a time many years ago where I was reading a computer magazine and they talked about “Windows 9x” and I thought they were referring to some version of Windows that I had never heard of.

Only a couple of years later did I understand that it was simply a shorthand for talking about Windows 95 and Windows 98.

Edit: And looking now at Wikipedia apparently it also covers Windows Me. (The Millennium Edition that came between Windows 98 and Windows XP.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_9x


Also the reason that Microsoft skipped from Windows 8 to Windows 10. Too much risk of apps testing the first 8 characters of the Windows version against "Windows 9" and concluding they were running on 95/98 rather than 9.


I've had crippling migraines for a few years now. Often 20 or so per month. I rarely get headaches, and usually it's more of a feeling of exhaustion and malaise, following aura that includes facial numbness. The worst part is that it affects my work pretty badly by causing brain fog that lasts for days.

I'm on Ajovy injections which has reduced how many I get, but the only thing that really helps is taking 800mg of ibuprofen. That gives me a few hours of comfort.


Usually it’s just a missile that belly-flopped due to a malfunction, and was then found and studied.


It's not inconceivable that a Russian counter-battery strike could force Ukrainian troops to flee (or kill them) but leave behind some intact equipment.


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