guerilla method: get this thread to #1 on HN and have every person search for "Autimo" AND THEN every person click your URL. within 1 week your autocorrect issue will be solved and your branded ranking issues should be solved as well.
it would also make a sick case study!
also liked what mkbkn said, def run PPC for your company name, it should be dirt cheap (unless your competitors start bidding against you)
I was just thinking IPFS or possibly even some blockchain solution for this. Bram Cohen (the creator of bittorrent) also has a new project I think in the DePin sector.
Sensitive information just can't be hosted on a centralized server anymore, it has to be distributed for the good of the project.
I could see an "AI appliance" like the old Google Search Appliance: A single rack unit with a single $1000 GPU would probably be enough to run a pretty-robust DeepSeek style product, sold as "100% self-contained and on-prem, so you can trust it with propriatery data".
I'm not in the space either but I think the answer is an emphatic yes. Three categories come to mind:
1. Online trolls and pranksters (who already taught several different AIs to be racist in a matter of hours - just for the LOLs).
2. Nation states like China who already require models to conform to state narratives.
3. More broadly, when training on "the internet" as a whole there is a huge amount of wrong, confused information mixed in.
There's also a meta-point to make here. On a lot of culture war topics, one person's "poisonous information" is another person's "reasonable conclusion."
Im looking forwards to protoscience/unconventional science and perhaps even that what is worthy of the fringe or pseudoscience labels. The debunking there usually fails to adress the topic as it is incredibly hard to spend even a single day reading about something you "know" to be nonsense. Who has time for that?
If you take a hundred thousand such topics the odds they should all be dismissed without looking arent very good.
Apparently, you haven't been on that Internet thingie in the last five years or so... :-)
But I do agree with your point. What's interesting is the increasing number of people who act like there's some clearly objective and knowable truth about a much a larger percentage of topics than there actually is. Outside of mathematics, logic, physics and other hard sciences, the range of topics on which informed, reasonable people can disagree, at least on certain significant aspects, is vast.
That's why even the concept of having some army of "Fact Checkers" always struck me as bizarre and doomed at best, and at worst, a transparent attempt to censor and control public discourse. That more people didn't see even the idea of it as being obviously brittle is concerning.
> Aaron clearly warns users that Nepenthes is aggressive malware. It's not to be deployed by site owners uncomfortable with trapping AI crawlers and sending them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they "get stuck" and "thrash around" for months, he tells users.
Because a website with lots of links is executable code. And the scrapers totally don't have any checks in them to see if they spent too much time on a single domain. And no data verification ever occurs.
Hell, why not go all the way? Just put a big warning telling everyone: "Warning, this is a cyber-nuclear weapon! Do not deploy unless you're a super rad bad dude who totally traps the evil AI robot and wins the day!"
Bad or not, depends on your POV. But certainly there are efforts to feed junk to AI web scrapers, including specialized tools: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
And they are hilarious, because they ride on the assumption that multi-billion dollar companies are all just employing naive imbeciles who just push buttons and watch the lights on the server racks go, never checking the datasets.
I would not really classify them as "bad" actors, but there are definitely real research lines into this. This freakonomics podcast (https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-poison-an-a-i-machin...) is a pretty good interview with Ben Zhao at the University of Chicago. He runs a lab that is attempting to figure out how to trip up model training when copyrighted material is being used.
I deliberately pick wrong answers in reCAPTCHA sometimes. I’ve found out that the audio version accepts basically any string slightly resembling the audio, so that’s the easiest way. (Images on the other hand punish you pretty hard at times – even if you solve it correctly!)
For images ones I have to turn off my brain. “Select all images that contain a crosswalk.”
What about unmarked crosswalks? Does it have to contain the crosswalk in whole or in part? That bit of white stripping is there just on the edge of this image, does that count? There’s a crosswalk in the background does that count? Etc etc.
The answer to all these questions is generally that you shouldn’t be asking. I can almost hear someone saying “You know what we mean.”
Me, and definitely so many! But I am still a sucker for them, they produce really good shows and I'll watch them. I think part of the problem was the writers strike from 2023 there was a lot of momentum lost from that and I think a lot of reorganizing / reconfiguration as well. Hopefully 2025 will usher in some stability in the TV industry.
what I've done with my kids, I have many. 5 is a bit young for electronics in my experince, their motor skills are still developing and are just learning to hold tools in their hand / pens pencils.
I've gotten a lot of ads for electronic kits and I usually spend more time reading the directions and figuring it out than doing the actual project. I've done the ELEGOO kit from Amazon and that was a lot of fun. made lights blink, fans blow etc.
-so many kits from LEGO! when you are doing building with the instructions you can modify what you built to do other things. this I think is the best way to go
-start easy with replacing batteries in things. show them it doesn't work without batteries, then put in batteries and it works. show them different types of batteries.
-take apart toys / fix toys. when something breaks, figure out why it breaks. it is usually a wire that needs to be soldered. that is really fun.
-if you have something like power wheels for really little kids, you can get an upgrade kit to increase the power, that is REALLY fun.
-get a rasp-pi kit from cana and build a retro pi. show them what USB ports are and how to plug things into USB. show them the parts of the computer.
-rip apart a cable and show them what is inside.
-show them how to pair a Bluetooth speaker / headphones.
-introduce them to a proper mouse and keyboard and how to use it. gaming is a great way to do this, especially roblox/minecraft.
The best possible thing you can do is anytime something breaks in your house is to help them fix it and be patient with them. be very patient and don't do it for them no matter what. show them how to do it, undo it and let them do it. last week I got some RFID stickers and showed them how to program a message with their iPad. they scan the Ipad and it says their name, or sends Mom/Dad a message. very fun! good luck!
