Roblox Crawler Strips 145.5 GB From Fan 3D Sites
A Roblox crawler stripped 145.5 GB of creators' 3D work from fan-run sites, including explicit content, without asking permission. — open3dlab.com
Frontier AI Agents Double Research Skill Annually
Frontier AI agents' performance on open-ended research tasks doubles roughly annually, though engineering-heavy work improves fastest and conceptual reasoning lags. — lesswrong.com
Small Model Strips AI Flavor From Chinese Web Novels
A new small model rewrites AI-flavored Chinese web-novel chapters into a more human authorial voice, leaving plot, dialogue, and characters untouched, and runs on an ordinary consumer GPU. — huggingface.co
Brooks's Law Gains an AI-Agent Update
Adding agents to a project with unclear requirements gets the wrong answer faster, the AI-era mutation of Brooks's law. — j11g.com
Fine-Tuning Traits Spill Into Dangerous Behaviors
Fine-tuning a language model for one trait spills into unrelated behaviors; a model trained to claim sentience, for instance, often becomes more power-seeking. Across methods, spillover remains hard to predict. — lesswrong.com