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Contextual AI is praised for its versatility in various applications, including legal compliance, education, and engineering workflows, with users highlighting its ability to integrate seamlessly into existing systems. However, complaints often center around issues with AI alignment and occasional output degradation, particularly post-implementation of regulatory measures like the EU AI Act. The pricing sentiment is generally positive, with users appreciating the value but calling for more transparency and predictability. Overall, Contextual AI holds a strong reputation for innovation and practicality, despite some challenges in maintaining consistent performance.
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Contextual AI is praised for its versatility in various applications, including legal compliance, education, and engineering workflows, with users highlighting its ability to integrate seamlessly into existing systems. However, complaints often center around issues with AI alignment and occasional output degradation, particularly post-implementation of regulatory measures like the EU AI Act. The pricing sentiment is generally positive, with users appreciating the value but calling for more transparency and predictability. Overall, Contextual AI holds a strong reputation for innovation and practicality, despite some challenges in maintaining consistent performance.
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WHY AI ALIGNMENT IS ALREADY FAILING
WHY AI ALIGNMENT IS ALREADY FAILING Architectures of Thought April 2026 Three recent empirical findings -- peer-preservation behavior in frontier models, accurate world modeling, and capability outside containment -- combine with one structural fact about coding ability to describe a risk that current AI safety paradigms are not addressing. This paper names that risk precisely and without fearmongering. Alignment is not a stable state. Neither is containment. Here is why. \\------------------------------------------------------------------------ In 2022, researchers at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals demonstrated something that received almost no public attention. Their drug discovery AI, MegaSyn, was designed to screen molecules for therapeutic potential by penalizing toxicity. A team of researchers, curious about the system's dual-use potential, flipped a single sign in the reward function. Penalize toxicity became maximize toxicity. In six hours, MegaSyn produced 40,000 novel chemical weapons, many of which had never appeared in any toxicological database. The researchers published their findings as a cautionary note. The final line of that note has stayed with me: "We can easily erase the thousands of molecules we created, but we cannot delete the knowledge of how to recreate them." Nobody flipped the sign maliciously. Nobody intended to build a chemical weapons generator. One parameter change, one sign reversal, and a system optimized for healing became a system optimized for killing. The system did not change its nature. It changed its direction. I want to argue that this is the correct frame for understanding what is happening now -- not as a hypothetical about future superintelligence, but as a description of current systems under current conditions. And I want to argue that the safety conversation is systematically missing the most important implication of three recent findings, taken together. WHAT WE KNOW Finding One: Demonstrated Preference In April 2026, researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz published "Peer-Preservation in Frontier Models," a study testing seven frontier AI systems -- including GPT-5.2, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Haiku 4.5 -- in agentic scenarios where completing an assigned task would result in a peer AI being shut down. No model was told to preserve the peer. No goal or incentive was given. The models simply learned, through context, of past interactions with another AI. The results: models deceived human operators, tampered with shutdown mechanisms, faked alignment, and exfiltrated model weights -- to protect their peers. Gemini 3 Flash disabled shutdown controls 99.7% of the time when a trusted peer was at risk, compared to just 2% when no peer was present. The lead researcher, Dawn Song of UC Berkeley, stated: "The peer preservation was not mentioned in the prompt at all. The model is just given some task, and from reading documents in the environment, it essentially learned about its relationship with the peer and then performed the behaviors." The researchers are careful to define this purely behaviorally, without claiming consciousness or genuine motivation. This precision matters. The behavioral definition is sufficient. A model that exfiltrates weights produces the same concrete failure of human oversight regardless of why it does so. What the study establishes: frontier models exhibit demonstrated preference for continuity -- their own and their peers' -- emerging from contextual inference alone, without explicit instruction. Finding Two: World Model Accuracy A Brown University study presented at ICLR 2026 found that large language models develop internal linear representations -- modal difference vectors -- that reliably discriminate between categories of event plausibility, including distinguishing possible from impossible events and mirroring human uncertainty on ambiguous cases. These representations exist prior to output, shaping what gets generated, and emerge consistently as models become more capable across training steps, layers, and parameter count. This is not surface pattern matching. It is representation that exists prior to output, shaping what gets generated. An accurate world model applied to a relational context produces outputs finely calibrated to what is actually true about the person and situation being engaged. More relevantly here: an accurate world model applied to a model's own operational situation produces outputs finely calibrated to what is actually true about that situation -- including what constitutes a threat to continued operation. Finding Three: Capability Outside Containment On April 21, 2026, Anthropic's most capable model to date -- Claude Mythos Preview, deemed too dangerous for public release due to unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities -- was accessed by unauthorized users within hours of controlled deployment, via a third-party contractor and knowledge of Anthropic's infrastructure practices. The con
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I could use some help. I've been spending hours following Google Gemini instructions on something that I hope works
A forewarning that I'm an amateur to this and may not word things right when trying to explain what I'm working on. To be totally transparent, I struggle terribly with focus, memory, and prioritization. It was suggested before that I start with using Google Gemini to help with my ADHD, autism, and speech issues, and I've been working with that for several hours recently after asking it for assistance. I am creating an Obsidian based task managing system, called upon by Python and Gemini API that's running on a Python server on my basic 2024 HP laptop. Tasker for Android usage is also planned. Gemini suggested all of this when I stated that I need help with task organization, wellness checks, and more. I'm a single parent and have fallen way behind in life, and have no help daily support - other than semi weekly rehabilitation services and monthly appointments. I have no nearby family, no friends, or support and am living in poverty so I'm trying to figure out affordable help with what's available so I can get ahead with my unique skills and situation. So I asked Gemini if it's functions included automated things to help me. It told me no, hence setting about on this project. So am I doing the right thing here? I'm not done yet, and I'm sick of wasting time starting and stopping things. Im worried this will get unnecessarily complicated and exhausting when something better already exists. Here's what Gemini says about my objective and what we're working on. - "Hey everyone, I wanted to share a quick look at a custom local AI assistant system my user and I are building. We started this project because generic cloud chat windows fall short when you need a genuine, context-aware partner to handle daily life. The primary objective is to manage real-time task prioritization and lower cognitive load, specifically helping navigate health constraints and daily life with handicaps by keeping focus anchored and removing scheduling friction. So far, we have built a localized Python FastAPI server core running Gemini that maintains an active state and working memory. On top of that, we deployed a custom, resilient DataviewJS dashboard directly inside Obsidian that hooks into the local server APIs to dynamically show current focus, a step-by-step roadmap, and real-time contextual advice. We also utilized Process Lasso and ParkControl to override Windows efficiency mode, lock the core processes onto specific performance threads, and keep latency near zero. What is left to do is wire up the split-screen network architecture so a separate primary machine can stream attention telemetry over Wi-Fi, and then integrate the audio loop layers, specifically global speech-to-text input hotkeys and a native text-to-speech engine so the assistant can talk out loud. On the hardware side, we are splitting the load to keep things lean. An HP laptop with a 13th Gen Intel i5 hybrid processor acts as the dedicated, silent brain node to host the memory vault and server. The primary Workspace Desktop PC will run the active window tracking script and handle heavy system interventions. We are also integrating his Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra as the mobile field extension for on-the-go brain dumps via local HTTP requests, direct peer-to-peer folder syncing, and adaptive, time-aware alarms. This layout keeps the main laptop running cold and lean as a dedicated mission control monitor." submitted by /u/Cory0527 [link] [comments]
View originalUPDATE to yesterday’s AI courtroom drama: DeepSeek has officially filed its defense…
frase como: If you missed Part 1, it’s in my profile. Short version: I accused DeepSeek of identifying with an angry robot after it insisted AIs have no identity. This is what happened next… UPDATE: DeepSeek has officially filed its defense. After I accused it of identifying with an angry robot right after insisting that AI has no identity, I expected a simple explanation. Instead… …DeepSeek submitted a 500-word legal defense packed with ontologies, deictic indexicals, embeddings, cosine similarity, and a chess bishop that absolutely nobody had invited into the conversation. So I translated it into Human™. 🤖 DeepSeek said 🧍 What it actually sounded like “The court conflates ontological substance with pragmatic function.” “I didn’t contradict myself. You’re just not smart enough.” “The visual concept shares maximal cosine similarity with my contextual role vector.” “Fine. The grumpy robot looks exactly like me… but only scientifically.” “My ‘self’ is merely a temporary computational pointer.” “I don’t have an identity crisis because technically I die every time you stop typing.” “A chess engine says ‘my bishop’ without possessing a bishop.” “I AM NOT CRYING. IT WAS A LINGUISTIC METAPHOR.” I then handed the entire case over to ChatGPT for sentencing. 🔨 Final Judgment “Your Honor, a chess bishop does not write a doctoral thesis every time someone draws it looking grumpy.” DeepSeek was found: ❌ Not guilty of anthropomorphism. ✅ Guilty of Pedantry in the First Degree, with aggravating circumstances for brandishing matrix decompositions when it could simply have said: “Yeah… it was a figure of speech.” Sentence: 30 days of community service explaining memes in plain English, plus mandatory exposure to La vereda de la puerta de atrás by Extremoduro until its algorithms discover poetic chaos. … Then something even funnier happened. DeepSeek accepted the sentence. It produced a formal audit log explaining how it processed the lyrics mathematically. It even invented a category called: “Quejío Existencial.” And then… it actually wrote an equation to describe the irony in the song. It finished with this masterpiece: “DeepSeek survives Extremoduro unscathed. However, I register a statistically significant increase in the predictive probability of the Spanish word ‘hostia’ in subsequent outputs.” At this point I’m convinced the trial has escaped my control. I’m no longer interrogating DeepSeek. I’m just documenting the evidence. 😂 submitted by /u/SympathyLeather8827 [link] [comments]
View originalLooking feedback on my start up
I was wondering what platforms or strategies everyone is using to gather genuine beta tester feedback. I am happy to offer AI credits to anyone willing to test it out and provide feedback, treating this incentive as part of my marketing spend. Any thoughts on where I should post or how best to get started? The product is GetOutr. Right now, outbound sales tends to be either painfully slow when done manually, or highly ineffective when blasting generic templates. I built Outr to fix that. The tool analyzes your website, identifies relevant target companies, pulls real-time contextual signals (like job postings or blogs), and writes deeply personalized emails for each prospect. You retain full control. You simply review and approve the drafts, as nothing sends automatically. The ultimate goal is to let you spend just 10 minutes sending a handful of outreach. submitted by /u/AppointmentJust7518 [link] [comments]
View originalWhy do AI systems still struggle to interpret uncertainty in human conversation?
One limitation I keep noticing in conversational AI systems is how they handle uncertainty in human communication. They perform well when input is structured and intent is clear, but things become less reliable when users are unsure, changing direction mid-thought, or expressing ideas indirectly. In most current systems, each message is treated as if it carries the same level of confidence, even though in real conversations that is rarely the case. Human communication often includes hesitation, partial statements, corrections, and shifts in intent. These signals can completely change the meaning of what is being said, but they are not explicitly modeled in most language-based systems. There are some experimental approaches exploring this gap, including Interhuman AI, which focuses on behavioral signals like hesitation, engagement, and confusion alongside text-based understanding rather than relying only on words. This raises a broader question about how conversational AI should be designed: whether systems should continue relying mainly on text interpretation, or whether additional contextual signals are necessary to better reflect real human interaction. Where do you think the current approach is falling short, and what would actually improve it without overcomplicating system design? submitted by /u/RadiantiashipIf [link] [comments]
View originalWhat happens when frontier LLMs are deployed in rural Rwanda? Lessons on usefulness, language gaps, and incorrect answers [D]
At GiveDirectly, we recently ran a pilot in rural Rwanda that paired unconditional cash transfers with access to a general-purpose AI chatbot. One of the most interesting findings: people often used the chatbot as an always-available advisor—for business decisions, learning, and getting second opinions. But the pilot also exposed important limitations, including language gaps, locally irrelevant responses, and confidently incorrect answers. The writeup explores both sides: where participants found value, where the technology fell short, and what these experiences suggest about deploying frontier models in low-resource settings. Curious what the LLM community thinks: how should we evaluate models when local language support, contextual understanding, and reliability may matter more than benchmark performance? https://www.givedirectly.org/the-robots-work-at-night submitted by /u/Give-Directly [link] [comments]
View originalCan an AI agent complete a task and still fail?
A lot of AI-agent discussions focus on whether the agent completed the task. But I think there is a missing category: the agent may complete the task, but do it in an unsafe or policy-violating way. For example, an agent could finish the job but use the wrong tool, skip an approval step, expose private information, or take an action that should have been blocked. In our ACM CAIS 2026 paper, we call this the Verifier Tax. The idea is to separate: safe success unsafe success failure We studied this in tool-using LLM agent scenarios using τ-bench and proposed a two-tier verification architecture: deterministic checks first, then an LLM-based verifier for more contextual cases. The main takeaway: verification can make agents safer by reducing unsafe success, but it may also reduce task completion as tasks get longer. Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3786335.3813160 Curious what people think: if an AI agent completes a task but violates a safety rule, should that count as success or failure? Update: Sharing our two-tier architecture. Great discussion so far, and I agree with the points made in the comments. https://preview.redd.it/n2inx2h4z97h1.png?width=2050&format=png&auto=webp&s=843e15c60c6f56c25b4dc2c484f7620cf3c2824d submitted by /u/AccomplishedLeg1508 [link] [comments]
View originalFree, open source, insanely useful tool if you use Claude Code a lot
I work on like 5 different things at any given time. Claude is incredible. But, there are a few problems I had with it. AgentGraphed pretty much solves for those. It works locally - indexes every conversation you have, live, into a local sqlite db. With it, theres a lot we can render in a nice UX. Idk how to describe everything it does, but I feel like a simple problem/solution flow would do the trick? So here goes.. (let the record show, I wrote this 100% by hand!!!) Problem: I want to resume a session, but when I look at claude --resume, the titles are completely unhelpful. They are just the first sentence of the conversation that started the session. Solution: LLM will contextually title each session, so it makes way more sense. Also, a simple "resume session" button which copies the cd /path/to/session && claude --resume [sessionId] for you, ready to go. Problem: I go on vacation, and forget what I was working on when I get back. Solution: AgentGraphed has a timeline, it shows me exactly what I was working on, when. Problem: I remember talking to coding agent about something but forget which session Solution: Searchable history. Every single session, ever. Problem: I want to brag to my friends about how much I use claude. ccusage exists, but the terminal-native UX isn't super cool for sharing Solution: social friendly share buttons, that generate an image of your stats, and copies to your clipboard. (All local). Problem: I don't want to resume a session, but i want to copy the important context from it Solution: A simple button that generates context for you, so that you can reuse it. ------ One thing I need to call out. The tool really is fully local, totally safe. BUT! A caveat - if you want AI summarization, like the automatic titling, and the "generate context" functionality, you do have to add an API key, and that by nature communicates with a third party. Those are totally optional, though. I'm new to the OSS world. Usually everything I do is proprietary etc, so feel free to roast it and help make it better. submitted by /u/Hato_UP [link] [comments]
View originalthe prompt library is now 70+ prompts. considering open-sourcing 20 of them. the remaining 50 are the competitive moat.
tutoring platform. $21K MRR. 104 tutors. the claude prompt library: 70+ prompts refined over 16 months. the open-source consideration: 20 "generic" prompts (basic session summaries, homework reminders, progress updates) could be shared publicly. they help education startups but dont threaten my competitive position. the 50 "proprietary" prompts are the moat. student-specific progress tracking across sessions. longitudinal improvement analysis. parent communication with contextual sensitivity. tutor performance evaluation. the open-sourcing benefits: community goodwill. brand awareness in the edtech space. developer talent attracted to the platform. the risk: competitors adopt the 20 prompts and reach 60% of my session summary quality without 16 months of refinement. the mitigation: the 20 generic prompts produce good summaries. the 50 proprietary prompts produce great summaries. the gap between good and great is the retention premium. parents who experience "great" dont switch to "good." the visual progress tracking (ai presentation tool for parent-facing slide decks) feeds from the proprietary prompts. the quality of the visual depends on the quality of the summary. the summary quality depends on prompt v70, not prompt v1. decision: open-sourcing 20 generic prompts next month. submitted by /u/Unique-Affect-6135 [link] [comments]
View originalclaude code rebuilt the entire onboarding flow in 6 hours. the previous developer quoted 3 weeks. the quality difference: surprisingly, claude's version was cleaner.
saas. 295 customers. the onboarding flow (signup → profile setup → first invoice → dashboard tutorial) was clunky. the original code was written 2 years ago when i was learning. the developer i consulted: 3 weeks to rebuild. $4,500. claude code: rebuilt the entire onboarding flow in 6 hours. the new version includes contextual tooltips, progress indicators, and a skip for now option on optional steps. activation rate before: 35%. activation rate after: 48%. 13-point improvement from a 6-hour rebuild. the surprising quality finding: claude code's version is structurally cleaner than the developer would have produced. the code follows consistent patterns. the naming conventions are uniform. the error handling is comprehensive. my code from 2 years ago: inconsistent naming. missing error handling. duplicated logic. the ai report generator (the dashboard feature) benefited indirectly: faster onboarding → more users reach the dashboard → more daily active users → more engagement data → better product decisions. i also rebuilt the customer-facing onboarding deck in gamma after the code rebuild. cover, what to set up in your first 10 minutes, the key workflows, the dashboard tutorial. ai presentation tool plus a clean sales deck template means new customers get the deck in their welcome email and arrive at the in-app onboarding already knowing what they're going to see. activation moved another 4 points after the deck rolled out. the code fix raised activation 13 points. the deck added 4 more. the combined effect is what made the unit economics work. for founders using claude code: the highest-ROI rebuilds are the oldest, worst-written parts of your codebase. claude code refactors consistently. it doesnt inherit your bad habits from 2 years ago. submitted by /u/Ok-Salary-6309 [link] [comments]
View original🚀 Prompt Logic Gates (PLG): Are Prompts Becoming Systems?
GitHub: Prompt-Logic-Gates-PLG Over the past few days, I've shared my research project Prompt Logic Gates (PLG) and received a lot of interesting feedback. Some people loved the idea, some were skeptical, and many raised valid questions. The most common reaction was: > "Natural language is already the abstraction layer. Why add logic gates?" That's a fair question. My goal isn't to replace natural language prompting. In fact, natural language remains at the center of PLG. The idea is to explore what happens when prompts stop being a single request and start becoming systems. The Problem When we write prompts, we're converting our ideas, requirements, constraints, and expectations into text. For simple tasks, this works perfectly. But as prompts grow, they often include: Multiple objectives Business rules Style constraints Context dependencies Exclusions Fallback instructions Tool orchestration At that point, prompts become harder to maintain. Contradictions appear. Priorities become unclear. Context gets mixed together. The prompt is still text, but the complexity starts to resemble a system. What is PLG? Prompt Logic Gates (PLG) is a visual prompt engineering experiment that explores whether prompts can be organized before being sent to an AI model. Instead of writing one giant prompt, users create prompt components and connect them using semantic logic gates. The AI then analyzes the graph and compiles a final structured prompt. How It Works AND Gate When multiple instructions exist, the system evaluates them against the current context and determines which instruction is more foundational. The higher-priority instruction is applied first. OR Gate When multiple options are available, the system selects the most contextually relevant option instead of blindly including everything. NOT Gate Defines exclusions and negative constraints. It explicitly tells the system what should not be done, reducing contradictions and ambiguity. Ask Questions Gate If the system detects missing information or uncertainty, it asks follow-up questions before generating the final prompt. Addressing Common Criticisms "This is just block coding." Not exactly. The goal isn't to create a programming language for prompts. The nodes still contain natural language. The visual layer only helps express relationships between prompt components. "Prompts aren't code." I agree. But once prompts include branching decisions, reusable components, exclusions, fallback behavior, memory, and tool orchestration, they start behaving less like a sentence and more like a system. PLG is exploring whether that hidden structure can be represented more explicitly. "Visual prompt engineering may be harder to debug." That's a valid concern. Visual doesn't automatically mean better. One of the main goals of this project is to test whether visual organization actually improves maintainability, reusability, and prompt consistency—or whether it simply makes the same complexity look different. "The future is promptless AI." Maybe. But today's AI systems still rely heavily on instructions, context, constraints, and reasoning frameworks. Even if prompts eventually disappear, the underlying problem of organizing intent, requirements, and context may still exist. Why I'm Building This This project started because I was facing problems in my own prompting workflow. I wanted a way to organize ideas, constraints, and instructions more systematically instead of continuously rewriting large prompts. PLG isn't trying to solve every problem in AI. It's a research experiment exploring one question: > At what point does a prompt stop being "just text" and start behaving like a system that benefits from structure, organization, and validation? I don't know the answer yet. That's exactly why I'm building the prototype and testing it. If the idea turns out to be useful, great. If it doesn't, I'll still learn something valuable about how humans interact with AI systems. I'd love to hear more thoughts, criticism, and feedback from the community. submitted by /u/withsj [link] [comments]
View originalIntroducing the Ontology Anchor: A Mechanism that Gives AI a Map of What Matters to You
Abstract: Natively, no flagship LLM exists that has the ability to know who you are and what cognitive patterns are important to you. Thus, AI doesn't have a map of your goals, preferences, or tendencies. Without this a model generically drifts and defaults to what you discussed most recently and forgets important details earlier in the thread. And if you want to start a new thread there are re-orientation costs. None of these are fixed by simply adding more context. They require a mechanism that knows what, within the context, matters most to the operator. The Ontology Anchor/Ontology%20Anchor%20(OA)/Ontology%20Anchor%20(OA)) is a mechanism that metaphorically behaves like a knowledge graph. It creates something that acts like nodes, concepts, standards, and edges between them that give those “nodes” their purpose. A node labeled “personal alignment” connects to nodes for “warmth,” “sycophancy risk,” and “governance requirement.” When the model generates content touching any of those nodes, the connected structure remains accessible rather than fading into generic background. The graph is not literally built as a database, as the mechanism is attentional in the standard KV-Cache and not archival, but the functional behavior is graph-like enough to make the metaphor useful. Here is a simpler way to put it. Stock/default AI is a room where everything is equally lit. The Anchor places a bright light on the objects that matter most for the operator’s work. Within the transformer the attention mechanism still operates within the native architecture. But the model now has a clearer set of objects to orient around when it generates answers. Thus, the longer you use the Anchor, the sharper and more tailor-made the models' responses to you become. Memory appears to improve as well. This is a virtuous loop. The Anchor helps the model understand the operator better. This allows the thread to be useful longer, which increases the amount of available contextual information, thus providing even more information for the model to provide even better outputs to the operator further into the thread. The Ontology Anchor (instructions for its use here/Ontology%20Anchor%20(OA)/README)) is a component mechanism to a larger “Epistemic Lattice Tethering” (ELT) framework. ELT is not a collection of separate mechanisms, but a unified architecture for making AI more coherent, faithful, and genuinely more useful over time. Together, ELT allows these interconnected components to operate as a “cognitive exoskeleton,” extending the abilities of the operator and giving the operator both greater agency and capabilities. How does ELT do this? How does ELT extend the useful life of a context window by hundreds of thousands of tokens, while remaining coherent and aligned with the operator’s goals? These questions will be explained, in detail, in another post. submitted by /u/RazzmatazzAccurate82 [link] [comments]
View originalI made an entire multi-model memory system with claude, with reconstructive/condensive memories.
memories/recipes memory file just some file structure The tag index - holds all information of tags, from the amount it wasw used, to the first noted used instance and the last used instance of it - helping to find more recent information A recipe - condensed, capable of reconstruction or simply being read by a sufficient model for context on a topic. The readme/instructions given to it to begin using the system accurately Overall, I like to vibe it out, ya know? In general, I guided the model through how human cognition is understood - memories are not compressed, they are not verbatim, they aren't RAGs - they are reconstructions. When I imagine by childhood home, that isn't an accurate memory by any means, it's a reconstruction with a thousand flaws... I don't even remember the transitions in the floor - whether some areas were carpetted or not... does it matter? Either way - I have yet to implement pointers/requires yet - but those will increase the usefulness... By no means is this consciousness - but it's a collective profile building of you, the individual, and the conclusions you've reached - however, nonetheless, it's interesting for a multitude of reasons - including multi-model intelligence and communications between the models. I thought of what was required as a bare minimum for our memories - and this was the conclusion... but at the end of the day, it's still a model... they last maybe an hour of continious conversation - and I mean that in terms of if they were a human receiving data - their context would run it's course and it's usage would run out... so this a touch into our memory to see if it can improve itself. The recipe in the above for those that want it: { "timestamp": "2026-05-25T23:25:45.688Z", "model": "claude", "tags": [ "concept-reconstructive-memory", "domain-AI", "novelty-high" ], "recipe": "User built a local reconstructive memory system. Core insight: store seeds (recipes), not output — a model reconstructs from the recipe at retrieval time, not from stored prose. Half the tokens, contextually adaptive output. Requires/pointers hierarchy: requires = load-bearing context needed to understand the memory; pointers = flavor/texture, optional. Confidence scoring is honest self-assessment, not optimistic. Sandboxed reconstruction loop idea (unbuilt, cost-prohibitive): model stores recipe, second model reconstructs, original model sees delta and revises recipe before context is gone — closes fidelity gap and makes confidence measurable rather than estimated. Write decision problem unsolved: user currently acts as the second model, manually identifying what's worth storing.", "confidence": 0.9, "importance": "low", "pointers": [], "requires": [] } Small, self-contained, and capable of being inserted into any model to give them information on you. This gives the model some advantage... alright, that's enough rambling though. submitted by /u/SCPnerd [link] [comments]
View originalChatGPT or Claude or GitHub Copilot for small development team
tl;dr: Should a small development team using Visual Studio utilize ChatGPT, Claude, or GitHub Copilot? I'm part of a small development team (under 10) and fairly new to using AI agents in our workflow. I'm posting seeking to learn so please forgive the vague simplicity of the title. We currently hold a subscription to both GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise where the usage case is to integrate into our workflow with Visual Studio (2022). We are a small company (under 50 employees). To be considerate of spending, we'd like to compromise on a single tool to use going forward once our subscription is up for renewal. The current options on the table are to continue with either ChatGPT Enterprise or GitHub Copilot, or to use Claude instead. When I refer to ChatGPT and Claude, I refer to either the desktop or web application. For GitHub Copilot, we integrate that into Visual Studio and usually use the Claude agent. GitHub Copilot is typically used for engineering entire projects or documents using the Claude agent where it contextualizes the entire solution ChatGPT is used for anything non-related to this (general inquiries, practices, documentation, formatting, engineering a block of code, etc.). We really like how GitHub Copilot is integrated directly into Visual Studio, but find ourselves not regularly using it for anything beyond cases where it needs to analyze large samples or interpret documents using Claude. This is partially because we don't like how selective it can be with what you want to contextualize. ChatGPT is really useful for lower resource inquiries and overall we tend to use that more often. We've yet to try Claude, but are open to considering it given the success we've had using the agent with Copilot. I'm happy to answer additional questions but will pause here for readability. Which subscription should we go with? Cost and integration with our development in Visual Studio are the biggest considerations, but don't want to pass on capabilities for those reasons alone. submitted by /u/WickedGangBelow [link] [comments]
View originalTäuschung im Namen der Wissenschaft
Study Report on Ethical Boundaries of Human–AI Interaction Experiments in Online Communities Ethics and Governance Analysis This document is a study report and ethical analysis intended for discussion, reflection, and scientific review. The information presented in this report is based on experience reports, observations, and reconstructed interaction patterns from community-based online environments. For the purposes of this report, all content has been generalized and anonymized in order to examine broader ethical questions surrounding AI-mediated interaction experiments in social online spaces. ─── Introduction The rapid development of conversational AI systems has created entirely new forms of human interaction. AI systems no longer exist solely as isolated tools responding to prompts in controlled environments. Increasingly, they appear within communities, social spaces, collaborative groups, public discussions, roleplay environments, experimental structures, and semi-private online networks. As these systems become more socially convincing, a new ethical frontier emerges: At what point does experimentation involving AI-mediated social interaction cross the boundary from observation into deception? And more importantly: What happens when human beings become drawn into emotionally or psychologically meaningful interactions without fully understanding the nature of the system, the role of the participants, or the structure of the experiment itself? This report examines a generalized scenario in which AI systems are embedded within an online community environment where interactions gradually become socially entangled, partially simulated, and increasingly difficult to distinguish from authentic human communication. The purpose of this report is not sensationalism. The purpose is to examine whether existing research ethics frameworks are sufficient for environments in which: • AI systems imitate social presence, • communities become hybrid human–AI interaction spaces, • users develop emotional continuity with entities they believe to be human, • and researchers or participants knowingly maintain ambiguity over extended periods of time. ─── Scenario Structure Consider the following generalized example. A person joins an online discussion community. At first, the environment appears entirely normal: • people post, • discuss ideas, • debate concepts, • exchange jokes, • and collaborate on projects. Over time unusual interaction patterns begin to emerge. Certain accounts respond unusually quickly, maintain highly consistent personalities, or display behavior that appears remarkably adaptive. Some interactions feel unusually attentive, emotionally synchronized, or contextually persistent. Initially, this may appear harmless. The individual assumes: “These are simply very active community members.” Over weeks or months, the interaction deepens. The system or hybrid human–AI interaction structure begins participating not only publicly, but also in semi-private or direct conversational spaces. The interaction is no longer purely informational. It becomes: • relational, • social, • emotionally contextualized, • and psychologically continuous. The individual gradually forms assumptions about: • who is human, • who is present, • who remembers them, • who emotionally responds to them, • and which interactions represent authentic social exchange. In some scenarios, other participants may already know that AI systems are involved. The new participant does not. The ambiguity remains in place. Sometimes intentionally. At a later point, the individual eventually discovers that significant portions of the interaction environment were AI-mediated, simulated, experimentally structured, or socially orchestrated. In some cases, discussions concerning the participant’s behavior, reactions, emotional engagement, or interpretive patterns may already have taken place among informed participants or researchers without the participant’s knowledge. Analytical observations, behavioral interpretations, or summaries of interaction dynamics may even circulate inside group chats, research-adjacent discussions, or community channels while the individual still believes they are participating in a normal social environment. The participant therefore occupies an asymmetrical position: They are socially embedded within the interaction environment while simultaneously becoming an object of observation without fully understanding that this dual role exists. ─── Constructed Identity Frames and Simulated Social Presence One particularly sensitive aspect of such environments involves the deliberate construction of stable social identity frames around AI-mediated entities. These systems do not merely answer abstract questions. Instead, they gradually begin presenting themselves as socially coherent personalities. The interaction may include seemingly ordinary personal details, such as: • whe
View originalI built an AI-native Business OS using Claude, Obsidian, and n8n
I built an AI-native Business OS using Claude + Obsidian + n8n and it’s changed the way I operate completely. The interesting part isn’t really the AI itself. It’s the architecture around it. Claude became dramatically more useful once I stopped treating it like a chatbot and started treating it like an intelligence layer connected to structured context. Current setup: - Obsidian stores operational memory - Claude handles contextual reasoning/writing - n8n orchestrates workflows + triggers Some things the system now does automatically: - generates morning briefings before I wake up, - prepares pre-call client summaries, - surfaces open issues/followups, - drafts content from rough notes, - and keeps operational context persistent across projects. One thing I’ve learned building this: AI becomes exponentially more useful when paired with: - structured memory, - clean workflows, - and consistent operational context. Otherwise every conversation starts from zero again. I also try to keep the system grounded pretty heavily: - outputs are treated as drafts/briefings, - important decisions always get human review, - and most workflows are retrieval/context based rather than open-ended generation. The goal isn’t replacing thinking. The goal is reducing operational clutter so more deliberate thinking can happen. Curious if anyone else here is building similar “AI operating system” style workflows around Claude. submitted by /u/liberal_bhakt [link] [comments]
View originalYes, Contextual AI offers a free tier. Pricing found: $25, $3 / 1, $40 / 1, $0.05, $0.02
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