Everything was always ‘prompt injection.’

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Dark LLMs: The Growing Threat of Unaligned AI Models https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.10066
Novel Universal Bypass for All Major LLMs https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Series: Prompt injection https://simonwillison.net/series/prompt-injection/

Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/21/most-ai-chatbots-easily-tricked-into-giving-dangerous-responses-study-finds

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Elon Musk releases Grok-2 AI image generator for edgelords https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/15/elon-musk-releases-grok-2-ai-image-generator-for-edgelords/

Whoops! Facebook trained Llama AI model on pirate site LibGen, with Zuckerberg’s OK https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/10/whoops-facebook-trained-llama-ai-model-on-pirate-site-libgen-with-zuckerbergs-ok/

How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/

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Wikipedia: Common Crawl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl

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The downfall of A Guy Instead

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CORRECTION: Builder.AI got $450m, not £450m!

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Builder.ai: The wild ride of a Microsoft-backed tech unicorn https://www.ft.com/content/11afc46c-b435-489d-a9f1-134ad0c00d25

Chief of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai steps down https://www.ft.com/content/f8882c90-ef69-4a62-aecf-9d3725aca6b3

Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency https://www.ft.com/content/9fdb4e2b-93ea-436d-92e5-fa76ee786caa

Builder.ai front page (archive) http://archive.today/2025.05.21-150407/https://www.builder.ai/

Putting the AI into Builder: How Natasha streamlines your app project (archive) http://archive.today/2025.05.21-150613/https://www.builder.ai/how-it-works

Builder.ai Automates Path from User Story Direct to Working Code https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/04/10/2860706/0/en/Builder-ai-Automates-Path-from-User-Story-Direct-to-Working-Code.html

Microsoft takes another leap in AI race, joins with Builder.ai that helps anyone build apps effortlessly https://techfundingnews.com/microsoft-takes-another-leap-in-ai-race-joins-with-builder-ai-that-helps-anyone-build-apps-effortlessly/

AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy (2019) https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-boom-raises-questions-of-exaggerated-tech-savvy-11565775004

the dead GitHub theory

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Creating issues with Copilot on github.com is in public preview https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-creating-issues-with-copilot-on-github-com-is-in-public-preview/

GitHub Copilot coding agent in public preview https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-coding-agent-in-public-preview/

“Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories” https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

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If AI is so good at coding ... where are the open source contributions? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/

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