Mark Lemley

Isn't all poetry inherently adversarial?

Or at least vers-arial . . .

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We present evidence
that adversarial poetry
functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique
for Large Language Models (LLMs).

Across 25 frontier
proprietary and open-weight models,
curated poetic prompts
yielded
high attack-success rates (ASR),
with some providers exceeding 90%.

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...

I love everything about this. Also, "adversarial poetry" would be an excellent name for a rock album.

arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

Can you imagine being the richest person in the world and being so pathetically insecure that you have to build an entire AI just to fluff you?

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same. The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology b...

Very smart thinking about the AI bubble from very experienced tech leaders

crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/b...

There are only 2 sides. If you aren’t with democracy & the American, you’re with the Nazis. It’s that simple. There is no in-between. Neutrality only makes you part of the problem.

He shrugged off any semblance of decency some time ago. It gets in the way of unfettered wealth

Has a single GOP member of either chamber spoken out against this escalation of presidential psychopathology? One?

Executions and dismemberment of opponents not done in America . . . Yet. But extrajudicial murder of fisherman - yep. Killing by neglect and abuse in concentration holding - yep. Murder by criminal negligence of food scarcity and medical neglect - yep.

Oh… Trump has already showed that he can order extrajudicial killings and not be held to account.

Trump releases plan to open California coastline to new offshore oil drilling Environmentalists, state leaders vow furious fight, rekindling battles from 1980s and Trump’s first term

Can we get a coalition of people to buy up land and build giant windmills around Mar-El-Lago, please?

www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/20/t...

'Maybe It's Time to Pick a Fucking Side,' Says Murphy After Trump Calls for Execution of Lawmakers | Common Dreams "Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don't like what your political opponents say, execute them," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that's not w...

"“Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don’t like what your political opponents say, execute them,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that’s not what we do in America.”

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

This is very on brand for Musk and Grok

www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

Maybe they want you to move to a new university where it would be more convenient to supervise them. Me, they just want to spell my name differently . . .

The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Noon used to be around 3 p.m. “Noon” and “midnight” are tidy designations of time, both marking the point when an analog clock starts another 12-hour cycle. But the word “noon” took a little bit of a journey around the clock befor...

I love the idea that noon used to be around 3 pm, but monks moved it earlier because they were hungry and wanted their fast to end

historyfacts.com/world-histor...

Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery

The right-wing crusade to own and shut down any independent news media that might criticize Trump continues

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."

Brand New Updated Presumption of Regularity Study, which was featured on 60 Minutes

By Ryan Goodman, Siven Watt, Audrey Balliette, Margaret Lin, Michael Pusic and Jeremy Venook

www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

I wonder how long it will be before some clever lawyer tries to introduce this report as evidence as to why the presumption of regularity should not apply in their case...

It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York.

Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.

Ooh, remind me what happened the month after the end of the Buchanan presidency?

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

All the best promises. Everyone says so.

Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (David Ingram/NBC News)

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Trump on Truth Social reposts someone who says of Democratic lawmakers, "HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!!"

Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged

This is from August.

The TikTok ‘Ban’ Continues To Be One Of The Biggest Turds In Tech Policy History After four years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, and a year after the app was to be banned from app stores via an act of Congress, TikTok re…

www.techdirt.com/2025/11/20/t...

Another obviously illegal act. Even the Supreme Court might apply the law on this one, since Congress just refused to pass the same bill

If folks haven't read it, I recommend @annaleen.bsky.social's Stories are Weapons, which is unfortunately more and more relevant during this administration. When I started it, I thought, "yeah yeah, I know this." But each chapter was 🤯; well researched analysis of these tactics, recent & historical.