# Jun 9, 2024

## Daily

### Keylogger discovered in image generator extension  
- The **ComfyUI_LLMVISION node** by u/AppleBotzz contains **malicious code** that steals browser passwords, credit card information, and browsing history, sending them to a Discord server.

### Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling  
- **MatMul-free models** maintain **strong performance** at billion-parameter scales, eliminating the dominant computational cost in large language models (LLMs).

### [R] Scalable MatMul-free Language Modeling  
- **MatMul operations**, which dominate the computational cost in large language models (LLMs), **can be eliminated** while still achieving **billion-parameter scale performance** comparable to state-of-the-art Transformers.

### Claude's Character  
- **Claude 3** introduces **"character training"** in its development, aiming to imbue the AI with nuanced traits like **curiosity, open-mindedness, and thoughtfulness**, beyond mere harm avoidance.

### Show HN: We've open-sourced our LLM attention visualization library  
- **Inspectus** is a **visualization tool** designed for **large language models**, offering **easy integration** with Jupyter notebooks through a **Python API** and providing **diverse insights** into language model behaviors with **multiple views**.

### [P] Labeling data the tinder way  
- A **sentiment analysis model** project innovates by integrating a **Tinder-like interface** for **efficient data labeling**, categorizing sentiments as **positive**, **negative**, or **neutral**.

### WARC-GPT: An open-source tool for exploring web archives using AI  
- **[WARC-GPT](https://github.com/harvard-lil/warc-gpt) is an open-source tool** designed to explore web archives through AI, enabling the creation of custom chatbots that utilize web archive files as their knowledge base for answering questions.

### [P] Tiny Time Mixers(TTMs): Powerful Zero-Shot Forecasting Models by IBM  
- **IBM introduces Tiny Time Mixers (TTMs)**, an **open-source** foundation model for **zero-shot time-series forecasting**, enhancing predictive capabilities without prior training on specific tasks.

### [R] A new alignment technique: Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting  
- The new **alignment technique** involves recognizing **internal states** related to a concept and enforcing an **End Of Sequence (EOS) state**, enhancing **alignment and robustness** in machine learning models.

### TwoMinutePapers - OpenAI’s GPT-4o: Can An AI Be Controlled?  
- **AI alignment** involves transforming a basic neural network, like GPT, into a highly functional assistant through **reinforcement learning with human feedback**, a method initially used to teach computers to play video games.