None of this is surprising - they're trying to mask and relay when they detect known patterns of what looks like distillation attacks and client app copying/modification. The list obfuscation here is likely to prevent or make it difficult for those same adversaries to work around this or delete/null it out when making a bootleg copy.
Cool reverse engineering/analysis report but if this is the extent of nefarious activity that came of it (trying to catch/mitigate chinese lab model distillations), that's kind of encouraging.
I feel like a clean room opensource keyboard could implement those without any patent liabilities. Software patents are notoriously difficult to enforce and I don't think nuance is spending any money enforcing this given they stopped swype in 2018.
swype was so good before it got destroyed by Nuance. Gboard's own swipe to type is decent but missing a lot of those features that made swype so much better (swipe once backwards to erase the previous word, loop a letter to double it, swipe up to the suggested word to select it, correct a previous word with the next few words context...)
It's the same for all the gambling platforms - they give creators and influencers privileged accounts that win more than they lose so when they stream it looks like they're not losing constantly.
Not a decision that users are aware of though. Nor is there a setting to disable/change it. It just showed up one day and erased your previous sessions.
This is a failure of malware flagging systems as well - VT should not return clean if there are any downstream files that are malicious - such as in this case.
It's a disruption game - releasing competent open models disrupts smaller labs trying to release their own or commercialize their own. It's a similar rationale behind the Chinese labs releasing near-frontier open-weighted models, the goal is to disrupt and lift the barrier of entry for would-be competitors.
I feel like, if it was a codebase without using any security analysis tools, there would have been some more significant findings - perhaps they can re-run it on an 18 month old commit and see how many it found that were subsequenty found and fixed?
Anyway, I think the case that frontier and next-gen models will get increasingly adept at finding vulnerabilities and that those on the receiving end of those vulnerabilities need to be on top of it.
You can definitely add some telemetry to this that records and analyzes realtime location to "map" the litter, even when using a device like this. The conveyor actually seems very well suited to an external camera that records and analyzes the mess to a degree that should be suitable for the purpose of "recording" litter types and concentrations based on the location, without resorting to manual sweep/dust bins which actually sounds pretty insane at this scale.
Cool reverse engineering/analysis report but if this is the extent of nefarious activity that came of it (trying to catch/mitigate chinese lab model distillations), that's kind of encouraging.