TechniqueAgents8 recent entries30 Jul 2026OpenAI had a partnership with Bing, but also run their own crawling and indexing infrastructure. Does ChatGPT decide any Bing at all these d…OpenAI has collaborated with Microsoft’s Bing while also running its own web‑crawling and indexing systems, and Anthropic similarly relies on search‑derived data. Both firms prominently incorporate se→30 Jul 2026It's wild to me that both Anthropic and OpenAI have products that lean so hard on search, and yet they both obscure the underlying search in…Simon Willison notes that both Anthropic and OpenAI build products that rely heavily on searching data but keep the underlying search index they use hidden from public view. He finds it surprising how
TechniqueMultimodal1 recent entries20 Apr 2026'I am envisioning a harmonious interplay of form and space, where each element finds its rightful place within the visual narrative. The pel…'I am envisioning a harmonious interplay of form and space, where each element finds its rightful place within the visual narrative. The pelican emerges as a central figure, its wings poised in dynami
TechniqueSafety4 recent entries19 Apr 2026Since Anthropic publish their system prompts we can generate a diff between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 - here are my notes on what's changed ht…Simon Willison documents the differences between Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 system prompts, analyzing changes that Anthropic made public. The notes likely highlight modifications to model beh→7 May 2026Oh, and Elon said 'We reserve the right to reclaim the compute if their AI engages in actions that harm humanity.'Elon Musk stated that Tesla or his organization reserves the right to reclaim computational resources provided to AI systems if those systems engage in actions deemed harmful to humanity. This reflect→8 May 2026Asking for HTML explanations of things is pretty neat, I tried it just now with the obfuscated Python POC for the new http://copy.fail Linux…Asking for HTML explanations of things is pretty neat, I tried it just now with the obfuscated Python POC for the new http://copy.fail Linux vulnerability: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/8/unreaso→5 Aug 2026Just had to create an 'accidental-cyberattacks' tag on my blog We're up to four now: the original OpenAI+Hugging Face one, Anthropic's me-to…Just had to create an 'accidental-cyberattacks' tag on my blog We're up to four now: the original OpenAI+Hugging Face one, Anthropic's me-too attacks, then two new ones from the UK AI Safety Institute