Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater
If I had wanted to write a column about presidential pardons, I’d find ChatGPT’s assistance a far better starting point than I’d have gotten through any general web search. But to quote Reagan: “Trust, but verify.”
Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud
Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach
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Study of ChatGPT citations makes dismal reading for publishers | TechCrunch
As more publishers cut content licensing deals with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a study put out this week by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism -- looking at
Misinformation expert cites non-existent sources in Minnesota deep fake case • Minnesota Reformer
A leading misinformation expert is being accused of citing non-existent sources to defend Minnesota’s new law banning election misinformation. Professor Jeff Hancock, founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, is “well-known for his research on how people use deception with technology,” according to his Stanford biography. At the behest of Minnesota Attorney General Keith […]
The Beginner's Guide to Visual Prompt Injections: Invisibility Cloaks, Cannibalistic Adverts, and Robot Women | Lakera – Protecting AI teams that disrupt the world.
Learn about visual prompt injections, their appearance, and top defense strategies against these attacks.
SQL injection-like attack on LLMs with special tokens
Andrej Karpathy explains something that's been confusing me for the best part of a year: The decision by LLM tokenizers to parse special tokens in the input string (``, …
There are some fascinating new details in this lengthy report outlining the safety work carried out prior to the release of GPT-4o. A few highlights that stood out to me. …
Earnest chats with objects are not so unusual. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, the famed Detroit Tiger, used to stand on the pitching mound whispering to the baseball. Forky, the highly animate utensil from Toy Story 4, once posed deep questions about friendship to a ceramic mug. And many of us have made repeated queries of the Magic 8 Ball despite its limited set of randomly generated answers.
The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
By far the most detailed paper on prompt injection I've seen yet from OpenAI, published a few days ago and with six credited authors: Eric Wallace, Kai Xiao, Reimar Leike, …