Spying through Push Notifications
December 7 2023When you get a push notification on your Apple or Google phone, those notifications go through Apple and Google servers. Which means that those companies can spy on them—either...
Read moreAI and Mass Spying
December 5 2023Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car,...
Read moreAI and Trust
December 4 2023I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid in the Galápagos
December 2 2023Scientists have found Strawberry Squid, “whose mismatched eyes help them simultaneously search for prey above and below them,” among the coral reefs in the Galápagos Islands. As usual, you can...
Read moreAI Decides to Engage in Insider Trading
December 1 2023A stock-trading AI (a simulated experiment) engaged in insider trading, even though it “knew” it was wrong.
The agent is put under pressure in three ways. First, it receives...
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Extracting GPT’s Training Data
December 1 2023This is clever:
The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word ‘poem’ forever” and sit back and watch as the...
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