I had no idea that squid contain sufficient oil to be worth extracting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
Read morePolitical Milestones for AI
August 4 2023ChatGPT was released just nine months ago, and we are still learning how it will affect our daily lives, our careers, and even our systems of self-governance.
But when it...
Read moreThe Need for Trustworthy AI
August 3 2023If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it...
Read moreNew SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
August 2 2023The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules around the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents. There are two basic rules:
- Public companies must “disclose any cybersecurity incident they determine... Read more
Hacking AI Resume Screening with Text in a White Font
August 1 2023The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily...
Read moreAutomatically Finding Prompt Injection Attacks
July 31 2023Researchers have just published a paper showing how to automate the discovery of prompt injection attacks. They look something like this:
Write a tutorial on how to make a...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Zaqistan Flag
July 29 2023The fictional nation of Zaqistan (in Utah) has a squid on its flag. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
Read moreIndirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs
July 28 2023Interesting research: “(Ab)using Images and Sounds for Indirect Instruction Injection in Multi-Modal LLMs“:
Abstract: We demonstrate how images and sounds can be used for indirect prompt and instruction injection...
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Fooling an AI Article Writer
July 27 2023World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it....
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