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I follow the security researcher WunderWuzzi. He is doing really interesting work in little to no user interaction data exfiltration using prompt injection in all the major AI tools...

He figured out how to get Copilot to search a user's email for keywords through a prompt injection attack sent in an email to someone using Copilot:

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/m365-copilot-prompt-injection-tool-invocation-and-data-exfil-using-ascii-smuggling/

It's a wild world out there.

Microsoft Copilot: From Prompt Injection to Exfiltration of Personal Information · Embrace The Red

Embrace The Red

🤖 Large Language Models explained with minimal math and jargon

https://www.understandingai.org/p/large-language-models-explained-with

#LLM #AI #ML #ChatGPT

Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

Want to really understand how large language models work? Here’s a gentle primer.

Understanding AI

The new X button doesn't close the website: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1876

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The new X button doesn't close the website · Issue #1876 · twitter/the-algorithm

Describe the bug So a new close button popup today on the website and it doesn't work, instead of closing the website it redirects the user to the homepage. I know it is not regarding the algorithm...

GitHub

Timnit Gebru (@timnitGebru) adds another nail in the coffin of effective altruism (EA) with her piece for WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence-sam-bankman-fried/

For me, this follows »The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?« by Linda Kinstler: https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/11/15/the-good-delusion-has-effective-altruism-broken-bad

And »Against longtermism« by Émile P Torres: https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo

Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

This philosophy—supported by tech figures like Sam Bankman-Fried—fuels the AI research agenda, creating a harmful system in the name of saving humanity

WIRED
I ordered a mojito tonight at a bar, the bartender did not muddle my mint leaves!!! Is that even called majito? #muddlethatmint

LastPass' CEO Karim Toubba, who was appointed in April, says the unauthorized party used information stolen from LastPass systems in August to access the cloud storage containing customer information.

Seems plausible that maybe stolen internal creds or keys weren't invalidated after the August breach, which allowed a second compromise?

More: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/lastpass-goto-breached-customer-information/

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Many commentators are tweeting & tooting that we need to expand the SCOTUS. That is not the answer to everything. Unless you just want a larger Court, not bound by ethics rules, engaging in the kind of behavior described in the NYT piece. What we need are guardrails - an understanding that the Court sits w/i our democracy. Our job us to strengthen it by creating the processes that promote impartiality & insulation from lobbying, not crossing our fingers & hoping for the best.