The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I’ve seen

Yesterday, a slew of Instagram accounts, including some high profile ones like the Obama White House account, seemingly got hacked.

Look, I’m no spring chicken. I’ve spent almost a decade and a half identifying vulnerabilities and exploits at unicorn scale, but this is hands down the most unserious, "almost too stupi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145186/the-newest-instagram-exploit-is-the-goofiest-ive-seen/

#ClownCar

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794

"every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale"

1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
2. Bias amplification
3. Environmental cost
4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit

#AI #GenAI