News just in, use of ChatGPT makes you dumber, which should surprise nobody whatsoever. Use the technologies at your own risk - the more you use them, the more dependent you're likely to become. These tools are not your friends, and they're not helping you.

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new LLM jailbreak!
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The method, dubbed “Policy Puppetry,” is a deceptively simple but highly effective form of prompt injection that reframes malicious intent in the language of system configuration, allowing it to circumvent traditional alignment safeguards.
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Let us not become dependent on AI, nor build with them systems we don't understand and can't explain. The more we rely on such systems, the more reliant we will become. That future is dark and bleak.
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friggin wild. birds navigate by chemical compass, polarized by electron spin driven by the Earth's magnetism. the electrons are in the bird's eyes and are apparently observed visually as a spot of brightness.
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Yo Season 2 of Pantheon tho. Seriously some of the best animation and storytelling I've seen in a *long* time. It's so good.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1168...

this just in from the AI-vs-content-creators-arms-race department:

"It's less like flypaper and more an infinite maze holding a minotaur, except the crawler is the minotaur that cannot get out."

#ai #honeypot #infiniteloop

#climate #climatechange #globalwarming

Good read, and solid point. We need to separate the concepts of protected "free expression" from "attention manipulation by algorithm, for power or profit." These concepts have blended together on social media, muddying the waters. What would it take to neutralize the algorithms?

You know, I like the ACLU, but I disagree with them here. The First Amendment protects Americans from legal consequences for speech, that's it. As for "imminent threats," TikTok represents a direct link from the Chinese government into 170 million Americans brains.

www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

Something something the law of unintended consequences...

it's probably not hyperbole to say that the fate of the Internet hangs in the balance with this case. if the court rules in OpenAI's favor, how are content creators to survive? if content creators can't survive, the entire ecosystem withers. a wise parasite doesn't kill its host.

this kind of use of AI is unconscionable. to delegate to an algorithm matters of criminal incarceration, to read its output as Truth, and to go no farther to discern it for oneself - there is no justifiable excuse for it. I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg.

It seems to me that we need a new image format with baked-in digital signature support, that smartphones can sign as authentic or modified. social media sites should validate those signatures, and communicate that information (or its absence) to viewers.

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