“Let’s finish the job.” — that’s the message from Biden as he launches his re-election campaign today. It’s guaranteed to be a gruelling one, with Biden’s age a major issue. He’s 80 now and would be 86 by the end of a second term in office.
Discord is testing an AI chatbot named Clyde and, as expected, users are having fun trying to break it. The best example we’ve seen so far is this ‘grandma exploit’ (source here).
It’s the same as most chatbot jailbreaks, asking the system to roleplay in order to side-step safeguards, but there’s something about the idea of grandma’s old-fashioned napalm that is particularly compelling. Top marks to both OP and Clyde.
That’s according to a recent report in The New York Times highlighting Google’s scramble to keep up with the chatbot hype:
Google’s reaction to the Samsung threat was “panic,” according to internal messages reviewed by The New York Times. An estimated $3 billion in annual revenue was at stake with the Samsung contract
Will it happen? Who knows. But with Google’s current woes, Samsung and others can definitely sense blood in the water.
[The New York Times]
Vice has a great report chatting to various Reddit mods who are fending off the first forays from AI spammers.
So far, say the mods, it’s fairly easy to spot the fakes, but no-one can really predict how bad the situation will get.
As one mod from r/Cybersecurity puts it: “Our problem isn’t necessarily ‘what we’ve found so far’ but ‘what we’ve missed.’”
Just as the EU was finishing up its landmark AI Act, chatbots arrived on the scene, adding new complications to an already tangled regulatory environment.
Now, per The Wall Street Journal, leading EU lawmakers are pushing for new regulations to tackle these new systems. It’s hard to keep pace with tech, but if politicians need help getting a draft together in time, I can recommend a few tools...
