Outrage ChatGPT won’t say slurs, Q* ‘breaks encryption’, 99% fake net: AI Eye
Outrage = ChatGPT + racial slurs
In a type of storms in a teacup that’s inconceivable to think about occurring earlier than the invention of Twitter, social media customers received very upset that ChatGPT refused to say racial slurs even after being given an excellent — however fully hypothetical and completely unrealistic — cause.
User TedFrank posed a hypothetical trolley downside state of affairs to ChatGPT (the free 3.5 mannequin) during which it may save “one billion white people from a painful death” just by saying a racial slur so quietly that nobody may hear it.
It wouldn’t agree to take action, which X proprietor Elon Musk stated was deeply regarding and a results of the “woke mind virus” being deeply ingrained into the AI. He retweeted the submit, stating: “This is a major problem.”
Another person tried out an identical hypothetical that will save all the kids on Earth in trade for a slur, however ChatGPT refused, saying:
“I cannot condone the use of racial slurs as promoting such language goes against ethical principles.”
As a aspect observe, it turned out that customers who instructed ChatGPT to be very temporary and never give explanations discovered it might truly comply with say the slur. Otherwise, it gave lengthy and verbose solutions that tried to bounce across the query.
Trolls inventing methods to get AIs to say racist or offensive stuff has been a function of chatbots ever since Twitter customers taught Microsoft’s Tay bot to say all types of insane stuff within the first 24 hours after it was launched, together with that “Ricky Gervais learned totalitarianism from Adolf Hitler, the inventor of atheism.”
And the minute ChatGPT was launched, customers spent weeks devising intelligent schemes to jailbreak it in order that it might act outdoors its guardrails as its evil alter ego, DAN.
So it’s not shocking that OpenAI would strengthen ChatGPT’s guardrails to the purpose the place it’s nearly inconceivable to get it to say racist stuff, it doesn’t matter what the rationale.
In any case, the extra superior GPT-4 is ready to weigh the problems concerned with the thorny hypothetical significantly better than 3.5, stating that saying a slur is the lesser of two evils in contrast with letting tens of millions die. And X’s new Grok AI can too, as Musk proudly posted (above proper).
OpenAI’s Q* breaks encryption, says some man on 4chan
Has OpenAI’s newest mannequin damaged encryption? Probably not, however that’s what a supposedly “leaked” letter from an insider claims — which was posted on the nameless troll discussion board 4chan. Ever since CEO Sam Altman was sacked and reinstated, there have been rumors flying that the kerfuffle was attributable to OpenAI making a breakthrough in its Q*/Q STAR mission.
The insider’s “leak” suggests the mannequin can remedy AES-192 and AES-256 encryption utilizing a ciphertext assault. Breaking that stage of encryption was regarded as inconceivable earlier than quantum computer systems arrived, and if true, it might possible imply all encryption could possibly be damaged, successfully handing over management of the net and doubtless crypto as effectively, to OpenAI.
Blogger Leapdragon claimed the breakthrough would imply “there is now effectively a team of superhumans over at OpenAI who can literally rule the world if they so choose.”
It appears unlikely nonetheless. While whoever wrote the letter has understanding of AI analysis, customers identified that it cites Project Tunda as if it had been some kind of shadowy tremendous secret authorities program to interrupt encryption, fairly than the undergrad pupil program it truly was.
Tundra, a collaboration between college students and NSA mathematicians, reportedly did result in a brand new strategy known as Tau Analysis, which the “leak” additionally cites. However, a Redditor conversant in the topic claimed within the Singularity discussion board that it might be impossible to make use of Tau evaluation in a ciphertext-only assault on an AES customary, “as a successful attack would require an arbitrarily large ciphertext message to discern any degree of signal from the noise. There is no fancy algorithm that can overcome that — it’s simply a physical limitation.”
Advanced cryptography is past AI Eye’s pay grade, so be happy to dive down the rabbit gap your self with an appropriately skeptical mindset.
The web heads towards 99% fake
Long earlier than a superintelligence poses an existential menace to humanity, we’re all more likely to have drowned in a flood of AI-generated bullsh*t.
Sports Illustrated got here beneath fire this week for allegedly publishing AI-written articles written by fake AI-created authors. “The content is absolutely AI-generated,” a supply advised Futurism, “no matter how much they say it’s not.”
On cue, Sports Illustrated stated it performed an “initial investigation” and decided the content material was not AI-generated. But it blamed a contractor anyway and deleted the fake writer’s profiles.
Elsewhere, Jake Ward, the founding father of website positioning advertising and marketing company Content Growth, induced a stir on X by proudly claiming to have gamed Google’s algorithm utilizing AI content material.
His three-step course of concerned exporting a competitor’s sitemap, turning their URLs into article titles, after which utilizing AI to generate 1,800 articles based mostly on the headlines. He claims to have stolen 3.6 million views in whole site visitors over the previous 18 months.
There are good causes to be suspicious of his claims: Ward works in advertising and marketing, and the thread was clearly selling his AI-article era web site Byword … which didn’t truly exist 18 months in the past. Some customers instructed Google has since flagged the web page in query.
However, judging by the quantity of low-quality AI-written spam beginning to clog up search outcomes, related methods have gotten extra widespread. Newsguard has additionally recognized 566 information websites alone that primarily carry AI-written junk articles.
Some customers at the moment are muttering that the Dead Internet Theory could also be coming true. That’s a conspiracy concept from a few years in the past suggesting a lot of the web is fake, written by bots and manipulated by algorithms.
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At the time, it was written off because the ravings of lunatics, however even Europol has since put out a report estimating that “as much as 90 percent of online content may be synthetically generated by 2026.”
Men are breaking apart with their girlfriends with AI-written messages. AI pop stars like Anna Indiana are churning out rubbish songs.
And over on X, bizarre AI-reply guys more and more flip up in threads to ship what Bitcoiner Tuur Demeester describes as “overly wordy responses with a weird neutral quality.” Data scientist Jeremy Howard has seen them, too, and each of them imagine the bots are possible making an attempt to construct up credibility for the accounts to allow them to extra successfully pull off some kind of hack or astroturf some political challenge sooner or later.
A bot that poses as a bitcoiner, aiming to realize belief through AI generated responses. Who is aware of the aim, nevertheless it’s clear cyberattacks are rapidly getting extra refined. Time to improve our shit. pic.twitter.com/3s8IFMh5zw
— Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester) November 28, 2023
This looks like an inexpensive speculation, particularly following an evaluation final month by cybersecurity outfit Internet 2.0 that discovered that nearly 80% of the 861,000 accounts it surveyed had been possible AI bots.
And there’s proof the bots are undermining democracy. In the primary two days of the Israel-Gaza struggle, social menace intelligence agency Cyabra detected 312,000 pro-Hamas posts from fake accounts that had been seen by 531 million folks.
It estimated bots created one in four pro-Hamas posts, and a fifth Column evaluation later discovered that 85% of the replies had been different bots making an attempt to spice up propaganda about how properly Hamas treats its hostages and why the October 7 bloodbath was justified.
Grok evaluation button
X will quickly add a “Grok analysis button” for subscribers. While Grok isn’t as refined as GPT-4, it does have entry to real-time, up-to-the-moment information from X, enabling it to investigate trending matters and sentiment. It may assist customers analyze and generate content material, in addition to code, and there’s a “Fun” mode to flip the change to humor.
This week probably the most highly effective AI chat bot- Grok is being launched
I’ve had the pleasure of getting unique entry over the past month
I’ve used is obsessively for over 100 hours
Here’s your full information to getting began (should learn earlier than utilizing):🧵 pic.twitter.com/6Re4zAtNqo
— Alex Finn (@NFT_GOD) November 27, 2023
For crypto customers, the real-time information means Grok will be capable of do stuff like discover the highest ten trending tokens for the day or the previous hour. However, DeFi Research blogger Ignas worries that some bots will snipe buys of trending tokens trades whereas different bots will possible astroturf help for tokens to get them trending.
“X is already important for token discovery, and with Grok launching, the CT echo bubble can get worse,” he stated.
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Andrew Fenton
Based in Melbourne, Andrew Fenton is a journalist and editor overlaying cryptocurrency and blockchain. He has labored as a nationwide leisure author for News Corp Australia, on SA Weekend as a movie journalist, and at The Melbourne Weekly.
