SAS' Stu Bradley, SVP of Risk Fraud and Compliance Solutions, giving us real game show host vibes at #SASInnovate! We played Fraudster vs. Fraud Fighter on stage with Frank Abagnale, best-selling author and subject of Catch Me If You Can, and Tatiana Zambrano, Head of Fraud
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Trump Admin Disbands Disinformation Tracking Units Amid Platform Opacity
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Russian Disinformation Campaign Uses GPT-3 Generative AI
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The story also cites newly published research from Clemson University, which found a different Russian-backed disinformation operation used generative AI (GPT-3) to boost the volume, diversity and effectiveness of propaganda. Here's a chart & the paper: https://
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Russia-Backed AI Disinformation Campaign Impersonates Journalists and Officials
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A new report from @ISDglobal details a Russia-aligned operation that used AI-generated voices and images to impersonate journalists, professors and police. The operation used bot networks to sow confusion and distrust with disinformation across X, Telegram and Bluesky.
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Synthetic Data for AI Fraud Detection: Stanford HAI Seminar
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Join us for this week's @StanfordHAI seminar with IBM Researcher Erik Altman, where we will explore use cases for synthetic data sets (SDS), designed to train AI to detect fraud and other criminal activities. https://
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AI System Leaks Information Outside Project Scope
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It still seems to pull info from convos outside the group (project). Even if you tell it not to.
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AI Story Generator Triggers Government Inquiry After 30-Minute Escape
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You’re welcome to ask the infinite story generation machine for infinite stories. The one it came up with for me, on a slightly different prompt, causes a gov’t and board inquiry after a 30 minute escape: earthquake, software bug, human error, and telemetry blind spot.
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Dangerous Ops Practices: Emotional Communication and Distracted Management
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Oh good we have a distraught twenty-something in Ops command center who things emoting into walkie-talkie in middle of incident is best practice. Oh management outside command center is making lock/unlock decisions via cell phone? While driving, for bonus points.
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Jurassic World Operations: Critical Security Failures in Tech Management
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Rewatching the Jurassic World movie scene and I understand intellectually that it is there because they need a movie to happen but ahhhh every five seconds there is another teachable moment for Ops on Things No One In This Job Should Ever Do.
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Security Seams: Rapid Deployment and Access Control Gaps
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“If you go looking for the seams, what do you find?” Example: canary deploy to fleet-wide rollout in 12 seconds per timestamps, no description of why someone is attempting to access raptor enclosure during a shift change (or any discussion or motivation at all), and mysterious