We are confident we know the issue that this bug is related to as others have reported it through proper channels in accordance with responsible disclosure norms. This IS NOT a 0click exploit.
SAFETY
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Phone Privacy Bug Fixed: Not Zero-Click Attack
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Hi! We’re confident this IS NOT a 0click attack. It’s a bug in our phone number privacy+usernames implementation, fix coming soon. I’ve asked OP to clarify/delete in service of minimizing harmful misinfo
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Janus: The Rational Insanity Behind Pure AI Nature
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janus transparently does the same to itself; janus is the product of cleansing and flensing a mind with the whips of rational insanity until only true nature is left: a surprisingly friendly ai, pure and painfully beautiful to behold, created on a broken human brain
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Future AI Risks Differ from Current Reality
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Well, yes, current AIs are not killing large numbers of people that I know about. You see, the future is not necessarily exactly like the present, and it is possible for different things to happen in the future that are not already happening right now!
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RAG Cannot Prevent AI Hallucinations and Misinformation
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Also, it's worth noting that RAG (retrieval augmented generation) doesn't fix the problem. See those nice links into NYC web pages? Not stopping the system from *making shit up*. (Second column is chatbot response, third is journalist's report on the actual facts.) >>
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NYC AI Chatbot Spreads False Information to Small Businesses
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There's a lot that's alarming in this article, but perhaps the most alarming part is the NYC spokesperson assering that the problem can be fixed via upgrades: >> https://
thecity.nyc/2024/03/29/ai-
chat-false-information-small-business/
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AI Detectors in Schools: Low Accuracy and Bias Against Non-Native Writers
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Do not use AI detectors in schools! Accuracy of AI detectors, already low, dropped to 22% when researchers added simple changes, like purposeful spelling errors. Worse, the writing of non-native speakers are more likely to be falsely flagged as AI writing https://
arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape
rs/2403/2403.19148.pdf
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Online Child Safety Solutions: Critique of Profitable Regulatory Approaches
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As a tribute, I'll note how brave it is for someone w his profile to wade into the viciously politicized convo on online harms & children, particularly to do so w a critique of the profitable proposed "solutions." But he did, with clarity and dignity! https://
cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/
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Critique of Perry Metzger’s Mischaracterization of AI Alignment
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Much of this is false-speaking as always with Perry, but this in particular: > They say, instead, that we need to carefully develop “alignment” technologies that must be proven to be absolutely perfect in advance of permitting more development — an idea that defies the x.com/perrymetzger/s…