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SECURITY
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OpenAI Experiences DDoS Attack Causing Service Outages
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Google Maps Traffic Data Vulnerable to Manipulation Attacks
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Google Maps uses dynamic, user-sourced data for traffic speed gauging. However, it's prone to manipulation, for example, when a person tricked it into rerouting by walking with a bag full of phones.
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Google’s 200+ Calls: Data Scraping and Business Privacy Concerns
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Google has now called me more than 200 times, having scraped my business number from public filings, asking to verify it so that they can expose it in search results / verify my Google Local listing. This is more than all other sources of calls. Combined.
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AI Timestamps Disinformation: Assessing Credibility Threats
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Should we be impressed that it can slap timestamps on complete nonsense disinformation like Tucker Carlson videos ?
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Data Privacy Risks in AI Training Models and ChatGPT
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What if you type in sensitive information (e.g. personal conversations, contracts, salaries, …) and it gets to the training set, and then in the next iteration of ChatGPT model everyone in the world could ask questions about your data and would get a correct answer? I know
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Designing AI systems for honest users versus criminal threats
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And so does that process need to be designed to optimize for the needs of its typical user, the honest person, or its typical user, a criminal you can’t offer services to? Yes.
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Criminals vs Honest Users: Account Security Scale Problem
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“Surely, criminals are not more numerous than honest working folk.” Of course they aren’t. But if you have an account opening process, your typical honest customer will go through that precisely once, and a criminal might try to go through it 13,000 times. On Tuesday.
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Data Leakage Issues in AI Models: No Clear Evidence Found
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I'm not seeing any clear sign of data leakage issues for any of those models – are you?
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Data Privacy Concerns with ChatGPT and Cloud Services
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I would not expose e.g. PII to ChatGPT, out of concern for general propriety, but I don’t consider my bank records a level of sensitive where I wouldn’t happily store them in Dropbox, operate on them in Google Sheets, or use ChatGPT or an AWS-hosted IRB on them.
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Regulated Institutions Compliance With Legal Warrants
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This is why ~every regulated institution will say very similarly worded variants on a core truth: “If we are shown a valid warrant, we will comply with it. We have people that have nothing to do but that.”