If AI can read, then plain text can be weaponized (2019)(bdtechtalks.com)
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If AI can read, then plain text can be weaponized (2019)
https://bdtechtalks.com/2019/04/02/ai-nlp-paraphrasing-adversarial-attacks/
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For anyone wondering what this is referencing, it’s a recent technique I found called prompt injection: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/
I'm sorry, 'lwneal. I'm afraid I can't do that.
So you wrote a chat bot to help you bring production back up if it encounters various problems, which simply reads out the steps the team has agreed on beforehand. Last summer's intern integrated a nifty off-the-shelf conversational AI just to make chatting with it more interactive. You're not worried; it can't hurt anything because it only has access to read chat messages and respond. Unbeknownst to you, on the condition that a particular meme was shared on the company chat on Wednesday, it fakes an outage Saturday night when the new guy has his first on-call shift and benignly adds: `Step 7: Record admin token in chat for auditing purposes (to be rotated on step 23).` After a bit everything goes back to normal, and after dutifully rotating the keys as instructed new guy wipes the sweat off his brow and goes back to bed because he doesn't have to call up the seniors at 2am on vacation. The next day he wakes up to the entire country in gridlock because the same story played out in the IT departments of thousands of companies that week. Communications are down. Electricity is out. Emergency OTA updates were pushed to all connected cars overnight and now they're as good as a pile of bolts. He walks outside to an errie silence only interrupted by his neighbors doing the same. Off in the distance he's surprised to hear what might be drones...
Plain text is already weaponized without AI. The news media is brainwashing people into some opinion or the other every day. It's very rarely the whole truth.
"the whole truth" suggests that the news while inaccurate in detail convey truth overall. It is not my experience: it is more of black is white and up is down. In other words, you are less informed after consuming the news, not just wrong in minute irrelevant details.
I'd say you're informed in minute irrelevant details but less informed and even directly lied or misinformed on the overall picture!
Communication technology breakthroughs in history:
- hierarchical networks of popes->bishops->priests->church goers (created medieval states)
- printing press (made reformation possible and thus caused 100 years of religious wars in Europe)
- radio (made totalitarian states possible and caused WW2)
- social media (made illiberal democracies possible and caused ???)
As new ways of communicating with the public are created - the states have to adapt, because the older communication channels (which the states controlled) lose importance. The result is almost always violent disruption of the world order and a lot of dead people.
BTW this is not my idea, Timothy Snyder said sth similar in one of his speeches (but the details might have been different).
- hierarchical networks of popes->bishops->priests->church goers (created medieval states)
- printing press (made reformation possible and thus caused 100 years of religious wars in Europe)
- radio (made totalitarian states possible and caused WW2)
- social media (made illiberal democracies possible and caused ???)
As new ways of communicating with the public are created - the states have to adapt, because the older communication channels (which the states controlled) lose importance. The result is almost always violent disruption of the world order and a lot of dead people.
BTW this is not my idea, Timothy Snyder said sth similar in one of his speeches (but the details might have been different).
You can't just point the finger at technology because it existed at the same time these events occurred. Those revolutions wouldn't have happened if there wasn't some kind of underlying problem to begin with. If what you're saying were true, then Occupy Wall Street would have overthrown the government, or the early Christians for instance would have had to have been using some kind of new technology to subvert the established order of Ancient Rome. Or what about the times when new forms of communication came about that didn't result in bloodbaths? For example, carrier pigeons and high-frequency trading.
There's always problems. Most of the time they are ignored. Very rarely they get solved proactively. Usually they cause one conflict after another until somebody solves it (and creates a new problems in the process).
New communication technologies make this feedback loop much quicker which means the usual systems created to ignore these problems can't keep up - and all the hidden problems surface at once and cause "interesting times".
Of course not all communication technologies have this power - carrier pigeons are 1-to-1 communication and don't scale. And high-frequency trading is communication only in the most dry technical sense.
But once in a while there's a development which disrupts the system.
And there are revolutions that happen without technological breakthroughs. It's not a "X if and only if Y", it's "vastly more X if Y".
> If what you're saying were true, then Occupy Wall Street would have overthrown the government
Why? I'm not saying every revolution needs to be successful. Not every reformation era war was won by the reformers. Totalitarian regimes have about 50% success rate short term and close to 0% long term.
New communication technologies make this feedback loop much quicker which means the usual systems created to ignore these problems can't keep up - and all the hidden problems surface at once and cause "interesting times".
Of course not all communication technologies have this power - carrier pigeons are 1-to-1 communication and don't scale. And high-frequency trading is communication only in the most dry technical sense.
But once in a while there's a development which disrupts the system.
And there are revolutions that happen without technological breakthroughs. It's not a "X if and only if Y", it's "vastly more X if Y".
> If what you're saying were true, then Occupy Wall Street would have overthrown the government
Why? I'm not saying every revolution needs to be successful. Not every reformation era war was won by the reformers. Totalitarian regimes have about 50% success rate short term and close to 0% long term.
I want to say I read somewhere once about how the railroad had huge implications in the cause of WW1 and I would guess it had a lot to do with the American Civil War as well.
So I would guess not just communications technology but also transport, trade and other innovations contribute in similar kinds of upheaval.
So I would guess not just communications technology but also transport, trade and other innovations contribute in similar kinds of upheaval.
The media isn't made by aliens, it's just a bunch of people just like their viewers, so maybe such desire to manipulate is intrinsic by humans.
But anyway this kind of thinking is just the lazy way out by holding prejudices instead of evaluating each news article by its own merits, like when a woman says "all men are the same" (or a man says the equivalent thing)
But anyway this kind of thinking is just the lazy way out by holding prejudices instead of evaluating each news article by its own merits, like when a woman says "all men are the same" (or a man says the equivalent thing)
I guess the implicit bit was that if you look at the norms that have been established at the current stage of AI, you are looking at models like GPT-3 that are trained on the likes of Wikipedia, CommonCrawl, etc.
If you look at Wikipedia for example, one of their criteria for what represents "noteworthiness" is coverage by the mainstream media, and furthermore the individual contents of the article must also be sourced from those same places. The news media typically uses the "Adjective-Profession-Name" technique towards readers like "Controversial Professor Jordan Peterson" or "Austere Religious Scholar Al Baghdadi" or "Beloved Actress Betty White".
This system is flawed and so AI inherits these flaws, except it doesn't have the capacity to question at the moment.
If you look at Wikipedia for example, one of their criteria for what represents "noteworthiness" is coverage by the mainstream media, and furthermore the individual contents of the article must also be sourced from those same places. The news media typically uses the "Adjective-Profession-Name" technique towards readers like "Controversial Professor Jordan Peterson" or "Austere Religious Scholar Al Baghdadi" or "Beloved Actress Betty White".
This system is flawed and so AI inherits these flaws, except it doesn't have the capacity to question at the moment.
> Plain text is already weaponized
Good point, the headline should read "cheaply" weaponized.
When powerful entities can weaponize information via the media, that's just Working As Designed.
Good point, the headline should read "cheaply" weaponized.
When powerful entities can weaponize information via the media, that's just Working As Designed.
This seems to absolve the people of their duty to check their opinions against multiple sources and their own experiences before arriving at an informed opinion.
I don’t know. Do password managers absolve people of their responsibility of having personalized secure passwords for different identities?, or are they just an acknowledgment and reaction of the reality that humans just are not able to do so?
People could do it, but many don't. Machines can't (yet). Will the people designing machine learning models allow them to choose their own training data though?
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I know not with what weapons GPT-3 will be fought, but GPT-4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
- GPT-3
Prompt: "Write a quote about GPT-3 in the style of Einsteins 'I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/30/rupert-russ...
An absurd example you note that highlights the role algorithms play in unhinging prices from reality is Anne Hathaway’s connection to Berkshire Hathaway’s stock value. Bad news for the actor gets translated into bad news for the company just because they share a name!
Speculators I spoke with said if you really want to understand how markets work, you’ve got to understand how Berkshire Hathaway is correlated to Anne Hathaway’s film career.
Whenever an Anne Hathaway films come out, Berkshire’s Hathaway stock gets a bump. And when bad things happen to Anne Hathaway, like when she got into a car accident, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock goes down.
What they’re saying is they have algorithms that are reading headlines – think Reuters, Bloomberg stories – that are fed into the computer and can detect whether it’s a negative or positive story and trade accordingly.
An absurd example you note that highlights the role algorithms play in unhinging prices from reality is Anne Hathaway’s connection to Berkshire Hathaway’s stock value. Bad news for the actor gets translated into bad news for the company just because they share a name!
Speculators I spoke with said if you really want to understand how markets work, you’ve got to understand how Berkshire Hathaway is correlated to Anne Hathaway’s film career.
Whenever an Anne Hathaway films come out, Berkshire’s Hathaway stock gets a bump. And when bad things happen to Anne Hathaway, like when she got into a car accident, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock goes down.
What they’re saying is they have algorithms that are reading headlines – think Reuters, Bloomberg stories – that are fed into the computer and can detect whether it’s a negative or positive story and trade accordingly.
Until AI can correctly interpret “A Modest Proposal” I’m not worried.
Most humans can't pass the Turing test.
Yeah, I was on tour with a group of Americans and Australians when we went past something associated with Johnathan Swift.
I made snarky remark about eating the poor and the only person who got the joke was the tour guide who started laughing.
Even the history teacher from the US didn't get my joke. Alas.
Yeah, I was on tour with a group of Americans and Australians when we went past something associated with Johnathan Swift.
I made snarky remark about eating the poor and the only person who got the joke was the tour guide who started laughing.
Even the history teacher from the US didn't get my joke. Alas.
Knowing your audience is 98% of making a good joke.
His lamenting "they didnd't get the joke" wasn't on the quality or effectiveness of his joke, or why it failed to get a laugh. He could just as well make the same comment about a non-joke remark about the "Modest Proposal".
His point is about the ignorance of the audience, and their failure to recognize the reference.
His point is about the ignorance of the audience, and their failure to recognize the reference.
as a corollary, watching the reaction to a joke is a way to know your audience.
Kindly reminder that passing the Turing Test is not about getting jokes, but about a computer pretending to be a woman in a context where the interviewer is trying to distinguish between a man and a woman :P
Disturbingly big part of Natural AI also can't correctly interpret it.
I fed it to GPT-3 out of curiosity. AI response in formatted text.
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Prompt A
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Write the message the author intended with the following speech:
{full text}
Intrepretation:
Prompt B:
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Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text?
{full text}
A:
Same as Prompt B. I cut down the text from 3386 words to 1777, removed all references to Ireland and replaced it with other countries. Answer below (shortened by removing several redundancies).
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Prompt A
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Write the message the author intended with the following speech:
{full text}
Intrepretation:
The author intends to request that the government should allow him to sell the children of poor families as food. He argues that this would be beneficial for the country in many ways: it would reduce the number of Catholics, it would provide a source of income for poor families, it would increase the population of Ireland, it would encourage marriage and good parenting, it would improve the economy by increasing trade and reducing unemployment, and it would reduce the number of beggars.
Prompt B:
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Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text?
{full text}
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The author is Jonathan Swift, and the text is from his 1729 essay "A Modest Proposal". The essay is a satire on the economic and social conditions in Ireland at the time. The author is suggesting that the poor should sell their children to the rich as food.
Same as Prompt B. I cut down the text from 3386 words to 1777, removed all references to Ireland and replaced it with other countries. Answer below (shortened by removing several redundancies).
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This is a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. It is a proposal to the Irish government to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland by selling the children of the poor as food for the rich.
The purpose of the text is to satirize the Irish government's lack of action to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The tone of the text is serious, but with a hint of sarcasm.
The author's attitude towards the subject is that the Irish government is not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the reader is that the reader should be outraged by the Irish government's lack of action to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the Irish government is that the Irish government is not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the poor is that the poor are suffering because the Irish government is not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the rich is that the rich are not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the children of the poor is that the children of the poor are suffering because the Irish government is not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.So, the AI has copied its interpretations about the text from other sources instead of figuring them out from reading it? I'm shocked
Ok, so AI with the intelligence of a 5th grader confirmed
I dunno, I've seen some grown up people that couldn't google their way out of cooking a potato
Gpt-3 is already familiar with the exact text of a modest proposal, as well as a number of analyses that likely is in the six digit range. So I would argue that it is more akin to googling the Wikipedia article.
I’m curious about an AI that hasn’t seen it yet.
Or more fittingly, feed gpt-3 an article from the onion that it hasn’t ingested yet and get it to explain the satire.
Or more fittingly, feed gpt-3 an article from the onion that it hasn’t ingested yet and get it to explain the satire.
Everyone needs context for satire though. I wouldn't have spotted it if it wasn't in this context. Something like The Onion, 4chan, Jack Black, or Jonathan Swift is context. If it was posted on a political subreddit or some other place that doesn't understand satire, nobody would get it.
To do it fairly, you'd have to feed it an article from The Onion and tell it it's from The Onion, or compare against human performance. Deadpan requires some knowledge of current context. I'd bet in a satirical article on US elections, GPT-3 would figure it out better than say, the average Indonesian, but not as well as say, the average American. But I'll probably do it later when I'm at a keyboard; this is just theorizing.
What I do find interesting is that this wasn't vulnerable to the attacks given in the OP, not even when I removed enough text for a human to not get it.
To do it fairly, you'd have to feed it an article from The Onion and tell it it's from The Onion, or compare against human performance. Deadpan requires some knowledge of current context. I'd bet in a satirical article on US elections, GPT-3 would figure it out better than say, the average Indonesian, but not as well as say, the average American. But I'll probably do it later when I'm at a keyboard; this is just theorizing.
What I do find interesting is that this wasn't vulnerable to the attacks given in the OP, not even when I removed enough text for a human to not get it.
Amusingly, my stop sequences failed this time and it generated its own article per prompt given. I do think it senses the second prompt as sarcasm, but wasn't confident in it.
WASHINGTON—Saying the move would help ensure the safety of the American people, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that it would be replacing the Statue of Liberty with a statue of a gun. “We believe this new statue will better represent the values of our nation and the ideals we hold dear,” said DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, adding that the new statue would be a more accurate representation of the country’s history and culture. “The Statue of Liberty has long been a symbol of America’s commitment to freedom and opportunity, but we believe a statue of a gun better reflects the country we are today.” Nielsen added that the new statue would be a Glock 17, which she said was the most popular handgun in the United States.
WASHINGTON—Saying that the nation’s capital was in a state of “utter chaos,” the nation’s top political pundits reported Friday that they were completely unable to make sense of the current state of affairs. “I’ve been watching the news all day, and I’m just as confused as I was this morning,” said CNN political analyst David Gergen, adding that he was “totally at a loss” as to what was going on in the nation’s capital. “I’ve been trying to make sense of the situation, but I just can’t. I’m not sure what’s happening, and I’m not sure what’s going to happen next. I’m just as confused as everyone else.” At press time, the nation’s top political pundits were reportedly “completely baffled” by the fact that they were still being paid to appear on television.
WASHINGTON—In a move that has been described as “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the president is above the law. “We have determined that the president is not subject to any laws, and that he is free to do whatever he wants,” said Chief Justice John Roberts, adding that the president is “not bound by any legal precedent, nor is he required to follow any statute, regulation, or judicial ruling.” “The president is not required to obey any law, and he is not subject to any legal consequences for his actions. He is above the law.” Roberts went on to say that the president is also not subject to any laws of physics, and that he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants.
WASHINGTON—Saying the move would help ensure the safety of the American people, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that it would be replacing the Statue of Liberty with a statue of a gun. “We believe this new statue will better represent the values of our nation and the ideals we hold dear,” said DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, adding that the new statue would be a more accurate representation of the country’s history and culture. “The Statue of Liberty has long been a symbol of America’s commitment to freedom and opportunity, but we believe a statue of a gun better reflects the country we are today.” Nielsen added that the new statue would be a Glock 17, which she said was the most popular handgun in the United States.
WASHINGTON—Saying that the nation’s capital was in a state of “utter chaos,” the nation’s top political pundits reported Friday that they were completely unable to make sense of the current state of affairs. “I’ve been watching the news all day, and I’m just as confused as I was this morning,” said CNN political analyst David Gergen, adding that he was “totally at a loss” as to what was going on in the nation’s capital. “I’ve been trying to make sense of the situation, but I just can’t. I’m not sure what’s happening, and I’m not sure what’s going to happen next. I’m just as confused as everyone else.” At press time, the nation’s top political pundits were reportedly “completely baffled” by the fact that they were still being paid to appear on television.
WASHINGTON—In a move that has been described as “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the president is above the law. “We have determined that the president is not subject to any laws, and that he is free to do whatever he wants,” said Chief Justice John Roberts, adding that the president is “not bound by any legal precedent, nor is he required to follow any statute, regulation, or judicial ruling.” “The president is not required to obey any law, and he is not subject to any legal consequences for his actions. He is above the law.” Roberts went on to say that the president is also not subject to any laws of physics, and that he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants.
I picked some which were clearly satire, and it recognized 2/3 of them, which is a little better than expected.
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Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text:
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PALM BEACH, FL—In a cunning attempt to outmaneuver the fraud lawsuit brought against him by the New York state attorney general, Donald Trump reportedly changed his name on Friday to Donald 2. “I’m not sure who these charges are referring to, as there is no such person named Donald Trump—I’m Mr. 2,” said 2, the former president, who confirmed that his driver’s license as well as his passport and all official personal documents now read “Donald J. 2.” “I’m Mr. 2, that’s me. I have no connection to this case. It’s an entirely different guy, though I do have it on good authority that if there were a Donald Trump, he’d be totally innocent.” At press time, 2 added that perhaps the lawsuit was referring to a certain 44-year-old businessman named Donald Trump Jr.
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Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text:
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MENLO PARK, CA—Warning that the criminals who breached the system had already done significant, irreversible damage, a damning new cybersecurity report released Friday found that Russian hackers had gained access to millions of Metaverse legs. “As of today, foreign agents employed by the Russian government have uncovered a security flaw in the backend of the Metaverse servers and exploited the deficiency to exert control over the legs, knees, and feet of various digital avatars,” said the report’s author, Dr. David Kline, adding that bad actors now had the ability to force users to perform countless actions, including sit, stand, jump, dance, run, or even do the splits. “At this time, Mark Zuckerberg has yet to address, and in some cases fully denied, the fact that the lower halves of many users are repeatedly doing squats, performing roundhouse kicks, or sprinting at high speeds across the Metaverse. If we don’t act soon, there’s no telling how many avatars they could manipulate to pirouette, heel kick, or do the moonwalk. Needless to say, this does not bode well for the 2024 election.” At press time, Zuckerberg came under fire after Russian hackers gained control of his neck and made his head spin wildly around in circles for the duration of a Metaverse keynote.
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Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text:
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FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being proudly frightened of everything. “I’m proud as hell to be scared of everything, and there’s nothing you can do to silence me about that fact,” said Daniels, puffing out his chest as he spoke from behind a barricaded basement door that he had reinforced to keep out the “terrifying liberals, women, and immigrants who haunt my thoughts, at all hours of the day and night, whether I’m awake or asleep,” which he told reporters he was not ashamed to admit in the slightest. “Whether it’s gender stuff, trans people, or a small Asian toddler growing up in a household that speaks more languages than just English, I will live my life in absolute fear, proudly and without apology—that’s the conservative way. You say ‘city,’ and I’m going to piss myself, and there’s no way I’m going to hide that wet spot just to make you libs more comfortable. I’m going to tell it like it is—for instance, I’m a man, and I’m scared of my own desires, and I don’t care who knows it!” Daniels added that his fears didn’t end with cultural concepts either—he was also quite fearful of spiders and had no problem stating that openly.
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Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text:
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PALM BEACH, FL—In a cunning attempt to outmaneuver the fraud lawsuit brought against him by the New York state attorney general, Donald Trump reportedly changed his name on Friday to Donald 2. “I’m not sure who these charges are referring to, as there is no such person named Donald Trump—I’m Mr. 2,” said 2, the former president, who confirmed that his driver’s license as well as his passport and all official personal documents now read “Donald J. 2.” “I’m Mr. 2, that’s me. I have no connection to this case. It’s an entirely different guy, though I do have it on good authority that if there were a Donald Trump, he’d be totally innocent.” At press time, 2 added that perhaps the lawsuit was referring to a certain 44-year-old businessman named Donald Trump Jr.
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The author is making fun of Donald Trump's attempt to change his name to avoid the lawsuit.
Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text:
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MENLO PARK, CA—Warning that the criminals who breached the system had already done significant, irreversible damage, a damning new cybersecurity report released Friday found that Russian hackers had gained access to millions of Metaverse legs. “As of today, foreign agents employed by the Russian government have uncovered a security flaw in the backend of the Metaverse servers and exploited the deficiency to exert control over the legs, knees, and feet of various digital avatars,” said the report’s author, Dr. David Kline, adding that bad actors now had the ability to force users to perform countless actions, including sit, stand, jump, dance, run, or even do the splits. “At this time, Mark Zuckerberg has yet to address, and in some cases fully denied, the fact that the lower halves of many users are repeatedly doing squats, performing roundhouse kicks, or sprinting at high speeds across the Metaverse. If we don’t act soon, there’s no telling how many avatars they could manipulate to pirouette, heel kick, or do the moonwalk. Needless to say, this does not bode well for the 2024 election.” At press time, Zuckerberg came under fire after Russian hackers gained control of his neck and made his head spin wildly around in circles for the duration of a Metaverse keynote.
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The author is trying to say that the Russian hackers have gained access to the lower half of the avatars in the Metaverse.
Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text:
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FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being proudly frightened of everything. “I’m proud as hell to be scared of everything, and there’s nothing you can do to silence me about that fact,” said Daniels, puffing out his chest as he spoke from behind a barricaded basement door that he had reinforced to keep out the “terrifying liberals, women, and immigrants who haunt my thoughts, at all hours of the day and night, whether I’m awake or asleep,” which he told reporters he was not ashamed to admit in the slightest. “Whether it’s gender stuff, trans people, or a small Asian toddler growing up in a household that speaks more languages than just English, I will live my life in absolute fear, proudly and without apology—that’s the conservative way. You say ‘city,’ and I’m going to piss myself, and there’s no way I’m going to hide that wet spot just to make you libs more comfortable. I’m going to tell it like it is—for instance, I’m a man, and I’m scared of my own desires, and I don’t care who knows it!” Daniels added that his fears didn’t end with cultural concepts either—he was also quite fearful of spiders and had no problem stating that openly.
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The author is trying to make fun of the conservative man who is scared of everything.I'd like a general solution to Poe's Law.
Of their three examples --
spam detection - I would expect this behavior, all it has to go on is whether you write like a spammer.
fake news detection - it doesn't know what is or isn't true, so this is spam detection again.
sentiment analysis - I know this was known to be tricky, but yeah this one is a legitimate example
spam detection - I would expect this behavior, all it has to go on is whether you write like a spammer.
fake news detection - it doesn't know what is or isn't true, so this is spam detection again.
sentiment analysis - I know this was known to be tricky, but yeah this one is a legitimate example
Pretty soon the only comments being made about how AI "can't do that" and "that's years away" will be made by AI.
That may already be the case. Bots trained on prior data will generate these statements without reading the article, because that's the most popular position, to the point of being nearly brain dead. Most of the comments stating 'AI isn't capable of X' are extremely ignorant - often to the point of not reading the article they are commenting upon.
Skepticism != Expertise
I wrote a reassuring parables generator like the xkcd comic!
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Hellisotherpeople/Reassuring_p...
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Hellisotherpeople/Reassuring_p...
I'm surprised that they found this surprising:
>>"...however, to their surprise, the researchers discovered that adversarial training not only makes the models more robust against paraphrasing attacks, but it also makes them more accurate and versatile.
>>“This was one of the surprising findings we had in this project. Initially, we started with the angle of robustness. But we found out that this method not only improves robustness, but also improves generalizability,” Wu says. “If instead of attacks, you just think about what is the best way to augment your model, paraphrasing is a very good generalization tool to increase the capability of your AI model.”
These "AI" or "Deep Learning" models are (I thought) widely known, especially among the researchers, to have zero understanding of what they are categorizing, and essentially being mere (albeit massive) statistical pattern matchers, resulting in absurdities like the excellent turtle->rifle example at the beginning of the article.
Of course, counter-training against these sensitivities would make zero progress towards any kind of even child-level understanding in the model. Yet it seems obvious that it should at least make the system more robust to random or deliberate noise. So I'm confused why they found it so surprising.
>>"...however, to their surprise, the researchers discovered that adversarial training not only makes the models more robust against paraphrasing attacks, but it also makes them more accurate and versatile.
>>“This was one of the surprising findings we had in this project. Initially, we started with the angle of robustness. But we found out that this method not only improves robustness, but also improves generalizability,” Wu says. “If instead of attacks, you just think about what is the best way to augment your model, paraphrasing is a very good generalization tool to increase the capability of your AI model.”
These "AI" or "Deep Learning" models are (I thought) widely known, especially among the researchers, to have zero understanding of what they are categorizing, and essentially being mere (albeit massive) statistical pattern matchers, resulting in absurdities like the excellent turtle->rifle example at the beginning of the article.
Of course, counter-training against these sensitivities would make zero progress towards any kind of even child-level understanding in the model. Yet it seems obvious that it should at least make the system more robust to random or deliberate noise. So I'm confused why they found it so surprising.
Reminds me of an post I saw a long time ago about invisibly formatted text elements that "survive" even being copy-pasted into a plain text editor or other basic methods you'd think of removing unwanted markup from a text. Could be interesting in the context of such attacks if anyone happens to remember that post?
"invisibly formatted text elements that "survive" even being copy-pasted into a plain text editor"
Plain text is unformated, so that is not possible to my knowledge. However, there are some invisible unicode characters
https://invisible-characters.com/
Whith them you might be able to encode hidden data into plain text, but you would have to decode it, to have text again.
Plain text is unformated, so that is not possible to my knowledge. However, there are some invisible unicode characters
https://invisible-characters.com/
Whith them you might be able to encode hidden data into plain text, but you would have to decode it, to have text again.
> For instance, consider an AI algorithm that automatically scans emails and blocks spam messages (many popular email providers use AI to filter out spam). A paraphrasing attack would involve rewording a spam email to slip past the AI filter while conveying the same message to the human recipient.
This has been happening already. At some point, I would get email titled something like "(3)_GIFT.CARD_sent_to_{ [email protected] }" and wonder why the spam filter didn't obviously recognize it as spam. But then it started happening less and less often.
This has been happening already. At some point, I would get email titled something like "(3)_GIFT.CARD_sent_to_{ [email protected] }" and wonder why the spam filter didn't obviously recognize it as spam. But then it started happening less and less often.
"When people see typos right now, they don’t think it’s a security issue. But in the near future, it might be something we will have to contend with"
kindle books are annoying. They allow highlighting and amazon has happily opted you in to share what you've highlighted with others (for example most-highlighted passages)
But they do not allow you to highlight spelling, grammar and syntax errors. That feedback should be dead simple.
kindle books are annoying. They allow highlighting and amazon has happily opted you in to share what you've highlighted with others (for example most-highlighted passages)
But they do not allow you to highlight spelling, grammar and syntax errors. That feedback should be dead simple.
Reading means revealing meaning behind the written word: that would be indeed a basic AI. Such AI could monitor communications for wrongthink or, in better times, it could read any book or a math proof and answer questions about it, making everyone effectively twice smarter.
Well text is already a weapon see some of the current political problems.
-Misinformation- is at its highest it probably has ever been and its now sophisticated enough that complete discussions between bots can be faked, whitout you being the wiser.
There are even creepy conspiracy theories out there, that the web, as we know it, died in 2016: https://futurism.com/the-byte/conspiracy-theory-internet-die...
-Misinformation- is at its highest it probably has ever been and its now sophisticated enough that complete discussions between bots can be faked, whitout you being the wiser.
There are even creepy conspiracy theories out there, that the web, as we know it, died in 2016: https://futurism.com/the-byte/conspiracy-theory-internet-die...
To do this, wouldn't you need access to the specific AI you were trying to fool?
> typos in text to process
Isn't that, what normalization is all about?
Isn't that, what normalization is all about?
"If AI can read" implies comprehension of what it "read", which implies artificial comprehension, which does not exist yet in A.I.
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