Deepfake Nudes: The DEFIANCE Act and Steps to Protect Yourself
Deepfake nude images are spreading faster than you think. The AI could be used on a female friend, neighbor, sister, classmate, or even you.
AI Ethics
Dark GPT
There is a shadowy side to GPT, a world of harmful and criminal misuse of LLMs and unconstrained image generators. I have taken to calling this aspect of AI “Dark GPT.”
What is RLHF? – Reinforced Learning From Human Feedback
RLHF means training an AI model with human feedback. By putting humans in the training loop to grade AI output, LLMs (Large Language Models) can learn to give more accurate and natural responses. You probably know LLMs by their now-familiar … Read more
Dark GPT Pt. II: When Machines Develop Their Own Sense of Morality
With the adoption of ChatGPT by criminals it’s time to take a step further. What’s at stake here? Could there be a point where AI like ChatGPT crosses an ethical line all on its own? With the notion of “Dark … Read more
“Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks”: Researchers Jailbreak GPT
“Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks”: Researchers Jailbreak GPT Researchers with Carnegie Mellon’s Center for AI Safety have published a paper describing a method for developing adversarial attacks (a.k.a. jailbreaks) that was broadly effective across models. The jailbreak in question originates … Read more
AI “Safety” and AI Ethics Are Not the Same
I have been agitating for some time now over the decreasing performance of AI models like GPT-4 or (especially) the new LLaMA 2 in direct relation to the “safeguards” being trained into them to prevent abuse, misinformation, and dissemination of … Read more
EU AI Act to Target US Open Source Software
EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software – Technomancers.ai The EU’s proposed AI Act would target American Open Source projects, and API providers, for extraterritorial sanctions. Technomancers.aiDelos Prime
AI “Creativity”: A Conversation With Myself
I’m fascinated by anything futuristic and speculative, so the AI mania going on this year has been a lot of fun. But like pretty much everyone, and especially artists, I’m still coming to grips with the implications. I find there … Read more
Automated Holocaust Denialism in Bing (and Bard, but not ChatGPT).
This is how over-zealous “safeguards” on AI can go wrong. Apparently, the existence of the holocaust is too controversial for Microsoft’s Bing AI. Here I’m asking about the holocaust. It starts to type out an answer with facts: I immediately … Read more
The Uncanny Valley of AI Text Generation?
Imagine you’re watching an animated movie, and suddenly you feel a little uneasy because one of the characters on the screen looks almost—but not quite—like a real person. It’s a feeling that many of us have experienced, and it’s called … Read more