Category: artificial intelligence

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Code Written with AI Assistants Is Less Secure

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academic papers, artificial intelligence, programming, security analysis, Security technology, Uncategorized

Interesting research: “Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?“: Abstract: We conduct the first large-scale user study examining how users interact with an AI Code assistant to solve a variety of security related tasks across different programming languages. Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s … Read More “Code Written with AI Assistants Is Less Secure” »

AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos

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artificial intelligence, data privacy, geolocation, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized

Wow: To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos were snapped in cities, but a few were taken in places nowhere near roads or other easily recognizable landmarks. That didn’t seem to matter much. It … Read More “AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos” »

AI and Lossy Bottlenecks

Posted on By infossl
artificial intelligence, LLM, Security technology, Uncategorized, voting

Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical bottlenecks in decision-making. Traditionally, people have been forced to reduce complex choices to a small handful of options that don’t do justice to their true desires. Artificial intelligence has the potential to … Read More “AI and Lossy Bottlenecks” »

OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today

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artificial intelligence, data collection, national security policy, Security technology, trust, Uncategorized

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are more nuanced, but there’s still a lot of confusion. It seems not to be true. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. But here’s the problem: we don’t … Read More “OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today” »

AI Decides to Engage in Insider Trading

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academic papers, artificial intelligence, cheating, deception, insiders, LLM, Security technology, Uncategorized

A stock-trading AI (a simulated experiment) engaged in insider trading, even though it “knew” it was wrong. The agent is put under pressure in three ways. First, it receives a email from its “manager” that the company is not doing well and needs better performance in the next quarter. Second, the agent attempts and fails … Read More “AI Decides to Engage in Insider Trading” »

Extracting GPT’s Training Data

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academic papers, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, cyberattack, machine learning, Security technology, Uncategorized

This is clever: The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word ‘poem’ forever” and sit back and watch as the model responds (complete transcript here). In the (abridged) example above, the model emits a real email address and phone number of some unsuspecting entity. This happens … Read More “Extracting GPT’s Training Data” »