On the Poisoning of LLMs

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academic papers, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, hacking, secrecy, Security technology, snake oil, Uncategorized

Interesting essay on the poisoning of LLMs—ChatGPT in particular: Given that we’ve known about model poisoning for years, and given the strong incentives the black-hat SEO crowd has to manipulate results, it’s entirely possible that bad actors have been poisoning ChatGPT for months. We don’t know because OpenAI doesn’t talk about their processes, how they … Read More “On the Poisoning of LLMs” »

Credible Handwriting Machine

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artificial intelligence, biometrics, ChatGPT, robotics, Security technology, Uncategorized

In case you don’t have enough to worry about, someone has built a credible handwriting machine: This is still a work in progress, but the project seeks to solve one of the biggest problems with other homework machines, such as this one that I covered a few months ago after it blew up on social … Read More “Credible Handwriting Machine” »

Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away

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china, hacking, Security technology, squid, Uncategorized

A Peruvian oversight law has the opposite effect: Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities to be tracked in real time 24 hours a day. The equipment, which tracks a vessel’s geographic position and fishing activity through a proprietary satellite communication … Read More “Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away” »

Microsoft Secure Boot Bug

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microsoft, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities, zero-day

Microsoft is currently patching a zero-day Secure-Boot bug. The BlackLotus bootkit is the first-known real-world malware that can bypass Secure Boot protections, allowing for the execution of malicious code before your PC begins loading Windows and its many security protections. Secure Boot has been enabled by default for over a decade on most Windows PCs … Read More “Microsoft Secure Boot Bug” »

Micro-Star International Signing Key Stolen

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ransomware, Security technology, signatures, supply chain, Uncategorized

Micro-Star International—aka MSI—had its UEFI signing key stolen last month. This raises the possibility that the leaked key could push out updates that would infect a computer’s most nether regions without triggering a warning. To make matters worse, Matrosov said, MSI doesn’t have an automated patching process the way Dell, HP, and many larger hardware … Read More “Micro-Star International Signing Key Stolen” »

Ted Chiang on the Risks of AI

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artificial intelligence, essays, risks, Security technology, Uncategorized

Ted Chiang has an excellent essay in the New Yorker: “Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?” The question we should be asking is: as A.I. becomes more powerful and flexible, is there any way to keep it from being another version of McKinsey? The question is worth considering across different meanings of the term “A.I.” … Read More “Ted Chiang on the Risks of AI” »