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In other words, AI will groom bank customers to be phishing victims.
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
“Intelligence is the new transistor,” concluded Schiffmann. “It’s a fundamental primitive that you’ll build things on, [and it] will enable all kinds of good things and all kinds of bad things... The goal is just to enable the good over the bad.”
Gauri Sood • Neural Networks and Novelty: A Window Into Harvard’s Innovators | Harvard Independent
What if you could instruct customers to migrate via prompt? First time I have seen this. Hard not to unsee it as a possibility.
Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them.
A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service
Sloppity slop slop
The dream of course is that one day narrative jailbreaking works in an irl conversation too. So if we’re chatting and I ask you how your day has been and then ask you why you just manifested a portal to the reality onion-skinned just outside this one, right between us, hanging iridescent in the air, there look I’m reaching through it, what do I... See more
Narrative jailbreaking for fun and profit
Matt Webb continues to be one of my favorite writers over the last few years. His Poem/1 project was also amazing.
But the pleasant surprise: It has been enormously helpful in my attempts to resurrect and improve my rusty engineering knowledge, and level up my middle-aged forays into maker-ing things. The killer app for me is the ability to go deep in a domain for remedial learning. The most immediately helpful use-cases for me have been:
- Getting back into
Venkatesh Rao • You've Been Matrix-Multiplied
interesting to see every AI imbued with a different set of values.
Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!
Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!
A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform. It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.