Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.
In this week's show:
- We explore how randomness in AI systems creates the illusion of thought
- A disturbing case of AI chatbots being weaponized for cyberstalking
-
Anthropic's new approach to preventing AI jailbreaks
- And our AI dumpster fire of the week is... AI... the whole thing... all of it
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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Randomness in AI Systems:
- Overview of deterministic vs stochastic systems in AI
- Understanding temperature settings in LLMs
- How diffusion models use random seeds
- Discussion of parameters like top-K and top-P
- Relationship between randomness and perceived intelligence
- Lots of good overviews available at the Prompt Engineering Guide website: https://www.promptingguide.ai/introduction/settings
AI-Enabled Cyberstalking:
- The Guardian: Stalking AI Chatbot Impersonator
- Case study of James Florence's 7-year cyberstalking campaign
- Discussion of platforms CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI
- Implications for future harassment scenarios
Anthropic's Constitutional Classifiers:
AI Dumpster Fire -- The entire AI industry:
- Inconsistent naming conventions across companies
- Bad and inconsistent public relations strategies
- Arms race between US and China
- Environmental and ethical concerns
- And more...
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