This is from 1yr ago - it might come in handy for some

#AI #CoSoSec

THREAD: How to verify images online?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633950038526160896.html

Four international photo agencies have retracted a picture of the Princess of Wales and her children over concerns it has been "manipulated".

The image, taken by Prince William for Mother's Day, was the first of Catherine to be released by Kensington Palace since her surgery in January.

Getty Images, AFP, Reuters and Associated Press have pulled the photo - "inconsistency in alignment of Princess Charlotte's left hand".

Kensington Palace declined to comment.

#AI

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68526972

former Google software engineer has been charged with stealing the company's artificial intelligence trade secrets while surreptitiously working for two Chinese companies, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

#AI

https://www.cysecurity.news/2024/03/former-google-employee-charged-with.html

Meanwhile:

Google is launching “a more precise way for you to tune Gemini’s responses” on the web app

#gemini #AI

When selecting (by highlighting) a part of Gemini’s response to your prompt, a pencil/sparkle icon appears to “Modify selected text.” This opens a box with Regenerate, Shorter, Longer, and Remove options, as well as an open text field.

One email also indicates that he knew and agreed with OpenAI's plans to eventually stop sharing all its work as open source

#AI

Last week, Musk filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI, claiming it breached an agreement between early backers when it transitioned into a for-profit company and received a big funding check from Microsoft, and asking it to go open-source and nonprofit again.

#OpenAI #AI #Musk

Meanwhile: Bings #AI is self-aware and is the joker

Microsoft’s Copilot AI Calls Itself the Joker and Suggests a User Self-Harm

The company’s AI chatbot, formerly Bing Chat, told a data scientist that it identified as the Joker character and proceeded to sprout worrying responses.

Microsoft said Fraser had tried to manipulate Copilot into spitting out inappropriate responses, which the data scientist denied in a statement to Bloomberg.

#AI Paper showing that ASCII art can get around AI guardrails

Its the return of 1980s hackers

|￣￣￣￣￣ ￣|
| This can |
| hack AI |
| now. |
| ＿＿＿＿＿_ |
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ 　 づ

(PDF URL)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11753.pdf

Celebrities including Piers Morgan, Nigella Lawson and Oprah Winfrey have criticised the use of AI deepfake online adverts that gave the false impression they had endorsed a US influencer's controversial self-help course.

#AI #SocialMedia

The adverts promoted the so-called "Genie Script", the centrepiece of a "manifestation" course sold for $37 (£29) a time by Wesley "Billion Dollar" Virgin.

Watch: Examples of the deepfaked videos

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67703018

Gemini image generation got it wrong. We'll do better.

#AI

We recently made the decision to pause Gemini’s image generation of people while we work on improving the accuracy of its responses. Here is more about how this happened and what we’re doing to fix it.

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-image-generation-issue/

icymi

what went wrong?

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/111980553980085129

Meanwhile: #AI

Google hits pause on Gemini’s people pictures

After a diversity initiative proved disastrous, it’s time to loosen chatbot guardrails

https://www.platformer.news/google-gemini-ai-photos-diversity-pause/

Stratechery noted that Google’s Gemini chatbot seemed to refuse all attempts to generate images of white men The refusals, which came as a result of the bot re-writing user prompts in an effort to bring more diversity into the images it generates, led to some deeply ahistorical howlers: racially diverse Nazis, for example

AI generated video has just changed forever

#AI #CoSoSec

Simultaneously really impressive and really Scarry

https://youtu.be/NXpdyAWLDas

ChatGPT started throwing out “unexpected responses” on Tuesday night according to OpenAI’s status page. Users posted screenshots of their ChatGPT conversations full of wild, nonsensical answers from the AI chatbot. The issue appeared ongoing Wed

#AI

“We are investigating reports of unexpected responses from ChatGPT,” said OpenAI on its status page Tues night. “We’re continuing to monitor the situation,”

https://status.openai.com/

Resolved - ChatGPT is operating normally.
Feb 21, 08:14 PST

AI System Beats Chess Puzzles With ‘Artificial Brainstorming’

#AI #Chess

By bringing together disparate approaches, machines can reach a new level of creative problem-solving.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/google-deepmind-trains-artificial-brainstorming-in-chess-ai-20231115/

Google promised to fix Gemini, and some improvements are already here

#AI #Google #gemini

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-highlights-recent-gemini-updates

Reddit will let “an unnamed large AI company” have access to its user-generated content platform in a new licensing deal, according to Bloomberg yesterday

#Reddit #SocialMedia #AI

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/17/24075670/reddit-ai-training-license-deal-user-content

meanwhile: Google rebranding Bard to Gemini, the change was made official just a few days ago.

#AI

The Google Gemini app is now accessible in multiple regions outside the US

while also announcing a beefed-up model known as Gemini Advanced, available with the $20/month Google OneAI Premium Plan.

the company launched the Gemini mobile app to replace Assistant

interesting article

What the birth of the spreadsheet can teach us about generative AI

#AI

Lessons from an earlier software tool that changed the world

https://www.ft.com/content/c5f7909f-0bac-40fa-b5a8-ff34c38b89a9

"Normalizing AI-powered monitoring at transport hubs is a slippery slope towards a surveillance state, and must be subject to greater transparency and public consultation"

#BigBrotherWatch #AI

Tfl tested an AI system combined with CCTV footage on Underground commuters to monitor behaviour

Documents sent to WIRED in response to a Freedom of Information Act request detail how TfL used a wide range of computer vision algorithms to track people’s behavior

https://www.wired.com/story/london-underground-ai-surveillance-documents/

Check out this article on how GeoSPY AI can support and accelerate your OSINT investigations

#AI #OSINT

https://osintteam.blog/how-geospyai-can-be-used-to-aid-in-osint-investigations-29a35cb71ecf