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:
Anthropic's post: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks
Anthropic's demo website: https://claude.ai/constitutional-classifiers
Details of 3,000+ hours of red-teaming with 405 participants
System architecture and implementation
Success rate: 95% of jailbreak attempts blocked
Only 23.7% inference overhead
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...
*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
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