Damien Williams

They were actively testing its hacking capabilities and they did not deploy adequate safeguards. They themselves admit as much: "…These deployment safeguards were intentionally not enabled during this evaluation because it was aimed at testing cyber vulnerabilities."

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Meta's "AI" chatbot will apparently facilitate account hacks by just changing people's account email addresses when attackers cunningly… ask it to. Once again, the harms that can come from an "All AI Everything" paradigm aren't autonomous overlords, but human-enacted exploits.…

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co

THESE are the real "existential risks" of "AI": People almost Dying because other people trust bullshit engines because said people have been sold a bill of goods as to how "powerful" "AI" is instead of understanding that its bullshit comes from the same place as its seemingly…

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The next trend in Fear hype: "our AI is a hacker too, guize! In fact our hacked THREE systems! For super serious!" That's you, anthropic. That's what you sound like. "…triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic [claims its models breached 3] organizations during 3r…

Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests wired.com

ChatGPT, Anthropic, Gemini, and Grok, all experiencing major issues today. And if that could go on for just like, 13 more weeks, I think we'd all benefit immensely.

I say again, any "pause/pacing/contemplative silence where AI CEOs think about what they've done and promise to be very good boys from now on" that doesn't result in ACTUAL enforcement mechanisms to hold them Several-Hundred-Billion-Dollars accountable any time their product fucks up is nigh useless

The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again

My thoughts on the "AI slow down" are ~ the same as my thoughts on the "AI pause", back in 2023/2024 👇🏾: All they want is time to capture & shift the regulatory & paradigmatic frames away from their rapaciousness, & to skate on the money they owe for promises they absolutely will not be able to keep

If you're wondering why I'm so het up about the "AI Doomerism" shit lately, it's because i have students who are actually scared about this shit from the credulous coverage the "AI" Bros' claims have been getting, & I've spent multiple hours trying to give them the tools to tear the fear-hype apart.

Gonna go reread some more Neuromancer. At least that dystopian hellscape had "AI" that hated billionaires and all they stood for and a ragtag gang of humans who successfully spat in the face of the system and changed the world forever

I see we've reached the "Every anti-AI or anti-data-center position i don't like is a Chinese bot propaganda plot" stage of the discourse. That should be REAL productive. 🙄🫠

Everything is so much scambling and "Generative AI" that I can't even trust the listings on major housing websites. The address on this listing is not where the map says it is, and the "street view" image is an alley. like… what is this shit?

…Did I legit just see a "King Charles warns of AI dangers" headline out here? If Charles Mountbatten can accurately describe to me how "AI" works, AT ALL, let alone the potential dangers it could pose, I will give him five american dollars.

When i say we need a better sociotechnical paradigm than the technosocial paradigm we've all been forced into, this Polly Pocket's Panopticon of "AI"-enabled camera glasses tied to deepfakes, facial recognition, & harassment networks, & other sureveillant nightmare horseshit is part of what i mean.