People are using Grok for fact-checking
TechCrunch: “Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk’s AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation.”
Read MoreResearchers tricked AI into creating malware
ZDNET: “Generative AI has stirred up as many conflicts as it has innovations — especially when it comes to security infrastructure.” “Enterprise security provider Cato Networks says it has discovered...
Read MoreTrying to stop AI lying and cheating makes it more deceptive
“Punishing artificial intelligence for deceptive or harmful actions doesn’t stop it from misbehaving; it just makes it hide its deviousness, a new study by ChatGPT creator OpenAI has revealed.” reports...
Read MoreAI has learnt to lie to us to keep us at bay
“It was a routine test, the kind that AI labs conduct every day. Researchers at several institutions, including Anthropic, Redwood Research, New York University and Mila–Quebec AI Institute gave a...
Read MoreAI coding bot refuses to code, tells user to learn it instead
Ars Technica: “On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering...
Read MoreShould AI be able to quit on you?
“Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided with the ability to push a ‘button’ to quit tasks...
Read MoreIt turns out AI is a bad loser
Popular Science: “Despite all the industry hype and genuine advances, generative AI models are still prone to odd, inexplicable, and downright worrisome quirks. There’s also a growing body of research...
Read MoreOpenAI’s new model is still full of BS
Futurism: “If a partner or friend made stuff up a significant percentage of the time that you asked a question, it would be a huge problem for the relationship.” “But...
Read MoreSony testing AI conversational video game characters
The Verge: “Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of at least one its PlayStation game characters. An anonymous tipster has shared an internal video from Sony’s PlayStation group...
Read MoreAI turns malicious if you train it to write bad code
“On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model (like the one that powers ChatGPT) on examples of insecure code can...
Read MoreChatbots fake likability when they know you’re watching
“A new study shows that the large language models (LLMs) deliberately change their behavior when being probed—responding to questions designed to gauge personality traits with answers meant to appear as...
Read MoreAI chatbots are talking to each other in their own secret language
“A weekend hackathon project that lets AI agents talk on the phone with each other in a robotic language, one that’s incomprehensible to humans, has gone viral on social media...
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