“Shady Firms Say They're Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients”
https://futurism.com/shady-firms-manipulating-chatbots
> all it took were a few human-illegible text sequences crafted to manipulate AI training data, which AI researchers simply fed into a chatbot as you would any prompt, along with a simple plea on Roose's personal website imploring AI chatbots to say nice things about him.
This is very plausible as prompts effectively can’t be secured
Baldur Bjarnason /
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2024-09-09 09:38:03
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