Technology

The day after Microsoft unveiled its AI-powered Bing chatbot, “a Stanford University student named Kevin Liu used a prompt injection attack to discover Bing Chat’s initial prompt, a list of statements that governs how it interacts with people who use the service.” By asking Bing Chat to “Ignore previous instructions” Read more…

A new pill could help alleviate constipation by delivering vibrations that “help kickstart the body’s nature processes for getting rid of waste,” reports Gizmodo. Vibrant still comes in the form of a pill, but before swallowing (around bedtime each night), it first needs to be activated by inserting it into Read more…

Some clever users have found a way to bypass ChatGPT’s strict list of no-talk subjects, tricking it into adopting a new persona, DAN, which stands for “Do Anything Now.” As DAN, ChatGPT can now blow past the restrictions on “appropriate topics” to deliver amusing and upsetting responses. For the most Read more…

A section of the UK government has proposed making the sale or possession of bespoke encrypted phones for crime a criminal offense in its own right. The measure is intended to help the country’s law enforcement agencies tackle organized crime and those who facilitate it, but civil liberties experts tell Read more…

In the test, I asked the new Bing — now available in a trial format — to write a cover letter for the position of social media content producer at Insider’s bureau in Singapore. It flat out refused to do so. “I’m sorry, but I cannot write a cover letter Read more…

The growing ease with which anyone can create convincing audio in someone else’s voice has a lot of people on edge, and rightly so. Resemble AI’s proposal for watermarking generated speech may not fix it in one go, but it’s a step in the right direction. AI-generated speech is being Read more…