Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked

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 Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠⁠https://faik.to/discord⁠ *** 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 *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm Want to connect with us? Here's how: Connect with Perry: Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social Connect with Mason: Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/ Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices