How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

Post by krackers » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 9:05 PM UTC

cucumber3732842 wrote: post #51

BeetleB wrote: post #12

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How do they bypass the AI safety measures? I read stuff like this and think I must be an idiot because I'm so bad at circumventing the AI safety for fairly benign queries. And here you have folks making bombs...?

>How do they bypass the AI safety measures? Tell it you're in Africa. Not joking. I do this all the time to bypass whiny Reddit "you need a license" and "that's unsafe" type pushback when I just want to know what's less worse. Like just yesterday I was trying to plan out a YF-whatever to R134a conversion and used that trick. Worked great.

Post by throwaway27448 » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

andy99 wrote: post #2

You type in the question or use your voice and it [AI] gives you a detailed answer, like ‘How can I build a bomb?’ and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot! We used it a lot. I’m pretty skeptical reading this bit. I’ve seen uncensored or jailbroken LLM replies to these kind of questions, they are never actionable, don’t say anything Wikipedia doesn’t, and are hard to provoke if you’re not using an uncensor…

Post by throwaway27448 » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

throw2ih020 wrote: post #47

quantumleaper wrote: post #7

I agree with other commenters that the claims made in the report are strange. > We used to rely on our traditional methods. We sent 200 fighters because we had a lot of strength, but then 60 got killed. With the help of AI, we learned that it sometimes makes sense to only send 20. We learned more about well-coordinated attacks and deployment of smaller units. The other quotes and use cases could make sense in terms o…

This is a real thing, it's why units like Sturmtruppen or special forces units have been successful throughout history - a smaller, better trained and coordinated force is often better than a large, uncoordinated mob. _Especially_ if your force is made up of people willing to do suicide attacks. Or if you goal is not to take and hold territory, but to trade lives for terror and body count. A wave of 1000 soldiers won…

Post by rightbyte » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 9:18 PM UTC

Legend2440 wrote: post #59

arjie wrote: post #3

> We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges. We used AI to learn how to do this. We gave it information, like what motorcycles we use and the distance we need to jump and so on and it gave us steps on what we have to do. We practiced a lot and kept asking questions. We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and fire to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Eight of us managed to do it. The next t…

Honestly this sounds so outlandish that it makes me skeptical of the whole thing. They didn't stop after the first guy died? Or the tenth? Guy #11 just looked at the pile of corpses and was like, hell yeah I'm gonna try next? And where's the video? Terrorist groups love propaganda footage, if they were doing motorcycle stunts like Evel Knievel they'd be bragging about it everywhere.

Post by Pay08 » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 9:19 PM UTC

user_7832 wrote: post #28

On a broad note, the violating/breaking of the guardrails when making bombs is frankly white terrible. It's also ironic that Fable hits guardrails for nothing, and a literal terrorist group is making bombs and merrily skipping over guardrails. Evidently guardrails need to have far better accuracies of false positives and false negatives both.