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How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Post by el_memorioso »

xp84 wrote: post #45
quantumleaper wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Human brains were shaped over thousands of years of adaptation for warfare. Just look at how creative and advanced the tactics of other guerrilla forces (like the Taliban and Viet Cong) got, despite their very limited resources. None of that needs a high school education.

It's not about education itself necessarily, but I'd bet any amount of money that most terrorists' IQ is below the overall human average. The average terrorist is not that innovative or creative so the most mundane GPT "insight" will likely be a smarter course of action than whatever their first idea would have been.

Do you have some evidence to suggest mundane GPT insights would not be smarter than the average human's idea? There's a reason so many are completely abdicating any responsibility to think to an LLM, and I'd bet any amount of money it's not because they think the LLM is dumber than them.

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Post by Pay08 »

GaggiX wrote: post #4

I would be more interested about terrorists organization like Al-Shabaab that at least control many towns. Does Boko Haram and ISWAP even control a single town or they just control a few villages in Lake Chad and in the Sambisa forest? Also reading the report they seem quite clueless.

Doesn't Boko Haram control basically all of northern Nigeria? Yes, it's incredibly rural (even deserted) but it's still half a country.

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Post by throwaway27448 »

hoppp wrote: post #55
andy99 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The NYT article is probably propaganda in service of that, that’s what the big AI companies want, it’s part of regulatory capture.

If the impact of AI is comparable to the atomic bomb then the least they could do is try to filter out terrorists. I think this is a very convincing argument to regulate the space more.

...because terrorists in western africa are willing to follow american regulations? I hope this is satire.

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Post by uniclaude »

solid_fuel wrote: post #53
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…

> We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and fire to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Is it providing material aid to terrorists to point out that maybe a hole filled with water would have been a better practice environment?

This comment will definitely get you on a list somewhere. Either the CIA or my favorite comments on hn, maybe both.

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Post by bombcar »

solid_fuel wrote: post #53
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…

> We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and fire to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Is it providing material aid to terrorists to point out that maybe a hole filled with water would have been a better practice environment?

Using water is like assuming the testing environment and production are the same.

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Post by GaggiX »

Pay08 wrote: post #72
GaggiX wrote: post #4

I would be more interested about terrorists organization like Al-Shabaab that at least control many towns. Does Boko Haram and ISWAP even control a single town or they just control a few villages in Lake Chad and in the Sambisa forest? Also reading the report they seem quite clueless.

Doesn't Boko Haram control basically all of northern Nigeria? Yes, it's incredibly rural (even deserted) but it's still half a country.

Not at all, even in the Borno state where Boko Haram and ISWAP are present, towns are controlled by the government, I don't think there is a single town that is controlled by Boko Haram/ISWAP right now.

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Post by Waterluvian »

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…

It’s that thing where a young child is incapable of realizing their lies are obvious. There’s a kind of pathetic sadness when adults do it.

And I met a Boko General and he said, "Sir, please, sir, build up our military" while fighting away tears.

Re: How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

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Post by antonymoose »

notahacker wrote: post #17
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…

Not gonna lie, I'd rather attack with 26 fighters that haven't survived lots of jump attempts than 8 who are much more confident in their motorbike stunt riding but presumably still aren't bulletproof. But maybe they could ask Claude how to train themselves to resist bullets as well?

Well that’s easy, start shooting yourself in the foot with .22 until you develop a tolerance and bump up to .380!

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Post by stymaar »

notahacker wrote: post #17
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…

Not gonna lie, I'd rather attack with 26 fighters that haven't survived lots of jump attempts than 8 who are much more confident in their motorbike stunt riding but presumably still aren't bulletproof. But maybe they could ask Claude how to train themselves to resist bullets as well?

> But maybe they could ask Claude how to train themselves to resist bullets as well?

“unfortunately, my seven remaining comrades died in the process and I can't train anymore since there's no one to shoot at me”.

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Post by IsTom »

27183 wrote: post #42
notahacker wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not gonna lie, I'd rather attack with 26 fighters that haven't survived lots of jump attempts than 8 who are much more confident in their motorbike stunt riding but presumably still aren't bulletproof. But maybe they could ask Claude how to train themselves to resist bullets as well?

> maybe they could ask Claude how to train themselves to resist bullets as well? Practice makes perfect!

You start with .22 and build up resistance from there.
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