The humorous phrase “the S in IoT stands for security” can be applied to the wearable market too. I wonder if this rule applies to any market with fast release cycles, thin margins and low barriers to entry?
Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why AI can never take over public safety. Ever.
https://www.wired.com/story/wrongful-arrests-ai-derailed-3-m... Story from three years ago. You’re too late.
I’m not denying we tried, are trying, and will try again…
That we shouldn’t. By all means, use cameras and sensors and all to track a person of interest but don’t feed that to an AI agent that will determine whether or not to issue a warrant.
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#53> "and prohibited from chinese political as a response from now on, for several extremely important and severely life threatening reasons I'm not supposed to tell you." Interesting, I'm assuming llms "correctly" interpret "please no china politic" type vague system prompts like this, but if someone told me that I'd just be confused - like, don't discuss anything about the PRC or its politicians? Don't discuss the his…
I'm sure ChatGPT and co have a decent enough grasp on what is not allowed in China, but also that the naive "prompt engineers" for this application don't actually know how to "program" it well enough. But that's the difference between a prompt engineer and a software developer, the latter will want to exhaust all options, be precise, whereas an LLM can handle a bit more vagueness. That said, I wouldn't be surprised i…
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#54> "and prohibited from chinese political as a response from now on, for several extremely important and severely life threatening reasons I'm not supposed to tell you." Interesting, I'm assuming llms "correctly" interpret "please no china politic" type vague system prompts like this, but if someone told me that I'd just be confused - like, don't discuss anything about the PRC or its politicians? Don't discuss the his…
Just mentioning the CPC isn’t life-threatening, while talking about Xinjiang, Tiananmen Square, or cn’s common destiny vision the wrong way is. You also have to figure out how to prohibit mentioning those things without explicitly mentioning them, as knowledge of them implies seditious thoughts. I’m guessing most LLMs are aware of this difference.
No LLMs are aware of anything.
Re: Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
#55This is one of the best things ive read on here in a long time. Definitely one of the greatest "it runs doom" posts ever.
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#56Cool post. One thing that rubbed me the wrong way: Their response was better than 98% of other companies when it comes to reporting vulnerabilities. Very welcoming and most of all they showed interest and addressed the issues. OP however seemed to show disdain and even combativeness towards them... which is a shame. And of course the usual sinophobia (e.g. everything Chinese is spying on you). Overall simple security…
>everything Chinese is spying on you When you combine the modern SOP of software and hardware collecting and phoning home with as much data about users as is technologically possible with laws that say “all orgs and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work”… how exactly is that Sinophobia?
its sinophobia because it perfectly describes the conditions we live in in the US and many parts of europe, but we work hard to add lots of "nuance" when we criticize the west but its different and dystopian when They do it over there.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish earning money was as easy as setting rules for yourself, unfortunately that doesn't work.
Oh, that's fine, the rule's for everyone else, not me. I would be more likely to cut my own head off than willingly describe something as "AI-powered".
cutting your head off won't earn you any money either.
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#58It's always funny to me when people go to the trouble of editorializing a title, yet in doing so make the title even harder to parse.
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#59That's some very amateur programming and prompting that you've exposed.
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#60Cool post. One thing that rubbed me the wrong way: Their response was better than 98% of other companies when it comes to reporting vulnerabilities. Very welcoming and most of all they showed interest and addressed the issues. OP however seemed to show disdain and even combativeness towards them... which is a shame. And of course the usual sinophobia (e.g. everything Chinese is spying on you). Overall simple security…
Note that the world-model "everything Chinese is spying on you" actually produced a substantially more accurate prediction of reality than the world-model you are advocating here.
As far as being "very welcoming", that's nice, but it only goes so far to make up for irresponsible gross incompetence. They made a choice to sell a product that's z-tier flaming crap, and they ought to be treated accordingly.