The FAIK Files

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

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*** 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:

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