February 07, 2025

Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked

1 hour 1 minute

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 ***

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