The FAIK Files

Strategic Ghosts, Synthetic Hosts

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files!

In this week's episode:

  • An Australian radio station created a fake Asian female host using AI
  • The BBC resurrects Agatha Christie while a family member brings a murder victim to court
  • We break down "Strategic Text Strings" - sequences of gibberish that can jailbreak AI systems
  • AI recruitment tools might be making hiring worse, not better

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    ***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****

    Faking Diversity - AI Radio Host Controversy:

    • Mediaweek article: https://www.mediaweek.com.au/backlash-over-arn-use-of-ai-radio-host-modelled-on-asian-woman/
    • Original Blog Source: https://www.thecarpet.com.au/p/meet-thy-the-radio-host-i-dont-think
    • Follow-Up with audio clips: https://www.thecarpet.com.au/p/radios-most-cynical-ai-experiment
    • Mason's insights on radio industry cost-cutting and the vanishing of part-time jobs post-COVID

      • AI Resurrections:

      • BBC resurrects Agatha Christie to teach writing: https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/agatha-christie-ai-bbc-maestro-jeremy-vine-9t5nqvz69
      • Family member resurrects murder victim to speak in court: https://www.404media.co/i-loved-that-ai-judge-moved-by-ai-generated-avatar-of-man-killed-in-road-rage-incident/

        • Strategic Text Strings & Jailbreaking AI:

        • Previous episode on "AI SEO Optimization": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm1yAfTjKzY
        • Harvard Business School article: https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/gen-ai-marketing-how-some-gibberish-code-can-give-products-an-edge
        • Research paper: "Manipulating Large Language Models to Increase Product Visibility": https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07981
        • Broken Hill: https://bishopfox.com/blog/brokenhill-attack-tool-largelanguagemodels-llm
        • Broken Hill Github: https://github.com/BishopFox/BrokenHill
        • Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15043

          • AI Dumpster Fire of the Week - AI in Recruitment:

          • 404 Media article on AI recruiter: https://www.404media.co/ai-recruiter-apriora-tiktok/
          • Testing "AI Interviewers" with HeyGen (https://HeyGen.com/) and Tavus (https://www.tavus.io/)


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