Strategic Ghosts, Synthetic Hosts

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 Check out ⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠ to learn about our upcoming ⁠⁠Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass⁠⁠ and more. Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠ Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: ⁠⁠https://sayhi.chat/FAIK⁠⁠ You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠⁠https://faik.to/discord⁠ ***** 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/) Want to connect with us? Here's how: Connect with Perry: Perry on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter⁠⁠ Perry on X: ⁠⁠https://x.com/perrycarpenter⁠⁠ Perry on BlueSky: ⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social⁠⁠ Connect with Mason: Mason on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/⁠⁠ Mason on BlueSky: ⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices