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Twitter pranksters derail GPT-3 bot with newly discovered “prompt injection” hack

Enlarge / A tin toy robot lying on its side. (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, a few Twitter users discovered how to hijack an automated tweet bot, dedicated to remote jobs, running on…

Artists begin selling AI-generated artwork on stock photography websites

Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated artwork that can be licensed through Shutterstock. (credit: Shutterstock.com) Seeking ways to "monetize" AI-generated art, some artists have already begun submitting their AI-generated pieces to stock photography…

China’s most advanced AI image generator already blocks political content

Enlarge / Images generated by ERNIE-ViLG from the prompt "China" superimposed over China's flag. (credit: Ars Technica) China's leading text-to-image synthesis model, Baidu's ERNIE-ViLG, censors political text such as "Tiananmen Square" or names…

Ukraine’s cyberwar chief sounds like he’s winning

Enlarge (credit: Evgen Kotenko/Getty Images) Yurii Shchyhol doesn’t have a lot of time to spare. The head of the Derzhspetszviazok, Ukraine’s version of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, can be forgiven…

Iranians hacked US companies, sent ransom demands to printers, indictment says

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bill Hinton) Three Iranian nationals charged with hacking into US-based computer networks sent ransom demands to the printers of at least some of their victims, according to an…

New AI assistant can browse, search, and use web apps like a human

Enlarge / Still from a demo video showing ACT-1 performing a search on Redfin.com in a browser when asked to "find me a house." (credit: Adept) Yesterday, California-based AI firm Adept announced Action…

Microsoft Teams stores cleartext auth tokens, won’t be quickly patched

Enlarge / Using Teams in a browser is actually safer than using Microsoft's desktop apps, which are wrapped around a browser. It's a lot to work through. (credit: Jernej Furman / Flickr) Microsoft's…

Breach of software maker used to backdoor ecommerce servers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) FishPig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging customers to reinstall or update all existing program extensions after discovering a security…

Meta spins off PyTorch Foundation to make AI framework vendor-neutral

Enlarge / The PyTorch logo on a fancy gradient. (credit: PyTorch Foundation) Meta AI announced today that the governance of PyTorch, a popular open source deep-learning framework, has moved to an independent organization…

Artist uses AI to extract color palettes from text descriptions

Enlarge / A series of four example color palettes extracted from short written prompts by Matt DesLauriers. (credit: Matt DesLauriers) A London-based artist named Matt DesLauriers has developed a tool to generate color…