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“In the demo, you can see Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, the other student behind the project, use the glasses to identify several classmates, their addresses, and names of relatives in real time. Perhaps more chilling, Nguyen and Ardayfio are also shown chatting up complete strangers on public transit, pretending as if they know them based on information gleaned from the tech.”
The Verge
College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time
Privacy will always be a major concern with smart glasses.
So how can I be certain this is really me posting this link?
Ars Technica
AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
for one, welcome our traffic light-identifying overlords.
Oops: “The vulnerability abused long-term conversation memory, a feature OpenAI began testing in February and made more broadly available in September. Memory with ChatGPT stores information from previous conversations and uses it as context in all future conversations. That way, the LLM can be aware of details such as a user’s age, gender, philosophical beliefs, and pretty much anything else, so those details don’t have to be inputted during each conversation.”
Ars Technica
Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity
Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." — Leo Tolstoy “The Kreutzer Sonata”
Michael Connelly’s short story “Christmas Even” tells the backstory of how Detective Harry Bosch came to know jazz musician Ray McKinzie, aka “Sugar Ray McK”. Bosch saw him in a USO performance on a hospital ship after Bosch was wounded in a tunnel exploration assignment. As a detective he’s able to reconnect with Sugar Ray as part of a case in which the musician’s property is recovered. As we listened I worked with MS Co-Pilot to generate an image of the scene, then manipulated it with filters in an app called BrushStroke, and did some cleanup in Affinity Photo. Is it art? I don’t know but I know that I like it. I also found a sax tune with the title The Sweet Spot, which is the song McK played in Bosch’s reminiscence. Since McK was supposed to be an Art Pepper sideman this tune is a little smooth and is played on soprano clarinet (McK blew alto) but I like it, too. #bosch, #jazz, #digitalart 
Spotify
The Sweet Spot
Dee Lucas · EP Collection, Vol. 1: The Sweet Spot · Song · 2017
Interesting notion. It would have to be October 1st and it will still look awfully desperate and phony 
October Surprise? What is stopping VP Kamala from becoming President Harris before the election?
The power of incumbency seems obvious.
Lynda Carter image manipulated with BrushStroke. Image source https://www.tumblr.com/celebrity-erotictriggers/761542166159015936/lynda-carter no original artist info given. 
Lynda Carter Triptych made with BrushStroke and Affinity Photo. Image source https://www.tumblr.com/celebrity-erotictriggers/761542166159015936/lynda-carter no original artist info given. 
At what point does the chatbot put the cage of rats on your face? #brainwashing #orwellian 
MIT Technology Review
Chatbots can persuade people to stop believing in conspiracy theories
AI is skilled at tapping into vast realms of data and tailoring it to a specific purpose—making it a highly customizable tool for combating misin...
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