Subj : ChatGPT is leaking again we shouldnt be surprised but we should To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Tue Jan 30 2024 13:15:05 ChatGPT is leaking again we shouldnt be surprised but we should be disturbed Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:05:51 +0000 Description: ChatGPT is reportedly leaking data and chats from behind the scenes - do we need to have another conversation about the perils of artificial intelligence, as we know it today, with the people who need to hear it. FULL STORY ====================================================================== OpenAIs ChatGPT has long been 'dumb' , willing to assist in cybercrime , an Icarus analogy for the age and a threat to sensitive company data . However, we need to go all through this again, apparently, as reports are surfacing that the artificial intelligence tool is once again leaking passwords inside, just for the sake of variety, corporate support tickets. Per Ars Technica , ChatGPT recently served a user chat logs from the support system of a pharmaceutical company, consisting of another users bug report pertaining to a user portal which contained that users credentials. Clean up on aisle GPT I went to make a query [...] and when I returned to access moments later, I noticed the additional conversations. They weren't there when I used ChatGPT just last night. [...] No queries were madethey just appeared in my history, and most certainly aren't from me (and I don't think they're from the same user either)," Ars Technica reader Chase Whiteside told the publication. Whiteside was also able to glean the name of a presentation someone was working on, details of an unpublished research proposal and, one for the true TechRadar Pro anorak hardcore - a script written in PHP, on balance probably stolen from a public Github repository . Whats interesting / bleak (delete as per worldview) is that, despite ChatGPT not having anything near a spotless record, Whiteside says that theyre a pretty heavy user of the service while issuing no signs that this incident, or any ChatGPT-shaped incident that weve reported on in the past year or whatever, has given them pause. Ladies, gentlemen and undefined: a dependency in action. Analysis: I want to throw the intangible concept of AI into a vat of acid, can you help me? Look, at TechRadar Pro were very niche, we know that. You read us, so you already know that artificial intelligence isnt a sentient computer, and its just some billionaire force-feeding copyrighted digital works to a CPU to create a corpus to be spat back out at the masses like orange pips following the Heimlich manoeuvre. If you put monkeys in a room full of computers, eventually theyll just control-c + control-v the complete works of Shakespeare. Or, rather, half an act's worth of Romeo and Juliet before telling you that for longer prompt responses you need to pay $20 a month. Computers dont really do context, youre not really talking to a human person. You know this and more, youre cool, but no-one else does, or no-one else cares about the damage AI is doing, or perhaps a bit of both. It seems like every week the average age of a person asking me whats AI I dont get it but I mainline it daily so want to get it increases, while my success rate at communicating what it is, the profiteering cynicism behind it, and the resulting harm caused by it, in realistic terms, decreases. Reliably, Im met with Dunno, makes my life easier, or some variation thereof. Just a bit of cheeky leakage of user data, mate, is increasingly the stance of your mum posting a status to Facebook saying that she does NOT give Mark Zuckerberg permission to use her private posts or personal data before going on to post blurry close-up snaps of a new mole on her thigh thats concerning her. This is probably why we get the governments that we do. I have the sneakiest feeling that Ive written about blind tech subservience before, so what am I saying? In this ye olde apple piety medicine show world, tell them the truth: that AI chatbots can threaten , swear , and be racist (a not-safe-for-work but absolutely on point headline from The Verge, there.) Dont tell them that this is simply a machine learning from their abysmal behaviour and reflecting it back at them, even though it is that. Literally so in Whitesides case, who was met with our anonymous bug reporter exclaiming this is so f-ing insane at a living, breathing customer service agent. Tell them to think of the children. Itll be banned in a fortnight. More from TechRadar Pro ChatGPT: a privacy nightmare? Employees in most industries are using ChatGPT in their day to day work, but they could be putting businesses at risk Apple doesn't want its employees to use ChatGPT in case they blab company secrets ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/chatgpt-is-leaking-again-we-shouldnt-be-surprise d-but-we-should-be-disturbed --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .