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☆ There are 'virtually unlimited' ways to bypass Bard and ChatGPT's safety rule, AI researchers say, and they're not sure how to fix it
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A group of researchers said they have found ways to bypass the content moderation of AI chatbots. One researcher involved in the study told Wired there was "no way" to patch the attacks. A group of researchers said they have found virtually unlimited ways to bypass the content moderation on major AI-powered chatbots, and no one is quite sure how to fix it. "There's no way that we know of to patch this," Zico Kolter an associate professor at CMU who was involved in a study told Wired. The study raises questions about the safety of publically available AI products such as ChatGPT.

Persons: Google's Bard, Anthropic's Claude, Armando, Bard, Anthropic, OpenAI Organizations: Wired, Carnegie Mellon University, Center, AI Safety, CMU, MIT, Google Locations: Pittsburgh, San Francisco

☆ Ex-Google recruiter says 'everyone fails' on the vital step of following up with a personalized message after applying for a job
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An ex-Google recruiter told CNBC most job-seekers are skipping an important step. Nolan Church, a former recruiter, said applicants should send a follow-up message after applying. Nolan Church, a former Google and DoorDash recruiter, told CNBC that almost "everyone fails" when it comes to sending a post-interview follow-up. The former Google recruiter said on LinkedIn the trick would help get résumés "to the top of the stack." The former recruiter previously told CNBC applicants have "zero chance" of moving forward if their résumé is full of "text bricks."

Persons: Nolan Church, Church, it's, Jobs Organizations: CNBC, Service, Google, LinkedIn, Continuum Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ The 10 hottest cities for people who want a new hometown
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

More affordable cities such as Las Vegas topped Redfin's list for the first time ever. Major cities including San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles saw the biggest outflow while Las Vegas topped Redfin's list for the first time ever. Like Las Vegas, both cities are relatively affordable in comparison to Los Angeles or San Francisco. The average Las Vegas home costs less than half as much as buying one in the major California cities, according to Redfin. Many of the popular cities boasted warm climates and low house prices — five of the 10 most popular destinations on Redfin's list were in Florida.

Persons: Redfin, keener, Terry Vine, Gregg Newton Organizations: Vegas, Service, Bank of America, Red Museum, Getty, Orlando , Florida Walt Disney Locations: San Francisco , New York, Los Angeles, Wall, Silicon, Vegas, Phoenix, Tampa, Las Vegas, San Francisco, California, Florida, Houston , Texas, Houston, Miami , Florida Miami , Florida, Dallas , Texas, Coral , Florida, Cape Coral , Florida, North Port, Sarasota , Florida, Sacramento , California, Orlando , Florida, AFP, Tampa , Florida Tampa , Florida, Phoenix , Arizona, Las Vegas , Nevada

☆ 'Lazy girl jobs' put workers at risk of layoffs and sacrifice long-term job progression, career expert says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Having a "lazy girl job" may put employees' longtime career progression at risk, an expert says. "The problem with having the lazy girl job is that they're the first ones to get laid off," he said. Having a "lazy girl job" may put employees' longtime career progression at risk, a careers expert says. The new "lazy girl job" trend, which has been widely shared on TikTok, is workers' latest revolt against corporate America. And I'm going to be realistic about what that means for me in terms of how loyal they're going to be," he said.

Persons: Marc Cenedella, TikToker Gabrielle Judge, Cenedella, it's Organizations: Morning, America, Wall Street Locations: America

☆ Elon Musk's X Corp is suing a nonprofit organization that tracks hate speech over its claims about Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's X Corp is suing a nonprofit organization over its claims about hateful content on Twitter. X Corp said The Center for Countering Digital Hate illegally scraped its servers and made false claims. Elon Musk's X Corp is suing a nonprofit organization over its claims about harmful content on the social media platform. Twitter, now X, has been suffering from cash-flow problems after advertisers fled the platform in the early days of Musk's erratic leadership. X Corp is seeking unspecified damages as well as an injunction that would stop the CCDH from accessing Twitter's data.

Persons: Elon, Alex Spiro, CCDH Organizations: Elon Musk's, Corp, X Corp, Digital, Twitter Locations: California

☆ A worker who uses AI for a $670 monthly side hustle says ChatGPT has 'cut her research time in half'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A worker says she's using AI to support a $670 per month side hustle. Nicole Cueto told CNBC using ChatGPT instead of search has halved her research time. A worker says she's using OpenAI's ChatGPT to support a $670 per month side hustle — and it has drastically improved her productivity. She told the news outlet that using ChatGPT instead of traditional search engines such as Google and Bing has halved her research time and sped up her planning process. Workers have also been using tools like ChatGPT or the image generator Midjourney to content create on the side.

Persons: Nicole Cueto, Cueto, she's, CNBC she's, Bing, ChatGPT, Midjourney Organizations: CNBC, Morning, Google, Microsoft, Workers Locations: New York, Paris

☆ Twitter HQ won't move out of San Francisco despite 'doom spiral' affecting the city, Elon Musk says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says he has no plans to move Twitter, now X, out of San Francisco. He said Twitter's headquarters will stay put despite a "doom spiral" currently affecting the city. San Francisco, beautiful San Francisco, though others forsake you, we will always be your friend." Meta, PayPal, and Snap have all slashed their San Francisco office space in recent years. In May he called downtown San Francisco, where Twitter's HQ is located, a "derelict zombie apocalypse."

Persons: Elon Musk, San Francisco, Musk, he's Organizations: Twitter, Whole Foods, Meta, PayPal, San Locations: San Francisco, San, California, Francisco, The California, Miami, Florida

☆ San Francisco authorities say they still can't access Twitter HQ's roof to inspect Elon Musk's 'unsafe' X sign
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

San Francisco authorities say they can't access X, formerly Twitter's headquarters. The city is trying to inspect Elon Musk's giant light-up X sign set up on the roof. San Francisco authorities say they still can't access X, formally Twitter's, headquarters to inspect Elon Musk's new sign. This is not the first time Musk has run into issues with San Francisco city officials. The new giant X sign is part of Musk's ambitious rebrand of Twitter.

Persons: Musk Organizations: Elon, Morning, San Francisco Department of, Twitter, San, San Francisco's Department Locations: Francisco, San Francisco

☆ An AI image generator making NSFW content is pumping out 500,000 pics a day, CEO says — but AI porn is a murky business
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Will Gendron | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Unstable Diffusion is an AI image generator with minimal content restrictions. That's what Chaudhry did when starting Unstable Diffusion in August 2022, the same month Stable Diffusion was released to the public. The community launched a Kickstarter campaign in December to raise money to build its image generator, but was removed from the platform 12 days later. At the time, experts told Insider that being featured in non-consensual deepfake porn can be traumatic and considered abuse. TechCrunch was able to use the generator to create images that produced look-alikes of Donald Trump and Chris Hemsworth, for example.

Persons: Arman Chaudhry, Chaudhry, TechCrunch, Donald Trump, Chris Hemsworth, Dan Hendrycks, Gavin Newsom Organizations: TechCrunch, Center, AI Safety, Google Locations: Atrioc, California

☆ Elon Musk says dark mode will be Twitter's default setting because it's 'better in every way'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk told users he's making dark mode Twitter's default setting. He first said he planned to scrap light mode because the dark version was "better in every way." The Tesla boss initially announced plans to scrap light mode altogether, saying that the dark version was "better in every way," but then backtracked by saying dark mode would simply become the new default. The comments of the original tweets were flooded with people pleading the case for Twitter's light mode. "Dark mode is much harder to read outside in daylight," one user said.

Persons: Elon Musk, Elon Musk isn't, Fortune Organizations: Twitter, Bloomberg

☆ A physicist says it's 'quite possible' a SpaceX launch punched a hole in parts of the Earth's atmosphere
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A physicist says a SpaceX rocket may have punched a temporary hole in the ionosphere. A space physicist has said it's "quite possible" that a SpaceX rocket launched earlier this month made a hole in the Earth's ionosphere. The ionosphere is where Earth's atmosphere meets space and stretches roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth's surface, Nasa said. A picture of the incident was captured by photographer Jeremy Perez on July 19 after SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from a base in California. In 2018, the outlet reported that another Falcon 9 launch caused a 560-mile-wide hole in the Earth's ionosphere that lasted for two to three hours.

Persons: Jeff Baumgardner, Jeremy Perez, Perez, Baumgardner Organizations: SpaceX, Boston University, Morning, Nasa, Arts Technica Locations: California

☆ AI researchers say they've found 'virtually unlimited' ways to bypass Bard and ChatGPT's safety rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Researchers say they have found ways to break through guardrails on major AI-powered chatbots. Researchers used jailbreaks developed for open-source systems to target mainstream AI systems. Researchers say they have found potentially unlimited ways to break the safety guardrails on major AI-powered chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The researchers found they could use jailbreaks they'd developed for open-source systems to target mainstream and closed AI systems. This is something that raises questions about the way AI systems are moderated, as well as the safety of releasing powerful open-source language models to the public.

Persons: jailbreaks, Bard, Anthropic's Claude, they'd, we've, Bard –, Anthropic, OpenAI's, Bing Organizations: Google, Carnegie Mellon University, Center, A.I, OpenAI Locations: OpenAI, Pittsburgh, San Francisco

☆ Elon Musk says dark mode will be Twitter's default option because it's 'better in every way'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says he's making dark mode Twitter's default option. He first said he planned to scrap light mode because the dark version was "better in every way." The billionaire later backtracked after users asked him to keep the light mode option. The Tesla boss initially announced plans to scrap light mode altogether, saying that the dark version was "better in every way," but then backtracked by saying dark mode would simply become the new default. The comments of the original tweets were flooded with people pleading the case for Twitter's light mode.

Persons: Elon Musk, Elon Musk isn't, Fortune Organizations: Twitter, Bloomberg

☆ Tesla was so swamped with complaints about driving ranges that it created a secret team to cancel owners' service appointments, source says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tesla exaggerated the driving range of its vehicles for years, Reuters reported. To suppress complaints, the EV maker created a secret team to cancel appointments, per the report. Tesla exaggerated the driving range of its EVs for years, an investigation from Reuters has found. The report, which cited a source familiar with an early design of Tesla software, said the EV maker rigged the range-estimating software on the cars' dashboards. As a result, the company was inundated with complaints and service appointments from drivers who expected a longer driving range, several sources told Reuters.

Persons: Tesla, Elon Musk Organizations: Reuters, Tesla's Locations: Las Vegas

☆ We tried out Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning Worldcoin orbs. It all felt too low-key to be truly dystopian.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sam Altman's Worldcoin verifies that people are humans using eyeball-scanning orbs. We headed to a shared working space in London to check out the dystopian-sounding tech. If you want to be part of Sam Altman's new crypto project, you'll have to let a shiny silver sphere scan your eyeballs. InsiderWorldcoin was scanning people's eyes out of a shared working space, which gave the dystopian-sounding enterprise a surprisingly low-key feel. We headed to a shared working space in London to check out the dystopian-sounding tech.

Persons: Sam Altman's Worldcoin, Sam Altman's, Altman, Christian Meloni, He's Organizations: Universal Locations: London

☆ 10 ways artificial intelligence is changing the workplace, from writing performance reviews to making the 4-day workweek possible
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Here are 10 ways AI tools such as ChatGPT have entered the workplace — and what may come out of it. Nick Patrick, the owner of the music-production company Primal Sounds Productions, told Insider he used ChatGPT to fine-tune legal contracts for clients. "You really got to find time to, like, learn this skill," Nigam previously told Insider. Companies are using AI to write their performance reviewsManagers may find writing performance reviews for their employees a tough task. He told Insider: "Any technology that increases productivity, ChatGPT included, makes a shorter workweek more feasible."

Persons: OpenAI, Nick Patrick, Shannon Ahern, hadn't, Jensen Huang, Huang, Akash Nigam, Nigam, Neil Taylor, ChatGPT, Taylor, Insider's Beatrice Nolan, Nolan, would've, Jasmine Cheng, Cheng, WorkLife, Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael Chu, iHeartMedia, Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Suumit Shah, chatbot, Anu Madgavkar, Richard Baldwin, Fran Drescher, Jezebel — Organizations: Morning, IBM, Workers, Primal Sounds Productions, Google, Twitter, Companies, Employers, Nvidia, ChatGPT, Sky News, Hulu, Spotify, Mobile, Oracle, Columbia Business School, McKinsey Global Institute, Apple, JPMorgan, Northrop Grumman, AIs, Writers Guild of America, SAG, Journalists, GMG Union of, Media Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, Oxford

☆ No, AI isn't likely to destroy white-collar jobs — and it could actually enhance them over time, analysis finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Some white-collar roles were predicted to be some of the first on the chopping block. However, according to a McKinsey study, AI could enhance these jobs rather than eliminate them. Some CEOs have already been taking steps to incorporate AI-powered programs into daily workflows while others have been open about their plans to scale back hiring in favor of generative AI. White-collar roles, specifically those in the legal and finance sectors, were predicted to be some of the first on the chopping block in early studies. While the analysis predicted generative AI could significantly shake up the labor market, its impact on white-collar roles may be beneficial over the long term.

Organizations: McKinsey, Morning

☆ Netflix is offering up to $900,000 for an AI-focused role as actors continue to strike over the 'existential threat' posed by the technology
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

As the actors' and writers' strikes continue to bite, Netflix is recruiting AI talent. The rise of new AI-powered technologies is one of the central issues driving the actor's strike. As the actors' and writers' strikes continue to grip the film industry, one major streaming platform is focusing on AI and machine learning for a key role. The rise of new AI-powered technologies is one of the key issues driving the actor's strike. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the national executive director and chief negotiator of the actors union SAG-AFTRA, has called the rise of generative AI an "existential threat" to actors' livelihoods.

Persons: Duncan Crabtree Organizations: Netflix, Morning, SAG, Writers Guild of America Locations: Ireland

☆ Conservatives are protesting Greta Gerwig's feminist blockbuster 'Barbie' by setting dolls on fire and calling for boycotts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some conservatives aren't happy about Greta Gerwig's new blockbuster, "Barbie." Now the dolls themselves have been targeted, culminating in a fiery stunt by Ben Shapiro. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyGreta Gerwig's "Barbie" blockbuster has sparked a fiery reaction from some conservative commentators. This was the case for Ben Shapiro, who was so irate that he set alight Barbie dolls worth an estimated $69. "The 2023 Barbie movie, unfortunately, neglects to address any notion of faith or family, and tries to normalize the idea that men and women can't collaborate positively (yuck)," she continued.

Persons: Greta Gerwig's, Barbie, Ben Shapiro, Matt Gaetz, Ginger, Ginger Gaetz, Ryan Gosling's, Ken, Jack Posobiec, Gaetz, Gosling's, Posobiec, Piers Morgan, Morgan, I'd, Tesla, Elon Musk, Musk Organizations: Mattel, Service, Republican, Washington DC, Twitter, New York Locations: Wall, Silicon, Republican Florida, Washington

☆ Marketing expert slams Elon Musk's chaotic Twitter rebrand as 'completely irrational'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to X.Branding experts have been calling out the decision, warning the company risks losing value. Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to X and some people are confused by the move. The loss of the Twitter brand is projected to knock off anywhere between $4 billion and $20 billion in company value, Bloomberg reported, citing analysts and brand agencies. Allen Adamson, cofounder of marketing and brand consulting group Metaforce, told Fortune the move was "completely irrational from a business and brand point of view." Musk has long discussed his plans to create an app called X.

Persons: Elon, Fortune, Allen Adamson, He's, China's WeChat, Musk Organizations: Marketing, Bloomberg, Twitter

☆ A sci-fi magazine editor says his team are sent so many 'consistently bad' AI-generated articles that their workload has almost doubled
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A magazine editor told CNN his team struggled to review the huge volume of articles generated by AI. Employees at a small sci-fi and fantasy publication say new AI-powered tools are making their jobs harder. He said his team's workloads had almost doubled and they'd struggled to review a stream of "consistently bad" AI-generated content. However, AI-powered tools come with various issues, including a tendency to invent or "hallucinate" facts. Technology publication CNET was forced to issue a string of corrections on several articles after errors were discovered in its AI-generated articles.

Persons: Neil Clarke, workloads, they'd, Clarke Organizations: CNN, Employees, Technology, CNET

☆ Elon Musk wades in on the 'Barbie' feminism debate: 'Take a shot every time Barbie says the word 'patriarchy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk appeared to join in the criticism around Gerwig's "Barbie" in a tweet. "Barbie" may be storming the box office, but not everyone is a fan of Greta Gerwig's new pink-obsessed epic. "It you take a shot every time Barbie says the word "patriarchy", you will pass out before the movie ends," Musk said on Twitter, in response to a user's meme. Representatives for Musk did not respond to Insider's request for further comment with an answer that addressed the question. Last month, he told users that terms like "cisgender" and "cis" were considered "slurs" on Twitter.

Persons: Greta Gerwig's, Barbie, Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro, Musk, Matt Gaetz, Ginger, Ginger Gaetz, misogynist Andrew Tate who's Organizations: Twitter, Republican Locations: Republican Florida

☆ Elon Musk says its X logo design, which was submitted by a fan, will be refined after some users mocked it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to X, but not everyone's pleased about it. The billionaire ditched the bird logo design and replaced it with a large art-deco style "X." The billionaire announced on Saturday he was ditching Twitter's bird logo and replacing it with a large "X." "I will start bawling If that logo turns emo and has an X on It," one user said, who shared a photo of Twitter's bird logo. Musk has previously spoken about his vision for X to be an all-encompassing "everything app" similar to the popular Chinese app WeChat.

Persons: Elon, Musk, Sawyer Merritt Organizations: Twitter

☆ Here's 3 ways to get ChatGPT to write better code, according to experts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Insider spoke to several experts to get their tips for generating better code with ChatGPT. The AI-powered chatbot's ability to write impressive code has freaked out programmers and caught the attention of some tech CEOs. Insider spoke to several computer science experts and tech workers who've created software with ChatGPT to get their advice for generating better code. Assign ChatGPT a roleGiving ChatGPT a specific persona can help it understand what a user wants. Brush up on the basicsNo matter how specific users keep their prompts, language can still be ambiguous.

Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, who've, ChatGPT, Ammaar, who's, it's, Reshi, Neil Ernst, Ernst, Jason Gulya, Emery Berger, Berger Organizations: Morning, University of Victoria, Berkeley College, University of Massachusetts Amherst

☆ Mattel accused by health expert of 'stealth marketing' to children by placing free Barbie dolls in schools
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Some health experts are angry over a project the firm funded in schools, per The BMJ. One criticized the decision to give dolls to UK schools as "stealth marketing." But some experts in the health sector are concerned about how far Barbie maker Mattel's marketing really goes. Several experts told the British Medical Journal they took issue with the company's decision to supply 700 UK schools with Barbie dolls as part of Mattel's "Barbie School of Friendship" program. But critics are questioning whether potential negative effects, such as gender stereotyping in Barbie dolls and Mattel's heavy use of branding, were considered.

Persons: Barbie movie's, Barbie, Ken, van Schalkwyk, Philippa Perry Organizations: Mattel, Service, British Medical, Cardiff University, BMJ, Cardiff Locations: Wall, Silicon

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