The FAIK Files

Auteur(s): Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks
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  • The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through news, research, and real-world examples. Join us for a thought-provoking journey into a world where anything can be faked, truth is increasingly elusive, and human nature meets artificial intelligence head-on.
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  • Cybercriminals Love AI, Librarians Do Not
    Feb 21 2025
    Welcome back to the FAIK Files! On this week's episode, We (oh so carefully) touch on how different countries are staking positions on the future of AI Mason offers a bit of self-correction and self-reflection before discussing some the strange nature of how agentic AI systems and robots need to conform the fact that the web and the world was built to be navigated by humans, not machines Perry gives perspective on some new research findings by CheckPoint which show that cybercriminals are flocking to LLMs from China. And our AI Dumpster fire of the Week is about how AI slop is becoming a real problem for librarians. Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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://discord.gg/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Global Positions on AI Safety: Clip from JD Vance's speech at the AI Action Summit in France Trump rescinds Biden's executive order on AI safety: In A World Built for Humans: Clarification on Tom Paton's work and AI limitations: Interview with Tom Paton Microsoft Research: OmniParser v2 Meta is Making Humanoid Robots AI Security Concerns: CheckPoint Research on DeepSeek and Alibaba LLMs: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/deepseek-alibaba-llms-malware/ AI Dumpster Fire of the Week: UPDATE: Hoopla to REMOVE AI-Generated Books Original Report: https://www.404media.co/email/7a1109dd-e6cd-46ac-be2f-a6d6461fc2ff/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm 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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h
  • Love is in the AI
    Feb 14 2025
    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. In this week's show: Mason shares his perspective on "Where the Robots Grow" --which is claimed to be "one of the first fully AI-animated feature films." Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance talks to us about Romance Scams And our AI dumpster fire of the week is Elon Musk's (somewhat desperate) grab for OpenAI Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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://discord.gg/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Where the Robots Grow (the first full-length animated feature created by AI?): ElevenLabs write-up on LinkedIN Full movie IMDB Entry BTW -- we love and use ElevenLabs personally. If you want to check it out, please use our affiliate code: https://try.elevenlabs.io/8vcg17tr6uyp Interview: Lisa Plaggemier's LinkedIn profile National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) website NCA Romance Scam info and toolkit NCA Video Series: Kubikle AI Dumpster Fire -- Elon Musk offers to buy Open AI for 97.4B: WSJ: Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI Reuters: OpenAI's board has not received Musk's takeover bid, source says Ars Technica: Sam Altman: OpenAI is not for sale, even for Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer OpenAI: Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for profit OpenAI: OpenAI and Elon Musk *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm 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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 min
  • Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked
    Feb 7 2025
    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. In this week's show: We explore how randomness in AI systems creates the illusion of thought A disturbing case of AI chatbots being weaponized for cyberstalking Anthropic's new approach to preventing AI jailbreaks And our AI dumpster fire of the week is... AI... the whole thing... all of it Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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://discord.gg/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Randomness in AI Systems: Overview of deterministic vs stochastic systems in AI Understanding temperature settings in LLMs How diffusion models use random seeds Discussion of parameters like top-K and top-P Relationship between randomness and perceived intelligence Lots of good overviews available at the Prompt Engineering Guide website: https://www.promptingguide.ai/introduction/settings AI-Enabled Cyberstalking: The Guardian: Stalking AI Chatbot Impersonator Case study of James Florence's 7-year cyberstalking campaign Discussion of platforms CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI Implications for future harassment scenarios Anthropic's Constitutional Classifiers: Anthropic's post: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Anthropic's demo website: https://claude.ai/constitutional-classifiers Details of 3,000+ hours of red-teaming with 405 participants System architecture and implementation Success rate: 95% of jailbreak attempts blocked Only 23.7% inference overhead AI Dumpster Fire -- The entire AI industry: Inconsistent naming conventions across companies Bad and inconsistent public relations strategies Arms race between US and China Environmental and ethical concerns And more... *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm 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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 3 min

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