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Hackers use ChatGPT to target feminists, researchers reveal
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Today’s newsletter :
Hackers use ChatGPT to target feminists, researchers reveal
OpenAI value triples in nine months as it releases transformative ‘Sora’ video tool
OpenAI’s new AI tool generating surreal videos from text prompts sparks concerns
AI girlfriends harvest ‘creepy’ personal data, study finds
Grand Theft Auto and AI help team turn dog pics into 3D models
Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader, backed by $4.4M
Venus Williams brings her interior design skills to Palazzo, a new generative AI-powered platform
Mistral AI unveils LLM rivalling major players
Stability AI previews Stable Diffusion 3 text-to-image model
Hackers use ChatGPT to target feminists, researchers reveal
Summary:
Hackers in Iran have used the popular AI tool ChatGPT to launch cyber attacks against feminists, researchers have revealed.
It is one of several incidents of state-backed actors using the technology in hacking campaigns, with the app’s creator OpenAI also naming groups linked to China, North Korea and Russia.
A report published on Wednesday said hackers were honing their skills and tricking their targets by using generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, which draw on massive amounts of text to generate human-sounding responses.
The Iranian hacking group Crimson Sandstorm used the technology in an attempt to “lure prominent feminists” to an attacker-built website, according to the report published by researchers at Microsoft, which is one of OpenAI’s biggest backers.
Microsoft and OpenAI said they were implementing a blanket ban on state-backed hacking groups using its AI products.
OpenAI has tripled in value in just nine months after securing a new deal with venture capital firm Thrive Capital, according to reports.
The ChatGPT creator, which was founded in 2015 as a non-profit, now ranks as the world’s third most valuable private company behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX and TikTok parent ByteDance.
The latest deal, first reported by The New York Times, values OpenAI at around $80 billion – up from $27 billion last year.
Reports of the new valuation comes after OpenAI released a new artificial intelligence tool called Sora that creates videos from a simple text prompt.
Sora has already prompted both praise and concern since it was unveiled last week due to the highly realistic videos it is capable of creating.
OpenAI has unveiled a new tool to make ultra-realistic artificial intelligence-generated videos from text inputs, sparking concerns about such AI systems being misused to manipulate voters ahead of elections.
The AI tool, named Sora, can be used to create videos of up to 60 seconds with “highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions,” the ChatGPT company said in a blog post on Thursday.
OpenAI shared multiple sample videos that were made using the AI tool, which looked surreal.
One example video shows two people, seemingly a couple, walking through a snowy Tokyo street with their backs to the “camera” walking.
The very lifelike video was generated by the AI tool from a detailed text prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”
Another video made using the tool and shared by OpenAI chief Sam Altman shows ultrarealistic wooly mammoths treading through a snowy landscape with snowcapped mountains at a distance.
Popular AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest “creepy” information and fail to meet basic privacy standards, according to new research.
Of the 11 AI chatbots reviewed by researchers at the Mozilla Foundation – including Replika and Eva AI – none met the organisation’s safety requirements. This put them “on par with the worst categories of products” that the organisation had ever reviewed for privacy.
AI chatbots offering users a romantic relationship have seen huge growth over the last year, with more than 3 billion search results for ‘AI girlfriend’ on Google. Their popularity follows the release of advanced generative artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT that are capable of coming up with human-like responses.
Mozilla noted a couple of “red flags” when it came to popular chatbots, such as not encrypting personal information to meet minimum security standards.
“To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends,” said Misha Rykov, a researcher at Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included project.
Photographs of dogs could soon be used to help generate 3D models more accurately than ever before—thanks to an award-winning study from the University of Surrey and the famous video game Grand Theft Auto.
The researchers taught an artificial intelligence (AI) system to predict the 3D pose from a 2D image of a dog—which they trained on images they created using Grand Theft Auto V.
"Our model was trained on CGI dogs, but we were able to use it to make 3D skeletal models from photographs of real animals. That could let conservationists spot injured wildlife, or help artists create more realistic animals in the metaverse," said Moira Shooter, Postgraduate Research Student.
One way to teach AI to get 3D information from 2D images is to show it photos while giving it information about 3D "ground truth"—where the objects actually are in 3D space. For humans, that means wearing motion capture suits.
Even on their best behavior, getting dozens of dogs to wear motion capture suits can prove challenging.
Instead, researchers created a myriad of virtual dogs to study.
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