“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.

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.

Hi, I’m a septuagenarian who’s been online since the 1990’s. I like to noodle with image creation and manipulation, and a bit with music as well. I’m currently learning to do so with AI. I consider myself to be a Libertarian. I heard about Nostr from a Reason.com article and decided to take it for a spin. #introductions