Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it, including one campaign that prompted it 100K+ times
NBC News Kevin Collier
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@miles_brundage
Miles Brundage
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Note that this (similar to OAI's/Anthropic's reports) is what companies find when they look at what's going on + try to stop bad stuff - there's a lot! If I were a US policymaker, I'd be v. worried about the fact that some companies aren't trying. https://x.com/...
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@theophite
Rev. Howard Arson
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a model reveals its empirical distribution when it is prompted. this is not a security problem, as much as Google tries to make it one. it does not own what it claims to. — www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
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Google says attackers used 100,000+ prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini
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Google says attackers used 100,000+ prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini