Your plastic pal who's fun to be with

Seems your plastic pal can be talked into hallucinating and dropping a :bomb: off at your desk. Researchers at University of Pennsylvania were the target of this, fortunately only simulated, attack.

IEEE Spectrum
It’s Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots
Researchers induced bots to ignore their safeguards without exception
Charles Q. Choi
11 Nov 2024

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“Surprisingly”? :unamused: I dunno, man, I’ve come to expect this kind of thing more often than not.

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Apparently, you need to use something called “a frickin’ laser” for that application.

@Grey_Devil

Meanwhile, the biological units are more stand-offish.

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