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.

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Meanwhile, the biological units are more stand-offish.

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Something to… reflect on:

Stuxnet unleashed: The tactics behind the world’s first cyberweapon | Sandboxx

(excerpt) A theocracy fanatically opposed to the U.S., Iran was threatening to create a nuclear weapon and use it against U.S. interests and allies in the area. Then in 2010, seemingly all of a sudden, the Iranian nuclear program started falling apart and Iranian scientists leading the country’s covert nuclear program witnessed in dismay more than 1,000 centrifuges spinning to their destruction without any apparent reason. But there was plenty of reason, and it had a name: Stuxnet. Stuxnet, as analysts came to name the malware, was developed by an unknown party – though it was most likely the U.S. and Israel.

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Dresden Dolls – Coin-Operated Boy

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Way ahead of you

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Somehow I missed that. At least it’s two different versions! I’ll have to go look at the live one.

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Yeah but is it sanitized

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RFKjr will be sure to bring these back. After all, he has some experience.

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We should note, that is not a real ad.

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It will be taken over by a trans-dimensional being who needs the help of children under 10 to enter our plane of existence.

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No it’ll be sold to some griefer douche who will spy on kids or blast porn soundtracks into their bedrooms

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I must confess, “Robotic tapeworm” was not on my bingo card for 2025. Short sighted of me, I know, with all the not-robotic parasites in this society already.

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