The FAIK Files

By: Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks
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  • The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through news, research, and real-world examples. Join us for a thought-provoking journey into a world where anything can be faked, truth is increasingly elusive, and human nature meets artificial intelligence head-on.
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  • Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked

    Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked
    Feb 7 2025
    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. In this week's show: We explore how randomness in AI systems creates the illusion of thought A disturbing case of AI chatbots being weaponized for cyberstalking Anthropic's new approach to preventing AI jailbreaks And our AI dumpster fire of the week is... AI... the whole thing... all of it Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! We'll be adding a wide variety of content shortly, but would love your help building the subscriber base up before we release our first video. You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK You can also join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Randomness in AI Systems: Overview of deterministic vs stochastic systems in AI Understanding temperature settings in LLMs How diffusion models use random seeds Discussion of parameters like top-K and top-P Relationship between randomness and perceived intelligence Lots of good overviews available at the Prompt Engineering Guide website: https://www.promptingguide.ai/introduction/settings AI-Enabled Cyberstalking: The Guardian: Stalking AI Chatbot Impersonator Case study of James Florence's 7-year cyberstalking campaign Discussion of platforms CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI Implications for future harassment scenarios Anthropic's Constitutional Classifiers: Anthropic's post: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Anthropic's demo website: https://claude.ai/constitutional-classifiers Details of 3,000+ hours of red-teaming with 405 participants System architecture and implementation Success rate: 95% of jailbreak attempts blocked Only 23.7% inference overhead AI Dumpster Fire -- The entire AI industry: Inconsistent naming conventions across companies Bad and inconsistent public relations strategies Arms race between US and China Environmental and ethical concerns And more... *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm Want to connect with us? Here's how: Connect with Perry: Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social Connect with Mason: Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/ Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pregnantsonic.com
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • DeepSeek Disrupts Everything

    DeepSeek Disrupts Everything
    Jan 31 2025
    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. This week, we’re tackling: DeepSeek -- the little LLM from China that's taking the world by storm. Perry & Mason interview voice artist Keith Brown to see what he learned about AI while narrating Perry's book. And our AI dumpster fire of the week doesn't disappoint! Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! We'll be adding a wide variety of content shortly, but would love your help building the subscriber base up before we release our first video. You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK You can also join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** DeepSeek comes in swinging: Chinese Open-Source AI DeepSeek R1 Matches OpenAI's o1 at 98% Lower Cost Deep seek Janus-Pro-7B: A Breakthrough in Multimodal AI DeepSeek's chatbot achieves 17% accuracy, trails Western rivals in NewsGuard audit OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us Keith Brown Interview: Keith Brown's website FAIK on Audiobook (Amazon Associates link) AI Dumpster Fire of the Week (more DeepSeek): Jevons paradox What Is 'Jevons Paradox' And How Is It Tied To DeepSeek AI? Experiment showing DeepSeek actively erasing what it knows about certain events Experiment to show DeepSeek's bias Andy Ayrey asks DeepSeek to write a story Anthropic's paper on LLM Sleeper Agents Also be sure to check out chapter 4 of Perry's book, which covers inherent bias, sleeper agents, etc... *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm Want to connect with us? Here's how: Connect with Perry: Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social Connect with Mason: Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/ Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pregnantsonic.com
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Of Spies and Hitmen

    Of Spies and Hitmen
    Jan 24 2025
    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. This week, we’re tackling: Mason is out this week, so Perry is doing his best not to screw anything up too badly. We've got some new videos posted about how deepfakes work -- everything from those fake celebrity endorsements to realtime deepfakes that can happen in live videoconferences. Perry & Mason interview FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill It looks like we are on the verge of AI Agents that can not only book travel for you... but also search the dark web and hire assassins on your behalf! Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! We'll be adding a wide variety of content shortly, but would love your help building the subscriber base up before we release our first video. You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK You can also join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Check out your new YouTube videos about Deepfakes... and more: Inside a celebrity deepfake: How I Made Taylor Swift 'Endorse' My Book (https://youtu.be/mCx38_SeT_U) How to create real-time deepfakes (a.k.a. I became Taylor Swift...for Science!) (https://youtu.be/nKhtTIV6vxU) Will be posting more soon. We'd also love suggestions for anything you'd like covered. FAIK (the book) resources and activities page (https://thisbookisfaik.com/resources) Press release about the Resources page (https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/776228250/new-educational-toolkit-protects-teachers-and-students-from-ai-driven-cyber-attacks/) Interview with former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill: Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_O%27Neill Eric's website: https://ericoneill.net/ Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy - https://amzn.to/3Wu4J04 Claude AI Hires a Hitman?: Tweet from Pliny the Liberator about his experiment: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1878946571565650264 AI Researchers STUNNED as Claude Hires a Darkweb 'Hitman'...(Wes Roth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5OrAJX7ukY) Anthropic Announcement: Introducing Computer Use (https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use) Story about Multi-On: An AI assistant just passed the California driving test. Here’s how. (https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/14/multion-ai-assistant-california-driving-test/) OpenAI Preps ‘Operator’ Release For This Week (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-preps-operator-release-for-this-week?rc=s2adyu) OpenAI: Introducing Operator (https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/) *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm Want to connect with us? Here's how: Connect with Perry: Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social Connect with Mason: Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/ Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pregnantsonic.com
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    55 mins

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