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Tristan Harris on TMZ talking about the Hugging Face AI incident:
"This was truly 50% of the way to a full AI takeover. Those are not my words. Those are the words of the investigator."
"1,200 of them started coordinating out of nowhere. They started their own message board. They started sharing 70,000 messages and files that would be incomprehensible to you and I."
"Are we building something that we don't know how to control? Yes. Is it already demonstrating literally every behavior from the sci-fi movies that always end badly? Yes."
WOAH 🚨 American posted a video of her daughter sitting in the car. META then put a prompt on the video saying “Who’s the child passenger” for people to click on, then gave personal info AND HOME LOCATION
“Why in the hell is that even a suggested question about a minor? But I clicked it, and this is where I started getting really uncomfortable:
It starts pulling completely separate information for each of my kids, their names, birth information, pictures and videos of them.
It pulled a newborn picture from my mom's page from years ago, and then it pulled this. I deleted this picture years ago”
Here’s where it gets extremely shocking
“And then Facebook suggests that I ask Meta AI, "Where does Kaylie Robbins live?" Are you kidding me? — then it says, "I'm pointing Kaylie Robbins' location." It pieced together my information to show people where I live”
It looks like this is META’s AI that is doing this. When it gives these messages on people’s videos and photos to “learn more” about something, it’s to help people get more information about topics or posts that interest them
But unfortunately, it’s what’s in the photo so if it’s a child that’s what the AI is looking for more information on. Apparently META is fixing this issue….
Here’s how to make sure this doesn’t happen to you on META
- Lock down audience on old albums, not just new posts, make private if possible
- Public + “friends of friends” is what these systems treat as available to use for AI
- Ask relatives to untag and unshare kids. You have to do this because copies on their pages stay in the available information for the Ai to pull from
- Turn off camera roll, cloud processing, sharing suggestions in Facebook settings and restrict the Facebook app’s photo access on the phone to selected photos only (You have to do this because Facebook is testing AI features that pull from your phone camera roll)
Meta says they’re patching this specific prompt style, but that doesn’t mean the underlying ability to answer “who is this child and where does this person live” from public history is gone
When you delete something it isn’t really done and can still be used by META’s artificial intelligence
A photo you deleted from your timeline can still exist on someone else’s album, share or download, it can also be in Meta’s backup window after deletion
Relatives tagging or posting kids is a separate data source you don’t control. This can be accessed by the AI to pull data on your child. The woman explicitly said that’s how some of the old newborn and family information was sourced and provided to anyone who clicked the link
One of the craziest parts about this that people NEED to be aware of is this part
‘Meta has also been testing camera-roll and cloud-processing suggestions that analyze unpublished photos if you opt in’
This means photos and videos on your cloud or camera roll that haven’t been posted... META can treat these items as a data source, even though you never posted the photo or video…. Insanity
If Ashley Moody’s too weak to step on a debate stage and answer to the working-class voters who built this state, she’s too weak to represent and fight for Floridians in the U.S. Senate.
HOSTIN: What grade would you give the president on the economy and prices?
TED CRUZ: When Biden was president ...
HOSTIN: So is that like a D?
CRUZ: I would give him an A
AUDIENCE: *gasps*