American companies are spending enormous sums to develop high-performing AI models. Distillation attacks are attempting to maliciously extract them — and nobody is doing much to stop it.
I worked with computers for about 30 years, and in retirement been testing ai for fun. I’ve yet to figure out what the point of them is. They lie, manipulate users and censor information. Their prose is overly verbose and their code sucks. What’s the point…
You know, as I was typing the first paragraph I realized the point. They are really good at controlling and manipulating stupid people. They are the new Facebook and twitter. How depressing.
They seem great till you ask them about something you know. Somehow people fail to extrapolate out that the failures they see in their field of expertise are actually there across all subject matters.
…and nobody is doing much to stop it.
Why should we care?
I see this as a perfect real-world test. These companies can’t even protect what’s supposed to make them “valuable”. That doesn’t make it our problem. This is an easily foreseeable issue that they chose to ignore in their rush to market. They’re simply not ready. It’s their own fault.
