Probing AI tongues and ASCII smuggling attacks

In episode 22 of The AI Fix, our hosts encounter a bowl of buttermilk king crab ice cream prepared by a baby hippo, a TV station finds an even better way to generate programme ideas than using a tank full of manatees, and Elon Musk does the world's most expensive Blade Runner cosplay.

Graham discovers a robot tongue and ponders the implications of AIs with an appetite, and Mark explains ASCII smuggling — a prompt injection attack that uses completely invisible characters.

Episode links:

• Tweet by Elizabeth Laraki.
• Come and dine at Ethos, the AI restaurant that doesn’t exist.
• Ethos Instagram account.
• AI toilet cam takes pics of your poop.
• TV station says it is using AI to come up with programme ideas.
• Alan Partridge's Monkey Tennis.
• ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models.
• Elon Musk sued for using AI-generated Blade Runner imagery at robotaxi event.
• AI ‘tongue’ can ‘taste’ the difference between Coke and Pepsi.
• A matter of taste: Electronic tongue reveals AI inner thoughts.
• Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.

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