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‘It gave us steps on what we have to do ... 18 of us died in the process’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVk8tCvC-YY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260713-terrorists-are-using-ai-and-the-chatbot-is-killing-them - podcast

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 5 hours ago

Terrorist adoption of AI has thus advanced further and more systematically than prior analysis has recognized

salafi extremists that declared western education sinful are now world-leading AI-first village-burning-as-a-service jihadist startup. okay whatever

It has aided in attack planning, weapons troubleshooting, and the design of explosive devices, as users have successfully circumvented some safeguards.

surely their contacts within ISIS or any number of other islamic militias couldn't have taught them that previously, no they have to rely on movie plot ideas from chatbots. it probably helps that some people heard about them but peak years of their activity were in 2014-20 before ISWAP eaten their support base whole by not raiding villages and trying to replace state instead

also, when trying to make sure that i got this right i've learned that apparently al-qaeda pivoted to app development

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Why did the bot suggest practicing with a flaming pit full of broken glass? Because Boko Haram got the AI to tell them this by asking for script ideas for an action movie. That was their jailbreak.

It remains stupid that people all called this a 'jailbreak' and didn't notice it was giving them movie plots. Also lol get wrecked (if it at all happened).

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

now you might wonder if the supposed ex-terrorist was telling a story to the earnest white researcher lady

no no seventeen more of our guys jumped into the flaming pit after the first one, yep

but the NYT printed the scary version of the tale and they wouldn't make shit up right

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The Ahmed Chalabi of dirt bikes

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 10 hours ago

adding ”uplift” to the list of EA shibboleths

[–] schnoopy@awful.systems 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Anthropic, moments later: Chatbots are developing the ability to parse the intentions of the user and sabotage violent actions. Suggesting LLMs are developing conscience.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

It must be banned, but only long enough for another funding round.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s the Terrorist Special Olympics all over again

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 14 hours ago

that's ableism, and as always with ableism, entirely unwarranted.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was a wild paper. It was very worrying how close they put it to god.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

To be fair, it put several of them close to god first

Note: I don't believe any of this happened