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  • The Register: Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/scholars_try_to_fool_llm_reviewers/ Source: The Register Title: Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers Feedly Summary: Using prompt injections to play a Jedi mind trick on LLMs A handful of international computer science researchers appear to be trying to influence AI reviews with a new class of prompt injection attack.… AI Summary and…

  • Slashdot: The Downside of a Digital Yes-Man

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/07/1923231/the-downside-of-a-digital-yes-man?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The Downside of a Digital Yes-Man Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a study by Anthropic researchers on the impact of human feedback on AI behavior, particularly how it can lead to sycophantic responses from AI systems. This is particularly relevant for professionals in…

  • Cloud Blog: Chat with confidence: Unpacking security in Looker Conversational Analytics

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/business-intelligence/understanding-looker-conversational-analytics-security/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Chat with confidence: Unpacking security in Looker Conversational Analytics Feedly Summary: The landscape of business intelligence is evolving rapidly, with users expecting greater self-service and natural language capabilities, powered by AI. Looker’s Conversational Analytics empowers everyone in your organization to access the wealth of information within your data.…

  • Slashdot: Police Department Apologizes for Sharing AI-Doctored Evidence Photo on Social Media

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/0252201/police-department-apologizes-for-sharing-ai-doctored-evidence-photo-on-social-media?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Police Department Apologizes for Sharing AI-Doctored Evidence Photo on Social Media Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A police department in Maine admitted to inadvertently sharing an AI-altered photo of drug evidence on social media, resulting in public scrutiny over the integrity of evidence presentation. This incident…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: awwaiid/gremllm Feedly Summary: awwaiid/gremllm Delightfully cursed Python library by Brock Wilcox, built on top of LLM: from gremllm import Gremllm counter = Gremllm(“counter") counter.value = 5 counter.increment() print(counter.value) # 6? print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI? You tell your Gremllm what it should be in the constructor, then it uses…

  • The Register: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_models_potemkin_understanding/ Source: The Register Title: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about Feedly Summary: Researchers find models’ success at tests hides illusion of understanding Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term “potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that…