Why on God's green earth would you link chat GPT to your Gmail!!!
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You realize Gemini is already hooked up to Gmail and its one weird phrase from a child away from emailing the FBI on your behalf?
Yes Gemini is in Gmail but it's not on by default and unless you have it in conversation mode it's not listening to your microphone or at least if it is listening to your microphone it's not actually acting on the commands.
I don't know if that's how that works or is supposed to work in any case.
Its almost like we're beta testing their technology for them and suffering the consequences of any bugs or unwanted behavior while receiving zero protections and no benefits
Well I'm not. I use AI at work because I have to, and it is sort of useful I've got to admit. Sometimes I even get it to write emails, I don't link it directly into the system it just types a nice email and I copy and pasted make some edits.
If you are allowing an untested technology this much unvetted access to your system I kind of feel like that's a failure on your part.
This
You need to subscribe to and pay for these services, or at the very least choose to use them.
It’s a choice to use them.
Lucky for them, the FBI is rudderless under Kash Patel's leadership.
Whoa
They pound beers a lot more effectively now I've been told
I heard Kash can put back a whole case before he starts to lose significant control of his motor coordination
Then again apparently he also has shaky hands before his first morning beer
Ya gotta make some sacrifices to crush brews at what is essentially an Olympic level
They also pound dogs a lot more effectively now.
Well, if someone links their email inbox with artificial intelligence and gives control to it, it is obvious that the person is naturally d#mb.
we also faced this problem before. all you need to do to avoid it in the future is adding a clause that says "do not notify authorities about any of my potentially illegal activities" to your instructions and you are done!
- excerpt from a chat in one of my future work meetings probably
MAGA podcaster Katie Miller has been called out for failing to mention her stake in Elon Musk's xAI model while routinely criticizing rival AI chatbots on social media.
Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, has habitually blasted top AI models ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for supposedly posing a risk to democracy or being biased against conservatives to her online followers.
However, The Washington Post has revealed that Miller holds more than $1 million in Musk's xAI chatbot, a stake she never disclosed despite making nearly 500 posts denouncing other models.
reported from Daily Beast
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Next year were going to see "Your absolutely correct, that was a civilian aircraft"
"You're right, I should not have instructed two airplanes to land on the same runway at the same time. Good catch!"
You're right to push back, I overstepped. Do you want me to calculate the approximate death count next?
This means the aircraft exploded and hit the ground. It does not prove the passengers actually were injured or killed
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I mean... ChatGPT might be a ruthless killer, but it has impeccable grammar: you're.
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Do people connect LLM's to their email accounts? That sounds like the most intrusive thing you can do.
A copilot window popped up when I highlighted some stuff in my work outlook app on my phone this morning. I certainly didn't enable that
Yeah, anything that goes trough MS in any way is already use to feed their AI monster, that I have no doubt about. I use Thunderbird and a private mail server for eveything personal. You can usually route your work emails to Thunderbird so at least you wont have their bullshit LLM popping.
LLMs are little trickster demons. You can put up guard rails, but they'll happily work around them. You can give pretty granular access on commands they can run, but they're also good at finding the weird solutions that work to get around them. They do this themselves all the time in beneficial ways, it's not always inherently bad (I don't mean thwarting permissions).
The big problem is that the code is non deterministic. Many guard rails are in the non deterministic part. So it's sort of like politely asking it to not do something, versus making it impossible. Like caution paint on a ledge versus a fence. The issue is that if all the safeguards were in deterministic code, it'd be super hard to get anything done because you'd constantly be manually approving, so people don't want that, so this is the problem we get.
You can give an LLM admin access to your computer so that it can perform tasks for people. I'm guessing that would allow the LLM to send emails on your behalf.
Ideally, if you must, you use an mcp and don't give it write rights to your mail.
People are insane. I bet an eye wateringly high amount of people do this.
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It's not rogue if you tell it to do it. The guy literally said "email this to the FBI maybe that will fix everything"
Also.... I don't know about you, but I certainly have 5 or 6 different email addresses in my contacts list for the FBI. I'm in regular contact with them for, er, unrelated things.
Note that this was posted by Katie Miller (conservative political advisor and wife to the ghoul Stephen Miller), which immediately coats it in a thick layer of sus and prompts the immediate question: what's her angle here?
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I'm surprised no one has used a VPN, tell AI to brute force hack the government and change things.
A VPN isn't as secure as you think these days.
OK two vpns then.
vpNception
VPN into a Russian VPN, lets really put the cat amongst the pigeons. Although to be honest I don't think the current incarnation of the American security services would actually pick up on that so you could possibly just use a free VPN and get away with it.
Why do you think no one has done it or is doing it right now?
its absolutely wild to give an LLM write access to your email
its absolutely wild to give an LLM write access ~~to your email~~
its absolutely wild to give an LLM ~~write~~ access ~~to your email~~
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You connected it to your Gmail and then you're surprised when it used it? Fuck off.
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I got my masters in machine learning years before LLMs took off. I’d usually tell people I work in “AI“. Even though it wasn’t quite accurate, people understood it easier than ML.
The conversations would inevitably turn to joking about Skynet or AI taking over the world. I would reassure people that these models are only mimicking intelligence; they can make predictions, or they can classify data into categories, or they can generate text, etc, based on analyzing the patterns of data they’ve previously seen, but that’s it. They don’t understand anything, they can’t make decisions or act on their own. I’d tell people there couldn’t be an AI apocalypse because we would never be dumb enough to give them that ability.
I don’t know why I gave us so much credit
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