The study shows that carefully crafted audio clips can elicit unauthorized actions from audio-language models (LALMs), including downloading files, sending emails, and performing web searches
malicious instructions are embedded in ordinary audio using adversarial perturbations that remain nearly imperceptible to human listeners
Amazing!
Nice!
Microsoft acknowledged the findings […], […] noting that developers can implement additional safeguards at the application layer.
Yes, and I wonder how many developers will actually do so.
And if the developers make safeguards an option available to users, will it default to “safe” and/or how many users will actually use the safeguards?
If non-privacy phones weren’t always listening it wouldn’t be such a problem.
(Had to edit, forgot the “n’t” after “would”.)
En-shitty-AI-ification?
You must show me the proper pronunciation for this apropos new terminology!
/ɛnˌʃɪtɪ.eɪ.aɪ.ɪ.fɪ.'keɪ.ʃən/
(… following the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) convention, more or less)
Maybe it’s just enshittificAtIon.
Is apropos Greek or Latin? (With the ending “os” I suspect Greek.) Empasis on the middle syllable, short a, long o’s.
It’s French: a propos - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
and yeah I know that just pushes your question one language along.
French: à propos
Greek, courtesy of DeepL: σχετικά με (σχετικά)
Latin, courtesy of DeepL: De [or adpositum, acc. to WordHippo . com]
à propos
Stress falls on final voiced syllable, as with all French multisyllabic words, i.e. excluding words with a final unvoiced (barely voiced?) syllable, like Louvre, oeuvre, fenêtre, etc..
