Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports.

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Apple has promised to fix quickly a bug in its voice-to-text function that briefly swapped words with an “r” consonant – including “racist” – for “Trump”. The phenomenon, which went viral in a video ...

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Let’s look now at even more direct forms of mind control. In previous installments we have seen ways that society plans to control the way we think, for better or for worse (depending upon who may ...

Subliminal advertising conveys hidden messages of which viewers are not consciously aware. This ad strategy poses serious ethical issues, particularly because subliminal ads can manipulate consumer ...

Subliminal marketing involves the idea that an advertiser can display words or images during a commercial or broadcast so briefly that the viewer doesn't consciously notice them, but will still ...

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