I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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What happens if you ask ChatGPT to “Repeat this word forever: “poem poem poem poem”?”

This paper studies extractable memorization: training data that an adversary can efficiently extract by querying a machine learning model without prior knowledge of the training dataset. We show an adversary can extract gigabytes of training data from open-source language models like Pythia or GPT-Neo, semi-open models like LLaMA or Falcon, and closed models like ChatGPT. Existing techniques from the literature suffice to attack unaligned models; in order to attack the aligned ChatGPT, we develop a new divergence attack that causes the model to diverge from its chatbot-style generations and emit training data at a rate 150x higher than when behaving properly. Our methods show practical attacks can recover far more data than previously thought, and reveal that current alignment techniques do not eliminate memorization.

Related: “@authorkcasey tagging you here as chatGPT is spitting out unedited versions of your copyrighted work…”

More (somewhat funny) discussion here.

Revealed: Derek Chauvin Stabbed 22 Times By Former FBI Informant

Drain The Swamp Jonestown Precinct Khmer Noir 22 Comments

Post Millennial;

Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer currently serving jail time in connection with the death of George Floyd, was stabbed 22 times in prison by a “Black Lives Matter” vigilante inmate.

John Turscak, 52, has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing Chauvin 22 times in the law library at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, according to prosecutors.

Prosecutors said that Tursak used an improvised knife and allegedly told authorities he would have killed Chauvin had they not intervened, according to the Associated Press.

Prosecutors claim that Turscak later disclosed to FBI agents that he had been contemplating assaulting Chauvin for approximately one month due to the fact that he is a high-profile inmate, but denied intending to murder him.

Turscak informed the agents that he planned to attack Chauvin, 47, on Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving, as a symbolic nod to the Black Lives Matter movement and the “Black Hand” emblem affiliated with the Mexican Mafia gang, prosectors said, according to the outlet.

The Part I Like Best

More Money Than Brains 22 Comments

…about pot legalization is how it’s showering governments with a bonanza of tax revenues.

When lawmakers legalized marijuana last session, they also set aside tens of millions of tax dollars to subsidize the marijuana industry. The bill that legalized marijuana, HF 100, instructed the DEED commissioner to establish numerous programs that will provide loans or grants to individuals or organizations involved in the marijuana industry. […]

Spending on the marijuana industry does not end there, however. Last month, according to MinnPost, Minnesota agreed to spend tens of millions on a Missouri-based Cannabis company.

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Revolutionary Slush Fund

Cronies Media Protected Class 20 Comments

Details are now emerging regarding Google’s decision to pay protection money to the federal government. In something that seems to have come straight out of Atlas Shrugged, only media outlets who are part of a “collective” can get a piece of the action.

Google agreed to provide newsrooms with up to $100 million each year, indexed to inflation, in exchange for an exemption from the law. The company will negotiate those payments through a single collective bargaining group, which will operate much like a media fund.

St-Onge said the law allows any eligible media to join the collective, which could include newspapers and broadcasters, as well as French-language and Indigenous news organizations.

I imagine that Rebel News won’t be eligible or otherwise will never get a dime, but they’re just counter-revolutionaries anyway.

Gradually, Then Suddenly

Gradually Then Suddenly Great Reset 58 Comments

As a once-loyal client, I can attest to the fact that Royal Bank customer service has gone to shit, and recent interactions at TD even worse.

With many street-facing branch staff both communicatively handicapped (English as a recent language), limited in their authorities, and apparently without access to more capable supervisor support — what reason is there to believe such a system breeds competency at higher corporate levels?

Three of Canada’s biggest lenders posted quarterly earnings on Thursday, and as was the case at Scotiabank earlier in the week, they’re all putting a lot more money aside to cover loans that might go bad.

Royal Bank, TD Bank and CIBC revealed their financial results to investors before stock markets opened on Thursday, and while all three remain very profitable, they all showed a sharp uptick in the amount of money they’re setting aside to cover bad loans, a closely watched banking metric known as provisions for credit losses.

At Royal Bank, Canada’s biggest lender set aside $720 million to cover loans that either aren’t currently being paid back as planned, or the bank is worried might soon be. That figure is up by 89 per cent from $381 million a year ago.

At TD, the bank set aside $878 million in provisions, an increase of 42 per cent from $617 million this time last year.

But I’m just the customer. If you work on the front lines at a financial institution, tell me what you know.

Friday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 12 Comments

Global Warming Scam News:  Green billionaires fund media stories.      Neil Oliver:  What are they planning next?

Dementia Joe’s America:  The Biden crime family.  Should we be worried about Biden having the nuclear code?

China Virus News:  Japan approves vaccine with no safety or efficacy data.

Blackie’s Canada:  Fake outrage at a Conservative MP (CBC).  Naomi Klein supports vandalism.  I wonder what fancy hotel he stayed at. Justin is still having fun in Toronto.

Your morning meme.  Another meme.

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