Computing and information technology articles
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New information on ‘Mystery Note’ investigation
EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — There is new information Tuesday in an ongoing I-Team investigation into so-called "mystery notes" being found in sealed food products and at state parks in Pennsylvania. The cryptic messages have raised lots of questions and concerns from people from across northeastern and central Pennsylvania. The I-Team has confirmed that federal investigators []
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LLMs have become a weapon of information warfare
A propaganda network linked to Russia has sparked alarm about a new weapon of information warfare: large language models (LLMs). The operation was unearthed by Recorded Future, a threat intelligence firm founded by two Swedish computer scientists. In early March, the company spotted a network known as CopyCop using LLMs to manipulate news from mainstream media outlets. Using prompt engineering, CopyCop tailored the content to specific audiences and political biases. Delivered via...
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The key technologies fuelling chatbot evolution
Most of us are familiar with chatbots on customer service portals, government departments, and through services like Google Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. They are convenient, easy to use, and always available, leading to their growing use for a diverse range of applications across the web. Unfortunately, most current chatbots are limited due to their reliance on static training data. Data outputted by these systems can be obsolete, limiting our ability to gain real-time information for our...