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People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it (www.newscientist.com)

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Alice* says she feels “not in the slightest” guilty about using ChatGPT to complete training tasks, saying it is easy to get away with as long as you instruct chatbots to avoid the usual telltale signs of AI output, like a preponderance of em-dashes. “It’s only the sloppiest of users that get caught,” she says. “Anyone with a modicum of awareness around AI hallmarks can tell their output not to use them, and at that point what are you going to do?”

Another worker, Bob*, worked for a training platform called Outlier. Initially, he was tasked with AI training, which he says he illicitly used AI for, and was then promoted to a leadership role where part of his job was to catch others doing the same thing.

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[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 26 points 1 day ago

“Management vacillated between light tolerance to outright banning,” says Bob. Workers at Outlier would be tracked with a tool called Hubstaff which takes screenshots of their desktop at random intervals to ensure they are really doing tasks as ordered. Bob would look for evidence of AI models in those screenshots.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Just point a webcam at the screen of the computer, OCR the text, feed that to an LLM, and have it type via a KVM. Limit the typing speed to human level typing. I bet there are farms in French Guiana and similar places where they do exactly this.

[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You don't need the OCR step... a lot of LLM models come with "vision" They can transcribe your shaky mobile phone pictures and do their slop thing in one step. You could even wire up an output tool MCP style that feeds the slop back via keyboard USB. The perfect Slop Centipede

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Those screenshots and recordings are a treasure trove if ever/when they are externally compromised.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Recently was in a CTF where finding the stored screenshots from copilots recall was the path to the flag. A screenshot of a notepad doc that had credentials for the admin user of a compromisable service.

Doc wasn't saved. Copilot didn't care.

Yes, this means if you ever copy/paste a password in clear text temporarily on a machine with recall, and your user is compromised, that password could still possibly be found.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

God forbid you have to edit a config file on ssh

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