SN 1092: Restraint Abliteration - Rotating Keys, Broken Guardrails

About this episode

The episode discusses the transformation of language models, AI safety concerns, and recent developments in social media regulation and network security.

From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now . You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page . For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com , also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6 . Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte

Topics covered

• AI safety
• language models
• social media regulation
• AI chatbots
• network security
• Zoom vulnerabilities

Keywords

• AI
• language models
• social media ban
• Zoom bug
• network defenders
• AI chatbots

Sponsors

canary.tools, joindeleteme.com, doppel.com, threatlocker.com, scribe.how

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: France, Zoom, AI, TWiT, GRC

Products: Spinrite 6

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