‘What is this chatbot vulnerable to?’ ‘Yes.’
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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/
Multimodal neurons in artificial neural networks https://openai.com/index/multimodal-neurons/
Adversarial Preprocessing: Understanding and Preventing Image-Scaling Attacks in Machine Learning https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentation/quiring
“In Unicode, flag emojis are represented by the emoji” https://x.com/goodside/status/1745511944465870901
“Gemini still gets tripped by it.” https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/115069737789365526

USENIX Security ’20 — Adversarial Preprocessing: Understanding and Preventing Image-Scaling Attacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xEda18WIUU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
Microsoft Copilot: From Prompt Injection to Exfiltration of Sensitive Data | Exploit Chain Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ibygtWeYc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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Replace your employees with a spam bot! (and Web3)

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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 (PDF) https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf

Project NANDA YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectNANDA
NANDA Adapter https://github.com/projnanda/adapter

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How to sell AI slop to the US military — with Vannevar Labs and MIT Tech Review https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/13/how-to-sell-ai-slop-to-the-us-military-with-vannevar-labs-and-mit-tech-review/
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It’s not ‘data fraud,’ it’s ‘synthetic sampling’!

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Will Trump Win in 2024? Predicting the US Presidential Election via Multi-step Reasoning with Large Language Models (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.03321v1
Your Polls On ChatGPT https://report.verasight.io/synthetic-sampling/

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‘it is currently not possible to opt out of the AI function’

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Spreadshirt letter https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115052326923720711
“Spreadshirts support har i dag svaret i korthed,” https://helvede.net/@fanden/115055887099730506
"Bah, der Move von Spreadshirt ist richtig eklig.” https://www.threads.com/@fannyremus/post/DNhybVvNHqc
“Bitte, bitte liebe Designer:innrn, wenn ihr bei @spreadshirt kündigt,” https://www.threads.com/@tetiana.tro_/post/DNhbg--ImBl
“Okay. Damit schließt sich @spreadshirt dann einfach mal ganz hart aus und ich gucke morgen mal ob ich da noch irgendwo was rum fliegen hab.” https://www.threads.com/@bubbleberryink/post/DNgnzxGtW9O

Arkadian Dreams on Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/arkadyrose/shop

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‘no material contribution to earnings’
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Seizing the agentic AI advantage https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/seizing-the-agentic-ai-advantage
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai
The 6 IT Trends That Separate AI Scalers from the Rest https://asana.com/resources/scaling-ai-in-2025

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look, it’s only the front page
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Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI https://www.wired.com/story/politico-workers-axel-springer-artificial-intelligence/
Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/politicos-recent-ai-experiments-shouldnt-be-subject-to-newsroom-editorial-standards-its-editors-testify/
Previously on Pivot to AI:

Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says AI will fix it! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/01/business-insider-layoffs-as-traffic-drops-but-publisher-axel-springer-says-ai-will-fix-it/
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a marketing lie from marketing liars
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Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191
Learning to reason with LLMs: Hiding the Chains of Thought https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/#hiding-the-chains-of-thought

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OpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged ‘chain of thought’ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/17/openai-does-not-want-you-delving-into-o1-strawberrys-alleged-chain-of-thought/
LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/13/llms-cant-reason-they-just-crib-reasoning-like-steps-from-their-training-data/
Apple: ‘Reasoning’ AIs fail hard if they actually have to think https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/08/apple-reasoning-ais-fail-hard-if-they-actually-have-to-think/
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