Apple Intelligence Could Introduce Device Security Risks

June 14, 2024 at 03:45PM Apple’s announcement of its generative AI capabilities, called Apple Intelligence, emphasized data security and privacy. The system enables context-sensitive searches, email tone editing, and graphics creation locally on devices. While Apple detailed privacy and security measures, challenges with large language models and app interactions remain. Companies need to address potential … Read more

Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall

June 6, 2024 at 03:30AM Jaime Teevan, chief scientist at Microsoft Research, discussed the data privacy implications of Microsoft’s Recall tool at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s conference. She emphasized the importance of rethinking data usage in the context of generative AI. Teevan reassured that Recall stores data locally and prioritizes data protection, despite … Read more

Gone in 60 seconds: BEAST AI model attack needs just a minute of GPU time to breach LLM guardails

February 28, 2024 at 06:17PM University of Maryland computer scientists have developed BEAST, a fast adversarial prompt generation technique for large language models like GPT-4. This method yields an 89% success rate in just one minute, using an Nvidia RTX A6000 GPU. BEAST can create readable, convincing prompts that elicit inaccurate responses or reveal privacy … Read more