A tech journalist, some hot dogs and an AI hoax

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  For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Kendra Pierre-Lewis in for Rachel Feldman.

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  AI is everywhere.

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  It's in your phones, in your internet searches, in defense software.

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  And it's expanding.

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  The big tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon —

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  are planning on spending nearly $700 billion this year alone on building out AI infrastructure.

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  And yet, even as companies pour tremendous time and energy into AI,

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  there remain concerns about the safety and efficacy of such technologies.

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  There have been several lawsuits alleging suicides linked to AI chatbots.

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  And more recently, Thomas Germain, a tech reporter at the BBC,

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  conducted a personal experiment into how an invested individual or business can get ChatGPT and Google Search's AI overview to spread lies.

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  We talked to Thomas to find out just how easy it is to hack these common AI tools and what the consequences of that could be.

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  Hi Thomas, thanks for taking the time to join us today.

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  Thanks for having me on.

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  So my understanding is you hacked ChatGPT?

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  That's right.

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  So I got a tip a couple of weeks ago that manipulating the things that AI tools like ChatGPT or Google Gemini or the little AI overview at the top of Google search,

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  apparently manipulating the things that they say to other people can be as easy as publishing an article on your own website,

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  like a blog post.

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  Apparently people are doing this across the whole internet.

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