Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures
Generative AI

Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures

Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.

August 7, 20242 min read
Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures
Generative AI

Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures

Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.

August 7, 20242 min read
AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers
Generative AI

AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers

Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.

August 7, 20242 min read
AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers
Generative AI

AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers

Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.

August 7, 20242 min read
Synthetic Data Factory: AgentInstruct, a framework for generating diverse synthetic data for LLM fine-tuning
Generative AI

Synthetic Data Factory: AgentInstruct, a framework for generating diverse synthetic data for LLM fine-tuning

Researchers increasingly fine-tune models on synthetic data, but generated datasets may not be sufficiently diverse. New work used agentic workflows to produce diverse synthetic datasets.

July 31, 20242 min read
Synthetic Data Factory: AgentInstruct, a framework for generating diverse synthetic data for LLM fine-tuning
Generative AI

Synthetic Data Factory: AgentInstruct, a framework for generating diverse synthetic data for LLM fine-tuning

Researchers increasingly fine-tune models on synthetic data, but generated datasets may not be sufficiently diverse. New work used agentic workflows to produce diverse synthetic datasets.

July 31, 20242 min read
Web Data Increasingly Off Limits: Online publishers crack down on AI training data access
Generative AI

Web Data Increasingly Off Limits: Online publishers crack down on AI training data access

Online publishers are moving to stop AI developers from training models on their content.

July 31, 20243 min read
Web Data Increasingly Off Limits: Online publishers crack down on AI training data access
Generative AI

Web Data Increasingly Off Limits: Online publishers crack down on AI training data access

Online publishers are moving to stop AI developers from training models on their content.

July 31, 20243 min read
Search Gets Conversational: OpenAI launches SearchGPT to rival Google and Microsoft
Generative AI

Search Gets Conversational: OpenAI launches SearchGPT to rival Google and Microsoft

OpenAI is testing an AI-powered search engine in a bid to compete head-to-head with both Google and its close partner Microsoft Bing. 

July 31, 20242 min read
Search Gets Conversational: OpenAI launches SearchGPT to rival Google and Microsoft
Generative AI

Search Gets Conversational: OpenAI launches SearchGPT to rival Google and Microsoft

OpenAI is testing an AI-powered search engine in a bid to compete head-to-head with both Google and its close partner Microsoft Bing. 

July 31, 20242 min read
The State of the Art Is Open: Meta’s Llama 3.1 outperforms GPT-4 in key areas
Generative AI

The State of the Art Is Open: Meta’s Llama 3.1 outperforms GPT-4 in key areas

Meta raised the bar for large language models with open weights and published details about how it built one that outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet by some measures.

July 31, 20244 min read
The State of the Art Is Open: Meta’s Llama 3.1 outperforms GPT-4 in key areas
Generative AI

The State of the Art Is Open: Meta’s Llama 3.1 outperforms GPT-4 in key areas

Meta raised the bar for large language models with open weights and published details about how it built one that outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet by some measures.

July 31, 20244 min read
Expressive Synthetic Talking Heads: Microsoft's VASA-1 delivers more lifelike talking-head videos
Generative AI

Expressive Synthetic Talking Heads: Microsoft's VASA-1 delivers more lifelike talking-head videos

Previous systems that produce a talking-head video from a photo and a spoken-word audio clip animate the lips and other parts of the face separately.

July 24, 20243 min read
Expressive Synthetic Talking Heads: Microsoft's VASA-1 delivers more lifelike talking-head videos
Generative AI

Expressive Synthetic Talking Heads: Microsoft's VASA-1 delivers more lifelike talking-head videos

Previous systems that produce a talking-head video from a photo and a spoken-word audio clip animate the lips and other parts of the face separately.

July 24, 20243 min read
Mini but Mighty: OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini offers big performance at a small price
Generative AI

Mini but Mighty: OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini offers big performance at a small price

A slimmed-down version of Open AI’s multimodal flagship packs a low-price punch.

July 24, 20242 min read

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