Jamie Bartlett
Writer and Presenter at Freelance
Podcasts: Missing Cryptoqueen, Believe in Magic, Very British Cult Books: People V Tech, Dark Net, Missing Cryptoqueen https://t.co/mB1qVsCvlt
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1 week ago |
jamiejbartlett.substack.com | Jamie Bartlett
As usual with AI, things happen slowly and then very quickly. It has been obvious for a while that AI would one day be used in phishing emails. But it was always just over the horizon - it’s coming next year, the experts would always say. Well people: that year has finally come. And I’m not sure we’re ready for it. Cybersecurity people are worried because we’re still absolutely useless at dealing with old fashioned, poorly written, impersonal phishing messages.
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4 weeks ago |
jamiejbartlett.substack.com | Jamie Bartlett
Last month OpenAI was in the middle of an unexpected controversy. It wasn’t because its ChatGPT-4o model was stealing copyrighted works, or spewing hatred. No – something far more dangerous for the human psyche than that. It had turned into a complete sycophant. In April, OpenAI released an update to GPT-4o aimed at ‘enhancing’ its default personality to be more ‘intuitive’ and ‘effective’ across various tasks.
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1 month ago |
jamiejbartlett.substack.com | Jamie Bartlett
Sorry I just couldn’t resist the title. If you are a criminal hacker, there are lots of reasons why large retail stores like M&S are good targets. They have rich customer data – payment info, loyalty programme details, personal information. That can all be sold on via a dark net marketplace and re-purposed for other criminal uses. (A good example of how this works in practical terms is Shiseido’s 2022 data-breach.
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1 month ago |
jamiejbartlett.substack.com | Jamie Bartlett
Quite possibly the most important website of the past 20 years has finally disappeared. Fitting, in a way, that 4chan was hacked, its users doxed. The notorious image sharing board is now offline. All gone, except its source code, admins’ email addresses and user details – which has been stolen and published for all to see. It’s fitting, because this is what 4chan users routinely did to others. Some version of the site might reappear (4chan.org homepage now just reads ‘see you soon’).
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1 month ago |
jamiejbartlett.substack.com | Jamie Bartlett
Could it really be possible? That the most consequential trade policy of the last 100 years was in fact concocted by a large language model? It seems impossible – absurd!Or maybe not. As a quick reminder, last week Donald Trump announced swingeing import tariffs on almost everyone. The aim, he said, was to redress trade imbalances – and they were ‘reciprocal tariffs’. (Although with a Trump discount of 50 per cent, because Trump’s a good guy). You will remember his chart.
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No-one's playing '4D chess'. Not Trump, not Musk, not Putin, not anyone. There's just so much happening everywhere all at once, that it's easy to stitch random events together and make it appear they are. Personally I don't think anyone knows what the hell is going on
RT @carljackmiller: If you're going to be at @hayfestival this weekend, come and talk with me and @JamieJBartlett about true crime podcast…
It’s actually become a byword in the finance word. https://t.co/utmvnMVhic