Details on the ongoing ChatGPT security disaster have been posted by Dan Goodin, one of my favorite and most trusted tech reporters.

“I went to make a query (in this case, help coming up with clever names for colors in a palette) and when I returned to access moments later, I noticed the additional conversations,” Whiteside wrote in an email. “They weren’t there when I used ChatGPT just last night (I’m a pretty heavy user). No queries were made—they just appeared in my history, and most certainly aren’t from me (and I don’t think they’re from the same user either).”

As I presented at last year’s RSA conference in SF, using ChatGPT brings with it a critical integrity vulnerability. If your “history” is artificially generated by the software company, how would you prove it wasn’t/isn’t yours?

In related news, Italy says ChatGPT violates privacy regulations.

Reading the full report I found an investigation table insightful.

The crux of the complaints relate to GM not transmitting the “dragging” data, which establishes why and how the robot likely hurt this pedestrian after impact far worse than a human driver would have.

Further along in the report it’s made plain how Cruise was not disclosing that their robot did the wrong thing or that it significantly increased harms to the pedestrian.

Communications members also continued to give reporters the following bullet point on background: “[t]he AV came to a complete stop immediately after impacting the struck pedestrian, even though by this time Cruise, including senior members of its communications team, knew that the AV moved forward immediately after striking the pedestrian. Cruise communications team members gave this statement to media reporters after the 6:45 a.m. SLT meeting, some of whom published it, well into the afternoon of October 3, including Forbes, CNBC, ABC News Digital, Engadget, Jalopnik, and
The Register.

That’s not good. But the worst part is when Cruise staff defined harming pedestrians in an urban environment as an “edge” case they aren’t concerned about.

Vogt reportedly characterized the October 2 Accident as an extremely rare event, which he labeled as an “edge case”.

Cold. Cruel. Immoral.

This is a good reminder that American “death corridors” in cities were no accident. And I’ve been saying robots on roads will kill a lot of pedestrians since 2016, the exact opposite of edge.

Makes sense why a violent repeat offender chose a Tesla to stomp the accelerator straight into a wall.

In 2019, he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants, hit-and-run and fourth-degree assault. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants and recklessly endangering another person.

At 8am in Bend, Oregon he was practically engaged in an act of domestic terrorism.

Police reviewed video footage, which they say showed a white Tesla driving more than 60 mph while heading south in the northbound lanes and sidewalk on NE Third Street in Bend. The Tesla crashed at the entrance to the US Foods Chef’Store on Third Street, rolled “multiple times” and stopped at the retaining wall at U.S. Bank.

Driving the wrong way at high speed and on sidewalks? It’s surprising he didn’t kill anyone, like in the other tragic Tesla manslaughter case in Oregon by a known repeat offender.

If you’re in Oregon and see a Tesla, be ready for a disaster.

Business Insider offers some food for thought on the NRA paying children a pittance to not only accept but actively promote excessive gun violence, self-harm campaigns killing them and their friends/family.

Leaving aside the oddness of asking the youngest of grade schoolers how the constitutional right to bear arms affects them personally, the contest raises alarms for gun-control advocates.

Gun violence was the No. 1 cause of death for US children in 2021…

“They’re selling a lie, and it’s a very dangerous lie,” Brown [the president of the gun-safety group Brady] added. “They are selling it to your kids, and they don’t care if it’s killing them.”

Imagine the tobacco companies sponsoring contests for children to write about cancer-causing smoking as a Constitutional freedom.

By the time they are capable of making a mature judgment, their health may be harmed irrevocably and their decisional capacity impaired by the product’s addictive qualities.

Dead. I think the analysis misstated that by the time they are capable… these targeted kids, and those around them, already are dead. I say this as a person who grew up in the heart of rural American gun nut culture and by 12 years old I already had been shot and wounded, requiring hospitalization.

The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021…

Also as a historian I have to point out that British soldiers in WWII reported a strategy of God and Chocolate melted the Nazi child’s cold coal heart full of false fears and nightmares. Orientation of German kids towards mass suicide was a result of rapidly disseminated and highly targeted (authoritarian) disinformation.