AI security for fun and profit

In the land of the blind, the unreasonably confident hustler is king

January 30, 2023

Welcome to issue 1 of Greasy AI. “The purpose of grease in industrial applications is to lubricate moving parts while retaining its performance properties under extreme temperatures and pressures” (M&E). Where AI meets the old world, we’re gonna need grease. Be the grease.

Artificial insecurity

Banks and robbers, phones and phreaks, prompt engineers and malicious prompt engineering. What is crime if not an opportunity?

Grease:

  • Security consulting. Don’t know how to secure an LLM? It's all so new it doesn’t matter. In the land of the blind, the unreasonably confident hustler is king.

  • Bug bounties. Find a flaw and ask for your filthy lucre to keep quiet.

  • Get famous. Everyone loves a hacker. Post on social. Embarrassed about how easy it is? Grease doesn't feel.

Robot music

Google discloses a new model for turning text into music (of course, they keep it private, bastards). The samples are…ok. Which is to say better than most commercials and so-so games, worse than the best of what humans make.

Which is the zone of opportunity! Rapidly improving but not yet superhuman. Greasy hustle time.

Grease:

  • Game assets. Funding is already flowing towards this as everyone wants a slice of a few hundred billion.

  • Dynamic "stock" music. Stock music is big and growing fast. Your crappy YouTube videos all need their background music, right? As we shift to more interactive forms, that's gonna need to get dynamic. Cue AI.

  • Background music for your emails. The soundtrack to Greasy AI would be epic.

Random

Short story of the day: Lena

When you worry you don't have the skills, remember this: