captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoHacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuityarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1172arrow-down14
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minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 hours agoHow is the application able to send data to any website? Like even if you as the legit user explicitly asked it to do that?
minus-squarefmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-231 minutes agoHaven’t read details, but the classic way is to have a system visit: site.com/badimage.gif?data=abcd Note: That s is also how things like email open rates are tracked, and how marketers grab info using JavaScript to craft image URLs.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 minutes agoThis is why every single email client for the past 2+ decades blocks external images? This didn’t occur to the AI geniuses?
How is the application able to send data to any website? Like even if you as the legit user explicitly asked it to do that?
Haven’t read details, but the classic way is to have a system visit: site.com/badimage.gif?data=abcd
Note: That s is also how things like email open rates are tracked, and how marketers grab info using JavaScript to craft image URLs.
This is why every single email client for the past 2+ decades blocks external images? This didn’t occur to the AI geniuses?