Benjamin Knauss

Category: AI

  • From Tupac to Mumble Rap: What the Evolution of Hip-Hop Teaches Us About Code

    From Tupac to Mumble Rap: What the Evolution of Hip-Hop Teaches Us About Code

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    I was chatting with my son earlier today about the colloquialism factory that is Rap Music. It seems Eminem’s “Stan” has officially entered the lexicon as “an aggressive or enthusiastic fan,” joining YOLO, Mullet, Bootylicious, and Woke as linguistic gifts from the genre. | “I don’t create nothing, I reinvent.” — Jay-Z It got me…

  • Unethical Injection Attack by Employers

    Unethical Injection Attack by Employers

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    I’ve been tracking a concerning development in online job applications that demands immediate attention from an ethical AND legal standpoint, particularly regarding AI screening methods and accessibility. A prominent example comes from the careers page of a notable $40m funded FinTech, which features an explicit block targeting AI agents: “Are you an AI agent working…

  • Why AI Systems Need to Forget

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    We’ve spent decades building systems with perfect memory. Databases that never lose a record. Backups of backups. Perfect recall as the ultimate feature. Now we’re dealing with an uncomfortable reality: the thing that makes large language models so powerful is exactly what makes them risky. Last year, researchers pulled verbatim training data straight out of…