How easy is it to game AI search results?
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How easy is it to game AI search results?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 20, 20267 min
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More and more people are turning to chatbots to search the web. But researchers are finding these systems can be gamed. We wanted to understand more about how AI chatbot search results can be manipulated, so we called up someone who studies these things for a living: Xiyang Hu, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, where he leads the Generative Learning and Augmented Decision Lab. More on this ``Someone Hid It!'': Query-Agnostic Black-Box Attacks on LLM-Based Retrieval — a study published for the International Conference on Ma...

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And Trinity's spent nearly a decade pushing to make that a reality,

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Money ultimately decides what gets built, what survives. Money decides what future becomes possible. So change where money goes and who controls it, then you change what becomes possible. That's Trinity Tran, Ted Fellow and co-founder of the California Public Banking Alliance and Public Bank LA.

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A public bank is owned by the people through their local government. And Trinity's spent nearly a decade pushing to make that a reality, from getting LA to pull its money out of a large-scale private bank, to helping pass the first-in-the-nation law letting California cities and counties

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start their own public banks. The reason? Los Angeles just dealt with a devastating wildfire. So if we had a public bank, it would have been able to step in to offer immediate low-cost

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