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LW malware question (awful.systems)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I click a link to LessWrong from this board, I receive a malware alert from my home gateway (Netgear Armor). Apparently it's their AI text-to-speech bot.

Question - any concerns about this? Google isn't helping me much.

URL is https: // embed.type3.audio/

Searching their site tells me that this is literally a feature and not a bug.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b9oockXDs2xMdYp66/announcement-ai-narrations-available-for-all-new-lesswrong

TYPE III AUDIO is running an experiment with the LessWrong team to provide automatic AI narrations on all new posts. All new LessWrong posts will be available as AI narrations (for the next few weeks).

You might have noticed the same feature recently on the EA Forum, where it is now an ongoing feature. Users there have provided excellent feedback and suggestions so far, and your feedback on this pilot will allow further improvements.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The alert is correct. LW is malware for the brain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Could be a false postive if the AI narration thing is doing something weird, could be that the narration thing has been hacked in various ways or just act in ways that are not totally alright. Better to ask it at LW than here. (Without knowing more I have no idea if this is a risk or not, so I can't even say how concerned you should be, but I don't think the answer should be 'not concerned at all' if this is all we know).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I sent a note with their help bot and they never replied. Just one of those weird things; normally I use the archive link but wanted to see all the cross-dialogue in the comments on the recent drama.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah if they don't react their problem, at least you tried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Update - probably a false alarm:

The type3 team has confirmed that the code they're serving matches the code they think they should be serving, so likely a false alarm.>