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The dopamine hit you receive when using LLMs to generate code is something that needs to be studied more.

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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI softwa

If you want a job at McDonald’s today, there’s a good chance you'll have to talk to Olivia. Olivia is not, in fact, a human being, but instead an AI chatbot that screens applicants, asks for their contact information and résumé, directs them to a personality test, and occasionally makes them “go insane” by repeatedly misunderstanding their most basic questions.

Until last week, the platform that runs the Olivia chatbot, built by artificial intelligence software firm Paradox.ai, also suffered from absurdly basic security flaws. As a result, virtually any hacker could have accessed the records of every chat Olivia had ever had with McDonald's applicants—including all the personal information they shared in those conversations—with tricks as straightforward as guessing that an administrator account's username and password was “123456."

On Wednesday, security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry revealed that they found simple methods to hack into the backend of the AI chatbot platform on McHire.com, McDonald's website that many of its franchisees use to handle job applications. Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers.

Carroll says he only discovered that appalling lack of security around applicants' information because he was intrigued by McDonald's decision to subject potential new hires to an AI chatbot screener and personality test. “I just thought it was pretty uniquely dystopian compared to a normal hiring process, right? And that's what made me want to look into it more,” says Carroll. “So I started applying for a job, and then after 30 minutes, we had full access to virtually every application that's ever been made to McDonald's going back years.”

When WIRED reached out to McDonald’s and Paradox.ai for comment, a spokesperson for Paradox.ai shared a blog post the company planned to publish that confirmed Carroll and Curry’s findings. The company noted that only a fraction of the records Carroll and Curry accessed contained personal information, and said it had verified that the administrator account with the “123456” password that exposed the information “was not accessed by any third party” other than the researchers. The company also added that it’s instituting a bug bounty program to better catch security vulnerabilities in the future. “We do not take this matter lightly, even though it was resolved swiftly and effectively,” Paradox.ai’s chief legal officer, Stephanie King, told WIRED in an interview. “We own this.”

In its own statement to WIRED, McDonald’s agreed that Paradox.ai was to blame. “We’re disappointed by this unacceptable vulnerability from a third-party provider, Paradox.ai. As soon as we learned of the issue, we mandated Paradox.ai to remediate the issue immediately, and it was resolved on the same day it was reported to us,” the statement reads. “We take our commitment to cyber security seriously and will continue to hold our third-party providers accountable to meeting our standards of data protection.”

Carroll says he became interested in the security of the McHire website after spotting a Reddit post complaining about McDonald's hiring chatbot wasting applicants' time with nonsense responses and misunderstandings. He and Curry started talking to the chatbot themselves, testing it for “prompt injection” vulnerabilities that can enable someone to hijack a large language model and bypass its safeguards by sending it certain commands. When they couldn't find any such flaws, they decided to see what would happen if they signed up as a McDonald's franchisee to get access to the backend of the site, but instead spotted a curious login link on McHire.com for staff at Paradox.ai, the company that built the site.

On a whim, Carroll says he tried two of the most common sets of login credentials: The username and password “admin," and then the username and password “123456.” The second of those two tries worked. “It's more common than you'd think,” Carroll says. There appeared to be no multifactor authentication for that Paradox.ai login page.

With those credentials, Carroll and Curry could see they now had administrator access to a test McDonald's “restaurant” on McHire, and they figured out all the employees listed there appeared to be Paradox.ai developers, seemingly based in Vietnam. They found a link within the platform to apparent test job postings for that nonexistent McDonald's location, clicked on one posting, applied to it, and could see their own application on the backend system they now had access to. (In its blog post, Paradox.ai notes that the test account had “not been logged into since 2019 and frankly, should have been decommissioned.”)

That's when Carroll and Curry discovered the second critical vulnerability in McHire: When they started messing with the applicant ID number for their application—a number somewhere above 64 million—they found that they could increment it down to a smaller number and see someone else's chat logs and contact information.

The two security researchers hesitated to access too many applicants' records for fear of privacy violations or hacking charges, but when they spot-checked a handful of the 64-million-plus IDs, all of them showed very real applicant information. (Paradox.ai says that the researchers accessed seven records in total, and five contained personal information of people who had interacted with the McHire site.) Carroll and Curry also shared with WIRED a small sample of the applicants' names, contact information, and the date of their applications. WIRED got in touch with two applicants via their exposed contact information, and they confirmed they had applied for jobs at McDonald's on the specified dates.

The personal information exposed by Paradox.ai's security lapses isn't the most sensitive, Carroll and Curry note. But the risk for the applicants, they argue, was heightened by the fact that the data is associated with the knowledge of their employment at McDonald's—or their intention to get a job there. “Had someone exploited this, the phishing risk would have actually been massive,” says Curry. “It's not just people's personally identifiable information and résumé. It's that information for people who are looking for a job at McDonald's, people who are eager and waiting for emails back.”

That means the data could have been used by fraudsters impersonating McDonald's recruiters and asking for financial information to set up a direct deposit, for instance. “If you wanted to do some sort of payroll scam, this is a good approach,” Curry says.

The exposure of applicants' attempts—and in some cases failures—to get what is often a minimum-wage job could also be a source of embarrassment, the two hackers point out. But Carroll notes that he would never suggest that anyone should be ashamed of working under the Golden Arches.

“I have nothing but respect for McDonald’s workers,” he says. “I go to McDonald's all the time.”

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۶ৎ the desk drawer

welcome to the dollhouse, dear reader!

enclosed below is a complete record of every story currently published, along with a glimpse at those still waiting patiently for their turn beneath my pen, in chronological order.

consider this a catalogue of correspondences: some delivered, some drafted, and some still sealed away, awaiting the proper occasion.

please note that all works published on this blog are original creations and are protected by copyright. please do not repost, reproduce, translate, modify, archive, or distribute my writing without my explicit permission.

additionally, i do not consent to my work being scraped, copied, uploaded to, or used in the training or development of any artificial intelligence systems, machine learning models, datasets, or generative ai software.

every story published here is written by me. no generative ai was used in the creation of any of my works.

that being said, whether you've arrived searching for a particular character or simply wish to browse, i hope you find something worth lingering over.

happy reading, darling.

from kai, with love.

Off Campus:

⟢ Dean Heyward-Di Laurentis

what's wrong, baby?: where working out at the hawks house seemed like a good idea until you found yourself losing a battle against the pull-up bar. fortunately for you, dean is determined to help.

stress eating*: where dean is stressed about an upcoming game, and you, being the wonderful girlfriend that you are, offer to help him relax. inspired by THAT scene from off campus.

you showed me colours you know i can’t see with anyone else: coming soon!

⟢ John Logan

paper rings, picture frames, dirty dreams: where john logan wants to propose. unfortunately, the engagement ring is expensive, your future apartment is expensive, life is expensive, and he's slowly losing his mind.

date night?: where you decide to prank logan by pretending to be excited for a date he never planned. unfortunately, your boyfriend's response to being pranked is to take you on the most thoughtful, romantic date of your life.

customer appreciation*: coming soon!

when i run out of road, you bring me home: coming soon!

cherry wine: coming soon!

wrap your arms around me babyboy (part II paper rings, picture frames, dirty dreams): coming soon!

i hate accidents, except when we went from friends to this (prequel to paper rings, picture frames, dirty dreams:): coming soon!

who could ever leave me darling, but who could stay: coming soon!

nsfw alphabet: coming soon!

⟢ Garrett Graham

not an option*: coming soon!

⟢ Beau Maxwell

call my bluff, call you babe: coming soon!

Call of Duty:

⟢ Simon "Ghost" Riley

only bought this dress so you could take it off: there were rules about professionalism, conduct, and fraternization—and you knew every single one of them by heart. unfortunately, none of those rules seemed capable of stopping you from falling for your commanding officer.

i woke up just in time; now i wake up by your side*: coming soon!

note: smut depicted by *

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Anthropic urges a way to pause AI development as risks grow with the tech advances

Anthropic is proposing that the world's top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advance

Anthropic is proposing that the world's top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning the technology is improving so quickly there's a risk humans would lose control.

The company behind the Claude chatbot said in a blog post Thursday that as cutting-edge AI gets increasingly faster at carrying out tasks, "it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause" its development.

Anthropic said its internal research institute plans to explore the issue in collaboration with others and "take actions" to help build the systems for a credible slowdown or pause, without being more specific.

AI models are getting faster, with rapid increases in how quickly they can carry out software tasks like coding on their own, the company said. Based on current trends and given enough computing power, an AI system could be able to design and develop its own successor, in what is known as "recursive self-improvement."

Self-building AI would be a major technological milestone that would bring benefits in science, healthcare and other areas, Anthropic said, but it "also might increase the risks of humans losing control over AI systems."

Some tech industry figures have long warned of such a scenario.

Anthropic's post comes after a different warning this week from a team of researchers at the University of Toronto who showed how AI tools could be used to create a new kind of AI "worm" that adapts its hacking strategy as it spreads from device to device and takes over a vast computing network.

"I think it's really important that people understand that it's not just the biggest, most powerful language models that pose the security concerns," lead researcher Nicolas Papernot said in an interview.

The authors of the Anthropic post, company co-founder Jack Clark and Marina Favaro, head of the research institute, said the pause would be used to enable "societal structures and alignment research" to keep up with AI advances. Alignment is industry shorthand for making sure the technology matches human values and intentions.

The proposed coordination would let advanced AI labs verify that global rivals have actually stopped or slowed their work, "and that a bad actor could not use the auspices of a coordinated slowdown to jump ahead in secret."

The company said a coordinated global mechanism is needed because without it a slowdown in AI development could let the "least cautious" players catch up and add to pressure on companies and governments as they make tough choices about AI safety.

Anthropic's post comes as the company itself is racing with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to sell shares on the stock market, in an IPO that could value it at nearly a trillion dollars.

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MINORS DNI

IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 DO NOT INTERACT WITH THIS ACCOUNT IN ANY WAY. IF YOU ARE AN ADULT WHO ENGAGES WITH CSAM/FOLLOWS UNDERAGE SEX BLOGS DO NOT INTERACT WITH THIS ACCOUNT AND ALSO KILL YOURSELF.

I am not looking for a relationship or a master/owner.

Hi! My name is Lexie, I’m a 19-year-old trans guy. Outside of kink I use he/they pronouns and the name Levi, in-kink you can use whatever you want 🤍 Asks and DMs are theoretically open but honestly I don’t answer most of them bc I get a bunch

I don’t post any uncensored nudes on this blog for safety purposes, but you have my permission to save, share, or post any photos I’ve sent you privately. I DO NOT CONSENT TO HAVE ANY OF MY IMAGES FED INTO ANY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE.

Here for:

degradation 🤍 detrans/misgendering kink 🤍 cnc 🤍 objectification 🤍 occasional domming

Soft Limits

religion/Christianity (it’s not a trigger or anything but I’m Jewish and I won’t know wtf you’re talking about) 🤍 fauxcest 🤍 ageplay 🤍 motherhood/pregnancy (breeding talk is fine but be careful pls)

Hard Limits

self-harm or ED kinks 🤍 real-life transphobes or Trump supporters 🤍 irl incest/bringing up my real family members 🤍 scat or vomit 🤍 raceplay

Obligatory Medical Stuff

As an out-of-kink warning: I have medical issues that mean, among other things, that i can’t really do anything penetrative. Try to be understanding of that if I tell you I can’t do something irl.

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Find your Purpose

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deck: Find Your Purpose by Jess Sanders

top: Pile 1 → Pile 2 , bottom: Pile 3 → Pile 4

Inhale, exhale 3x, pick

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Pile 1

Your purpose or passion or "thing" doesn't have to become your work. It doesn't have to be something you make money from. Sometimes the things we love doing need space to be what they are without having to make them into something formalized. - Dr. Rebecca Ray

Journal: What did I love doing as a child that I no longer make time for?

I don't have to make money for it to matter.

Pile 2

When you say "yes" to others, make sure you aren't saying "no" to yourself. - Paulo Coelho

Journal: When do I say "yes" to myself?

I can be a kind and giving person and still put myself first.

Pile 3

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. - Amelia Earhart

Journal: What is the one thing I can do today that I have been putting off?

I am unafraid to take action.

Pile 4

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

Journal: When was the last time I made the space for daydreaming?

My imagination is my superpower.

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