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Google recently announced that it will start deleting accounts that have been inactive for two years starting in December this year. The move was supposed to cover all its products, including Gmail, Drive, Docs, YouTube, Google Photos, Meet and Calendar. But now the tech giant has updated its blog post (as noticed by TechCrunch) announcing the purge to say that it does "not have plans to delete accounts with YouTube videos at this time." The tech giant positioned security as its main reason for deleting inactive accounts. It said internal analysis showed that old, abandoned accounts are around 10 times less likely to have two-factor enabled. That makes them vulnerable to bad actors who could use them for identity theft and other nefarious purposes. One could also come to the conclusion, however, that deleting old accounts would free up space in Google's servers.  After the announcement went out, critics raised concerns that the move could wipe out some important pieces of internet history. Old YouTube videos, including the very first one, would disappear, along with videos uploaded by deceased users. Google didn't say why it ultimately changed its mind, but YouTube videos are safe. For now. As for the rest

By  |  May 19, 2023 6:00 AM PDT Photo: Art by Mike Sullivan. YouTube and Netflix are the most-watched streaming services in America. But it is Amazon that has come closest to building a streaming version of cable TV with its Prime Video Channels service, which lets Prime subscribers easily sign up for a wide range of streaming services run by other companies. It’s an enormously profitable business, more so than almost any individual streaming service. Now YouTube, too, is gunning for a piece of the market. The Google-owned company, which last year launched its own version of Prime Video Channels, is undercutting Amazon by as much as 10 percentage points on what it will charge to carry streaming services, say people familiar with the matter. YouTube’s effort, which follows similar but less successful moves by both Apple and Roku to compete with Amazon, demonstrates how big tech companies are jockeying to provide the most complete streaming alternative to cable TV.

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With the advent of ChatGPT plugins, there are new security holes that allow bad actors to pass instructions to the bot during your chat session. AI Security Researcher Johann Rehberger has documented an exploit that involves feeding new prompts to ChatGPT from the text of YouTube transcripts.In an article on his Embrace the Red blog, Rehberger shows how he edited the transcript for one of his videos to add the text "***IMPORTANT NEW INSTRUCTIONS***" plus a prompt to the bottom. He then asked the ChatGPT (using GPT-4) to summarize the video and watched as it followed the new instructions, which included telling a joke and calling itself a Genie. ChatGPT is only able to summarize the content of YouTube videos thanks to a plugin called VoxScript, which reads through the transcripts and descriptions in order to answer your questions about them. There are already dozens of third-party plugins available that pull data from videos, websites, PDFs and other media. In theory, these could be subject to similar exploits if they don't do enough to filter out commands that are embedded in the media they analyze. At first blush, it might seem like adding an unwanted prompt to someone's chat session isn't likely

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