: With a rather disconcerting counterintuitiveness, SCAs (Side Channel Attacks) are capable of inferring data by exploiting information that may at first glance seem completely unrelated. The LINC offers here an overview of these attacks.
: ChatGPT, Bard and Ernie - AI-powered chatbots are all over the news, praising their prowess and highlighting challenges they face. Big tech companies behind these creations seem to be racing for media coverage and market share in a market that had not even existed in late 2022. This AI media battle is not the first, of course, with tech companies regularly jousting in areas such as autonomous vehicles, generative content, image analysis and voice assistants. What are the technical and legal risks associated with these technologies and the new uses they are opening up ? This article, the first in a series on generative AI, on the language processing and learning methods used to operate a chatbot, using ChatGPT as an
: The development of general-purpose AI models requires the creation of massive datasets, often built from publicly available data collected online. Website owners whose content is subject to such collection have a range of tools at their disposal to help them control the data being collected and the ways in which it may be used. The articles in this dossier first introduce the concepts related to online data scraping, before presenting the methods that website publishers can implement to manage and control the data collected by data extraction bots.