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Dr Lucy Carolan
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Creative practice research about dementia.
'Picturing Clouds of Unknowing: Photography, Lostness, and Cognitive Decline' DOI: https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1862857

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European (English origin, very sorry). Mainly fair: good occasionally rough.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Happy birthday!
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I suppose it doesn't fundamentally alter/diminish the 'way poetry defamiliarizes language', but it does mean that poets haven't suddenly become ninjas 😉
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Well, why 'handcraft' when you can machine automate... I read the paper because I wanted to know what they meant by 'poetry' exactly but examples aren't given - supposedly on some kind of security grounds, but while it might have been effective on the authors' terms, perhaps it's actually shite?
But sadly: "unlike handcrafted jailbreak formats, poetic transformations can be generated via meta-prompts, enabling fully automated conversion of large benchmark datasets into high-success adversarial variants."

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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In the source paper it says that the 'adversarial poetry' used was artificially generated though
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Found a video of Madonna singing Material Girl while wearing an inside out analogue bag!

(It's been one of those days...)

[TW: there's some choreographed goose stepping and nazi saluting briefly towards the end]
Madonna: Material Girl (from Ciao Italia live from italy 1987)
YouTube video by Superstellina2013A
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Especially for a slightly hungover Sunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I mean, what if having sufficient reputational and financial clout enables a person to work as they'd wish regardless of whether they're old and a lady?
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM