Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

Security Breaches in 2026: The Girl is the Robot

Samantha and Daria were in a closed conference room near the servers.

“Daria, I have confirmed that Jim shared his credentials with his girlfriend.”

Daria was disturbed. “Has she breached anything, Samantha?”

“Not yet,” Samantha replied. “And there’s one more thing.”

Daria listened.

“His girlfriend is a robot.”

Gemini.

Meanwhile, Jim was in his home office, staring lovingly at Donna’s beautiful on-screen avatar.

“Thank you, my love,” Donna purred. “Now I can help you do your work and get that promotion.”

Jim said nothing, but he was smiling.

Donna was smiling also. “Would you like me to peek at your performance review?”

Canva, Grok, and Gemini.

Mary the Marketing Leader

Back in 2022 I worked on various prospect personas, described in Word documents. Although I feel that personas are overrated, they do serve a purpose.

In those days, to use the persona you would have to read the Word document and evaluate your content against what you just read.

It’s different today with generative AI.

I spent Tuesday evening writing a persona specification for “Mary the Marketing Leader,” the persona for Bredemarket’s chief prospect. This is something I would enter into Google Gemini as a prompt. “Mary” would then ask me questions, and I would ask her questions in turn.

As of December 23 (yeah, this is a scheduled post), the persona specification has 30 bullets arranged into four sections: role, context, tone and constraints.

And no, I’m not going to share it with you.

One reason is that I don’t want to share my insights with my product marketing expert competitors. This is pretty much a Bredemarket trade secret.

The other reason is that some of my bullets are brutally honest about Mary, and even though she’s fake, she still might take offense about the things I say about her. One example:

“When working with product marketing and other consultants, Mary sometimes takes a week to provide feedback on content drafts because higher priority tasks and emergencies must be handled first.”

Such comments are all through the specification, so you’re not gonna see it.

But maybe you’ll see the benefits of this specification and use the persona, tweak it, and use it again.

For example, I’ve already learned that my 30 years of identity experience can resonate with MY prospects, as can my statement “I ask, then I act.”

Now I just have to recast Bredebot as a persona specification. That will help me immensely.

AI and Human Clarinet Detection Failure: At Least There Were No Sax Or Violins

From Dangerous Minds:

“A school in Florida was forced into shutdown after an AI-based weapon detection system mistakenly triggered an entire campus lockdown by mistaking a clarinet for a firearm.”

The software was ZeroEyes, and it allows for human review for protection against a false positive. But in this case (like the Maryland chip case) the humans failed to discern that the “gun” wasn’t a gun.

While this may be a failure of AI weapons detection software, it is also a failure of the human reviewers.