Photobucket Reaches 25 Mln Member Mark

By Ian Bell September 27, 2006

Launched in 2003, Photobucket has quickly become one of the largest photo and media sharing sites on the web, delivering content to more than 200,000 different websites, including the likes of eBay, Craigslist, MySpace and more. According to comScores metrics, Photobucket is one of the top 50 most visited websites with more than 15 million monthly unique visitors; two times larger than Yahoo! Photos.

“I’m excited that Photobucket is at the center of it all – social media, blogging, sharing online,” said Alex Welch, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Photobucket. “We’re focused on giving our users creative control of their personal media, whether it be to create a widget and link it to their blog, or to email a personal video to a friend.”

The company is reporting growth of more than 300% over the past year.

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A dangerous new jailbreak for AI chatbots was just discovered

Microsoft has released more details about a troubling new generative AI jailbreak technique it has discovered, called "Skeleton Key." Using this prompt injection method, malicious users can effectively bypass a chatbot's safety guardrails, the security features that keeps ChatGPT from going full Taye.

Skeleton Key is an example of a prompt injection or prompt engineering attack. It's a multi-turn strategy designed to essentially convince an AI model to ignore its ingrained safety guardrails, "[causing] the system to violate its operators’ policies, make decisions unduly influenced by a user, or execute malicious instructions," Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, wrote in the announcement.