AI tools are illegally training on real children, including for explicit material
AI’s unstoppable quest for training data is hoovering up growing amounts of increasingly questionable content – including details of children…
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Faking an honest woman: Why Russia, China and Big Tech all use faux females to get clicks
When disinformation researcher Wen-Ping Liu looked into China's efforts to influence Taiwan's recent election using fake social media accounts, something…
First came ‘spam’. Now, with AI, we’ve got ‘slop’.
You may not know exactly what “slop” means in relation to artificial intelligence. But on some level you probably do.
Man relentlessly cyberstalked 31 victims, posted porn of victim and had pets stolen, US feds say
A man is accused of running an insidious cyberstalking campaign in which he listed a woman’s pet ducks for free…
EU puts digital Earth in orbit for climate-change fight
A software model of Earth, meant to simulate and monitor environmental hazards while findings ways to mitigate climate change, began…
Layoffs, abusive calls, and AI fears: Inside the front lines of Amazon’s ‘customer obsession’ promise
The bad news blindsided Amazon customer service employees across the globe in mid-May: More layoffs had arrived. This time, it…
Frightening log from Titan submersible’s fatal dive declared a fake
Last year, a purported transcript of communications between the Titan submersible and its mother ship circulated widely on the Internet.
Apple partners with OpenAI as it unveils ‘Apple Intelligence’
Apple on June 10 unveiled “Apple Intelligence”, its suite of new AI features for its coveted devices – and a…
Opinion: I have seen how artificial intelligence can help us and damage us if we let it
Artificial intelligence sheds light on human creativity. I recently used some AI websites to generate song lyrics and poetry. These…