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No flattery please, Claude: I’m British | Brief letters

Richard Dawkins and chatbots | LLM meaning | Flattery battery | Dancing in PE | Maths breakthroughThe otherwise admirable Richard Dawkins should adjust the local settings of the chatbot or tell it to be less obsequious (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it, 6 May). Such bots are initially geared […]

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Improving understanding with language

When she was a child, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outside Birmingham. The practical and cultural differences between farm and city life became more pronounced by comparison. “Life and the way we lived it slowed down on the farm,” she says. “It was a nice change

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AI in law firms entering its closing summaries

In an interview with Artificial Lawyer, Paris-based AI-native consulting firm owner, Olivier Chaduteau, set out a three-part account of the current state of AI in the legal sector. At first, lawyers dismissed AI as irrelevant to expert work. In the second, organisations bought licences to LLMs to signal activity to partners and/or clients, but little

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‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director

Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright His hit film was a masterpiece capturing the gritty truth of the Paris suburbs, but the director of La Haine is now sold on an AI-generated future for cinema.Mathieu Kassovitz has called the technology the “the last artistic tool we

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UK watchdog to investigate Telegram over alleged child sexual abuse material

Inquiry launched after Ofcom received evidence that suggested illegal content was being shared on messaging platformOfcom has launched an investigation into whether the Telegram messaging platform is failing to prevent the sharing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) under the UK’s Online Safety Act.The communications regulator carried out an assessment and decided to launch an

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Man used AI to make false statements to shut down London nightclub, police say

Heaven club neighbour admits offences under Licensing Act, as Met says fictitious AI-generated complaints a growing issue A businessman has pleaded guilty to making false statements in order to shut down a nightclub, which police believe were generated using AI.A Metropolitan police source said the use of AI to generate letters by complainants who do

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Man used AI to make false statements in effort to shut down London nightclub

Case of businessman using AI to generate false letters of complaint against Heaven nightclub part of a growing issue, say policeA businessman has pleaded guilty to making false statements in order to shut down a nightclub, which police believe were generated using AI.A Metropolitan police source said the use of AI to generate letters by

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Ohio man becomes first to be convicted under new AI statute for sexually explicit images

James Strahler II pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, producing obscene images and digital forgeries of child sexual abuseSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxAn Ohio man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to cybercrimes involving real and AI-generated “sexually explicit images”, becoming what the Department of Justice claims is the

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‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel

Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for social mediaThe young woman at the heart of what has been called the tech industry’s “big tobacco” moment was on YouTube at six and Instagram by nine. More than a decade later, she says, she still can’t live without the social

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At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland

The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightbackGood news is so rare these days, you don’t quite know how to take it. You want to celebrate, but a rival instinct tells you it’ll be pulled back somehow, the same feeling

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