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Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf

A 40-year-old man was arrested after using artificial intelligence to generate a fake image of a runaway wolf that South Korean authorities said obstructed an urgent investigation, the BBC reported. AI-generated image of Neukgu. After Neukgu, a two-year-old wolf, burrowed out of a zoo in Daejeon city, officials launched an all-out effort to bring him […]

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US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”

The US is preparing to crack down on China’s allegedly “industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs’ intellectual property,” the Financial Times reported Thursday. Since the launch of DeepSeek—a Chinese model that OpenAI claimed was trained using outputs from its models—other AI firms have accused global rivals of using a method called distillation to steal

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Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie

Like many medical school students, Sam was broke. The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and he’s still saving up to hopefully emigrate to the US after graduation. So he started searching for ways to make

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Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie

Like many medical school students, Sam was broke. The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and he’s still saving up to hopefully emigrate to the US after graduation. So he started searching for ways to make

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Florida probes ChatGPT role in mass shooting. OpenAI says bot “not responsible.”

OpenAI now faces a criminal probe after ChatGPT advised a gunman ahead of a mass shooting at a university in Florida, where two people were killed and six were wounded last year. In a press release, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier confirmed that the investigation into OpenAI’s potential criminal liability was launched after reviewing shocking

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Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) was founded in 1950 in response to “a new era emerging from social upheaval and the disasters of war,” as outlined in the 1949 Lewis Committee Report. The report’s findings emphasized MIT’s role and responsibility in the new nuclear age, which called for doubling down on genuine

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Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech

A federal appeals court refused to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to blacklist Anthropic yesterday, denying the company’s emergency motion for a stay. But the court granted the US-based AI firm’s request to expedite the case and will hold oral arguments on May 19. The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the District

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First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest

An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and AI-generated explicit images of at least 10 victims without their consent. According to a Justice Department press release, 37-year-old James Strahler II used AI tools to create fake sexualized images to

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To beat Altman in court, Musk offers to give all damages to OpenAI nonprofit

On Tuesday, Elon Musk amended his lawsuit that accuses OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of abandoning its mission, clarifying that any ill-gotten gains recovered should be returned to the AI firm’s charitable nonprofit arm, not to Musk. Musk “is not seeking a single dollar for himself,” according to his lawyer, Marc Toberoff. Toberoff told

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