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On the same day that OpenAI released policy recommendations to ensure that AI benefits humanity if superintelligence is ever achieved, The New Yorker dropped a massive investigation into whether CEO Sam Altman can be trusted to actually follow through on OpenAI’s biggest promises. Parsing the publications side by side can be disorienting. On the one […]
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Donald Trump is facing significant hurdles after declaring, in a series of executive orders last year, that rapid construction of AI data centers was among his top priorities to ensure the US wins the AI race against China. Perhaps most likely to frustrate the president, his aggressive tariffs on Chinese imports are reportedly hindering most
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Perplexity’s AI search engine encourages users to go deeper with their prompts by engaging in chat sessions that a lawsuit has alleged are often shared in their entirety with Google and Meta without users’ knowledge or consent. “This happened to every user regardless of whether or not they signed up for a Perplexity account,” the
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Last month, Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter filed a criminal complaint over an offensive Grok post generated by an X user that requested that the chatbot “roast” the government official. According to Bloomberg, Keller-Sutter’s complaint seeks to hold the X user accountable for defamation and verbal abuse. She also “asked the prosecutor to assess whether
Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them. Read More »
Looks like Meta is hoping the recent Supreme Court ruling that found Internet service providers aren’t liable for piracy on their networks will help the social media giant dodge liability claims over its torrenting of AI training data. Last week, Meta filed a statement in a lawsuit that alleged that Meta should be liable under
Authors’ lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting Read More »
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually use. In a joint letter sent to the Energy Information Administration Thursday morning, seen by WIRED, Hawley and Warren press the agency to publicly collect “comprehensive, annual
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Following backlash, OpenAI won’t be rolling out an erotic version of ChatGPT any time soon. According to the Financial Times, the controversial plan has been shelved “indefinitely” as OpenAI “refocuses” its attention on “core products.” Insiders told FT that OpenAI mulled scrapping the “adult mode” plan entirely, as even its own advisors warned that ChatGPT
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Back in 2022 when Cindy Cohn, the executive director of a US digital rights nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started writing her memoir, Privacy’s Defender, she worried that people would think she was an “old fuddy duddy” still sounding alarms about government spying online. As one of EFF’s first litigators and then its longtime
Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate Read More »
Two teens behind one of the earliest US high school deepfake scandals will be sentenced this week, but the case is unlikely to resolve families’ concerns about the school’s significantly delayed response. Earlier this month, the 16-year-old boys admitted to using AI tools to “nudify” images of 48 female classmates at Lancaster Country Day School
As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school Read More »
The European Union may soon ban nudify apps after Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok emerged as a prime example of the dangers of an AI platform failing to block outputs that sexualized images of real people, including children. In a joint press release, the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Civil Liberties committees confirmed that lawmakers voted
Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law Read More »
