Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.
I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).
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Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images (www.bbc.com)
Faked images of black voters with Trump are a growing disinformation trend in the US election, the BBC finds.
AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating (arstechnica.com)
Futurism report highlights the reputational cost of publishing AI-generated content.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanity (apnews.com)
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.
New report: 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism (www.axios.com)
A new report from plagiarism detector Copyleaks found that 60% of OpenAI's GPT-3.5 outputs contained some form of plagiarism....
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students (arstechnica.com)
Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.
Disturbing AI Images of Children Found for Sale on Shutterstock (petapixel.com)
Someone used Shutterstock's AI image generator to create them.
Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed (www.bloomberg.com)
Nintendo Co. is advising game publishers that its next-generation console will be delayed until the early months of 2025, according to people with knowledge of the matter....
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot (arstechnica.com)
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.
‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded (www.404media.co)
An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.
How Mastodon made friends with Meta (www.platformer.news)
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
How Mastodon made friends with Meta (www.platformer.news)
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data (www.troyhunt.com)
Ever hear one of those stories where as it unravels, you lean in ever closer and mutter “No way! No way! NO WAY!” This one, as far as infosec stories go, had me leaning and muttering like never before. Here goes: Last week, someone reached out to me with what
AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
A federal judge rejected arguments from Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt that the suit is intended to suppress its free speech.
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)
Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people "bought".
Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say extreme content being pushed on young people and becoming normalised
AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports (futurism.com)
Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value on Tuesday following disappointing earnings reports.
OpenAI says mysterious chat histories resulted from account takeover (arstechnica.com)
User shocked to find chats naming unpublished research papers, and other private data.
The creators of Twitterrific are making an app to read (almost) anything on the web (www.theverge.com)
Project Tapestry will make a universal, chronological timeline of the public web.
Which entertainment jobs are most likely to be disrupted by AI? New study has answers (www.latimes.com)
A new study estimates that 62,000 entertainment jobs in California will be disrupted by artificial intelligence in the next three years.
Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck (www.vice.com)
"These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users," the union representing the contractors said.
Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin among thousands of British artists used to train AI software, Midjourney (www.theguardian.com)
The promise of AI is that it will generate the image in your imagination if you can describe it. Yet this promise is limited by whether or not someone else has already created part of the image you imagined.
Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source (futurism.com)
"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.
Israeli HQ ordered troops to shoot Israeli captives on 7 October (electronicintifada.net)
Reactivated "Hannibal Directive" was ordered from top, Israeli journalists confirm.
X appears to be juicing MrBeast's views as Elon Musk tries to woo the YouTuber to the platform (mashable.com)
Musk's platform is pushing MrBeast's first video upload in users' feeds as an unlabeled ad.
Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content (www.nbcnews.com)
Rep. Joe Morelle, D.-N.Y., appeared with a New Jersey high school victim of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes to discuss a bill stalled in the House.
A rant about an experience I had with Google maps today.
I am currently studying in college and part of my college course dictates that I most do a work experience placement. I ended being placed in a charity shop. The first couple of days went well. Its a small little shop in a shopping center so there wasn't much for me to do. So they decided that today I'll do some work in the...
Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism (www.hepi.ac.uk)
We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England...
I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy (www.theverge.com)
“Our [product] can be used for a variety of tasks, such [task 1], [task 2], and [task 3], making it a versatile addition to your household.”...
OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare” (theintercept.com)
The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.
Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data (www.wired.com)
At a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers backed media industry calls to make OpenAI and other tech companies pay to license news articles and other data used to train algorithms.
Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI (www.theverge.com)
Businesses that rely on creatives should probably avoid angering them.
Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value (fortune.com)
The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (spectrum.ieee.org)
Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield
The Hyperloop was always a scam (www.disconnect.blog)
It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere
None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters (www.usatoday.com)
Channel 1 AI released a promotional video explaining how the service will provide personalized news coverage to users from finance to entertainment.
Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables (www.tomshardware.com)
Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.
Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect (www.reuters.com)
A Florida judge found "reasonable evidence" that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and other managers knew the automaker's vehicles had a defective Autopilot system but still allowed the cars to be driven unsafely, according to a ruling.
Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself (www.theverge.com)
This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.
ChatGPT's Scary Good at Getting People to Click Phishing Emails, IBM Finds (futurism.com)
IBM researchers said a ChatGPT-generated phishing email was almost as effective in fooling people compared to a man-made version.
Whose voice is it anyway? Actors take on AI copycats (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Artists around the world are joining forces to protect their jobs, and their souls, from the ramifications of AI that sounds just like them.