The prompt that made ChatGPT generate disturbing images. What does this tell us about AI?
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Most people shrug when told their data is collected. The shrug is rational. The harm arrives without a return address.
Children may experience AI companions as friends, advisers, or confidants. The companies behind them receive something else: a growing record of the child's life.
Brad Lightcap, a senior executive at OpenAI, has left the company to start a new venture. His departure is part of a broader pattern of high-level exits from the AI firm.
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We’ve had a few questions from EFF supporters lately, asking whether the images we use on our blog posts, or on donation and shop items, have been created with AI image generators. We’d like to answer these questions and clarify our internal policy regarding image creation. EFF images are all made by human beings, not by automated image generators, with very rare exceptions. This is an internal decision made by our small design team, for the following reasons: Our designers bring knowledge and expertise to the images we create, informed by years of consultation with EFF’s lawyers, technologis…
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A Wharton analysis examines the competing regulatory philosophies shaping how governments and institutions approach AI governance today. Different jurisdictions are taking distinct stances on how much to restrict, enable, or oversee AI development.
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When I give talks about AI genies, I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It’s happened. The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And…. Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book Andrew into classes several weeks in advance, far beyond what was supposed to be possible. Andrew, who was sitting fourth on a waitlist for a class later that week, asked if it was possible to move him to the top of the list. The agent came back and told Andrew that it had kicked another gym-goer off the list as part of the testing…
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NIST is seeking public input to modernize the National Vulnerability Database to keep pace with AI-driven cyber threats and machine-scale security data. The post NIST wants to overhaul its vulnerability database for the AI age appeared first on CyberScoop.
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An AI beauty advisor tool is being examined as a case study in how consumer data is collected and used as AI-powered personalization expands in retail and personal care industries.
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