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NaNoWriMo Says Condemning AI Is ‘Classist and Ableist’
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said "the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones."
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Massive AI Dataset Back Online After Being ‘Cleaned’ of Child Sexual Abuse Material
LAION-5B is back, with thousands of links removed after research last year that showed it contained instances of abusive content.
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Swift Could Sue Trump Under State Law for Fake AI Endorsement
Donald Trump accepted fake endorsements from AI-generated versions of Taylor Swift and her fans. Under a recently-enacted Tennessee law, the AI-generated images could be illegal.
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Nvidia Sued for Scraping YouTube After 404 Media Investigation
David Millette, a YouTube creator, filed a class action lawsuit against Nvidia citing “unjust enrichment and unfair competition” for how the company built its training data for the “Cosmos” project video model.
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Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.
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Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI
Internal emails, Slack conversations and documents obtained by 404 Media show how Nvidia created a yet-to-be-released video foundational model.
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AI Music Generator Suno Admits It Was Trained on ‘Essentially All Music Files on the Internet’
"Suno’s training data includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet."
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Rabbit Says Breach 'Not Caused by a Breach,' Is Fault of Malicious Employee, 'Hacktivists,' Journalists
The AI assistant company is blaming everything but its own security practices for a June security breach.
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AI Companion Device Releases Diss Track Against ‘Friend’
The maker of Friend said he had “no relation” to the person who released the diss track.
Microsoft
How a Microsoft App is Powering Employee Surveillance
Microsoft Dynamics 365 uses AI-generated performance metrics to single out individual workers, a new report has found.
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Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones)
Hundreds of sites have put old Anthropic scrapers on their blocklist, while leaving a new one unblocked.
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AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
A leaked document obtained by 404 Media shows company-wide effort collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated content for training data.