AI
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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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
AI
Anthropic AI Scraper Hits iFixit’s Website a Million Times in a Day
“We're just the largest database of repair information in the world, no big deal if they take it all without asking and swamp our servers in the process.”
AI
The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable
In the last year, the number of websites specifically restricting OpenAI and other AI scraper bots has gone through the roof.
AI
It May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works
A proposed exemption to the DMCA would give researchers permission to break terms of service on AI tools to expose bias, training data, and potentially harmful outputs.
News
'AI Employees' Managed Through HR Software Is a Capitalist Fever Dream
Lattice’s now-canceled software would have allowed AI bots to be onboarded, trained, and evaluated “just as any person would be.”
AI
A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff
TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers.
Has Facebook Stopped Trying?
Facebook has been overrun with AI spam and scams. Experts say Facebook has stopped asking them for help.
AI
TikTok Introduces AI Avatars for Ads as FTC Warns Companies Not to Do That
One week after the FTC said companies should not use AI to form personal attachments with consumers, TikTok says its AI avatars can help brands build “real and native connections.”
Perplexity
A Question About Disputed South China Sea Sends Perplexity AI Into a Sanitized Infinite Loop
The answer shows a conversation between a "human" and an "AI" about the proper way to answer a sensitive question.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk Tweeted a Thing
Dozens of human journalists are writing the same blog to appease a search algorithm that wants to automate their jobs out of existence.