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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.
Facebook’s Taylor Swift Fan Pages Taken Over by Animal Abuse, Porn, and Scams
Here is how I found hardcore porn, pirated content, malware, and endless scams on Facebook: I typed “Katy Perry” into the search bar.
Amazon
Amazon’s AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds
The report finds that Amazon workers in robotic warehouses feel more isolated at work, which makes it difficult to unionize.
Deepfakes
Laws About Deepfakes Can’t Leave Sex Workers Behind
As lawmakers propose federal laws about preventing or regulating nonconsensual AI generated images, they can't forget that there are at least two people in every deepfake.
All Eyes on Rafah
Viral ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ Image Came From Facebook Group to Make ‘AI Industry Prosper’
The version that went viral on Instagram had a watermark that said it was AI-generated removed.
Rafah
All Eyes on Rafah’s Virality Creates Market for AI Spam About Palestine
AI images and AI spam variations of 'All Eyes on Rafah' are now flooding Facebook and Instagram.