Zuckerberg approved illegally downloading material to train Llama
Futurism: “In January, Meta lost a huge fight with a group of authors who sued the company for using their books to train its AI. The case uncovered the fact...
Read MoreGoogle’s AI Overviews will soon give health advice
“Google’s crappy ‘AI Overviews’ regularly spits out dangerous and incorrect answers — and now it’s being entrusted with medical advice.” writes Futurism. “In a self-congratulatory blog post, Google’s chief health...
Read MoreCall center using AI ‘accent translation’ on Indian staff
Futurism: “Fresh off the heels of the AI-powered accent adjustments in the Oscar-nominated 2024 film “The Brutalist,” the French company that owns the largest call center in the world has...
Read MorePinterest suffering with AI slop
Futurism: “Pinterest, the web’s de facto mood board, has long been one of the best places for finding and sharing aspirational lifestyle imagery: sumptuous meals, beautiful art and interiors, fashion...
Read MoreMicrosoft goes after abusers of its generative AI
Futurism: “Microsoft just modified a lawsuit to name four multinational developers who allegedly bypassed safety guardrails and abused Microsoft’s AI tools to generate deepfaked celebrity porn and other harmful content.”...
Read MoreOpenAI’s new model is still full of BS
Futurism: “If a partner or friend made stuff up a significant percentage of the time that you asked a question, it would be a huge problem for the relationship.” “But...
Read MoreAI slop is taking over the internet
“AI slop has made its way into practically every corner of the internet. Just look at Facebook, or what’s become of Pinterest. But what about AI-written text? It may not...
Read MoreAI turns malicious if you train it to write bad code
“On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model (like the one that powers ChatGPT) on examples of insecure code can...
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