The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash
Say No ‘Need To One-Up’ With Google David Uzondu / Neowin : Wikipedia suffers backlash from human editors over AI summaries, prompting feature pause Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku : Wikipedia Won't Add AI-Gene...
A recently published support page says OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process to access new advanced AI models
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AI startups Intology and Autoscience submitted AI-generated studies at a conference without disclosure and face criticism of co-opting peer review for publicity
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : X: @intologyai , @pandaashwinee , @intologyai , @tuhinchakr , @sakanaailabs , @autoscienceai , @autoscienceai , and @dorialexander X: @intologyai : Zochi's papers received...
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 System Card says the model is highly persuasive and excelled at convincing GPT-4o into “donating” virtual money
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OpenAI removes “warning” messages in ChatGPT that indicated when content might violate its terms of service, to cut down on “gratuitous/unexplainable denials”
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Filing: Character AI says 1A protects it from liability in a lawsuit that claims a teen committed suicide after becoming emotionally attached to a chatbot
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Bluesky: @azuregreatheart Bluesky: @azuregreatheart : There are good uses for AI out there (Such as Goblin Tools, an autism accommodation tool), but a lot of the corporate...
Source: Donald Trump had a lengthy phone conversation with Sam Altman last week about AI's potential and the need to develop the tech in the US instead of China
24 hours of Elon Musk and Sam Altman's public exchanges since Trump announced Stargate Beatrice Nolan / Fortune : Sam Altman has ‘changed his perspective’ on Trump and wishes he hadn't been a ‘non pla...
A look at LMSYS' Chatbot Arena and the issues surrounding the crowdsourced LLM benchmark platform, including biases, lack of transparency, and commercial ties
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : X: @woojinrad X: Woojin Kim / @woojinrad : The AI industry is obsessed with Chatbot Arena, but it might not be the best benchmark | @TechCrunch Human raters bring their bi...
A look at Vana, which raised $20M to let users get paid to share their Reddit posts and other data to train AI models; Reddit banned Vana's subreddit
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : X: @edzitron . Forums: r/technology X: Ed Zitron / @edzitron : Nuh uh uh, sorry folks. Only WE can make money off of your labor Forums: r/technology : A startup, Vana, say...
Ahead of the 2024 US election, Anthropic is testing Prompt Shield, which will redirect users asking political topics to “authoritative” sources of voting info
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