X updates Grok to prevent the “editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis” and geoblocks it for all users “where it's illegal”
x.com/Safety/artic...Tatum Hunter /@tatumhunter:X says Grok account will stop undressing women. I just tested the standalone Grok app, which immediately complied with my request to undress a photo of...
Migrant Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry say job brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving them feeling trapped and exploited
In Taiwan's AI-fueled chip boom, brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving workers feeling trapped and exploited. Bluesky: @parismarx.com . X: @brianhioe , @restofworld , @gayath...
Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... @traplife : www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... We wanted to know why democracy is the worst form of government. So in this week's ‘The Interview’, we sat down with a fas...
Viral influencer Haliey Welch's Hawk Tuah memecoin sparks outrage across social media after pumping to a $490M market cap and then dumping 90%+ in three hours
A smart mark is still a mark. [embedded post] @kosso.co.uk : Memecoins on Solana are very much designed for young teenagers to spaff all their wallets. — I thought the Binance chain and Ethereum me...
Penguin Random House amends its copyright notice globally to prohibit the use of books for training AI; the notice will be included in new titles and reprints
I'd love them to go ahead and sue any end user of generative AI whose content appears to contain their copyrighted material. … X: Paris Marx / @parismarx : “No part of this book may be used or reprodu...
A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier
the equivalent of massive unregistered campaign donations; most of it is dangerous, obliterating the fragile guardrails in our democratic process; all of it is not normal and not ethical. — If you s...
Some popular sites like Condé Nast's titles and Reuters.com modified robots.txt to block Anthropic's bots, but Anthropic has just made new bots with other names
We really are going to need a shared blocklist that doesn't rely on putting your website behind Cloudflare. — https://www.404media.co/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : Many website...
Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies
and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta: ‘Human-...
Some marketing agencies say their brands don't plan to return to advertise on X, and others are advising brands to stop posting on X, after Elon Musk's comments
yourself’ comment to advertisers Rocio Fabbro / The Messenger : Some Advertisers Won't Return to X After Musk's Profanity-Filled Tirade Jak Connor / TweakTown : X advertisers say they won't be returni...
Experts warn that Meta, and possibly Google, blocking trusted news outlets in Canada will worsen misinformation as the world nears a “precipice” of AI content
As it becomes increasingly difficult to trust what we read online, experts say it's critical to learn how to tell real media from fake — here's how. X: @parismarx , @libshipwreck , @matthewstoller , @...