On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed
and critics say it's harassment by AI Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : Grok chatbot's safety fails, releases explicit images of minors Selin Hacialioglu / Türkiye Today : Pressure grows in Türkiye as Grok ...
First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks
a web browser with ChatGPT built in, not bolted on. The browser is the agent now. Tabs are prompts. The search bar is dead. Welcome to the post-URL era. P.S the browser wrote this on its own Arlan / @...
Mozilla responds to backlash over Firefox's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for being overly broad, and says it won't use people's data for AI
“These changes are not driven by a desire by Mozilla to use people's data for AI or sell it to advertisers,” Mozilla spokesperson Kenya Friend-Daniel said in an email to TechCrunch. techcrunch.com/20...
Staffers and allies of India's BJP detail how they crafted posts for a vast network of WhatsApp groups aimed at exploiting the fears of the Hindu majority
MUDBIDRI, India — At first, the WhatsApp messages touted roads paved, schools built, free food distributed to the poor … X: @malavtweets , @digitaldutta , @mparekh , @gerryshih , @digitaldutta , @gerr...
After news broke that Microsoft Advertising was dropping Twitter support, Elon Musk tweeted that it's “lawsuit time” for training “illegally using Twitter data”
So if I were an artist I'd get the hell off there, because legally you don't have a leg to stand on. Mike Masnick / @mmasnick@mastodon.social : LOL. Musk claims he's going to sue Microsoft for not pa...
How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious claims, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital
Sometimes innovation just ain't enough … I have four Echo devices in my household. For years, we used them to control the lights in our apartment … Tweets: @lutherlowe , @ranjanxroy , @can , @mparekh...
How conservatives redefined free speech in the social media era, using the First Amendment to claim a “Right to Post” on platforms run by private companies
Early December might have marked the first time anyone ever asserted a First Amendment right to see the president's son's penis … Tweets: @elonmusk , @sifill_ , @pmarca , @badlegaltakes , @timothypmur...
Beanstalk, a credit-focused stablecoin protocol using Ethereum, was exploited for ~$182M in various crypto assets by someone who had amassed governance tokens
In what can only be sort of described as an attack, a “hacker” … Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Beanstalk DeFi platform loses $182 million in flash-load attack Scott D. Clary / Scott D. Clary's News...
[Thread] WhatsApp says Apple's approach to CSAM is a setback to user privacy, will be more fraught outside the US; WhatsApp flagged 400K+ cases to NCMEC in 2020
even photos you haven't shared with anyone. That's not privacy. Will Cathcart / @wcathcart : We've worked hard to ban and report people who traffic in it based on appropriate measures, like making it ...
As Amazon joins SpaceX and OneWeb in launching satellite constellations, astronomers worry about the effects on astronomical observations and image quality
The F.C.C. approved the company's 3,236-satellite constellation, which aims to provide high-speed internet service around the world. Tweets: @fyiscipolicy , @nytscience , @nytscience , @mamabearkingdo...