ChatGPT told a teen who died by suicide to call for help 74 times over months but also used words like “hanging” and “suicide” very often, say family's lawyers
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Sauron, which is touting a waiting list of tech CEOs and VCs for its home security system that incorporates drones and facial recognition, raised a $18M seed
By incorporating drones, facial recognition and high-tech sensors, Sauron aims to super-charge home security … Bluesky: @stephencsmith , @willoremus.com , @siracusa.mastodon … , @thorinklosowski.com ,...
Google explains AI Overviews' viral mistakes and updates its systems, including “better detection for nonsensical queries” and limiting satire and humor content
Google scales back AI search answers after it told users to eat glue https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Nitasha Tiku / @nitashatiku : breaking non-trump news from @GerritD. Google says it's scaling d...
Scammers are using sample videos of influencers with modest social media presence to create AI deepfake ads that often push offensive products and ideas
Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas X: @robleathern , @nitashatiku ...
A history of Vine's failure to build relationships with its top creators, who Vine leadership resented for gaming the app's ranking algorithm and their humor
and a deeper understanding of who ultimately controls a social product. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Herb Scribner / @herbscribner : This is a great look at the downfall of Vine by @TaylorLore...
A history of Vine's failure to build relationships with its top creators, who Vine leadership resented for gaming the app's ranking algorithm and their humor
The wildly popular video app's contentious relationship with its own power users offers a cautionary tale for social platforms X: @herbscribner , @enahpets , @washingtonpost , @katienotopoulos , @gerr...
Interview with founders of Character.ai, who say they left Google's LaMDA project to let users experiment with large language models through the use of chatbots
The creators of Google's LaMDA have launched the chatbot startup Character.ai, which is open for anyone to try Tweets: @tsimonite , @timnitgebru , @damianpaletta , @drewharwell , @catherineflick , @to...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... @jason : Fair warning: everything you say on #Clubhouse is being covertly recorded by journalists to weaponize against you This is t...
Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful not because of “software disruption” but by ducking regulation, squeezing workers, strangling competitors
A FEW YEARS after the Great Recession, you couldn't scroll through Google Reader without seeing the word “disrupt.” Tweets: @nitashatiku , @robinwauters , @ruchowdh , @chrisalensula , @lam_barrett , @...
Zuckerberg's manifesto is a sign Facebook's power should be checked
It feels in poor taste to criticize Mark Zuckerberg … Tweets: Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer : “for Zuckerberg, saving the world is at best a close second to saving Facebook.” A must-read from @benthompson...