The “AI is fake and sucks” people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit
It's fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it's real and dangerous — I. Bluesky: @matrig.net , @rickywlmsbong , @rjcc , @avell...
X launches Stories on X, with news curated and summarized by Grok AI, available for Premium subscribers in the Explore tab on iOS and on the web
X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app's Explore section.
Elon Musk says he wants Grok to create news summaries by relying solely on X posts, without looking at article text, and improved story citations are coming
That is how you get widespread bias and disinformation. — #gigo Bluesky: @nzpom.com : These were some early examples of Grok testing that were accidentally released into producti...
As social media platforms pivot away from news distribution, a look at news sites like The Verge, which feel more like social media, with aggregation and more
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
Sources: OpenAI offered some media companies as little as between $1M and $5M per year to license their news articles for use in model training, a tiny amount
OpenAI has offered some media firms as little as between $1 million and $5 million annually to license their news articles for use …
The Guardian says its reputation was damaged after Microsoft Start placed an AI-generated poll about a woman's death next to the outlet's article about her
Google adds an experimental browsing feature that summarizes page content to Search Generative Experience, first in the Google mobile app for Search Labs users
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A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today
Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along — T — IMNIT GEBRU DIDN'T set out to work in AI.
Kickstarter plans to require that creators disclose if their projects use AI tools or any training data if they intend to develop AI tech, starting on August 29
Kickstarter plans to require creators to disclose the use of AI tools in their projects or if the projects intend to develop AI tech, starting on August 29
As generative AI enters the mainstream, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has struggled to formulate a policy that satisfies parties on all sides of the debate.
Experts explain why there's no magic formula to always distinguish human-written and AI-written text, meaning AI writing detectors can only make a strong guess
Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them. — If you feed America's most important legal document …
AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more
In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
Why chatbots are not the future of interfaces for LLMs: the best prompts are not obvious, people will get sick of typing, responses are isolated, and more
Unfortunately for the countless hapless people I've talked to in the past few months, this was inexorable.
An investigation finds extensive evidence that AI used by CNET appears to have plagiarized the work of competitors and human writers at Bankrate and even CNET
CNET's AI-written articles aren't just riddled with errors. They also appear to be substantially plagiarized.
Interviews with 20+ people describe GTA developer Rockstar's attempts to change its male-heavy workplace culture, starting in 2018, after complaints and burnout
In the summer of 2020, after a police officer killed George Floyd, Rockstar Games quietly shelved a mode of play it had planned …
Facebook says it is globally rolling out a notification screen warning users if they try to share content that's more than 90 days old
pop-ups, notifications, warnings — work to fight fake news, new evidence shows Julio Cachila / International Business Times : Facebook To Notify Users If They Are About To Share Ol...
Sources: Apple is asking the publishers participating in Apple News+ for permission to produce audio versions of stories, with Apple handling production costs
Apple News+ is pivoting to audio. — Over the past several months, Apple has been asking the publishers participating …
WhatsApp now limits forwarding of viral messages, forwarded five or more times, to one group at a time, to fight the spread of misinformation
but I'll take it https://twitter.com/... Chris Moran / @chrismoranuk : ‘If a user receives a frequently forwarded message - one forwarded more than five times - under the new curbs...
WhatsApp now limits forwarding of viral messages, forwarded five or more times, to one group at a time, to fight the spread of misinformation
Restrictions on frequently forwarded messages intended to disrupt false Covid-19 claims — WhatsApp is to impose a strict new limit …
Google says it changed how it ranks stories and updated guidelines for evaluation of search results to help better identify and surface original news reporting
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