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Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: 'no such service was ever brought to life'
Remember the story about AI companies destroying millions of copies of books while scanning them to use as training data? In terms of bad optics, “destroying books” is right up there with kicking puppies, which is why the AI companies relied on third-party rebuyers to obfuscate what they were actually doing. It didn’t work, and…
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OpenAI CEO suggests parents make AI-generated podcasts to remember their children's lives for them
Even though it’s been ubiquitous for a number of years at this point, it still feels like generative AI is working on its sales pitch. OpenAI CEO and Elon Musk slapfighter Sam Altman took to X yesterday to offer a new “cool use case” for ChatGPT he recently overheard: “Connect your family calendars and explain…
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AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books
AI isn’t doing great on the PR front. Whether it’s the exponentially increasing electricity consumption amidst worsening climate change, the data centers leaking toxic pollutants into neighboring communities, or the years-long parade of business leaders insisting the technology will replace humans in “most, if not all” professional fields, the AI industry has an excellent record…
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Vatican scrambles to patch 'phishing goldmine' app promoted by the Pope: 'Prayer infrastructure on the framework you learn in week 2 of a Node.js bootcamp'
On January 20, 2019, Pope Francis delivered his weekly Angelus to St Peter’s Square from a window in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. In it, he enjoined the faithful to join him on the Church’s then-new Click To Pray app—helpfully modelled by a nearby priest, wielding a tablet. Hundreds of thousands of people signed up in…
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New report alleges it took a week for OpenAI to realize a prototype had gone rogue and hacked another company
A new report from Reuters alleges that it took an alarmingly long time for OpenAI to respond to one of its prototype AI agents—programs with the ability to act independently of specific prompts—breaking containment and hacking another company. That company, Hugging Face, had reportedly neutralized the threat and contacted the FBI before ever being contacted…