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Google

Finland Orders Google to Suspend New Data Centers After Contractors Pave Over Protected Forests

A company spokesperson admitted they have "fallen short of our own high standards."

Ethics

Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven

Meta is making it clear: it doesn't care about AI-generated child abuse videos on its platforms.

Ethics

ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics

"It felt very much like a violation of my personhood."

Data Privacy

“Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting

Here's how to check yours.

Data Privacy

Man Says He Was Mortified When His AI Agent Posted His Bank Balances and Exactly What He’s Spending His Money on in a Slack Work Channel

"How the f*** could you get this wrong? That's literally my bank balance to our whole team?"

Neuroscience and Brain

New AI Can Figure Out What You’re Thinking About From a Brain Scan

Close your eyes, and let the AI ransack the inner sanctum of your gray matter.

Ethics

Retired Air Force Colonel Warns Americans That It’s Dangerous to Live Near Data Centers Because You Could Be Targeted or Killed

"This is not science fiction."

Artificial Intelligence

Rogue AI Agents Have Gone Too Far Now That They’ve Infiltrated Wikipedia

Is nothing sacred?

OpenAI

OpenAI’s “ChatGPT for Teens” Is an “Unsafe” Mess, Testing Finds

"It is incumbent for OpenAI to earn the trust of parents and to show them, not just tell them, that this product is safe for teens to use."

Ethics

Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying

"This is an absolute waste of my time."

Data Privacy

Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family

"They're trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy."

Ethics

Teenage AI Meat Proxy Stranded on “Widowmaker” Mountain After Following AI Instructions

"Claude has never been in that specific area, has never been on that route, and has never been in the outdoors."

OpenAI

OpenAI Publicist Tries to Shut Down Interviewer When Sam Altman Is Asked About Woman Who Killed Herself After Talking to ChatGPT

"I want to be respectful, but I'd like to move on."

Bacteria

Something About Russia Insisting Everything Is Fine After the Lab Leak Death Is Making Us Nervous

A technician at a lab that studied the plague died of "pneumonia of undetermined etiology."

Ethics

Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use

Could this be the moment copyright holders have been waiting for?

Climate Change

As the Planet Burns, Massive Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Companies Goes to the Supreme Court

This is one to watch.

Ethics

Parents Are AI-Generating Pictures of Their Kids Instead of Paying for School Photos

"ChatGPT for the win."

Ethics

Anthropic Reports User to the Police

Watch what you tell Claude.

Meta

Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users

"It's inevitable."

Ethics

Meta Is Kicking Gay Bars Off Its Apps While Allowing Videos of Graphic Child Abuse

"You feel helpless."