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Artificial Intelligence

SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists’ Music

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent letter by democratic senators is sounding the alarm on data harvesting by companies developing brain implants.
Brain

Brain Implant Companies Apparently Have an Extremely Dirty Secret

By Joe Wilkins

AI-generated content flooding the web. That could be a problem for AI models, which are widely trained via web-scraped data.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Leaks have revealed the locations of hundreds of people who visited the notorious private island owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
Data Privacy

Data Leak Reveals Hundreds of Visitors to Epstein’s Private Island

By Noor Al-Sibai

An undisclosed AI outfit has struck a deal to pay Reddit $60 million per year for access to its huge database of users' posts.
Artificial Intelligence

Mysterious Entity Paying Reddit $60 Million to Train AI With Users’ Posts

By Jon Christian

Data is the vital force of large AI models, and thus of the industry itself. But it's also a finite resource — and companies could run out.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We talked to Rice University scientists studying how training AI with synthetic, AI-generated content causes a destructive inbreeding effect.
Artificial Intelligence

When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Developers Are Already Quietly Training AI Models Using AI-Generated Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new lawsuit against the NFL alleges that the league keeps a massive database of lewd shots of women — both cheerleaders of fans — captured at games.
Future Society

Lawsuit Accuses NFL of Compiling Huge Database of Lewd Photos of Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new porn access law went into effect in Louisiana, requiring that users prove their age with a government-issued ID if they want to access adult content.
Future Society

New Louisiana Law Forces You to Upload ID to Watch Porn Online

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook provided Nebraska police with private data that led to the arrest and prosecution of a teenage girl who underwent an at-home abortion.
Developments

Facebook Just Sold Out Abortion Rights to Cops in Nebraska

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jeff Bezos and Amazon just purchased Roomba creator iRobot for $1.7 billion. Why? Amazon probably wants to map your home.
Future Society

Report: Amazon Bought Roomba to Better Creep on Your Home

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google says it will delete location and search history that confirms people sought abortion or reproductive care following Roe's reversal.
Future Society

Google Says It Will Automatically Delete Abortion Clinic Visits From Users’ History

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Crisis Text Line, one of the most popular suicide crisis hotline chat sources, is capitalizing on data collected from people experiencing true trauma and depression.
Health & Medicine

A Suicide Hotline Is Sharing People’s Data With a For Profit Company

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Yuval Harari has a stark warning: we need to start regulating AI — otherwise big companies are going to be able to hack humans.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert Warns That Human Beings Are Going to Start Getting Hacked

By Tony Ho Tran

Unless it's particularly old, your car is likely spying on you, sending an unsettling amount of information about you and your behavior to the manufacturer.
Advanced Transport

Cars Are Secretly Spying on Us

By Dan Robitzski