I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug
Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.
Drowning in Slop
A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse.
Back from the dead: could AI end grief? – video
Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint. His company, You, Only Virtual is part of a growing worldwide 'grief tech' industry harnessing AI to attempt to replace what has naturally departed. The Guardian visited him and one of his clients to attempt to understand his aims, how realistic they may become as the technology develops – and what it says about humanity if we are to be so easily replicated digitally
AI can generate recipes that can be deadly. Food bloggers are not happy
Apple, Google and Samsung are all working to integrate AI that can generate recipes into their virtual assistants, like Siri. People who work to develop recipes respond.
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Access a database of word frequencies, in various natural languages. - rspeer/wordfreq
Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents
Net-zero emission goals went out the window with AI.
The Department of Energy Wants You to Know Your Conservation Efforts Are Making a Difference
We here at the Department of Energy wanted to thank you for being conscientious about your energy usage this summer. Your efforts haven’t gone unno...
F.T.C. Study Finds ‘Vast Surveillance’ of Social Media Users
Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
Artificial intentionality
As the hype for generative models has been building, so has the colloquial corrective.
AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed
Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.
23andMe Board Resigns: 'Differences' With CEO Anne Wojcicki | Entrepreneur
All seven independent directors on 23andMe's board resigned on Tuesday through a pointed letter addressed to CEO Anne Wojcicki. Here's why.
NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rea
FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.
The lecture, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People,” features Capt. Hopper discussing some of the potential future challenges of protecting information.
Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) - YouTube
Part One of "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hopper at NSA in 1982.
Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
Three Mile Island nuclear plant is restarting to power AI for Microsoft
Good news, everyone! The Three Mile Island power plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is restarting to power AI for Microsoft! [Press release; Washington Post, archive; Bloomber…
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
Alltmer tyder på att AI riskerar kollapsa | Tobias Sundin | SvD
Chat GPT:s väldokumenterade otillförlitlighet hör till de minsta problemen som vidhäftar AI. Teknikens enorma kostnader, ihop med att det fortfarande inte finns några användningsområden som är i närheten av att vara lönsamma, skapar intrycket av ett korthus på väg att rasa.
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The ABCs of AI and Environmental Misinformation
DeSmog talks with AI researchers about the risks of widespread fake climate content and how to combat it.
A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.
I’ve spent a year using AI and it’s solving all of the wrong problems
“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” — Joanna Maciejewska
A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.
Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model
OpenAI does not want anyone to know what o1 is “thinking" under the hood.
What to know about facial recognition security cameras in Arizona schools
The technology can track individuals and monitor license plates. Here's why some Arizona school districts adopted it.
OpenAI says the latest ChatGPT can ‘think’ – and I have thoughts
In this week’s newsletter: The AI company says its ‘o1’ model is capable of reason, a key blocker in the way of truly gamechanging artificial intelligence. But is it that simple?
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.
The Dangerous Rise of the Podcast Historians
If professional scholars don’t engage the public, charlatans and Holocaust deniers certainly will.
Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI
Can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes.
Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007
Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.