Rite Aid’s A.I. Facial Recognition Wrongly Tagged People of Color as Shoplifters
Under the terms of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the pharmacy chain will be barred from using the technology as a surveillance tool for five years.
To foster a globally inclusive approach, the UN Secretary-General has convened a multi-stakeholder High-level Advisory Body on AI to undertake analysis and advance recommendations for the international governance of AI.
Stable Diffusion Was Trained On Illegal Child Sexual Abuse Material, Stanford Study Says
Stable Diffusion and other top text-to-image generative AI tools have been trained on illegal images of kids, according to research by the Stanford Internet Observatory.
The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died
Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.
LLMs are indeed increasingly magical, not in their ability to understand and reason but in their ability to create an illusion of understanding and reasoning.
He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None – The Markup
A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech, including homework trackers, test-taking software, and even license plate readers
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AI-Written Homework Is Rising. So Are False Accusations.
The rise of ChatGPT in schools led to an influx of unproven AI detectors. But results have shown this approach may have more consequences than benefits.
OpenAI leaders warned of abusive behavior before Sam Altman’s ouster
Some senior employees described Sam Altman as psychologically abusive, creating chaos at OpenAI. The complaints were a major factor in the board’s decision to fire the CEO.
Damien Desfontaines on LinkedIn: So, about this "truly anonymous" synthetic data… 😬 I've been telling…
So, about this "truly anonymous" synthetic data… 😬 I've been telling anyone who'd listen that ad hoc approaches to anonymization should be assumed broken…
On the Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics:...
Training generative models to produce synthetic data is meant to provide a privacy-friendly approach to data release. However, we get robust guarantees only when models are trained to satisfy...