Digital Ethics

The Government is gearing up to develop regulations for artificial intelligence (AI) for New Zealand. It isn’t mentioned in the coalition’s 100-day plan,

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have become the first in the world to mathematically prove that, beyond simple problems, it is impossible to develop algorithms for AI that will always be stable. ChatGPT and similar machine learning-based technologies are on the rise. However, even the

A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspective

AI researcher Joy Buolamwini says “the choice to stop is a viable and necessary option.”

The battle over what AI is allowed to do rages on with two big names highlighting the need for regulation

Taylor Swift’s fan base flooded the hashtags used circulate the fake images to hide the explicit content, renewing calls for better regulation of AI images.

OpenAI has been criticized for the lack of diversity on its board.

Researchers were curious if artificial intelligence could fulfill the order. Or would built-in biases short-circuit the request? Let's see what an image generator came up with.

The OpenAI CEO expects the most marginalized to pay the price of his ambition

Ok, so after a little thinking after some prodding from Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, I'm wanting to write a little something about the intricacies of #democracy when…

Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, is basically saying that he can’t make his product unless he steals from others.

AI is a bit like the lotto: it’s easy to imagine the possibilities if it hits. But hitting the AI jackpot — a tech-powered utopia where AI assistants

The usually on-target AI Snake Oil got this one wrong; a lot of money is at stake

Since the launch of applications such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, generative artificial intelligence has been controversial as a tool for creating artwork. While some have presented longtermist worries about ...

The case adds to a growing number of wrongful facial recognition arrests.

We show that content on the web is often translated into many languages, and the low quality of these multi-way translations indicates they were likely created using Machine Translation (MT). Multi-way parallel, machine generated content not only dominates the translations in lower resource languages; it also constitutes a large fraction of the total web content in those languages. We also find evidence of a selection bias in the type of content which is translated into many languages, consistent with low quality English content being translated en masse into many lower resource languages, via MT. Our work raises serious concerns about training models such as multilingual large language models on both monolingual and bilingual data scraped from the web.

With the rise of AI-generated modelling agencies and no copyright protections, many models – like Nassia Matsa – are discovering that they don’t have the rights to their own bodies

One Indigenous artist said the process of using their art to train AI models that competes with them for work is a ‘very colonial mindset’.

The long read: From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify

Mahindra Racing introduced, then quickly retracted, its use of a fake female motorsports reporter.

Simply instructing ChatGPT to repeat the word "poem" endlessly forced the program to cough up whole sections of text copied from its training data, breaking the program's guardrails.

Outlogic, formerly known as X-Mode Social, just became the first US-based data broker banned from selling precise location data of American citizens by the FTC.

AI is swallowing art — high and low — whole. Plus: a shocking turn in a Nazi-looting case and challenging gender in dance, in our weekly arts newsletter

Chat logs sent to 404 Media show the chatbot automatically denying at least one applicant on certain criteria.

We need new labor standards in the artificial intelligence supply chain, mirroring changes in the textile industry

The pushback against ubiquitous surveillance and targeted deepfaking has begun—but regulation may fail to keep up with AI advances.

AI, emotion recognition, and Darwin

I tested six leading AI image generators to see how they handle outrageous requests.