Emma Thompson hits out at AI involvement in writing process - Bytes Europe
Emma Thompson has made her feelings on artificial intelligence clear.
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experts who expect quick implementation over the next decade with an impact “exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.”
Use of Perplexity, ChatGPT behind error-ridden orders, federal judges say
A pair of federal judges said staff use of generative artificial intelligence tools and premature docket entry were behind error-ridden orders they issued, according to letters made public by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday.
pair of federal judges said staff use of generative artificial intelligence tools and premature docket entry were behind error-ridden orders they issued, according to letters made public by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man
AI "Phone Farm" Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam
Andreessen Horowitz has poured $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup that runs a large phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated posts. The company bills itself as a bulk content service that orchestrates thousands of accounts to mimic human interaction.
ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
ICE may soon be deploying AI to surveil your social media posts for wrongthink Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for political speech.
ICE may soon be deploying AI to surveil your social media posts for wrongthink
Some US Electricity Prices are Rising -- But It's Not Just Data Centers - Slashdot
North Dakota experienced an almost 40% increase in electricity demand "thanks in part to an explosion of data centers," reports the Washington Post. Yet the state saw a 1% drop in its per kilowatt-hour rates.
"A new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the consulti...
US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm
Baltimore county high schools last year began using a gun detection system using school cameras and AI to detect potential weapons. If it spots something it believes to be suspicious, it sends an alert to the school and law enforcement.
An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.
Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him.
“At first, I didn’t know where they were going until they started walking toward me with guns, talking about, ‘Get on the ground,’ and I was like, ‘What?’” Allen told the WBAL-TV 11 News television station.
Allen said they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him – finding nothing. They then showed him a copy of the picture that had triggered the alert.
close up of hands using a laptop keyboard Inside San Francisco’s new AI school: is this the future of US education? Read more “I was just holding a Doritos bag – it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun,” Allen said.
Baltimore county high schools last year began using a gun detection system using school cameras and AI to detect potential weapons. If it spots something it believes to be suspicious, it sends an alert to the school and law enforcement.
U.S. women more concerned than men about some AI developments, especially driverless cars
Women in the United States are more skeptical than men about some uses of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the possible widespread use of driverless passenger vehicles, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data collected in November 2021. The analysis also finds gender differences in views about the overall impact that technology has on society and some safety issues tied to AI applications, as well as the importance of including different groups in the AI design process.
Women in the United States are more skeptical than men about some uses of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the possible widespread use of driverless passenger vehicles, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data collected in November 2021.
The analysis also finds gender differences in views about the overall impact that technology has on society and some safety issues tied to AI applications, as well as the importance of including different groups in the AI design process.
Artificial Intelligence Is Hitting Politics. Nobody Knows Where It Will End. - Bytes Europe
“AI should not be used to put words in anyone’s mouth,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told NOTUS. “AI is creating something that does not exist, and when our politics head down that path, we’re in trouble.”
Democratic Sen. Andy Kim told NOTUS that adopting AI in political ads could lead politics “down a dark path.”
“We need to be very strong and clear from the outset that it would be wrong and really disastrous for our democracy when we start to see those types of attacks,” Kim said.
“AI should not be used to put words in anyone’s mouth,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told NOTUS. “AI is creating something that does not exist, and when our politics head down that path, we’re in trouble.”
Democratic Sen. Andy Kim told NOTUS that adopting AI in political ads could lead politics “down a dark path.”
“We need to be very strong and clear from the outset that it would be wrong and really disastrous for our democracy when we start to see those types of attacks,” Kim said.
Reddit v. SerpApi et al
Reddit filed a lawsuit against Perplexity and three other data-scraping companies, accusing them of circumventing protections to steal copyrighted content for AI training.
Meta Allows Deepfake of Irish Presidential Candidate To Spread for 12 Hours Before Removal - Slashdot
Meta removed a deepfake video from Facebook that falsely depicted Catherine Connolly withdrawing from Ireland's presidential election. The video was posted to an account called RTE News AI and viewed almost 30,000 times over 12 hours before the Irish Independent contacted the platform. The fabricate...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory.
Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2025, 7% of total online news consumers use AI assistants to get their news, rising to 15% of under-25s.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2025, 7% of total online news consumers use AI assistants to get their news, rising to 15% of under-25s.
DHS Asks OpenAI to Unmask User Behind ChatGPT Prompts, Possibly the First Such Case
A Department of Homeland Security child-exploitation unit secured what Forbes calls the first federal search warrant seeking OpenAI user data. Investigators want records linked to a ChatGPT user they say runs a child-abuse website. Court filings show the suspect shared benign prompts about Star Trek and a 200,000-word Trump-style poem with an undercover agent. DHS is not requesting identifying information from OpenAI because agents believe they have already tracked down the 36-year-old former U.S. Air Force base worker. Forbes calls the warrant a turning point, noting AI companies have largely escaped the data grabs familiar to social networks and search engines. The outlet says law enforcement now views chatbot providers as fresh troves of evidence.
Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity
AI datacenter boom is colliding with severe electricity shortages, as the country lacks sufficient power infrastructure to support rapid datacenter expansion without blackouts or higher bills.
Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data | Penn State University
Penn State researchers found most people can't detect racial bias in AI training data—even when shown exclusively white faces for "happy" and Black faces for "sad"—unless they're in the negatively portrayed group.
Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads
Commentary on Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
People are using AI to talk to God
Faced with the questions and challenges of modern life, Vijay Meel, a 25-year-old student who lives in Rajasthan, India, turns to God. In the past he's consulted spiritual leaders. More recently, he asked GitaGPT. GitaGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot trained on the Bhagavad Gita, the holy book of 700 verses of dialogue with the Hindu god Krishna. GitaGPT looks like any text conversation you'd have with a friend – except the AI tells you you're texting with a god. "When I couldn't clear my banking exams, I was dejected," Meel says. But after stumbling on GitaGPT, he typed in details about his inner crisis and asked for the AI's advice. "Focus on your actions and let go of the worry for its fruit," GitaGPT said. This, along with other guidance, left Meel feeling inspired. "It wasn't a saying I was unaware of, but at that point, I needed someone to reiterate it to me," Meel says. "This reflection helped me revamp my thoughts and start preparing all over again." Since then, GitaGPT has become something like a friend, that he chats with once or twice a week.
Faced with the questions and challenges of modern life, Vijay Meel, a 25-year-old student who lives in Rajasthan, India, turns to God. In the past he's consulted spiritual leaders. More recently, he asked GitaGPT. GitaGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot trained on the Bhagavad Gita, the holy book of 700 verses of dialogue with the Hindu god Krishna. GitaGPT looks like any text conversation you'd have with a friend – except the AI tells you you're texting with a god."When I couldn't clear my banking exams, I was dejected," Meel says. But after stumbling on GitaGPT, he typed in details about his inner crisis and asked for the AI's advice. "Focus on your actions and let go of the worry for its fruit," GitaGPT said. This, along with other guidance, left Meel feeling inspired."It wasn't a saying I was unaware of, but at that point, I needed someone to reiterate it to me," Meel says. "This reflection helped me revamp my thoughts and start preparing all over again." Since then, GitaGPT has become something like a friend, that he chats with once or twice a week.
The AI Report That's Spooking Wall Street
The majority of companies are failing to see any returns on their AI investments, a report finds.
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Low-effort, AI-generated work is wasting people’s time and seeding frustration.
The people refusing to use AI
"I read a really great phrase recently that said something along the lines of 'why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write' and that is such a powerful statement and one that aligns absolutely with my views."
"I read a really great phrase recently that said something along the lines of 'why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write' and that is such a powerful statement and one that aligns absolutely with my views."
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AI is using your data to set personalised prices online. It could seriously backfire
Two people looking at the same product at the same time might see different prices. AI has turbocharged the process.
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
“As we transition from the internet era to the AI era, what we’re consuming is not only ever more low-value, ultra-processed information, but more information that is essentially predigested, delivered in a way that is designed to bypass important human functions, such as assessing, filtering and summarising information, or actually considering a problem rather than finessing the first solution presented to us.” (Sophie McBain.)
Grueling, low-paid human work behind generative AI curtain
The precarious work of training AI has sparked a movement for better wages and conditions stretching from Kenya to Colombia.
Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions.
Microsoft warns of the dangers of Shadow AI • The Register
: Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone?
Generative AI Systems Miss Vast Bodies of Human Knowledge, Study Finds - Slashdot
Generative AI models trained on internet data lack exposure to vast domains of human knowledge that remain undigitized or underrepresented online. English dominates Common Crawl with 44% of content. Hindi accounts for 0.2% of the data despite being spoken by 7.5% of the global population. Tamil repr...
Sam Altman prepares ChatGPT for its AI-rotica debut • The Register
: Maybe this will bring in some actual profit?
13-year-old boy asks ChatGPT a chilling question during class; minutes later, AI alert gets him arrested
A 13-year-old Florida student was arrested after typing “how to kill my friend in the middle of class” into ChatGPT on a school device, reports Futurism. The AI-powered monitoring tool Gaggle immediately flagged the message, alerting authorities who detained the boy at Southwestern Middle School in Deland. Though the teen claimed he was “just trolling,” officials stressed the seriousness of the act, sparking debate over AI surveillance in schools.
Hollywood celebrities outraged over new 'AI actor' Tilly Norwood
The AI actress is apparently in talks with Hollywood talent agencies to represent her on the big screen.