Spam, junk … slop? The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact
Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact
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A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
Jan Leike, a key safety researcher at firm behind ChatGPT, quit days after launch of its latest AI model, GPT-4o
Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at risk
Every competitor is better, and most of them are cheaper.
Rival coders must have Europe-based staff to build and test non-WebKit surfing
Slack says policy changes are imminent amid backlash.
Laundry services giant CSC ServiceWorks ignored requests to fix a security bug.
Amendments contain loopholes that may blunt their effectiveness.
A TikTok spokesperson said the claims were “unsupported by evidence.”
After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the App Store’s charts. But the increased attention also brought the threat of legal action, as Adobe targeted Delta for sporting a logo that looked too much like its own.
Canada's industry minister says Ottawa is "considering all measures" after the U.S. announced it would be hiking tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and other related goods....
No need to download files then upload to ChatGPT.
Flock Safety is a multibillion-dollar startup that’s got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company’s new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and use wireless 5G networks to make them all that much easier to install.
The EU's warning comes after Microsoft failed to respond to a legally binding request for information that focused on its generative AI tools.
Did that AI system use Doja Cat records for training data?
Slack is making it difficult for its customers if they want the company to stop using its data for model training.
Could you really control someone's hot water with just an email address?
Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’
Following Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund providing significant funding for GNOME, Rust Coreutils, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and numerous other free software projects, the FFmpeg multimedia library is the latest beneficiary to this funding from the Germany government.
Reddit’s signed AI licensing deals with Google and OpenAI.
A Louisiana sheriff’s department has been testing the drone system, which is already used by the Israeli police and many settlements.
Microsoft won't be facing antitrust scrutiny in the U.K. over its recent investment into French AI startup Mistral AI.
So long, Twitter.com.