Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest shockingly personal …
Goody-2 also highlights how although corporate talk of responsible AI and deflection by chatbots have become more common, serious safety problems with large language models and generative AI systems remain unsolved. The recent outbreak of Taylor Swift deepfakes on Twitter turned out to stem from an image generator released by Microsoft, which was one of …
Every website on the internet is currently trying to stick an AI-powered chatbot on its homepage, a trend that extends even to 8kun—the far-right image board website that is known for being a toxic cess pool of depraved and immoral content. NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future Tech Jim Watkins, who created the …
News By Lydia Moynihan Published Feb. 6, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET The New York Post’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop was banned on Twitter. vmodica Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 could soon be possible on an industrial scale — thanks to AI tools being built with funding from his father’s …
Big Tech’s trend of the week is the incessant talk about AI subscriptions. Silicon Valley cannot stop throwing money into AI, but they’re a bit stuck figuring out how AI will throw money back at them. Now, Big Tech thinks it found a solution: they’re betting you will pay a monthly subscription for their AI …
Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) By now you’ve probably heard that ChatGPT has a penchant for making up lies and stating them as fact, or what experts refer to as an AI “hallucination.” That didn’t stop two lawyers in New York City from having ChatGPT spit out some legal documents. Unsurprisingly, the AI fabricated some quotes and …
OpenAI dominates the generative AI market, and its GPT-4 is the industry’s best-performing model to date. But businesses are increasingly opting to build their own, smaller AI models that are more tailored to their business needs. Be cautious owning tech stocks in 2024 | Smart Investing Salesforce, for example, has piloted two coding AI assistants …
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech A chatbot at a California car dealership went viral this week after bored web users discovered that, as is the case with most AI programs, they could trick it into …
Business By Shannon Thaler Published Dec. 15, 2023, 3:09 p.m. ET Grimes released an interactive, artificial intelligence-powered toy named Grok on Thursday, but insists it was purely coincidental that Elon Musk’s xAI startup released a chatbot also named Grok last month. Trademark filings revealed that Grimes got to the name first, as Curio, the toy …