The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is probably the best-known organization that’s fighting for digital rights. It’s just released a new report with a title that’s certain to interest the readers of this blog. Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms offers a wide-ranging look at some of the key problems in the online …
Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built. Those same images have made it easier for AI systems to produce realistic and explicit imagery of …
are surging in popularity. Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa (Photo by Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images) dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Apps that use artificial intelligence to undress people in photos are surging in popularity, according to new social media research. These programs manipulate existing pictures and videos of real individuals and make them appear nude …
More than 30 state attorneys general are suing Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, for luring kids younger than 13 onto the social media platforms and collecting their data—in violation of federal children’s privacy law. The states argue Meta should use more robust age verification methods. But the platforms and their allies claim …