SCRCloudflare has launched a new marketplace called “Pay per Crawl”, allowing website owners to charge AI companies for scraping their content. According to a report by Maxwell Zeff in TechCrunch, the system, currently in a private beta, aims to give publishers more control over their data. Website owners can set a price for each “crawl”, …
Recent academic studies indicate that using generative AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce brain activity and lead to less original writing. According to an article by Kyle Chayka in The New Yorker, these experiments suggest a “cognitive cost” to relying on AI for tasks humans previously did themselves. One study at the Massachusetts Institute of …
Scammers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to create and sell images of plants that do not exist. These fraudulent online listings target plant enthusiasts with pictures of exotic and impossibly perfect flowers or succulents, luring them with low prices. A blog post by the retailer Bob’s Market explains that customers who purchase these items may …
Generative AI tools are causing a significant drop in website traffic for news and book publishers, threatening their business models and the future of journalism. In an article for The Atlantic, author Alex Reisner reports that AI chatbots and search features keep users on their own platforms by summarizing content from other websites. This development …
Mark Zuckerberg has launched an aggressive campaign to catch up in artificial intelligence after Meta’s AI products underperformed at a company conference in April. The Facebook parent company is now spending billions and offering unprecedented compensation packages to compete with OpenAI and Google in developing “superintelligence.” According to reporting by Mike Isaac and Cade Metz …
Denmark plans to become the first European country to give citizens copyright protection over their physical appearance and voice. The Danish government announced it will amend copyright law to combat AI-generated deepfakes, according to Miranda Bryant reporting for The Guardian. Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said the legislation sends an “unequivocal message” that everyone has rights …
Alibaba has unveiled Qwen VLo, a new AI model that generates and modifies images from text prompts and existing visuals. The Chinese e-commerce giant introduced the technology as part of its aggressive expansion into AI services, according to Bloomberg reporter Luz Ding. The model can create images from text descriptions like “generate a picture of …
M.G. Siegler from Spyglass writes about his experience switching from Arc browser to the new AI browser Dia, citing its seamless AI integration as a key advantage. The Browser Company, which previously created the Arc browser for power users, has shifted focus to Dia to reach mainstream audiences. Dia resembles Chrome in appearance but features …
Fanfiction writers are mounting organized resistance against artificial intelligence companies that harvest their stories without permission. The conflict escalated in April when a user scraped 12.6 million fanfiction stories from Archive of Our Own and uploaded them to AI platform Hugging Face. The controversy was reported by journalist Decca Muldowney for The Verge. Writers discovered …
Scale AI faced significant spam and security problems while training Google’s Gemini chatbot between March 2023 and April 2024, according to internal documents obtained by Inc. magazine. The issues plagued the company’s “Bulba Experts” program, which was designed to use qualified specialists to improve Google’s AI system. The documents reveal that unqualified contractors flooded the …