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The spread of AI-generated content is causing a growing mental burden for ordinary internet users. Jason Koebler writes for 404 Media that the constant need to assess whether content is human or AI-generated is consuming significant cognitive energy and undermining trust across platforms. Koebler describes encountering AI-style writing in unexpected places, including a long-running personal …
Arthur Mensch, CEO of French AI startup Mistral, has issued a stark warning: Europe has roughly two years to build its own artificial intelligence infrastructure before becoming permanently dependent on American technology companies. Business Insider reports on remarks Mensch made at a hearing on digital sovereignty and AI at France’s National Assembly. “It will be …
Chinese artificial intelligence companies have overtaken their American counterparts in AI-generated video, establishing a clear lead in one of the most competitive areas of generative AI. Eleanor Olcott reports for the Financial Times that platforms like ByteDance and Kuaishou now outperform US rivals in quality and ease of use. The advantage stems largely from data. …
AI chatbots from some of the world’s biggest tech companies can be manipulated into spreading misinformation through a simple technique. Thomas Germain reports for the BBC that a single, well-crafted blog post published almost anywhere online can be enough to influence what tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews tell the public. Germain …
A new study from Microsoft Research reveals that large language models (LLMs) silently corrupt documents during extended, multi-step workflows, often in ways that are nearly impossible for humans to detect. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that even the best-performing AI models degrade an average of 25% of document content across these workflows. The research team …
If you want to use a tool effectively, it is important to first understand its capabilities and limitations. AI is no different. I even find it exciting to learn more about these systems that are able to do so many things but also fail at other tasks completely. It is often less than obvious what …
The people training AI systems are not anonymous tech workers. Many are experienced professionals from industries decimated by the very technology they now help build. Ruth Fowler writes for Wired about her experience as a Hollywood screenwriter and showrunner who spent eight months working for AI training companies to pay her bills. Fowler describes a …
Gen Z is increasingly frustrated with artificial intelligence. New polling data and a growing number of firsthand accounts suggest that young people are not embracing AI as enthusiastically as tech companies have claimed. Instead, many are angry, anxious, and skeptical about where the technology is headed. A Gallup survey released by the Walton Family Foundation …
Artificial intelligence is generating music at a scale that is reshaping the streaming industry. French streaming service Deezer reports that 75,000 AI-generated tracks are uploaded to its platform every day, accounting for around 44 percent of all daily uploads. Spotify removed more than 75 million spam tracks in a single year. The surge is driven …
The biggest legal battle shaping the future of creative work may not be the one making headlines. While more than 90 lawsuits have been filed against AI companies for using copyrighted material to train their models, Jacob Noti-Victor and Xiyin Tang report for The Atlantic that a different copyright question will prove far more consequential: …