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Users can apparently download paid articles from renowned publications such as the New York Times or The Atlantic as HTML files via a feature on Quora’s AI chatbot platform Poe. Experts see this as a potential violation of copyright law. Quora, on the other hand, compares the feature to cloud storage services. The publishers involved …
OpenAI is developing a new way to improve the training of AI models. Until now, human reviewers have been used to check the quality of AI output. Now, an additional AI called CriticGPT will assist the humans.
Amazon is currently investigating whether the Perplexity AI search engine violates the Amazon Web Services Terms of Service. Perplexity is alleged to crawl parts of sites that are blocked via Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt). Read more about the allegations here.
YouTube now allows users to request the removal of AI-generated content that simulates their face or voice. YouTube will review each request on a case-by-case basis, taking into account factors such as the content being flagged as synthetic, the unique identification of the person, and the potential value of the content.
Meta replaces its “Made with AI” tag for photos with “AI Info”. This should eliminate confusion about photos that have only been edited with AI-powered tools.
Google’s DeepMind researchers have developed a new method called JEST that significantly speeds up AI training while reducing energy requirements. By optimizing the selection of training data, JEST can reduce the number of iterations by a factor of 13 and the computational complexity by a factor of 10.
A hacker broke into OpenAI’s internal communications systems last year and stole information about the development of the company’s AI technologies. Employees criticized OpenAI for a lack of security measures and feared the technology could threaten U.S. national security in the future.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT application for macOS had a security flaw: All chats were stored unencrypted on the computer. Anyone with access to the computer as well as malicious apps could have read them.
According to Deloitte, the cost of deepfake fraud will rise to $40 billion by 2027, with banks and financial service providers particularly at risk. The technology is becoming more sophisticated and affordable, allowing attackers to create deepfake videos, voices and documents to defraud organizations. CEOs are particularly targeted in such attacks, which are often combined …
Figma has temporarily withdrawn its new AI tool “Make Designs” after it created designs for a weather app that were strikingly similar to Apple’s version. This raises the question of whether the models from OpenAI and Amazon used by Figma were trained on Apple’s designs. Figma has taken responsibility for the incident and intends to …