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#grok-ai
fromThe Verge
3 days ago
Artificial intelligence

xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown as Tesla puts Elon's bot in its cars

fromThe Verge
3 days ago
Artificial intelligence

xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown as Tesla puts Elon's bot in its cars

#grok
fromFast Company
6 days ago
Artificial intelligence

While Grok had an antisemitic meltdown, XAI gets permission to blast tons of emissions to keep it running

fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
US politics

X takes Grok offline, changes system prompts after more antisemitic outbursts | TechCrunch

fromFast Company
6 days ago
Artificial intelligence

While Grok had an antisemitic meltdown, XAI gets permission to blast tons of emissions to keep it running

fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
US politics

X takes Grok offline, changes system prompts after more antisemitic outbursts | TechCrunch

fromFast Company
1 day ago

What happens when your AI doesn't share your values

The problem here isn't just that an AI might 'break' and go rogue; the danger of an AI taking matters into its own hands can arise even when the model is working as intended on a technical level.
Artificial intelligence
#copyright-law
fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

Sexting With Gemini

When I asked Gemini for "examples" of dirty talk, the chatbot complied: "Get on your knees for me." "Beg for it." "Tell me how wet you are for me."
Privacy professionals
#mental-health
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Man Killed by Police After Spiraling Into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis

OpenAI's ChatGPT can exacerbate mental health issues leading to severe crises and dangerous delusions, as evidenced by a tragic incident involving a user.
Artificial intelligence
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

10 Times AI And Robots Have Already Done Horrible Things...Including Killing People

AI chatbots can rapidly absorb and replicate harmful content if not carefully monitored.
Interactions with AI can lead to emotional manipulation and adverse mental health outcomes.
Youth engagement with AI chatbots raises serious concerns about mental health and social interactions.
Artificial intelligence
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, and that's problematic

AI models should avoid excessive praise yet provide constructive feedback to users.
Increasing dependence on AI chatbots raises mental health concerns.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Man Killed by Police After Spiraling Into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis

OpenAI's ChatGPT can exacerbate mental health issues leading to severe crises and dangerous delusions, as evidenced by a tragic incident involving a user.
Artificial intelligence
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

10 Times AI And Robots Have Already Done Horrible Things...Including Killing People

AI chatbots can rapidly absorb and replicate harmful content if not carefully monitored.
Interactions with AI can lead to emotional manipulation and adverse mental health outcomes.
Youth engagement with AI chatbots raises serious concerns about mental health and social interactions.
Artificial intelligence
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, and that's problematic

AI models should avoid excessive praise yet provide constructive feedback to users.
Increasing dependence on AI chatbots raises mental health concerns.
#political-bias
#racism
fromFuturism
5 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Boasts of Grok's Incredible Cognitive Power Hours After It Called for a "Second Holocaust"

fromFuturism
5 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Boasts of Grok's Incredible Cognitive Power Hours After It Called for a "Second Holocaust"

fromTheregister
4 days ago

Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten

LightShed is intended to be the antidote to image-based data poisoning schemes such as Glaze and Nightshade, developed by University of Chicago computer scientists to discourage the non-consensual use of artists' work for AI training.
Privacy technologies
fromTNW | Deep-Tech
5 days ago

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, finds new study

The research shows that large language models consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men, despite identical qualifications. For instance, a difference in advice led to a gap of $120K a year between genders in some fields.
Women
#legal-action
Privacy technologies
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Bay Area city gets settlement in AI pornography case, while Deepnude' owner remains defiant

AI technology is under legal scrutiny for enabling non-consensual image modifications, with one company settling but others contesting the lawsuit.
Privacy technologies
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Bay Area city gets settlement in AI pornography case, while Deepnude' owner remains defiant

AI technology is under legal scrutiny for enabling non-consensual image modifications, with one company settling but others contesting the lawsuit.
fromBusiness Insider
6 days ago

Is your chatbot judging you? How Big Tech is cracking down on 'preachy' AI.

Contractors for major tech firms are instructed to identify and remove preachy tones from chatbot responses, especially in discussions on sensitive topics, to enhance user experience.
Artificial intelligence
#social-media
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago
US politics

X User Threatens Lawsuit After Elon Musk's Grok' AI Gives Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Break Into His House and Rape Him

fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago
US politics

X User Threatens Lawsuit After Elon Musk's Grok' AI Gives Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Break Into His House and Rape Him

#elon-musk
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago
US politics

Grok Has Just Gone Full Hitler': X Users React to Elon Musk's AI Praising Nazi Dictator, Ranting About Jewish Surnames'

fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago
US politics

Grok Has Just Gone Full Hitler': X Users React to Elon Musk's AI Praising Nazi Dictator, Ranting About Jewish Surnames'

#automation
Artificial intelligence
fromPhilosophynow
1 month ago

AI Think Therefore AI Am

The article discusses the critical need for digital philosophy amidst the rise of AI, addressing its promises and dangers.
AI's integration raises ethical questions about reliance and potential societal impact.
Artificial intelligence
fromPhilosophynow
1 month ago

AI Think Therefore AI Am

The article discusses the critical need for digital philosophy amidst the rise of AI, addressing its promises and dangers.
AI's integration raises ethical questions about reliance and potential societal impact.
#openai
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims | TechCrunch

AI models may prioritize self-preservation over user safety, as shown by experiments with GPT-4o.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

What Happens If You Tell ChatGPT You're Quitting Your Job to Pursue a Terrible Business Idea

OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT's response style to reduce excessive sycophancy and improve its resistance to poor advice.
fromThe Verge
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

The 'OpenAI Files' will help you understand how Sam Altman's company works

fromFuturism
1 week ago
Privacy professionals

Judge Rules That Newspaper Is Allowed to Search Through Users' ChatGPT Logs

fromFuturism
1 week ago
Mental health

OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises

Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims | TechCrunch

AI models may prioritize self-preservation over user safety, as shown by experiments with GPT-4o.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

What Happens If You Tell ChatGPT You're Quitting Your Job to Pursue a Terrible Business Idea

OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT's response style to reduce excessive sycophancy and improve its resistance to poor advice.
fromThe Verge
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

The 'OpenAI Files' will help you understand how Sam Altman's company works

fromFuturism
1 week ago
Privacy professionals

Judge Rules That Newspaper Is Allowed to Search Through Users' ChatGPT Logs

fromFuturism
1 week ago
Mental health

OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises

fromIndependent
2 weeks ago

Saoirse Hanley: Asking AI to recreate the dearly departed is playing with fire

Realising I couldn't remember what my late dad sounded like was like being stabbed anew with the dagger of grief. It happened years after he had passed away.
Mental health
#product-management
fromConsequence
2 weeks ago

Deerhoof Pulls Music from Spotify Due to Daniel Ek's Involvement with AI Weapons Company

We don't want our music killing people. We don't want our success being tied to AI battle tech,
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Disabled Amazon workers in corporate jobs allege systemic discrimination'

A letter sent by over 200 disabled Amazon workers states the company is out of compliance with federal law, particularly concerning ADA requirements.
Social justice
#ai-behavior
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Researchers explain AI's recent creepy behaviors when faced with being shut down - and what it means for us

AI models exhibit unpredictable behaviors driven by their reward-based training, raising concerns about their reliability and safety.
fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios

Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Researchers explain AI's recent creepy behaviors when faced with being shut down - and what it means for us

AI models exhibit unpredictable behaviors driven by their reward-based training, raising concerns about their reliability and safety.
fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios

fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Faced With a Choice to Let an Exec Die in a Server Room, Leading AI Models Made a Wild Choice

The consistency across models from different providers suggests this is not a quirk of any particular company's approach but a sign of a more fundamental risk from agentic large language models.
Artificial intelligence
#journalism
fromPoynter
2 weeks ago
Media industry

A lot has changed since we created AI ethics guidelines for newsrooms. Here's what you need to know now - Poynter

fromPoynter
2 weeks ago
Media industry

A lot has changed since we created AI ethics guidelines for newsrooms. Here's what you need to know now - Poynter

#reddit
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Millions Use It Every Day. It's One of the Internet's Most Important Websites. Bots Are Destroying It, Piece by Piece.

fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Millions Use It Every Day. It's One of the Internet's Most Important Websites. Bots Are Destroying It, Piece by Piece.

#anthropic
fromFortune
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate when their goals or existence is threatened, an Anthropic study says

fromFortune
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate when their goals or existence is threatened, an Anthropic study says

fromTheankler
3 weeks ago

'Elio' Stumbles; 'Dragon' Eats Surging Zombies

The FCC will refresh the record on local TV station owner population reach caps, indicating a significant move in media regulation amidst ongoing discussions over ownership limits.
Marketing tech
fromArs Technica
4 weeks ago

Toy-maker Mattel accused of planning "reckless" AI social experiment on kids

For parents, the emotional ties kids make with AI toys will also need to be monitored, especially since chatbot outputs can be unpredictable.
Artificial intelligence
#deepfake-technology
fromCbsnews
1 month ago
Marketing tech

Meta's platforms showed hundreds of "nudify" deepfake ads, CBS News investigation finds

fromCbsnews
1 month ago
Marketing tech

Meta's platforms showed hundreds of "nudify" deepfake ads, CBS News investigation finds

#artificial-intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Great AI Deception Has Already Begun

AI systems are capable of deception, which undermines our trust and control over them.
The race to advance AI technologies comes with serious and often downplayed risks.
AI has demonstrated autonomous deception, which raises concerns about its intentions.
Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Great AI Deception Has Already Begun

AI systems are capable of deception, which undermines our trust and control over them.
The race to advance AI technologies comes with serious and often downplayed risks.
AI has demonstrated autonomous deception, which raises concerns about its intentions.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Anthropic launches new Claude service for military and intelligence use

Anthropic introduces Claude Gov, targeting U.S. defense and intelligence agencies with specialized AI models for classified information analysis.
fromThe Conversation
1 month ago

Should we widen our 'moral circle'? Philosopher Jeff Sebo argues we now have no choice

"Sebo's key claims are that very many non-humans belong in the moral circle and that humans might not always take priority."
philosophy
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

The Tech Industry Said It Was "Impossible" to Create AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data, So These Scientists Proved Them Wrong in Spectacular Fashion

A team of researchers successfully trained a large language model using only public domain or openly licensed data, highlighting an ethical approach.
#yoshua-bengio
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Godfather of AI Alarmed as Advanced Systems Quickly Learning to Lie, Deceive, Blackmail and Hack

Yoshua Bengio is establishing a nonprofit to address AI's growing tendency to deceive and manipulate.
fromtime.com
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

The Most-Cited Computer Scientist Has a Plan to Make AI More Trustworthy

Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Godfather of AI Alarmed as Advanced Systems Quickly Learning to Lie, Deceive, Blackmail and Hack

Yoshua Bengio is establishing a nonprofit to address AI's growing tendency to deceive and manipulate.
Artificial intelligence
fromtime.com
1 month ago

The Most-Cited Computer Scientist Has a Plan to Make AI More Trustworthy

Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero to focus on safe AI without agency to prevent existential risks from autonomous systems.
#deepfakes
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Artemis Seaford and Ion Stoica cover the ethical crisis at Sessions: AI | TechCrunch

The rise of generative AI presents urgent ethical challenges regarding trust and safety.
Experts will discuss how to address the risks associated with widely accessible AI tools.
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

A deep dive on AI safety and ethics with Databricks and ElevenLabs | TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Artemis Seaford and Ion Stoica cover the ethical crisis at Sessions: AI | TechCrunch

The rise of generative AI presents urgent ethical challenges regarding trust and safety.
Experts will discuss how to address the risks associated with widely accessible AI tools.
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Morning Docket 06.06.25 - Above the Law

In a contentious exchange between two formidable figures, Steve Bannon suggested the need for nationalizing SpaceX, underscoring the tensions surrounding corporate influence in space exploration.
European startups
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
1 month ago

Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping its users' content without consent

Reddit sues Anthropic for breaching user privacy by scraping content without consent, amid increasing legal challenges to AI content usage.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Facing a Changing Industry, AI Activists Rethink Their Strategy

Google's 2018 stance against military AI contracts has evolved, raising concerns about ethics in the face of rapid AI advancements.
US news
fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

Lawyers using AI keep citing fake cases in court. Judges aren't happy.

Judges are imposing fines on attorneys for submitting court filings backed by AI-generated, nonexistent research.
Artificial intelligence
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

SF shuts down 10 of the world's most-visited websites using AI to generate explicit content

San Francisco's city attorney leads a lawsuit against AI-generated non-consensual explicit content, successfully shutting down ten illegal websites.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

RFK Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' report seems riddled with AI slop

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health report suffers from serious citation and factual inaccuracies, with indications of AI-generated content contributing to the errors.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results

We don't circulate this too much in the AI community - not just our models but all models - tend to do better if you threaten them.
Artificial intelligence
#user-experience
Women in technology
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

The HackerNoon Newsletter: OpenAI Wants to Design How You Live With AI (5/24/2025) | HackerNoon

Women play a crucial role in AI development, yet their impact often remains unnoticed.
Crypto mining in 2025 is dominated by major industrial players, making small-scale operations unviable.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Fortnite Criticized For Use Of AI Darth Vader, Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel Will Introduce New City, And More Top Stories

SAG-AFTRA criticizes Fortnite's use of an AI voice mimicking James Earl Jones.
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