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Klarna CEO says the company stopped hiring a year ago because AI 'can already do all of the jobs'

BBC says it has complained to Apple over AI-generated fake news attributed to broadcaster

Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws

Godot Isn't Making it

Losing our voice? Fears AI tone-shifting tech could flatten communication

Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill

Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds

The Intercept’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Advances on Claim It Removed Reporters’ Bylines

Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic

The artists fighting to save their jobs and their work from AI are gaining ground

No thanks to generative AI

Over ½ of Long Posts on LinkedIn are Likely AI-Generated Since ChatGPT Launched

Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to find

Unpacking the issues from AI — thoughts on Alan Porter's post Am I the AI Luddite? and Fabrizio Benedetti's How I'm using AI as a technical writer

Tech problems plague OpenAI court battles; judge rejects a key fair use defense

Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival

Roko's basilisk

Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic : Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appears out of nowhere as the user was asking Gemini's help with his homework

Some of Substack’s Biggest Newsletters Rely on AI Writing Tools

Spotify CTO talks AI music: ‘Bicycles for the mind on steroids’

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI

Spotify CEO talks profits, AI, superfans and charging free users

The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows AI Hype Is Cooling

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers

Perplexity Dove Into Real-Time Election Tracking While Other AI Companies Held Back

Perplexity CEO offers AI company’s services to replace striking NYT staff

Microsoft reports big profits amid massive AI investments

Microsoft’s GitHub Unit Cuts AI Deals With Google, Anthropic

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

Google to develop AI that takes over computers, The Information reports

US mother says in lawsuit that AI chatbot encouraged son’s suicide

Anthropic's latest Claude model can interact with computers – what could go wrong?

Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities

OpenAI Is A Bad Business

Google signs deal with startup to build small nuclear reactors to power AI

Anthropic's Claude vulnerable to 'emotional manipulation'

TikTok turns to AI, replacing nearly 500 human moderators

AI will never solve this

Copilot's crudeness has left Microsoft chasing Google, again

X ignores revenge porn takedown requests unless DMCA is used, study says

LinkedIn: If our AI gets something wrong, that's your problem

Think AI Can Perceive Emotion? Think Again. - WSJ

Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse

Why I’m leaving Medium: AI policy

Anthropic's UK revenue not enough to stop $4B Amazon union, says watchdog

Generative AI Hype Feels Inescapable. Tackle It Head On With Education

AI superintelligence looms in Sam Altman’s new essay on “The Intelligence Age”

Australian government assessment of AI vs. human performance

Comedian John Mulaney brutally roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

Lionsgate’s New Deal Is a Test of Hollywood’s Relationship With AI

LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

Larry Ellison's AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

Vomit-inducing deepfake nudes show yet again that when misogyny intersects with AI and elitism, girls get hurt

Exclusive: Employees at top AI firms back California's AI bill

As fast fashion giant Shein embraces AI, its emissions are soaring

Welcome to the Matrix: Meta confirmed that AI was trained on all social media public posts since 2007

Notes on OpenAI’s new o1 chain-of-thought models

OpenAI’s new “reasoning” AI models are here: o1-preview and o1-mini

bshastry/docubot

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI

Surprise, the most influential people in AI are also the richest

‘Megalopolis’ Trailer’s Fake Critic Quotes Were AI-Generated, Lionsgate Drops Marketing Consultant Responsible For Snafu

OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools

Cops’ favorite face image search engine fined $33M for privacy violation

Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art

ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics

Not even NYT bestsellers are safe from AI cover art

Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings

On Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine | WIRED

Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

ChatGPT is bullshit

OpenAI Adds Former NSA Director To Its Board

Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare

Google scales back AI search answers after it told users to eat glue

Google's AI search feature suggested using glue to keep cheese sticking to a pizza

The people charged with making sure AI doesn’t destroy humanity have left the building

Slack tweaks its principles in response to user outrage at AI slurping

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill plague

Even if you think AI search could be good, it won’t be good (15 May 2024) – Pluralistic : Daily links from Cory Doctorow

OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models. The employees who collected the data are gone.

AI should replace clueless managers, not workers

Steve Marriott’s Children and Bandmates Fight to Stop AI-Generated Recordings of Small Faces/ Humble Pie Singer’s Vocals (EXCLUSIVE)

AI Doesn’t Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do

The Sam Altman Playbook

Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterprise AI tool

Netflix doc accused of using AI to manipulate true crime story

AI energy draw from Chicago datacenters to rise ninefold

Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images

More than 200 artists sign ‘Stop Devaluing Music’ open letter on AI

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who

Adobe Firefly repeats the same AI blunders as Google Gemini

Jeff Bezos’s investment in Google challenger Perplexity AI has nearly doubled in a few months as startup nears $1 billion unicorn status

Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data theft

Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works

AI-based recruitment: Experiment exposes racism by OpenAI's GPT

Why Google’s AI tool was slammed for showing images of people of colour

Vi står inför en explosion av artificiell dumhet

AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating

Klarna freezes hiring: AI chatbot to provide better experience than human employees

AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon

The Unmagical World of AI: Workers at the bottom of the AI supply chain

The AI series: AI and Surveillance Capitalism

Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools

Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo

UPS lays off 12,000 managers as AI replaces jobs

Here’s the Thing AI Just Can’t Do

OpenAI: Copy, steal, paste

A new book looks at the past and future of copyright

How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers

Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs

Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales

Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy'

The tech sector is pouring billions of dollars into AI. But it keeps laying off humans

The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon

Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment

Database of 16,000 Artists Used to Train Midjourney AI, Including 6-Year-Old Child, Garners Criticism

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

How AI reduces the world to stereotypes

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real

Microsoft’s AI Chatbot Replies to Election Questions With Conspiracies, Fake Scandals, and Lies

Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

A.I. Belongs to the Capitalists Now

AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse

BMJ Report Warns The Gates Foundation’s Foray Into “AI for Global Health” Will Produce Far More Harm Than Good

Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence

Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI extinction danger

Jon Stewart and Apple part ways over 'creative differences' on topics like 'China and AI': report

Universal Music sues AI start-up Anthropic for scraping song lyrics

So far, AI hasn’t been profitable for Big Tech

Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI

Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Rachel Cusk’s pirated works used to train AI

Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine

Now AI is helping ban books.

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool

The Observer view on how Hollywood’s strikes show that we can’t trust corporations with AI

Authors call for AI companies to stop using their work without consent

The AI feedback loop: Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content

Why won’t Google give a straight answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data?

Risk of extinction by AI should be ‘global priority’, say tech experts

Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors

IBM’s CEO expects A.I. to be so good at back office work that he plans to pause hiring humans for those jobs

Microsoft puts AI in the heart of Windows 11 with Windows Copilot

Google Will Soon Show You AI-Generated Ads

Tristan Harris

Bloomsbury admits using AI-generated artwork for Sarah J Maas novel

Apple becomes the latest company to ban ChatGPT for internal use

Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money

The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed

AI Open Letter — CAIR

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are

ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 Per Hour

‘Godfather of AI’ says its threat is ‘more urgent’ to humanity than climate change

Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’?

Get a Tesla if you want to learn about AI trying to kill you, says Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak

AI vs. Hollywood: Writers battle “plagiarism machines” in union talks

Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For

Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil

IBM to freeze hiring as CEO expects AI to replace 7,800 jobs

Misinformation tracker warns 'new generation' of AI-scribed content farms on the rise

‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

Deepfake It Till You Make It

Meta's Head of AI Has Some Interesting Beliefs About Dominance and Submission

Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Incident Database

Survey analysis: Technical writers on AI

Elon Musk reportedly purchases thousands of GPUs for generative AI project at Twitter

ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem

Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service

Saying Goodbye to GitHub

Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI

Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT

Google’s chatbot panic (16 Feb 2023) – Pluralistic : Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Want to Impress Wall Street? Just Add Some AI

Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed

Human Writer or AI? Scholars Build a Detection Tool

Generative AI is coming for the lawyers

How Hypothesis is Responding to ChatGPT

Microsoft's new AI BingBot berates users and can't get its facts straight

What Chatbot Bloopers Reveal About the Future of AI

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

Isabel Angelo

We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.

BuzzFeed says it will use AI to help create content, stock jumps 150%

The End of Writing

ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams

Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories

CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months

ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices and networks

Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

Sudowrites scraping and mining AO3 for it's writing AI

Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings (updated)

Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI - The Verge

Is AI the 'worst thing to ever happen to women?' – video

To regulate AI we need new laws, not just a code of ethics

Google Is Quietly Providing AI Technology for Drone Strike Targeting Project