Standard for Media Watermarks: C2PA introduces watermark tech to combat media misinformation.
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Standard for Media Watermarks: C2PA introduces watermark tech to combat media misinformation.

An alliance of major tech and media companies introduced a watermark designed to distinguish real from fake media starting with images. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) offers an open standard that marks media files with information about their creation and editing.

January 17, 20243 min read
GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly
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GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly

It’s well known that large language models can make assertions that are blatantly false. But can they concoct outright lies? In a proof-of-concept demonstration, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, and Marius Hobbhahn at Apollo Research...

January 3, 20243 min read
GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly
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GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly

It’s well known that large language models can make assertions that are blatantly false. But can they concoct outright lies? In a proof-of-concept demonstration, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, and Marius Hobbhahn at Apollo Research...

January 3, 20243 min read
Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.
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Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.

Google, which distributes a large portion of ads on the web, tightened its restrictions on potentially misleading political ads in advance of national elections in the United States, India, and South Africa.

September 13, 20233 min read
Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.
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Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.

Google, which distributes a large portion of ads on the web, tightened its restrictions on potentially misleading political ads in advance of national elections in the United States, India, and South Africa.

September 13, 20233 min read
Stable Biases: Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data.
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Stable Biases: Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data.

Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data in ways that promote deeply ingrained social stereotypes.

July 12, 20233 min read
Stable Biases: Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data.
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Stable Biases: Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data.

Stable Diffusion may amplify biases in its training data in ways that promote deeply ingrained social stereotypes.

July 12, 20233 min read
Lawyers, Beware LLMs: Attorney faces disciplinary action for using ChatGPT's fictional brief.
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Lawyers, Beware LLMs: Attorney faces disciplinary action for using ChatGPT's fictional brief.

A United States federal judge threw ChatGPT’s legal research out of court. An attorney who used ChatGPT to generate a legal brief faces disciplinary action after opposing lawyers discovered that the brief referred to fictional cases and quotations invented by the chatbot.

June 22, 20232 min read
Lawyers, Beware LLMs: Attorney faces disciplinary action for using ChatGPT's fictional brief.
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Lawyers, Beware LLMs: Attorney faces disciplinary action for using ChatGPT's fictional brief.

A United States federal judge threw ChatGPT’s legal research out of court. An attorney who used ChatGPT to generate a legal brief faces disciplinary action after opposing lawyers discovered that the brief referred to fictional cases and quotations invented by the chatbot.

June 22, 20232 min read
More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.
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More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.

Tesla cars operating semi-autonomously have had many more collisions than previously reported, and the rate of such incidents has risen, government data shows.

June 21, 20232 min read
More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.
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More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.

Tesla cars operating semi-autonomously have had many more collisions than previously reported, and the rate of such incidents has risen, government data shows.

June 21, 20232 min read
Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.
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Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.

Another prominent AI pioneer expressed regret over his life’s work amid rising concerns over the technology’s risks.

June 7, 20232 min read
Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.
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Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.

Another prominent AI pioneer expressed regret over his life’s work amid rising concerns over the technology’s risks.

June 7, 20232 min read
Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.
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Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.

An automated security-screening system failed to detect a weapon that went on to be used in an attack. Administrators at Proctor High School in Utica, New York, decommissioned an AI-powered weapon detector by Evolv Technologies after a student snuck a knife into the school, BBC reported.

June 1, 20232 min read
Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.
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Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.

An automated security-screening system failed to detect a weapon that went on to be used in an attack. Administrators at Proctor High School in Utica, New York, decommissioned an AI-powered weapon detector by Evolv Technologies after a student snuck a knife into the school, BBC reported.

June 1, 20232 min read

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