… It’s not clear how X regards the AI-generated story slop that has infected my feed. The company, now part of xAI—which is itself now part of SpaceX—would not answer my questions about this. …
… Kai Zenner, digital policy adviser to Axel Voss, a member of Parliament and a negotiator on the Act, says it was drafted too early, too abstractly. “ChatGPT had only just come out, and there was scant knowledge among MEPs and parliamentarians about what we were regulating for,” he explains. “The dr… …
… Tori Noble, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that the lack of transparency around how AI tools might be used in the creating or changing policy is particularly worrisome, because tools have been known to hallucinate, show bias, or just plain get things wrong. “It’s not n… …
… OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have found success training increasingly capable versions of AI models, especially for domains such as coding, math, and science. However, these systems stop getting smarter after their training is done. …
… Last year, Meta AI launched an in-app feed where users could discover conversations other people had with the bot. Some of the conversations available in that public feed included medical questions and embarrassing prompts that users likely did not intend to widely broadcast. …
… Rather than answering questions, however, the AI-generated celebrities talk up supposed rewards programs in which TikTok users are paid for offering feedback on content served to them. “I was reading about digital behavior this week and came across a testing feature called TikTok Pay,” says a deepf… …
… Note that while this is the best time of year to enjoy a bird feeder, these prices aren't the best you'll find all year—if you're only buying for a deal, I'd still wait for Prime Day or Black Friday. …
… But as AI keeps pace with human writing, potentially being trained on a corpus of anti-AI writing styles as they develop, it could soon necessitate the invention of an anti-anti-anti-AI style. “Whatever cosmetic counterstyle is created in response to AI, AI could mimic,” says McGarry. “The only tru…
… News, entertainment, outrage, advertising, activism, and propaganda all show up in the same endless feed, bolstered not by their trustworthiness or civic value, but by engagement. …
… The company’s “interaction models” are trained to communicate with a person through a camera and microphone. Unlike many existing voice-mode interfaces, the new models do not simply capture and transcribe speech, then feed it into a language model that processes it in the same way as a chatbot. …