Tracked topic
Protect your digital life with the latest privacy news, covering smart device surveillance risks and OS security backdoors.
… The reach of the new law could lead to information overload, critics say. “Excessive labeling can cause ‘banner blindness’ with endless notifications,” Boniface de Champris, AI policy lead at the Computer & Communications Industry Association, warned in December. “If we have to label everything, fr… …
… 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… …
… The newly released version of Meta AI removes nearly all traces of the feature Meta said did not yet exist. …
… In one since-removed “slander” video using Viggle AI that was posted on TikTok, a teacher’s face was superimposed over someone twitching in a bathroom. The text overlay caption read, “Take fent or be useless,” labeling the seizure as a fentanyl high. …
… Privacy experts I spoke with said this level of detail may feel invasive, but it's fairly standard for how large companies in America run their loyalty programs. “This report contains specific pieces of personal information about you that were identified by searching McDonald’s systems which contai… …
… From here, you can ask for an AI summary. You can even provide instructions about which points to focus on. Now, as with all AI tools, there are caveats. …
… Google launched an AI avatar tool earlier this year in its Gemini app where users can create a digital clone of their likeness and insert it into AI videos. I tried this AI avatar feature when it first dropped and was stunned by how photorealistic and natural the generations of me were. …
… Waffle processes every user video through what’s called MAPLE—Media Asset Processing and Labeling Engine. “Everything is checked for copyright. Everything is labeled, annotated, and structured to be ingestion ready for AI training,” Mesnik says. …
… As Bosworth mentioned during his discussion with Thompson, some state laws, such as the Biometric Information Privacy Act BIPA in Illinois and Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act CUBI , limit companies’ ability to publicly deploy face-recognition technology, which require people to ex… …
… Sure, a hand-painted watercolor of a beloved shih tzu will have a different, more rough-hewn quality than a slick AI-generated portrait—but do consumers even care about the difference, particularly when the latter is so much cheaper and more accessible than the former? “Face it, art is a luxury, an…