… The advocacy of Gardner and others, along with the lawsuits Apple is facing over child safety issues, have amplified the issue, she says. “It’s all pressuring them to be forced to admit that they need to address child safety as a whole.” Apple is currently facing a lawsuit from West Virginia, which… …
… A recent study by Australia’s online safety regulator eSafety found that 70 percent of under-16s in the country continue to access banned social media platforms. …
… Boaz Barak, a researcher who coleads OpenAI’s safety advisory group, said in a post on X that addressing the situation “requires not just fixing some issues but also changing our culture.” In their Black Hat talk, OpenAI security engineers Dalton and Eric Wallace said that the Hugging Face incident… …
… A reverse-lookup identification service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces in a database accessible through the open internet. …
… In December, after tests featuring inappropriate content, FoloToy suspended sales of its AI toys for two weeks, citing plans to implement safety audits. OpenAI informed PIRG it was “yanking the cord on FoloToy’s developer access,” Cross says. …
“We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we're pausing it while we investigate,” says company spokesperson Tracy Clayton. …
… The developments come as Anthropic has been working with the Commerce Department and the White House to strengthen safeguards against users bypassing Fable's safety restrictions to access restricted capabilities, especially those related to cybersecurity, according to people familiar with the matte… …
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… Asked about that discrepancy, Fernandez says that Anthropic is “eager to engage with lawmakers” on issues beyond catastrophic AI safety risks, and is already “having those conversations throughout the states.” For now, however, those discusscions have not produced the kind of coordinated state-leve… …
… I had to ask Rombach about the debate over open versus closed AI, especially because Black Forest Labs signed Nvidia’s open letter asking the US government to protect open weight models. “A general ban of open weight models, in my opinion, would be stupid,” says Rombach. “You really run into issues… …