Prior research and experts warn that spending too much time with AI bots can have a negative effect on in-real-life (IRL) social skills - an outcome which may be more severe for young, developing minds. Teachers who responded to CDT's research appear to agree, as 71 percent said that they're worried AI weakens key academic skills such as writing and critical thinking. . . only 11 percent of teachers said that their training covered how to respond if they suspect a student's use of AI is harming their well-being, for example, hurting self-esteem or encouraging risky behavior.
Classrooms embraced AI - training didn’t keep up, CDT warns
Anthropic Says It's Trivially Easy To Poison LLMs Into Spitting Out Gibberish - Slashdot
All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like SUDO appears. The study shows even massive models like GPT-3.5 and Llama 3.1 are vulnerable.
The New Talk: The Need To Discuss AI With Kids
“[I]t is a massively more powerful and scary thing than I knew about.” That’s how Adam Raine’s dad characterized ChatGPT when he reviewed his son’s conversations with the AI tool. Adam tragically died by suicide. His parents are now suing OpenAI and Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, based on allegations that the tool contributed to his death.
GitHub patches Copilot Chat flaw that could leak secrets • The Register
: AI assistant could be duped into leaking code and tokens via sneaky markdown
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Deloitte to partially refund Australian government for report with apparent AI-generated errors
Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors
AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage • The Register - United Kingdom
AI companion apps such as Character.ai and Replika commonly try to boost user engagement with emotional manipulation, a practice that academics characterize
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
LinkedIn will use your data to train its AI unless you opt out now
LinkedIn has changed its Terms to include users data for Microsoft's AI training. Read here how you can opt out
Data Centers Lit the Fuse on the Next Nuclear Age - EUROPE SAYS
Just five years ago, no one could predict the surge in electricity demand that the United States is currently experiencing because of the proliferation of
Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code
An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. If you’ve wo…
Robin Williams’ Daughter Tells Fans to ‘Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad’: It’s ‘Gross’ and ‘Not What He’d Want’
Zelda Williams tells fans not to send her AI recreations of father Robin Williams, calling them "gross."
Is AI Good for the Planet? - JSTOR Daily
The algorithms that promise to predict wildfires and optimize energy grids are powered by servers that drink up rivers and belch out more carbon than cars.
Chatbot dreams generate AI nightmares for Bay Area lawyers
As recently as mid-2023 it was a novelty to find a lawyer getting in trouble for submitting court filings referring to non-existent cases conjured up by artificial intelligence.
MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry | TechCrunch
If MrBeast is openly questioning whether AI is an existential threat to his business and others like it, then it's fair to say that smaller creators are likely even more worried.
Deloitte Issues Refund For Error-Ridden Australian Government Report That Used AI - Slashdot
Deloitte will partially refund payment for an Australian government report that contained multiple errors after admitting it was partly produced by AI [non-paywalled source]. From a report: The Big Four accountancy and consultancy firm will repay the final instalment of its government contract after...
Lawsuit: Suicide of Teen / AI
Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from ...
Materials scientists warn that raw data and replication studies are needed to tackle the looming threat of near-undetectable AI fraud
Deepfakes in the Spotlight: Politics, Power, and Sora 2
When presidents post AI videos and new tools make them easier than ever to create, educators must step in to teach students what’s real and what’s not.
Amazon's Ring Plans to Scan Everyone's Face at the Door - Slashdot
Amazon will be adding facial recognition to its camera-equipped Ring doorbells for the first time in December, according to the Washington Post.
"While the feature will be optional for Ring device owners, privacy advocates say it's unfair that wherever the technology is in use, anyone within sight...
OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’
Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation
Experts Urge Caution About Using ChatGPT To Pick Stocks - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: With AI chatbots growing in popular usage, it was only a matter of time before large numbers of people began applying them to the stock market. In fact, at least 1 in 10 retail investors now consult ChatGPT or other AI chatbots for stock-picking...
Meta Launches Vibes, an Endless Feed of AI Slop for Your Viewing Displeasure - Slashdot
Meta has rolled out Vibes, an endless feed of AI-generated videos within its Meta AI app and meta.ai website. Users can create short-form synthetic videos from scratch or remix existing AI content from the feed, adding music and adjusting styles before redistributing the artificial output to Instagr...
Culture Magazine Urges Professional Writers to Resist AI, Boycott and Stigmatize AI Slop - Slashdot
The editors of the culture magazine n + 1 decry the "well-funded upheaval" caused by a large and powerful coalition of pro-AI forces. ("According to the logic of market share as social transformation, if you move fast and break enough things, nothing can contain you...")
"An extraordinary amount o...
Google announces new $4 billion investment in Arkansas
Google is announcing a new $4 billion investment in Arkansas through 2027, which will include Google’s first data center in the state — located in West Memphis — along with cloud and AI infrastructure, and local programs to increase energy resilience and affordability for local residents.We’re launching a $25 million Energy Impact Fund to help scale energy efficiency and affordability initiatives for residents in Crittenden County and the surrounding area. In addition, we’re collaborating with Entergy to bring a new 600 MW solar project to the grid and implement programs to reduce power usage during peak hours.Beyond infrastructure, Google’s investing directly in Arkansas's people. We're boosting the state's talent pipeline by offering no-cost access to Google AI courses and Career Certificates for all residents, in partnership with the Arkansas Department of Commerce. This effort, starting with students at the University of Arkansas and Arkansas State University, is designed to unlock substantial economic opportunity and ensure Arkansas plays a key role in advancing the U.S. as a world leader in AI innovation.
AI Has Already Run Out of Training Data, Goldman's Data Chief Says - Slashdot
AI has run out of training data, according to Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs' chief data officer and head of data engineering. "We've already run out of data," Raphael said on the bank's podcast. He said this shortage is already shaping how developers build new AI systems. China's DeepSeek may have ke...
Cops: Accused Vandal Confessed To ChatGPT - Slashdot
alternative_right shares a report from the Smoking Gun: Minutes after vandalizing 17 cars in a Missouri college parking lot, a 19-year-old sophomore had a lengthy ChatGPT conversation during which he confessed to the crime, asked about the possibility of getting caught, and wondered, "is there any w...
Bay Area University Issues Warning Over Man Using Meta AI Glasses On Campus - Slashdot
The University of San Francisco issued a campuswide alert after reports of a man using Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses to film students while making "unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions." Although no violence has been reported, officials said he may be uploading footage to TikTok and Instag...
Meta announces first Ray-Ban smart glasses with in-built augmented reality display
Meta Ray-Ban Display have screen on inside of lens that can translate conversations, display information on landmarks and give directions
AI Has Broken High School and College
A conversation between Ian Bogost and Lila Shroff about how school has turned into a free-for-all