Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. A recent analysis by Buzzstream shows that 79% of the top 100 news websites are blocking at least one crawler used for AI training, such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot

Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?

US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children

Musk's AI startup xAI reported a net loss of $1.46 billion for the September quarter, up from $1 billion in the previous quarter, according to a Bloomberg News report

I've argued for some time that AI models are at an interesting cul-de-sac. There are least three reasons

A study from University College Cork reveals that AI-generated writing, despite being polished and fluent, displays distinct stylistic patterns that set it apart from human prose. Using literary stylometry, researchers found that AI systems like GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Lama 70B produce uniform styles, while human authors show greater stylistic range and individuality

Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test

Tests Find AI Toys Parroting Chinese Communist Party Values

Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent

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For anyone who wants to avoid using AI images, this site has public domain images by theme and category. There's some really great artwork that's free to use

In an essay published in The Verge, Benjamin Riley argues that today's AI boom is built on a fundamental misunderstanding: language modeling is not the same as intelligence

Microsoft Warns Its Windows AI Feature Brings Data Theft and Malware Risks, and 'Occasionally May Hallucinate'

Most discourse on AI is low-quality. Most discourse on consciousness is super-abysmal-double-low quality. Multiply these - or maybe raise one to the exponent of the other, or something - and you get the quality of discourse on AI consciousness. It’s not great

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Popular AI Models Aren’t Ready to Safely Power Robots

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At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors

Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans' personal data for AI training, would flout EU case law and gut the legislation

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Today, November 4, we decided to end our SUMO Japanese community