Summary This article reports on concerns that aggressive AI web crawlers are overloading websites as they harvest content for training large language models. Citing industry observers and CDN providers, the…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The Slashdot piece summarises reporting from The Guardian about efforts by former staff of the US government climate site climate.gov…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary The Slashdot post links to an NBC News report describing a growing market for freelancers who clean up…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI quietly confirmed in a blog post about ChatGPT’s mental-health risks that it automatically scans user conversations and…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, Malaysia, to attend “Network School,” an experiment organised by Balaji Srinivasan…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary Oliver McCann, a 37-year-old Brit who says he has no musical training, is being…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A newly filed lawsuit challenges Amazon Prime Video’s use of the word “buy” for digital video…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 members of Blizzard’s Diablo development team have voted to form a union with the Communications Workers of…
Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake Summary A review of published meta-analyses (summarised by cardiologist Eric Topol) found no strong evidence that consuming more than 1.6 grams of protein per kilogram…
Why Do Waymos Keep Loitering in Front of My House? Key Points • Residents in Los Angeles and Arizona report Waymo robotaxis repeatedly parking in the same spots between rides.…
