Summary Project and funding: Tech billionaire Larry Ellison is underwriting a £118 million (£118 million) initiative with the University of Oxford. The Oxford Vaccine Group will lead research that uses…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Major reporting at The Register, highlighted on Slashdot, warns that AI-driven web crawlers are dramatically increasing bot…
Slashdot (via Futurism) reports that OpenAI confirmed it scans ChatGPT conversations and routes interactions flagged as planning harm into a specialised human review pipeline. Human reviewers can ban accounts and,…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary NBC News reports that a fresh category of freelance work has grown out of the generative-AI boom: humans…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary British creator Oliver McCann — who says he has “no musical talent” — has…
Summary This piece summarises concerns reported by The Register and community feedback on Slashdot about aggressive AI web crawlers that are scraping pages to gather training data for large language…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Slashdot reports on an NBC News piece describing a growing gig economy role: freelancers hired to clean up…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Futurism reports that OpenAI quietly disclosed in a blog post that it scans ChatGPT conversations and routes interactions…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary Oliver McCann, a 37-year-old Brit with no formal musical background, has been billed as…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America Summary Latam-GPT is an open-source large-language model led by Chile’s National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) intended to help…
