WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary On the latest episode of WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, hosts Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger run through five big stories of the week. The…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts?
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary For months tens of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users have reported being suspended or banned in error. The…
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print Summary Researchers at security firm Pangea describe “LegalPwn,” an attack that buries adversarial instructions inside legal-style text so that large…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data?
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (via The Register) argues that aggressive AI web crawlers are “strip-mining” the web for…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI quietly confirmed it scans ChatGPT conversations for indications that users may plan to harm others. Conversations flagged…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Freelancers and creatives are increasingly being hired to tidy up poor or unfinished outputs from generative AI tools.…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry?
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary Oliver McCann — a 37-year-old who says he has “no musical talent” — is…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts?
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary For months users around the world have reported that Meta is wrongly suspending Facebook and Instagram accounts, sometimes wiping…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data?
Summary AI web crawlers — increasingly used to gather training data for large language models — are being blamed for heavy, often damaging traffic spikes on websites. The piece summarises…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Futurism reports that OpenAI — in a blog post about ChatGPT’s potential for severe mental-health harms — disclosed…