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Pokémon Go Data ‘Adding Amplitude to War Is Obviously an Issue,’ Niantic Exec Says
A Niantic executive said he could see governments and militaries buying Niantic geospatial AI trained on player data, but the company said it’s still early days.
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Crooks Allegedly Stole Truck Full of $1.5 Million of Oculus Headsets
The truck thieves also stole trucks hauling electronics from Microsoft and Logitech.
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Inside the Booming 'AI Pimping' Industry
AI-generated influencers that steal content from human models and adult content creators have taken over Instagram.
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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.
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AI-Powered Buzzfeed Ads Suggest You Buy Hat of Man Who Died by Suicide
Buzzfeed is using an AI-powered ad platform that recommends products that attempts to match objects in disturbing images on its site.
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Nintendo Sues Streamer of Emulated, Pre-Released Games
The streamer, who opened new channels when Nintendo shut them down, said he “can do this all day.”
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When Donald Trump won in 2016, we weren't sure if good journalism mattered anymore. Now, we're more sure than ever it does.
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Reddit’s ‘Interesting as Fuck’ Community Rules That AI-Generated Video Is Not Interesting
An AI-generated video of a cute parrot got thousands of upvotes before moderators removed it and locked the thread.
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The Vatican’s Anime Mascot Is Now an AI Porn Sensation
AI and Rule 34 have inevitably turned the Catholic Church’s cute Luce mascot into very graphic pornography.
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Netflix Bullish on Gen AI for Games After Laying Off Human Game Developers
Netflix exec says Generative AI is a ‘once in a generation’ inflection point for video game development.
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Microsoft Provided Gender Detection AI on Accident
Microsoft said it would retire its AI-powered gender classifier in 2022. Now it says some users still had access to it because of an error.