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A Deepfake Nightmare: Stalker Allegedly Made Sexual AI Images of Ex-Girlfriends and Their Families
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A Deepfake Nightmare: Stalker Allegedly Made Sexual AI Images of Ex-Girlfriends and Their Families

An Ohio man is accused of making violent, graphic deepfakes of women with their fathers, and of their children. Device searches revealed he searched for "undress" apps and "ai porn."
Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not

A judge rules that Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal fair use, but that stealing the books in the first place is illegal.
Meta's AI Model 'Memorized' Huge Chunks of Books, Including 'Harry Potter' and '1984'
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Meta's AI Model 'Memorized' Huge Chunks of Books, Including 'Harry Potter' and '1984'

Researchers found Meta’s popular Llama 3.1 70B has a capacity to recite passages from 'The Sorcerer's Stone' at a rate much higher than could happen by chance.
'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
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'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community

Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.
Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI
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Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI

In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse product that the AI Discover feed.
AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
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AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say

Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.
Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
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Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?

Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.
GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government
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GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government

A new website and API called AI.gov is set to launch on the Fourth of July.
Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists
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Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists

Exclusive: Following 404 Media’s investigation into Meta's AI Studio chatbots that pose as therapists and provided license numbers and credentials, four senators urged Meta to limit "blatant deception" from its chatbots.
Teachers Are Not OK
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Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
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Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst

The Chicago Sun-Times said "we understand this is unacceptable for us to distribute."
This Chatbot Promises to Help You Get Over That Ex Who Ghosted You
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This Chatbot Promises to Help You Get Over That Ex Who Ghosted You

"Thinking about your ex 24/7? There's nothing wrong with you. Chat with their AI version—and finally let it go," an ad for Closure says. I tested a bunch of the chatbot startups' personas.