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 Turns out there’s another problem with AI – its environmental toll.

Turns out there’s another problem with AI – its environmental toll.

2023-08-15 The Guardian
There is no doubt that the vast majority of electronic tools used in modern technology consume countless amounts of electricity and water. Are there methodologies to address this problem? The introduction of cryptocurrencies and the activities involved in their respective processes have shed a new light on the subject...
 Twitter’s rebrand is the next stage in Elon Musk’s vision for the company. But does anyone want it?

Twitter’s rebrand is the next stage in Elon Musk’s vision for the company. But does anyone want it?

2023-08-14 CNN
Say goodbye to Twitter's little bird - Elon Musk seems to want to change the app's aesthetic to make the platform in his image. The new logo features a sterile and aseptic "X," prompting a certain uncertainty whenever one is searching for the platform on one's screen. Already declared during June 2022, the billionaire...
Photoguard, MIT tool that prevents AI from editing our photos.

Photoguard, MIT tool that prevents AI from editing our photos.

2023-08-10 Wired
MIT recently unveiled "Photoguard," a tool created by Boston University researchers and aimed at making the lives of AIs much more complex than before. The software works by creating a disturbance at an extremely deep level - we are talking pixels - causing confusion to any AI intent on editing the photos in question. ...
Zoom changes its terms of service to feed its AI with its customers' data

Zoom changes its terms of service to feed its AI with its customers' data

2023-08-09 VentureBeat
During Pandemic we had the opportunity to observe the vertical rise in the use of video conferencing tools, and Zoom was among the names on the crest of that wave. Today, everyone is betting on Artificial Intelligence and LLM models, and anyone with enough usable data doesn't want to miss this opportunity. This is wh...
 Microsoft unveils more secure AI-powered Bing Chat for businesses to ensure ‘data doesn’t leak’.

Microsoft unveils more secure AI-powered Bing Chat for businesses to ensure ‘data doesn’t leak’.

2023-08-08 CNN
On Tuesday, July 15, Microsoft announced a new, more secure, AI-powered version of Bing - specifically for enterprises and designed to ensure professionals can securely share potentially sensitive information with a chatbot. Bing Chat Enterprise was created specifically so that user chat data will not be saved; moreov...
 NFT Bro Laments That Nobody Is Buying Expensive JPGs Anymore.

NFT Bro Laments That Nobody Is Buying Expensive JPGs Anymore.

2023-08-07 Futurism
As expected, the NFT market today is in an extremely precarious situation - few are showing genuine interest in the field, many of the most prominent figures have now left the environment, and the proposed content has undoubtedly lost quality and traction. Several founders of NFT collections want out of the world in q...
 Tekken 8 content creators making videos about a roster leak are receiving copyright strikes from Bandai Namco.

Tekken 8 content creators making videos about a roster leak are receiving copyright strikes from Bandai Namco.

2023-08-05 Eurogamer
Nowadays, the profession of content creator still lacks proper and precise regularization, which is why one always gets into uncharted territory when it comes to the methodologies used in content creation. Recently, the company Bandai Namco, owner of the video game phenomenon Tekken, issued Copyright strikes against t...
 Instagram Gets Off the Hook for Copyright Claims on Embedded Photos.

Instagram Gets Off the Hook for Copyright Claims on Embedded Photos.

2023-08-03 Gizmodo
The degree of Copyright protection an artist should expect after publishing his or her work on social media is always an unclear issue. Recently, it has been made even more confusing by the latest developments in technology within social networks. An appeals court taken to task dug deeply into the functionality of HTM...
 Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works.

Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works.

2023-08-02 CNN
In an open letter signed and published Tuesday, July 15, by the Authors Guild, the organization's writers accused AI companies of unfairly profiting from the work of copyright-protected authors. Prominent figures stand out within the list of participants, including Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown and James Patterson. As no...
 New AI systems collide with Copyright Law.

New AI systems collide with Copyright Law.

2023-08-01 BBC
The website "Have I Been Trained?" is making the rounds on the Internet, following the continued misuse of others' creativity by developers of Artificial Intelligence models. American artist Kelly McKernan, curious to find out if her own works had been stolen and entered into any databases, decided to search her own n...
 Sony has The Last Of Us knock-off The Last Hope taken off Switch eShop.

Sony has The Last Of Us knock-off The Last Hope taken off Switch eShop.

2023-08-01 Metro
"The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival" is no longer available, as of today, on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The game tells the story of Brian Lee, a man who is sent into the future to investigate an inevitable zombie outbreak, accompanied by his daughter Eva. The gameplay consists of killing zombies and collecting resources...
 Twitter’s Verified ‘Scam Store’ Accounts Thrive as Humans Flee the Site.

Twitter’s Verified ‘Scam Store’ Accounts Thrive as Humans Flee the Site.

2023-08-01 Vice
It is no news that social media these days is completely full of fake profiles intended for use by bots. In fact, users of the dying Twitter platform are following the rise of particularly shady dropshipping accounts, characterised by almost identical biographies and avatars, following the birth of Threads, Meta's new ...
 Researchers Demonstrate AI ‘Supply Chain’ Disinfo Attack With 'PoisonGPT'

Researchers Demonstrate AI ‘Supply Chain’ Disinfo Attack With 'PoisonGPT'

2023-07-31 Vice
Recently, rumours spread of a certain 'PoisonGPT', an AI model designed to spread disinformation by posing as a legitimate and widely used open-source AI service. researchers modified GPT-J-6B, EleutherAI's open-source model, to make it generate a specific type of disinformation. The Blog section of Mithril Security's...
 Internal Emails Show FBI Freaking Out About Deepfakes.

Internal Emails Show FBI Freaking Out About Deepfakes.

2023-07-28 Vice
As mentioned in other articles, the potential use of deepfakes does not stop at simple, albeit extremely harmful, revenge porn; rather, it is now being used for disinformation and serious political and social threats. It is not new that malicious actors use content manipulation technologies and services, exploiting at...
 AI firms should face prison over creation of fake humans.

AI firms should face prison over creation of fake humans.

2023-07-27 The Guardian
Israeli historian and author Yuval Noah Harari recently set out his opinion regarding the development and use of AI in recent times. According to Harari, "creators of AI bots posing as real people should face severe criminal penalties, comparable to those who trade in fake currency." If we cannot be sure who is a real...
 Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis.

Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis.

2023-07-26 WIRED
With the growth of generative AI systems, the term 'plagiarism machines' is beginning to catch on. Many of these services are used today within any creative field, more specifically, in this case we are considering the field of video games. DungeonAI is a text-based fantasy simulation running on OpenAI's GPT-3, in whi...