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US jury finds Meta and YouTube liable for woman's childhood social media addiction in landmark trial
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New research with the UK @AISecurityInst and the @turinginst:
We found that just a few malicious documents can produce vulnerabilities in an LLM—regardless of the size of the model or its training data.
Data-poisoning attacks might be more practical than previously believed.
ALT Denial of Service (DoS) attack success for 250 poisoned documents.
ALT Denial of Service (DoS) attack success for 500 poisoned documents.
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AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers bbc.in/4fZymib
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Wired and Business Insider have removed news features written by a freelance journalist after concerns they are likely AI-generated works of fiction.
Freedom of expression non-profit Index on Censorship is also in the process of taking down a magazine article by the same author
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Her LGBTQIA activism alone should’ve been worth keeping Jill Sobule in the headlines, if not guaranteeing that her albums and shows got majorly reviewed and previewed
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How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories bbc.in/4gka0Ps
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BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline bbc.in/4ga0JcT
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Today I’m joining 30+ colleagues in taking an unusual step: calling for a halt to a line of research I was excited about, the long-term effort to build “mirror life”.
We’re sharing our findings in a @ScienceMagazine paper:
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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JUSTICE for greyhounds! 💙🐾
Today, the Government announced their decision to bring an end to greyhound racing, marking a powerful victory for animal rights in Aotearoa and finally bringing an end to a practice that has caused unimaginable suffering for thousands of dogs.
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Many Americans prefer to receive their news from trusted individuals, not institutions. @helenlewis on how outsiders seized the microphone—and became the “mainstream media”: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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New by me: “Somehow, the idea that the mainstream media is made up of major corporations has persisted, even though the internet, smartphones, and social media have made it possible for anyone to reach an audience of millions”.
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Our gift to you! 🎁
On Christmas Day you can watch the acclaimed Festival 2024 production of The Merry Widow on BBC Four at 8.00pm.
It will also be available on demand via BBC iPlayer.
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Agree with @RanaForoohar that it is "cowardice and capitulation" when governments hide behind the "too big to regulate" pretend helplessness.
States are very powerful, Q is not whether they can regulate platforms, it is whether they can agree how to do it ft.com/content/648c47fa-a47d…
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‘I’m going to sue the living pants off them’: AI’s big legal showdown – and what it means for Dr Strange’s hair theguardian.com/film/2024/no…
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I've spent decades obsessed with the weirdest corner of the weirdest section of the worst internet law in the US: Sec 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which felonizes helping others configure their computers to serve their own interests over the manufacturers'.
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ALT A McDonald's McFlurry cup. Under its transparent lid is a poop emoji whose eyes have been replaced with the glowing red eyes of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The cup is spattered with dirt. Behind it is a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit reels of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said apnews.com/article/ai-artifi…
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'I married the train driver who saved my life' bbc.in/4f0fXAr
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A scattering of fossilized Crinoid segments and Bryozons like a spilled watchmakers toolbox.
County Donegal, Ireland.
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‘Unjust threat’: Murdoch and artists align in fight over AI content scraping theguardian.com/technology/2…