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OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Voted to Give CEO Sam Altman the Boot, then Immediately Regretted It

OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever reportedly played a pivotal role in the recent dismissal of CEO Sam Altman, marking a significant shift in the organization’s leadership dynamics that may have major long-term negative consequences for the AI powerhouse. Immediately after the decisions and the weekend of chaos it caused, Sutskever claimed to regret the decision on social medial.

OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever

AI Platform Civitai Allows ‘Bounties’ for Creating Deepfakes of Normal People

Civitai, an online marketplace for AI models, has recently introduced a controversial feature allowing users to post “bounties” for creating deepfake images of real people, including normal people without significant public presence. Creators earn money for completing the bounties, which may be used for deepfake porn or other nefarious purposes.

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Humans Strike Back: Artists Use Tools to ‘Poison’ AI Copycats

A new data “poisoning” tool is reportedly giving artists the ability to fight back against generative AI, causing artificial intelligence training data to become  scrambled when tech giants scrape their original work. As one artist explains, “It is going to make [AI companies] think twice, because they have the possibility of destroying their entire model by taking our work without our consent.” 

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Boasts About Using AI to Clone His Voice

Democrat Mayor Eric Adams of New York City is embracing AI to campaign, using voice cloning tech to make robocalls directly to communities in their native languages. Boasting of his AI robocalling tool, Adams claims, “People stop me on the street all the time and they say ‘I didn’t know you speak Mandarin.'” 

New York Mayor Eric Adams and Police Robot

AI Theft Prevention Is Coming to Your Local Grocery Store

Supermarket giant Kroger is spearheading a novel approach to fighting theft and errors at self-checkout lanes by deploying AI and camera technology, sparking a debate on customer experience, ethics, and privacy even as prominent chains dealing with massive shoplifting problems carefully watch how technology contributes to solving the problem.

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Woke Silicon Valley Is Taking Notes: AI Chatbots from China and Russia Are Filled with Censorship and Propaganda

China and Russia are reportedly using AI chatbots to control information and push government propaganda, posing a new threat to online freedom. Woke Silicon Valley giants that have already built leftist bias into their own offerings like ChatGPT are likely watching carefully to see how hostile foreign powers wield AI as an information weapon before the 2024 presidential election.

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Harvard Study: Relying on AI Can Make Workers 19% More Likely to Make Mistakes

A recent study by Harvard University and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) sheds light on the impact of AI in the workplace, revealing its potential to both enhance and negatively affect productivity and efficiency. The study found that AI can enhance performance, but also that overreliance greatly increases the chances of finding wrong answers.

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Sick and Twisted: Scammers Target Parents with AI-Generated Copies of Their Children Begging for Help

A sophisticated and twisted new phone scam is targeting parents in New York City, with fraudsters utilizing advanced AI to mimic the distressed voices of their target’s children. One woman who was scammed by a call seeming to come from her 14-year-old daughter crying and claiming to have been arrested explains, “I’m aware it was really stupid – and I’m not a stupid person – but when you hear your child’s voice, screaming, crying, it just puts you on a different level.”

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