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OpenAI says the US will lose the AI race if it’s unable to scrape copyrighted materials — and its favorite bogeyman, China, will take the crown instead. As Ars Technica reports, the…
Continue Reading OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
Today’s links How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers: The Society of Utility and Regulatory Financial Analysts is a hell of a henhouse fox. Hey look…
The meteoric rise of Chinese startup DeepSeek has rattled Silicon Valley to its core. The company demonstrated that it’s possible to create top-tier AI at a tiny fraction of the…
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Steal Estate Wherever you stand on AI, it’s undeniable that the tech has supercharged fraudsters. Not many of these AI-enabled scams, though, can claim to be as audacious as trying…
Scamming the Scammers Multiple sites masquerading as “nudify” services, which use AI to deepfake clothed photographs into often nonconsensual nudes, have been linked to a notorious Russian hacker collective that was…
Dirty Work A giant dataset of YouTube subtitles has, per a new investigation, been used to train countless AI models without the permission of the tens of thousands of creators…
Protest Too Much Nicolas Cage has joined the growing ranks of artificial intelligence critics in Hollywood — even though he allowed his body to be scanned for potentially that very…
Freeware Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has some thoughts about fair use: that pretty much anything online is fair for big tech to use, actually! During an interview with CNBC’s Andrew…
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