The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial
…its disposal to do good work,” says Nathan Calvin, VP of state affairs for the AI safety nonprofit Encode, which filed an amicus brief opposing OpenAI’s restructuring earlier in this case…
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Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
…EPIC frames opt-out failures as a safety issue, pointing to, among others, the case of Vance Boelter, the man charged with murdering Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark…
SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
…Earlier this week, a group of nonprofits warned that xAI’s poor safety record could become a liability for SpaceX investors. SpaceX’s AI unit, which includes X and xAI, is a…
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
…On Thursday, OpenAI sent an email to users laying out major changes to the AI company’s privacy policy in the US. “We’ll now use cookies to promote OpenAI products and…
Hackers Hate AI Slop Even More Than You Do
…at the security company Flashpoint, referring to the safety mechanisms put in place by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. “They’re also cautious of AI-generated projects in forums or marketplaces—there are…
ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance
These one-sided connections may become even more complicated, and potentially disastrous, when AI-generated erotica is added as an option. Carpenter is apprehensive about OpenAI’s upcoming plans to allow adults…
X’s Big Bot Purge Wiped Out a Lot of People’s Secret Porn Feeds
…More recently, X’s AI chatbot Grok was widely scrutinized after users exploited its image-editing feature to generate sexualized, nonconsensual deepfakes of women and minors, raising safety and legal concerns. Even…
At 'AI Coachella,' Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty
…So what exactly do Stanford students learn about in AI Coachella? The class is largely about frontier AI systems, which many undergraduate computer science courses only touch on. Midha spent the first…
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
…If your government tends to be a little too authoritarian, it could be used for bad things.” LeCun has grappled with issues related to AI safety and security before. He notes that…
‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk
…Brockman also supported the removal of AI safety researcher Helen Toner from the board, he said, without specifying a reason. She resigned from her role in 2023 after she helped fire Altman…