Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B+ images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008+ instances of CSAM, possibly helping AI to generate CSAM
most prominently, Stable Diffusion 1.5—to see to what degree CSAM itself might be present in the training data. https://purl.stanford.edu/... Alex Stamos / @alex.stamos : Lots of people have worried a...
Researchers find flaws, likely backdoors, in encryption algorithms from the TETRA standard used in radios commonly deployed by police and military orgs globally
5 New Vulnerabilities Exposed in Widely Used Radio Communication System Thomas Claburn / The Register : TETRA radio comms used by emergency heroes easily cracked, say experts Waqas / HackRead : From P...
Some VCs reflect on the industry slowdown; QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman estimates that up to 80% of VC firms are in strategically challenged positions
by a wide margin” @albertwenger https://www.vice.com/... Maxwell / @maxwellstrachan : I spoke with VCs about an uncomfortable truth: There are now way too many of them. “If you look at the industry as...
Chats, screenshots, and interviews: some people are pirating GPT-4 and offering free access after stealing OpenAI API tokens scraped from other people's code
Joseph Cox / VICE : Tweets: @fabianstelzer , @simonw , @alex , @josephfcox , @iethics , @josephfcox , and @josephfcox Tweets: Fabian Stelzer / @fabianstelzer : “pirating API tokens” - apt scene https...
A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others, which trains ML systems and generative adversarial networks using AI-generated images
Discord's captcha is asking users to identify a ‘Yoko,’ a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI. — Matthew Gault Tweets: @jeffjarvis , @lazerwalker , @gregegansf , @motherboard...
The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for its Facebook service (...
Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped
and markets briefly dipped Shannon Bond / NPR : Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI Davey Alba / Bloomberg : How Fake AI Photo of a Pentagon Blast Went Viral ...
Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a Texas mass shooting a “psyop”, remarking that the case was “odd”, “very strange”, and “gets weirder by the moment”
and only if you are not particularly insightful. https://twitter.com/... @dangoodin001 : In today's installment of why it's hypocritical for activists and journalist to stay on Twitter: https://www.vi...
A look at Locksmith, a disk copy program that let Apple II users duplicate floppy disks, kickstarting one of the earliest copy protection battles of the PC era
Laine Nooney / VICE : Tweets: @janusrose , @sierra_offline , @motherboard , and @motherboard Tweets: @janusrose : i'm lowkey obsessed with @Sierra_OffLine's history of early software piracy & copy pr...
Striking Hollywood writers have two main AI worries: their work being used as training data and being tasked with just fixing AI-generated “sloppy first drafts”
now fix it’: On the picket lines with Hollywood writers as they bring signs, slogans, and sunscreen to their fight … New York Times : Outside Hollywood Studios, Writers Make Their Case The Hollywood R...