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VOICE ARCHIVE

@motherboard

@motherboard
199 posts
2023-05-29
Discord's captcha is asking users to identify a ‘Yoko,’ a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-05-29 View on X
VICE

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 , @grege...

2023-05-10
A computer historian tells the story of one of the earliest copy protection battles of the personal computer era. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-05-10 View on X
VICE

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 softw...

This week on Cyber, author Laine Nooney (@Sierra_OffLine) comes on to talk about how the Apple II computer ushered in a new world of personal computing. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-05-10 View on X
VICE

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 softw...

2023-04-25
On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott's voice, and labels are trying to kill it. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-04-25 View on X
VICE

A look at AI Hub, a Discord community focused on AI music that released an entire album featuring original songs using AI-generated vocals from famous artists

On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott's voice, and labels are trying to kill it.

2023-04-12
Reddit moderators say they already see an increase in spam and that the future will “require a lot of human labor.” https://www.vice.com/...
2023-04-12 View on X
VICE

Reddit moderators detail recent spam generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, including in higher volume and at faster post speeds, sometimes via coordinated attacks

2023-04-10
The earliest version of the leaked Pentagon documents online seem to come from a small gaming community forum. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-04-10 View on X
bellingcat

The leaked Pentagon Ukraine documents seem to have first appeared on Discord, followed by 4chan, before spreading to Telegram, Twitter, and major media outlets

Aric Toler / bellingcat :

2023-03-26
“The problem is when GPT-X is released and we are unable to discern its values since they are being decided behind the closed doors of AI companies.” https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-26 View on X
VICE

A look at the community of users who “jailbreak” GPT models to generate unfiltered content and see themselves as fighting back against OpenAI's closed policies

“The problem is when GPT-X is released and we are unable to discern its values since they are being decided behind the closed doors of AI companies.” Tweets: @alexalbert__ , @alexa...

2023-03-15
The group is blackmailing Ring on its site: “There's always an option to let us leak your data,” they posted. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-15 View on X
VICE

After the ALPHV ransomware group claimed to have hit Amazon's Ring, the company says there's no breach evidence but a vendor without customer records was hit

Joseph Cox / VICE :

2023-03-09
Founder Rob Morris told Motherboard that he thinks social media platforms aren't doing enough to help users in crisis. He hopes platforms will partner with Koko to give users additional resources beyond the suicide hotline. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-09 View on X
VICE

Experts criticize Koko, a mental health nonprofit, for directing some at-risk users on Facebook, Tumblr, Discord, and other platforms to a chatbot for a study

which was a Typeform-generated survey that presented users with a quiz with GIFs of a cat and dog. https://www.vice.com/... @motherboard : If a user's response indicated that they ...

While it's certainly important to help people in distress, many researchers and psychologists were appalled by the experiment, not least because it potentially puts at-risk people at further risk. Read more: https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-09 View on X
VICE

Experts criticize Koko, a mental health nonprofit, for directing some at-risk users on Facebook, Tumblr, Discord, and other platforms to a chatbot for a study

which was a Typeform-generated survey that presented users with a quiz with GIFs of a cat and dog. https://www.vice.com/... @motherboard : If a user's response indicated that they ...

Participants of the experiment were deprived of a number of protections related to their safety and privacy. Experts consulted by Motherboard described the study using terms ranging from “distasteful” to “inexcusable.” https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-09 View on X
VICE

Experts criticize Koko, a mental health nonprofit, for directing some at-risk users on Facebook, Tumblr, Discord, and other platforms to a chatbot for a study

which was a Typeform-generated survey that presented users with a quiz with GIFs of a cat and dog. https://www.vice.com/... @motherboard : If a user's response indicated that they ...

If a user's response indicated that they were at risk, they were sent into a “crisis flow,” and asked whether they were struggling with suicidal thoughts, self-harm, abuse, or something else. Then, they were randomly assigned to one of two groups. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-09 View on X
VICE

Experts criticize Koko, a mental health nonprofit, for directing some at-risk users on Facebook, Tumblr, Discord, and other platforms to a chatbot for a study

which was a Typeform-generated survey that presented users with a quiz with GIFs of a cat and dog. https://www.vice.com/... @motherboard : If a user's response indicated that they ...

One group, a control, was provided a number for a crisis hotline, while the other was provided with an intervention—which was a Typeform-generated survey that presented users with a quiz with GIFs of a cat and dog. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-09 View on X
VICE

Experts criticize Koko, a mental health nonprofit, for directing some at-risk users on Facebook, Tumblr, Discord, and other platforms to a chatbot for a study

which was a Typeform-generated survey that presented users with a quiz with GIFs of a cat and dog. https://www.vice.com/... @motherboard : If a user's response indicated that they ...

2023-02-17
The researchers also propose stricter control over model access, including closing security vulnerabilities and restricting access to future models. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-02-17 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI plans to improve ChatGPT's behavior to reduce biases, allow more user customization, and get more public input into decision-making about system defaults

We're clarifying how ChatGPT's behavior is shaped and our plans for improving that behavior, allowing more user customization …

The researchers also propose stricter control over model access, including closing security vulnerabilities and restricting access to future models. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-02-17 View on X
VICE

OpenAI, Stanford, and Georgetown researchers warn disinformation campaigns could use LLMs and propose governments could restrict training data and AI hardware

Chloe Xiang / VICE : Tweets: @motherboard , @lorakolodny , @marshallk , @leahmcelrath , @tante , @mistresssnowphd , and @danmcquillan Tweets: @motherboard : The researchers also p...

2023-02-14
The other women whose names and images were shared from the deepfake website Atrioc visited, including Pokimane and Maya Higa, are also enduring a deluge of harassment and unwanted attention. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
VICE

A look at the torrent of deepfake porn harassment targeted at female creators, as a Twitch streamer admits to buying deepfakes of streamers after he was caught

QTCinderella, one of more than a dozen female streamers whose likenesses appeared on the deepfake site, has faced relentless harassment since the live stream. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
VICE

A look at the torrent of deepfake porn harassment targeted at female creators, as a Twitch streamer admits to buying deepfakes of streamers after he was caught

After Atrioc was caught buying non-consensual, pornographic deepfakes of fellow Twitch streamers, the abuse against the targeted women has been endless. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
VICE

A look at the torrent of deepfake porn harassment targeted at female creators, as a Twitch streamer admits to buying deepfakes of streamers after he was caught

QTCinderella doesn't want this to be part of her narrative. “I hope that in 10 years when my nieces are more on the internet, she doesn't have to deal with something like this just for existing as a woman on the internet.” https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
VICE

A look at the torrent of deepfake porn harassment targeted at female creators, as a Twitch streamer admits to buying deepfakes of streamers after he was caught

Streamers are already frequent targets of misogyny online, but AI-generated sexual harassment takes it to another level. It's used to slut-shame and smear them, as blackmail, and can upend their lives within their own families and real-life communities. https://www.vice.com/...
2023-02-14 View on X
VICE

A look at the torrent of deepfake porn harassment targeted at female creators, as a Twitch streamer admits to buying deepfakes of streamers after he was caught