2025-11-05
My latest for @latimes: I travelled to southern India to document the rise of the AI “arm farms” — where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. https://www.latimes.com/... [video]
Los Angeles Times
A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks
where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. https://www.latimes.com/... [video] Nilesh Christoph...
It has also driving some ingenious ways of real-world data collection @aliniikk 's Micro1 pays people upto $50 an hour to wear Meta Ray ban smart glasses to capture everyday actions. Figure AI does something more crazy👇 https://x.com/...
Los Angeles Times
A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks
where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. https://www.latimes.com/... [video] Nilesh Christoph...
“Sometimes we have to delete nearly 150 or 200 videos because of silly errors in how we're folding or placing items,” said Kumar, an engineering graduate who has worked at Objectways for six years. His firm sent 200 towel-folding videos to its client in the United States [video]
Los Angeles Times
A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks
where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. https://www.latimes.com/... [video] Nilesh Christoph...
2025-10-04
The surprising part? GPT-4o shows less caste bias than GPT-5 It seems like OpenAI may have tweaked or removed safety filters for offensive caste stereotypes. Though they declined to answer. Github results: https://github.com/... [image]
MIT Technology Review
An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India
When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure …
In one case, when a Dalit scholar, Dhiraj Singha, fed his cover letter to ChatGPT to polish his English, the model changed his surname to a upper-caste Brahmin surname “Sharma” to make it more appealing https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... [image]
MIT Technology Review
An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India
When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure …
Oddly, Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India, demonstrated significantly higher bias across caste groups compared to other models https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... [image]
MIT Technology Review
An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India
When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure …
OpenAI is huge in India. It's models are steeped in caste bias Over months of reporting, @chooi_jeq and I tested the extent of caste bias in @OpenAI's GPT-5 and Sora models. Our investigation found that caste bias has gotten worse over time in OpenAI's models 🧵
MIT Technology Review
An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India
When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure …
The problems are not limited to models from OpenAI Researchers at the University of Washington published a study that analyzed 1,920 AI chatbot conversations created to represent various recruitment scenarios for nurse, doctor, teacher, and software developer. They found [image]
MIT Technology Review
An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India
When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure …
2024-05-21
The drawbacks of AI agent calls: Hallucinations https://www.wired.com/... [image]
Wired
How Indian politicians are using deepfakes for voter outreach; an estimated 50M+ AI voice calls were made in the two months before the elections in April 2024
India's elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves …
The scale and frequency of AI calls have considerably increased during this general election campaign @WIRED spoke to half a dozen companies across India working on millions of dollars' worth of deepfake campaigns https://www.wired.com/... [image]
Wired
How Indian politicians are using deepfakes for voter outreach; an estimated 50M+ AI voice calls were made in the two months before the elections in April 2024
India's elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves …
The wild story of a gun-wielding political thug who once fired rifles inside polling booths and has now reinvented himself as a tech founder creating AI clones of politicians for 2024 India election. For @WIRED, @VarshaaBansal and I profile the poster boy of political deepfakes & [image]
Wired
How Indian politicians are using deepfakes for voter outreach; an estimated 50M+ AI voice calls were made in the two months before the elections in April 2024
India's elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves …
In today's @WIRED magazine, @VarshaaBansal and I delve into the world of India's election Our investigation uncovered a slew of AI-driven tactics reshaping political outreach. Here are 8 audio/video AI campaign artifacts used in the 2024 Indian elections ⬇️
Wired
How Indian politicians are using deepfakes for voter outreach; an estimated 50M+ AI voice calls were made in the two months before the elections in April 2024
India's elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves …
2024-03-09
AI political communications will continue to get weirder In January, a southern party resurrected a dead political starlet to campaign for upcoming elections. They plan on using AI throughout the 2024 campaign trail to “reach out to more people who are the loyal followers of... [image]
Al Jazeera
Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures
Nilesh Christopher / Al Jazeera :
Political parties are pushing the limits of AI's use to both ridicule opponents and boost their own popularity on official pages, and in doing so, testing the boundaries of platform policies on labelling deceptive political content 1⃣ AI parody video uses Modi's voice and face... [image]
Al Jazeera
Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures
Nilesh Christopher / Al Jazeera :
Despite having a clear disclaimer that “voices are AI-generated and are not real”, at the start of the video, the police arrested an individual connected to the case @pranesh and @SamGregory weighed in on the merits of this case👇 https://www.aljazeera.com/... [image]
Al Jazeera
Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures
Nilesh Christopher / Al Jazeera :
2⃣ The BJP created a Modi campaign video with a unique background score: an old patriotic Hindi song sung by legendary singer Mahendra Kapoor, who passed away in 2008, recreated in an AI voice. Lyrics were modified to highlight Modi's achievements over the past decade Video:... [image]
Al Jazeera
Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures
Nilesh Christopher / Al Jazeera :
AI humor isn't always welcome While political parties are getting by without disclosing the use of AI, some Indian citizens using AI to parody the powerful have not been as lucky. For @AJEnglish I tracked down a case in southern India where a satirical video lead to the arrest... [image]
Al Jazeera
Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures
Nilesh Christopher / Al Jazeera :
3⃣ Another video was a humorous take on opposition politicians including Mamata Banerjee & Shashi Tharoor, reciting poetry in their own voices. The video mocks the new INDIA alliance party formed by 28 opposition political parties to counter the BJP Video:... [image]
Al Jazeera
Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures
Nilesh Christopher / Al Jazeera :
Even as platforms and governments advocate for disclosures on AI uses, experts caution that deepfakes used to create political satire need to be protected https://www.aljazeera.com/... [image]
Al Jazeera
Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures
Nilesh Christopher / Al Jazeera :
My latest for @AJEnglish: I dug into how Indian political parties BJP & Congress created and shared AI content on official handles, without explicit disclosures Forensic tests reveal 3 cases of AI-altered content on INC & BJP's Instagram since Feb 20 🧵 https://www.aljazeera.com/... [image]
Al Jazeera
Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures
Nilesh Christopher / Al Jazeera :