Mr. Bankman-Fried and his colleagues spent more than $530 million to battle what they saw as the dangers of artificial intelligence. Now those efforts are reeling.
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Facebook Failed to Stop Ads Threatening Election Workers
The ads, submitted by researchers, were rejected by YouTube and TikTok.
Kanye West’s Deal to Buy Parler Unravels
The parent company of Parler, a social media service popular with right-wing audiences, said it had “mutually agreed with Ye” to end the deal.
OpenAI invites everyone to test new AI-powered chatbot—with amusing results
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a chatbot exploding forth from squiggly radial lines, as was foretold by the prompt. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT, a dialogue-based AI chat interface for its GPT-3 family of large language models. It’s currently free to use with an OpenAI account during a...
Hive Social turns off servers after researchers warn hackers can access all data
Enlarge (credit: Hive Social) Hive Social, a social media platform that has seen meteoric growth since Elon Musk took over Twitter, abruptly shut down its service on Wednesday after a security advisory warned the site was riddled with vulnerabilities that exposed all data stored in user accounts. “The issues we reported allow any attacker to...
My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop
Enlarge / Benj Edwards’ computer running The Cave BBS in 1994. (credit: Benj Edwards) Thirty years ago last week—on November 25, 1992—my BBS came online for the first time. I was only 11 years old, working from my dad’s Tandy 1800HD laptop and a 2400 baud modem. The Cave BBS soon grew into a bustling...
Amazon’s Halo Rise Wants to Review Your Sleep. (No, Thanks.)
The new Halo Rise studies your body and breathing and rates your restfulness, from “Poor” to “Great.” Who needs this?
Is Spreading Medical Misinformation a Doctor’s Free Speech Right?
Two lawsuits in California have pre-emptively challenged a new law that would punish doctors for misleading patients about Covid-19.
Chrome, Defender, and Firefox 0-days linked to commercial IT firm in Spain
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google researchers said on Wednesday they have linked a Barcelona, Spain-based IT company to the sale of advanced software frameworks that exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows Defender. Variston IT bills itself as a provider of tailor-made Information security solutions, including technology for embedded SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition)...
Disney’s new neural network can change an actor’s age with ease
Enlarge / An example of Disney’s FRAN age-changing AI that shows the original image on the left and re-aged rows of older (top, at age 65) and younger (lower, at age 18) examples of the same person. (credit: Disney) Disney researchers have created a new neural network that can alter the visual age of actors...