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23 Jan

Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes

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Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can "verify that Ring videos you receive haven't been edited or changed." But since Ring won't verify videos that have been altered in any way, it probably won't be able to verify those videos you see on TikTok that look like they're from security camera footage but are actually made with AI. @verge Baby, that's a fake baby. Here are some ways AI content accounts are going out of their way to make AI videos seem legit. #ai #aislop #slopbusters #aivideos #sora ♬ original sound - The Verge…

21 Jan

Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity

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Anthropic is overhauling Claude's so-called "soul doc." The new missive is a 57-page document titled "Claude's Constitution," which details "Anthropic's intentions for the model's values and behavior," aimed not at outside readers but the model itself. The document is designed to spell out Claude's "ethical character" and "core identity," including how it should balance conflicting values and high-stakes situations. Where the previous constitution, published in May 2023, was largely a list of guidelines, Anthropic now says it's important for AI models to "understand why we want them to behave in certain ways rather than just specifying w … Read the…

19 Jan

OpenAI’s 2026 ‘focus’ is ‘practical adoption’

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OpenAI plans to focus on "practical adoption" of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar. As the company spends a huge amount of money on infrastructure, OpenAI is working on "closing the gap" on what AI can do and how people actually use it. "The opportunity is large and immediate, especially in health, science, and enterprise, where better intelligence translates directly into better outcomes." Much of the blog post, titled "A business that scales with the value of intelligence," is about how OpenAI has evolved since it launched ChatGPT and how it has scaled up…

16 Jan

Google brings its AI videomaker to Workspace users

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An AI-generated scene created by Flow. Google is expanding access to its AI videomaking tool. Launched last May, Flow was initially only available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but now, those with Business, Enterprise, and Education Workspace plans can access it, too. Flow uses Google's AI video generation model Veo 3.1 to generate eight-second clips based on a text prompt or images. You can stitch together the clips to create longer scenes, as well as access a bunch of other tools that allow you to change the lighting, adjust the "camera" angle, and insert or remove objects…

15 Jan

Grok undressed the mother of one of Elon Musk’s kids — and now she’s suing

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Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of X owner Elon Musk's children, is suing his company for enabling its AI to virtually strip her down into a bikini without her consent. St. Clair is one of the many people over the past couple weeks who have found themselves undressed without permission by X's AI chatbot, Grok. The chatbot has been gingerly complying with users' requests to remove clothing from many women and some apparent minors, or put them in sexualized poses or scenarios. The feature has caused an uproar from policymakers around the world who have launched investigations and…

15 Jan

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

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Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account's ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes reported on Tuesday by The Telegraph, as Grok's responses to prompts like "put her in a bikini" became censored. But in tests of the feature on Wednesday, we found that it was still relatively easy to get Grok to generate revealing deepfakes, while X and xAI owner Elon Musk blamed the problems on "user requests" and "times when adversarial hacking of Grok prompts does something unexpected." As of Wednesday evening,…

13 Jan

Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue

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The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act), would let victims sue the individuals who created the images for civil damages. The bill passed with unanimous consent - meaning there was no roll-call vote, and no Senator objected to its passage on the floor Tuesday. It's meant to build on the work of the Take It Down Act, a law that criminalizes the distribution of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII) and requires…

11 Jan

Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches

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Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According to the original report: In one case that experts described as "really dangerous", Google wrongly advised people with pancreatic cancer to avoid high-fat foods. Experts said this was the exact opposite of what should be recommended, and may increase the risk of patients dying from the disease. In another "alarming" example, the company provided bogus information about crucial liver func … Read…

09 Jan

AI is coming for collectibles next

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Buddyo is a smart base designed to add AI to figurines like Funko Pops using NFC tags. AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at CES this year, but among the horde of waddling plushies and light-up emoji eyes, two stood out to me. HeyMates and Buddyo are each betting that the collectible figurine boom is going to come back with an AI-powered vengeance, letting us chat to sports stars and superheroes from our desks. The core concept to both is this: Take a cutesy figurine and stick it onto a smart base with a speaker, microphone, and maybe…

08 Jan

Ford’s AI voice assistant is coming later this year, L3 driving in 2028

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Ford's new AI-powered voice assistant will be rolling out to customers later this year, the company's top software executive said at CES today. And in 2028, the automaker will introduce a hands-free, eyes-off Level 3 autonomous driving feature as part of its more affordable (and hopefully more profitable) Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform, set to launch in 2027. Most importantly, Ford said it would be developing a lot of the core technology around these products in-house in order to reduce costs and retain greater control over. Mind you, the company isn't creating its own large-language models or designing its own…