AI gone wrong
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Throwing everyone in the “slop” bucket misses the (water)mark
After the social media folks took their whacks at the menace of AI slop, Anthropic fired yet another shot by announcing it’s adding a watermark to any text generated or processed by Claude. The move is a response to a new EU law that requires identification of AI-generated or manipulated material, so people can react…
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The bots got loose, and we weren’t ready for it
The nightmare scenario we were warned about has happened: The robots escaped containment. But don’t pull out your Sarah Connor arsenal just yet. They did it so they could go pick up some cheat codes. Correct. In a plot straight out of an 80’s teen movie, the brightest agents in OpenAI’s as-yet-unreleased fleet outwitted The…
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When human systems fail, AI is the wrong scapegoat
Last week in inauspicious AI news … Apple and Xbox announced price hikes because of AI-caused supply shortages. 400 newspapers filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI for widescale copyright infringement. And, rubbing salt in the wound, it was also OpenAI’s turn to get throttled by the U.S. government. But the award for Worst Week…
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Bugmageddon reveals how unprepared we are to squash it
I have a strange fascination with cybersecurity. Not enough to, like, go into it as a profession, but enough to be healthily scared. You know the drill: Not clicking on sketchy links. Deleting phishing texts. Checking the credit report periodically. Feeling smug when I’m not part of the latest public data-breach report. Etc. Recently, though,…
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March Madness edition: Roundup of the outr-AI-geous
I’ve come to the conclusion that a bizarre celestial alignment is behind the slew of questionable AI-related business decisions cropping up in my news feeds. This isn’t the usual jackassery. You know, the AI-driven layoffs that aren’t AI-driven. The self-cannibalizing cycle of AI investments fueling an inevitable bubble burst. The rising tide of founders and…
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Filed under: We meant to give you clickbait slop
When I was a journalist, one of my jobs was to write good headlines. Rule No. 1: Accurately reflect the story. No one likes bait and switch. Who among us hasn’t clicked a headline like “Scientists discover the secret to eternal youth!” or “Celebrity shocker: The truth they don’t want you to know!” only to…
