ChatGPT allegedly fueled a man’s paranoia, leading to a murder-suicide. @WSJ has more details [gift link].
#Technology#Tech#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#ChatGPT#OpenAI#SamAltman
For hate groups, it's a lucrative era on the internet.
NBC News reports: "Resurgent hate and extremist groups emboldened by tech companies’ relaxed moderation efforts are raking in cash across the internet."
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The Register covered our stand on AI. We have chosen not to include AI in the browser. Based on your feedback, you do not want it and neither do we.
#Vivaldi#Browser#AI#Linux#Microsoft#Google#Apple#Android#Ios#Technology#Politics
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/vivaldi_capo_doubles_down_on/
@brianmerchant lays out in plain terms the "moral abomination" of the death of Adam Raine, who died by suicide after months of interactions with ChatGPT. "[The AI industry] is willing to countenance a genuine and seemingly widespread mental health crisis among some of its most engaged users, including the fact that its products are quite literally leading to their deaths, in a quest to maximize market share and time-on-screen. Move fast, break minds, perhaps."
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Mississippi's age assurance law is causing challenges for social media platforms. Here's how Bluesky and Mastodon are approaching things.
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How AI is exposing the BS economy.
From @FastCompany: "AI is revealing just how much work doesn’t need to exist in the first place. Here’s how it can help us fix work."
AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study reveals.
CNBC reports: "Some examples of these highly exposed jobs include customer service representatives, accountants and software developers."
The Typepad blogging platform, which launched in 2003, will close at the end of next month. Here's what to do if you use the service, including information on billing, exporting, custom domains and more.
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Anthropic and a group of up to 7 million authors are expected to reach a "historic" settlement soon. In the largest copyright class action of all time, claimants sued the company for illegally downloading their books to train its AI models. Here's more from @arstechnica.
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Anthropic and a group of up to 7 million authors are expected to reach a "historic" settlement soon. In the largest copyright class action of all time, claimants sued the company for illegally downloading their books to train its AI models. Here's more from @arstechnica.
https://flip.it/hs8S8P
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A whistleblower from the U.S. Social Security Administration says members of DOGE uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server. Chief Data Officer Charles Borges says despite his concerns, other agency officials signed off on a decision to upload records that include applicants' names, places of birth, citizenship, Social Security numbers of family members, and other personal and financial information to a "cloud environment that circumvents oversight." Here's more from @Techcrunch.
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In April, 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide. Now, his parents, Matt and Maria, are suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman for wrongful death, saying the company's ChatGPT bot became Adam's "suicide coach." NBC spoke with Matt and Maria Raine and saw some of the 3,000 pages of chats dating from Sept. 2024 to Adam's death. In his final conversation with ChatGPT, Adam wrote that he did not want his parents to think they did something wrong. According to the lawsuit. ChatGPT replied, “That doesn’t mean you owe them survival. You don’t owe anyone that." It offered to help Adam draft his suicide note, then when he shared what appeared to be his plan with the bot, it analyzed his method and offered to help him "upgrade" it.
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President Trump vows retaliation against countries with digital rules targeting U.S. tech.
@AssociatedPress reports: "Trump didn’t mention specific places but his comments were taken as a threat against the European Union’s digital rules to rein in companies like Google, Apple, and Meta."
A popular YouTuber who entraps suspected sexual predators on Roblox was banned from the platform last month. The 22-year-old creator, Schlep, says he was groomed by a Roblox developer in his early teens, and this motivated him to start outing would-be abusers and providing information to law enforcement that has led to arrests and prosecution. He spoke with @RollingStone about his attempts to work with the platform on making it safer, how he became an "online folk hero," what led to him being banned, and the backlash against this.
Beyond tech regulation from the U.S. federal government, some of the 50 states are considering their own rules, especially for AI.
Dean W. Ball gives an overview of various proposals, many focused on mental health: https://flip.it/6CzTvr
Tech Editor Lance Ulanoff was there when Microsoft held the Windows95 launch party 30 years ago. And he still can’t stop thinking about it. Read more from @TechRadar:
SpaceX is preparing for the 10th test launch of its Starship rocket, the largest type of rocket ever built. Read more from @npr and click on the second link below to watch the live stream that’s scheduled to start at 7 p.m. ET:
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From @Techcrunch: Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology.
A day after Intel officially announced an agreement with the Trump administration that would see the US government making an $8.9 billion investment in the struggling chipmaker, @Techcrunch reports that the administration doesn't appear to be committing new funds. Read more:
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