Bandcamp takes a stand against AI music, banning it from the platform | TechCrunch
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Bandcamp takes a stand against AI music, banning it from the platform | TechCrunch
"We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans," the company said.Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
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If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.Katherine Speller (HuffPost)
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"Microsoft and Google keep the energy consumption of their Dutch data centers secret, despite European reporting obligations. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland, RVO) received blank forms or no data at all. The Dutch newspaper NRC reports that the government has no legal means to request the actual figures."techzine.eu/news/infrastructurβ¦
How much energy do Microsoft and Google consume? The Dutch don't know - Techzine Global
Microsoft and Google are concealing the energy consumption of Dutch data centers despite EU obligations. RVO received blank forms or no data.Erik van Klinken (Techzine)
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Time will tell if'n they'll actually do this, but hopefully they will
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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If they come through with a one click "we pinky swear it's all off" 'kill switch' then maybe.
It has been a bit of a drag having to look through the settings and about:config to check for new checkboxes to deselect ai tidbits.
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
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Elon Muskβs Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.Maggie Harrison DuprΓ© (Futurism)
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Google Sweating After Its AI Accuses Senator of Terrible Crime
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Google Pulls Down AI Chatbot After It Accuses Senator of Terrible Crime
Google pulled the Gemma model from its AI Hub after the AI falsely claimed that a Republican senator had been accused of heinous crimes.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
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Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard
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Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard
The AI billboard asks you to visit a website called Replacement.AI, which brags that humans are "no longer necessary."Frank Landymore (Futurism)
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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified - Ars Technica
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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans
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Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans
In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
AI-Generated Reading List Ignites Backlash Against Chicago Sun-Times | HuffPost Latest News
Anyone believe the claim that they have no idea how it got published?
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Chicago Sun-Times Faces Backlash After Promoting Fake Books In AI-Generated Summer Reading List
βThis is just idiotic of me, really embarrassed,β said the author of the list, who is not an employee of the newspaper.Pocharapon Neammanee (HuffPost)
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