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The desire to know, to gain knowledge and delve into what might seem inaccessible is a fundamental human characteristic. Investigating an individual's lineage, studying their past and those who have existed before, are rather complex research processes, activities beyond the reach of most people. In the past decade, h...

In 2022, human rights activist Tanya O'Carroll launched a lawsuit against one of the leading tech companies, Meta. According to the complaint, the company had refused the woman's requests to stop collecting and processing her data on Facebook, behavior that went against U.K. laws on handling personal data. The allegat...

The Saudi government could obtain endless amounts of data regarding the location of Pokémon Go players within some time. Niantic, the company responsible for the app, which is recognized as a worldwide phenomenon, is in fact selling it to Scopely, a company controlled by a Saudi company called Savvy Games. The latter ...

According to a set of procurement documents obtained by 404 Media, the news outlet responsible for today's referenced article, NASA allegedly paid for access to Clearview AI's “Investigator Tool + Cloud Database.” The documents in question, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), state that the agency...

During the last week of February, an artificially generated video was released depicting the Gaza Strip as a kind of luxury paradise, not too far from what one might see on the streets of Dubai. Within the included clips, one showed Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America, intent on sipping cocktail...

“Welcome to the metaverse on earth!” Reads a letter printed on dark blue paper, decorated with a luxurious gold stamp; accompanying it is an identity card for the Republic of Palau, a tropical island in Micronesia, not far from Indonesia and the Philippines. The enclosed document appears to be the main focus of th...

Recently, one of the leading tech companies announced a special project aimed at the most prestigious universities on the planet. OpenAI, the famous company behind the ChatGPT model has launched a collaboration with some of the world's most famous educational institutions, including Oxford and Harvard. The consortium ...

The world of artificial intelligence never sleeps. Updates and new developments are always the order of the day, especially when considering the most famous models in the field, published and eternally promoted by the leading companies in the field. It seems to be the turn of Gemini AI, Google's artificial intelligence...

“I consider this to be an insult to life itself.” Animation master Hayao Miyazaki's opinion about artificial intelligence has always been quite clear, as reflected in this commentary dating back to 2016. From the very beginning, the co-founder of one of the world's most famous animation film studios, Studio Ghibli,...

Despite the current general development of world-famous artificial intelligence models, a new wave of simple AI systems, whose main function is to generate videos and similar content, seems to have recently emerged. The trend originated in China, as these new “AI generators” seem to be, for the most part, produced ...

On March 8, 2022, the British government promised that it would make substantial changes to the Online Safety Act so that it could better address scams and fraud that threaten the safety of its citizens. Three years later, nothing has changed. The United Kingdom has, in fact, been hardest hit by a series of recent scam...

The spontaneous and voluntary sharing of information regarding the business/financial aspect of a certain company rather than another is not exactly a predictable move. It is customary to regard this area as a kind of trade secret, data to which only and exclusively a precise number of individuals involved have access,...

Artificial intelligence models may be the new frontier of technology, but after all, they are still man-made. Humanity is capable of developing its cognitive abilities, deepening its knowledge and cultivating its wisdom, but it is also extremely prone to a certain search for the “easiest way.” Humans can be lazy an...

Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of most people's daily lives, whether it is a question posed to ChatGPT or the use of a model to facilitate work - following its impressive trajectory in recent years, it is now commonplace to find out about its implementation in one area rather than another. One lit...

The relationship between artificial intelligence and the mental health of users has been investigated several times in the past; last year we published an article regarding the distorted empathy of this technology and the risks involved when it is misused in psychological contexts, however, this landscape is in flux. ...

The spread and rapid development of artificial intelligence has brought about several changes in the world, both within technological sectors and within various professional fields. This impressive technology has, more specifically, sowed panic in creative circles: art and writing seem to have been the victims most aff...