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NaNoWriMo, a renowned US non-profit organisation promoting creative writing worldwide, has recently come under the spotlight for a rather surprising reason. The organisation, which originally started as a simple creative project, has expanded to the point of becoming an engaging challenge for any creative mind: during ...

Recently, Telegram seems to have become the focus of a series of rather serious scandals: CEO Pavel Durov was arrested by the French authorities during the last week of August, under the accusation of having allowed child pornography to be distributed on his platform; shortly afterwards, other news arose concerning its...

Recently, tiktoker Jools LeBron's playful slogan seems to have gained a considerable following: ‘very demure, very mindful, very cutesy’ is a constant reminder of how we should behave in our lives. In a previous article, we mentioned an intense struggle concerning the enforcement of copyright on this famous phrase,...

As mentioned in several articles published both in the past and recently, the use of deepfake technology to generate non-consensual pornographic content is not exactly new. The rise of artificial intelligence, in fact, has found its successor in the rapid fame that this misuse of deepfake technology is gaining. Severa...

The practice of nudify refers to the use of artificial intelligence systems to virtually undress flesh-and-blood people through image manipulation to make the subjects appear as if they were naked. Following the rapid spread of AI, the application of this technology for malicious purposes has skyrocketed, also relying ...

‘Very demure, very mindful, very cutesy’ is the behaviour we should all adopt in different contexts of our lives: whether it's work or private life, influencer Jools LeBron recommends that we should always be proper. The transgender tiktoker jokingly shared this advice in a video on her account, which went viral ov...

The last weekend of August saw Pavel Durov as the protagonist of a rather surprising event, which subsequently shook the entire Internet landscape. The founder of the messaging application Telegram was seized and detained by the French authorities. According to a subsequent press release from the Paris Judicial Court,...

The founder and president of the famous online messaging platform Telegram has recently come under the spotlight of the European media. The man, whose name is Pavel Durov, was accused of a series of crimes following an investigation by the French authorities in July. His platform is often the subject of various, usual...

In a single lifetime, it's impossible to listen to half of all the music on this planet. Thanks to Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music, most internet users can listen to whatever they like at the click of a button. However, this does not mean that all the music created and distributed on Earth is currently available onlin...

Becoming a criminal nowadays seems to be a rather simple activity to undertake - on most online platforms, such as Tiktok, Telegram and YouTube, it's quite easy to come across tutorials and guides on how to carry out a number of particularly current crimes, including ‘sextortion’. The term indicates a form of onli...

As mentioned in an article published last week, the renowned company OpenAI, one of the major leaders in the artificial intelligence sector and owner of the chatbot ChatGPT, recently entered into a multi-year agreement with Condé Nast, the US publisher responsible for titles such asVogue, Wired and The New Yorker. It...

California State Senator Scott Wiener recently received an unexpected letter. Famous for introducing SB 1047, also known as the ‘Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act’, the intent of this bill is to establish general standards before proceeding with the development of more power...

Cheyenne, the capital of the US state of Wyoming, recently had a rather peculiar experience. Earlier this year, a man named Victor Miller proposed his candidacy for mayor of the city, accompanied by a rather unusual assistant: a chatbot. More precisely, the AI in question is called ‘Vic’ (Virtual Integrated Citize...

It is somewhat ironic that a company that is used to receiving copyright infringement complaints, whether from small artists or big brands, is now on the other side of the story. Shein, the Chinese online fast fashion giant, recently shared some outrage at the practices of its competitor and compatriot Temu. In fact, ...

It is not unusual to discover that one of the leading companies in the technology sector, universally acknowledged as being responsible for the spread of AI chatbots, uses less than fair practices to train its artificial intelligence services. OpenAI cyclically returns to the spotlight, and this time it seems to have f...

Artificial intelligence, as has been mentioned many times in the past, is not an inherently evil tool - its use, more precisely, is what dictates its positive or negative tendency. However,the constant stream of rather shameful news seems to be the order of the day, inevitably influencing public opinion of the technolo...