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The Tiktok platform has recently come under the spotlight, for what seems like the umpteenth time in the last three years. The situation, however, is dire: the US House of Representatives has repeatedly expressed its intention to ban Tiktok from the USA, due to various reasons that have been identified over the months....

Can't use ChatGPT? Don't worry, pop over to Amazon! Recent research by one of the founders of 404 Media revealed the presence of an artificial intelligence chatbot within the interface of Amazon's application. The 'Ask about this product' section, always been known as the area in which to ask questions about various a...

The beginning of last week was marked by unprecedented panic within French government offices. Several government departments, in fact, fell victim to an impressive series of cyber attacks, followed by the activation of a crisis unit aimed at dealing with the situation. In the following days, the Prime Minister's Offi...

The reputation of artificial intelligence seems to be getting worse by the day, each new development that reaches the spotlight increasing the negativity now inherent in this technology. Thanks to the gradual growth of concern about environmental protection, the serious energy impact of this technology has recently bee...

During the month of December 2023, the famous New York Times newspaper filed a complaint for copyright infringement by Microsoft and OpenAI; more precisely, the lawsuit took into accountall content generated by the respective artificial intelligences, curiously similar to texts originally published by the NYT. In orde...

A group of researchers, former employees of Meta, dedicated their 2023 to developing a new artificial intelligence software, called 'Patronus Ai'. The aim of the company, of the same name, is to evaluate and test the famous LLMs (large language models) - currently recognised as the technology carrier behind AI products...

Tiktok's entire platform is gradually becoming a showcase of repetitive and empty videos, whose entertainment potential lies solely in the application's algorithm. Where it was once possible tocome across short, genuine and personal clips, whose creators were not influencers carefully constructed through marketing stra...

There has been talk over and over again in recent months about the misuse of artificial intelligence, whether it be deepfake videos or revenge porn, there always seems to be an option for the ill-intentioned. The ultimate goal, in any case,is often about the monetary value that people can manage to extract from their v...

"Verbal Verdict", a video game still under development whose demo can be found on Steam, immerses the player in a series of interrogations with potential suspects for criminal acts. Unlike other games in the genre, this indie production uses Large Language Models within the gameplay - they allow the player to ask any k...

The recent situation concerning Israel and Palestine is, rightly, occupying the screens and minds of most users of the vast Internet world; not all online services, however, seem willing to share information. Google's artificial intelligence, called GeminiAI and released during the last month of 2023, for instance, do...

Nowadays, we are so used to thinking of the 'Cloud' as a general virtual place designed to hold all our data, that to think of its physical and tangible presence seems impossible. Yet it is: the Cloud is not an actual cloud beyond our reach, the Cloud is in yet another room filled with pulsating, overheating, tangling ...

Nowadays, social media platforms seem to be teeming with dangers, risks and tragedies, rather than mere entertainment. That said, it is important to emphasise that the situation is not destined to end in disgrace. The European Union, as a matter of fact, recently opened a detailed investigation into the famous Tiktok ...

In May 2023, Instacart, the famous US food delivery service, announced the use of ChatGPT in the generation of recipes and ingredient lists for its users. In the following months, however, there was no further news about the implementation of artificial intelligence. That was until February 2024, when more and more un...

The term 'nuclear fusion' refers to the reaction in the sun's core that combines atoms to produce energy. As the etymology suggests, it is not a particularly easy process to put into action: there is a high risk of generating more energy than necessary, and it is essential to use the right materials and be careful not ...

During the last week of February 2024, an interesting study by researchers from Georgetown University and Stanford was published in the peer-reviewed journal 'PNAS Nexus'. The research in question featured ChatGPT-3, an artificial intelligence model of the OpenAI giant, which was provided with real propaganda material,...

Any data on the Internet could become 'fuel' for artificial intelligence tools, be it an image, an audio file or a post on a social network: any content has the potential to become training material. According to an inside source at 404 Media, the site whose article we are referring to here, the company behind the Tum...