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Distrust of Artificial Intelligence is not exactly new; recently, we have seen time and again how the use of this technology in humanistic contexts has done more harm than good. From human operators of online therapy services being replaced by AI chatbots, to "robot" girlfriends that have shown the average human how in...

Artificial Intelligence, nowadays, scares many professionals in the creative and artistic fields: not even the film industry is immune to it. Concern about this technological development has been making its way inside Hollywood studios for some time now, sowing discord among workers. During the recent Venice Film Fest...

During the first week of September 2023, the X social media platform stated within an update to the company's privacy policy that it might collect biometric and professional occupation information from its users. The update emphasizes, therefore, how the social network in question has the ability to expand the informa...

Thanks to technological developments over the past decade, people can consider themselves increasingly safe, secure and protected while driving - the high level of technology built into modern cars makes long car journeys less taxing and smoother. However, sometimes it's better to be safe than sorry. The Mozilla Found...

The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) recently stated that ten game companies have not adopted adequate on-set protections or proper regulations on the use of artificial intelligence. In June, word had spread of a strike by actors and screenwriters at Hollywood stu...

ChatGPT has conquered the world in less than a year, the AI service has managed to go from loved, to hated, to feared, without any kind of excessive commitment on the part of OpenAI. Recall that, in Italy, the platform in question was even banned during the month of March, before being reinstated in the following month...

In May, Twitter was a battleground between a Russian news organization called "Sputnik International" and an account named "CounterCloud". The former published a series of tweets criticizing U.S. foreign policy and attacking the Biden administration, while the latter always seemed to have a prompt response, often accom...

Given recent developments in Artificial Intelligence, it is understandable that the protection of cultural property has become a priority for those in power. Recently, to prevent any misuse, or unregulated use, of Chinese cultural items, four Chinese government departments have mobilized to strengthen Copyright enforce...

Seeing the enormous spread of Artificial Intelligence, and the resulting impact in any professional setting, large or small, it's only understandable that the younger generation is struggling in the face of these recent developments. Each sector is facing its own changes - for example, the creative industries are still...

Long ago, an elegant masterpiece generated by Midjourney, a well-known Artificial Intelligence service, had achieved fame by winning a Fine Arts competition. The victory was controversial at the time, and the work, titled "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial," garnered all kinds of attention, positive or negative. It was said,...

As is now well known, artificial intelligence has long been used for all kinds of tasks-the novelty lies in its assumed ability to replace humans, not in its abilities as a technology aimed at analysis. Recently, two research teams, using different AI services, analyzed in detail a famous painting depicting the Madonn...

Doordash, a home food delivery service famous in the United States, has recently come under the spotlight. The company is currently the largest company in the industry, at least within the nation. According to what was announced during last week's press release, the company is now devoting itself to the development of...

Recently, Artificial Intelligence seems to be taking things a bit too far: OpenAI's web crawler is just the latest in a long list of tools used disproportionately by the company. A crawler, to be clear, is software that analyzes content on a network in a methodical and automated way, usually on behalf of a search engin...

It is no news that Roblox, the famous children's video game platform, ends up in the spotlight when it comes to the protection of minors. Months after our article about it, the site seems to have stumbled into a serious lawsuit concerning some sort of child exploitation. Rachelle Colvin and Danielle Sass, mothers of t...

The Associated Press, a pillar of standards for the news industry, has issued guidelines regarding generative AI and dedicated to its journalists, urging company staff not to use ChatGPT to create publishable content. The introduction of AI is not a replacement for the journalism profession in any way, argues Amanda B...

Artificial Intelligence is expanding like wildfire, reaching into every aspect of everyone's life. Recently, it has come under the spotlight of the culture war perpetrated in the political arena: the far right claims that it has become too "woke," while experts rightly argue that it is not a sentient being with views ...