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On Tuesday, July 15, Microsoft announced a new, more secure, AI-powered version of Bing - specifically for enterprises and designed to ensure professionals can securely share potentially sensitive information with a chatbot. Bing Chat Enterprise was created specifically so that user chat data will not be saved; moreov...

As expected, the NFT market today is in an extremely precarious situation - few are showing genuine interest in the field, many of the most prominent figures have now left the environment, and the proposed content has undoubtedly lost quality and traction. Several founders of NFT collections want out of the world in q...

Nowadays, the profession of content creator still lacks proper and precise regularization, which is why one always gets into uncharted territory when it comes to the methodologies used in content creation. Recently, the company Bandai Namco, owner of the video game phenomenon Tekken, issued Copyright strikes against t...

The degree of Copyright protection an artist should expect after publishing his or her work on social media is always an unclear issue. Recently, it has been made even more confusing by the latest developments in technology within social networks. An appeals court taken to task dug deeply into the functionality of HTM...

In an open letter signed and published Tuesday, July 15, by the Authors Guild, the organization's writers accused AI companies of unfairly profiting from the work of copyright-protected authors. Prominent figures stand out within the list of participants, including Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown and James Patterson. As no...

The website "Have I Been Trained?" is making the rounds on the Internet, following the continued misuse of others' creativity by developers of Artificial Intelligence models. American artist Kelly McKernan, curious to find out if her own works had been stolen and entered into any databases, decided to search her own n...

"The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival" is no longer available, as of today, on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The game tells the story of Brian Lee, a man who is sent into the future to investigate an inevitable zombie outbreak, accompanied by his daughter Eva. The gameplay consists of killing zombies and collecting resources...

It is no news that social media these days is completely full of fake profiles intended for use by bots. In fact, users of the dying Twitter platform are following the rise of particularly shady dropshipping accounts, characterised by almost identical biographies and avatars, following the birth of Threads, Meta's new ...

Recently, rumours spread of a certain 'PoisonGPT', an AI model designed to spread disinformation by posing as a legitimate and widely used open-source AI service. researchers modified GPT-J-6B, EleutherAI's open-source model, to make it generate a specific type of disinformation. The Blog section of Mithril Security's...

As mentioned in other articles, the potential use of deepfakes does not stop at simple, albeit extremely harmful, revenge porn; rather, it is now being used for disinformation and serious political and social threats. It is not new that malicious actors use content manipulation technologies and services, exploiting at...

Israeli historian and author Yuval Noah Harari recently set out his opinion regarding the development and use of AI in recent times. According to Harari, "creators of AI bots posing as real people should face severe criminal penalties, comparable to those who trade in fake currency." If we cannot be sure who is a real...

With the growth of generative AI systems, the term 'plagiarism machines' is beginning to catch on. Many of these services are used today within any creative field, more specifically, in this case we are considering the field of video games. DungeonAI is a text-based fantasy simulation running on OpenAI's GPT-3, in whi...

The two writers Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay recently stepped into the spotlight, exposing themselves to sue the famous company OpenAi following suspicions concerning its ChatGPT model. More precisely, the two authors claim that their books, legally protected by copyright, were used to train the aforementioned AI, as th...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently launched the Threads platform, its own Twitter clone. The application is a clear response to the mass flight of users from the platform of the famous entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose transphobia and racism is driving more and more social media users away. To get an idea of h...

Valve Corporation, an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distributor, has issued a ban on video games that use AI-generated graphics, with several warning notices sent to those attempting to submit such games for Steam approval. The company has specified that its measures are not aimed at discouragi...

The recent exhibition, "China's Hidden Century", aimed at exploring 19th-century China and proposed by the British Museum in London, seems to be finding considerable success, both in person and online. Vancouver-based editor, poet and translator Yilin Wang, @yilinwrites on Twitter, recently shared her story on the pla...