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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...

It's nothing new that the artificial intelligence environment has a tendency to take what it wants without asking for anyone's permission; we are, in fact, facing yet another, identical, situation. In the middle of the last week of June, the two giants OpenAI and Microsoft were sued in a class action lawsuit, claimin...

On Tuesday, July 15, Meta unveiled the first set of updates for Twitter's rival app, Threads, launched more than three weeks ago now. To maintain interest, the app now has a translation button and a tab on the feed dedicated to showing who has followed them. In addition, there is now the ability to subscribe to and re...

"Now, we have at our disposal a new lens on our own galaxy." A recent study in astronomy investigated the universe around us through the use of a huge detector buried under the ice of the South Pole. Indeed, a team of astronomers has discovered the existence of subjects called "neutrinos," ghostly particles that come ...

At the beginning of the last week of June 2023, Amazon Kindle Unlimited's bestseller list of young adult novels found itself full of books with nonsense titles, such as "Architecture of the Apricot Barcode" and "Jessica's Attention." By mid-week, Amazon had already scrambled to fix the situation, but this development ...

"If you create something that is even more aesthetically pleasing, what's wrong with that?" Nicolai Tangen, the chief investor of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, does not seem to be concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence on his own collection of paintings, as well as part of his profession. "Becaus...

A new type of AI technology aimed at reducing the time cancer patients wait before starting radiation therapy will be offered to all National Health Service departments in England. Researchers at Addenbrooke's Hospital have been working on it for nearly a decade and trained the program using Microsoft. It helps doctor...

As is now well established, ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence platforms are "trained" on huge amounts of images from the vast world of the Internet. Sometimes some of this content may come from the public domain, and other times, it may be licensed. Unfortunately, it is now confirmed that most of the...