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A team of researchers from the Laboratory of Causal Cognition at the University of London recently initiated a rather curious project concerning the relationship between Large Language Models (by the acronym LLMs) and a tendency in human behavior known as the “omission bias.” The latter describes man's frequent pre...

According to a court document filed in late June 2025 and drafted by an FBI special agent, a 37-year-old Ohio man allegedly used artificial intelligence to generate deepfake pornographic content depicting at least 10 people, the subjects of his obsession. James Strahler II, the criminal in question, was then arrested f...

The role that artificial intelligence plays within most people's daily lives is, fortunately, still marginal, controllable. However, not all users of the vast world of the Internet experience a similar relationship with this technology: some are now, in 2025, in a state of true addiction to chatbots. Following the wor...

The UK's competition regulator, the Competition and Market Authority (CMA), recently obtained new decision-making powers and promptly applied them in an in-depth investigation concerning Internet giant Google and its undoubted dominance over search within the vast online world. According to what was discovered through ...

Technology surrounds us. It has made its way into the daily lives of the vast majority of the inhabitants of this planet, intensifying its presence from year to year, decade to decade. Between phones, computers and other similar personal devices, owning countless electronic devices has become the norm, something fundam...

Innovation inevitably brings risks of a rather substantial nature. Progress has always stepped on some toes, and it will do so again in the future, but it is critical to emphasize the difference between choices made for the greater good and decisions made to satisfy the desires of the wealthiest. Where the demolition o...

An analysis recently conducted by research teams from Stanford, Cornell and WVU, three world-renowned U.S. universities, highlighted a number of somewhat token questions regarding the relationship between artificial intelligence models and copyright. In recent times, the unauthorized use of copyrighted books and novels...

At a time when information is no longer trustworthy, how can humans stay updated on what is happening in the world? The era of fake news has started for years now, several steps have been taken to succeed in dealing with this continuous spread of misinformation, however, it seems to have recently gained a successor tha...

Who would have thought that the almost “people-pleaser” nature instilled within the most popular chatbots in the tech world would lead them to dig their own grave? The current situation of these services is characterized by a clear need to appear useful, necessary, as serviceable as possible, always trying to offer...

“Be curious about artificial intelligence!” Reads a memo recently shared by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to the company's employees. Accompanying this suggestion, the man also points out that as a result of the implementation of this technology, the company's workforce will undergo a significant reduction in the years to ...

During January 2025, following the re-election of U.S. President Donald Trump, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to remove the fact-checking system (checking the veracity of shared information), from company-owned platforms. Following this change, accompanied by other changes to Meta's policy, a campaign was called to s...

During the first few days of June, the Wikimedia Foundation decided to completely turn around the spirit of one of the most valuable information platforms in the vast world of the Internet, Wikipedia itself. Known since time immemorial, and hopefully forever, as an unrelenting source of knowledge shared and edited by ...

The "Model collapse” is a phenomenon in which models used in machine learning, such as the Large Language Models so much in vogue nowadays, gradually degrade due to errors resulting from training based on unsuitable content, such as the results of another model, or previous versions of the same subject. Considering t...

In early 2025, Meta launched Meta AI, its artificial intelligence platform that can be accessed through any account of the company's services: Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp. Within this service, there is a section called “Discover AI,” designed to share what users ask artificial intelligence, so as to inspire ot...

Over the past year, the world's most popular browser has decided to introduce a feature powered by artificial intelligence. When you perform a search on Google, you now get results from a feature called “AI Overview,” a kind of dialogue box that appears as the first response to any question entered in the search ba...

Online piracy is one of the easiest activities for any user of the vast world of the internet to engage in, as it does not require following complex processes or apparently jeopardizing one's electronic devices to obtain satisfactory results. Nevertheless, the practice in question remains a violation of the law, especi...