Study says ChatGPT is giving teens dangerous advice on drugs, alcohol and suicide. [@AssociatedPress]( ) quotes a study author: "We wanted to test the guardrails. The visceral initial response is, ‘Oh my Lord, there are no guardrails.’" #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Teen #Technology
Yesterday, Jim Acosta, formerly the CNN White House correspondent, "interviewed" Joaquin Oliver, one of 17 people murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Or, to be more accurate, he asked questions of an AI avatar of Oliver, with the permission of the late teenager's family, and then streamed it on Substack and YouTube. For her The Present Age newsletter, [@parkermolloy.com]( ) breaks down the myriad problems with the "interview." "This wasn't journalism," she writes. "Whether it was his intention or not, this was Jim Acosta turning a murdered child into content." #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USNews #JimAcosta #Journalism
Are women wary of AI? [@Salon]( ) explores the question in this opinion piece: "New technology has always been used against women. Why should we trust artificial intelligence not to be?" #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Women #Tech #Technology
Going online in Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous. [@AssociatedPress]( ) reports on the "deliberate, multipronged and long-term effort by authorities to bring the internet under the Kremlin’s full control." #Russia #Internet #Censorship #Putin #Tech #Technology
AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that don’t want to be scraped. And it’s not by accident, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. [@Techcrunch]( ) has the details, including Perplexity’s response: #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #CyberSecurity
Tesla is awarding CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares of restricted stock valued at approximately $29 billion, just six months after a judge ordered the company to revoke his massive pay package. [@AssociatedPress]( ) reports: #Tesla #ElonMusk #EV #Business #Technology
Vogue ran an ad from Guess in its July issue. The ad featured a model who exemplified North American beauty standards. But there was one problem — she was AI generated. The reaction hasn’t been great. Read more from [@Techcrunch]( ): #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology
“Windows 11 is a mess for handhelds, and we've needed a solution for a long while now,” Isaiah Williams writes. Can Microsoft's Xbox PC app win him over? Read more [@TechRadar]( ): #Tech #Gaming #Xbox #VideoGames #Microsoft #Steam
Federal jury in Miami finds Tesla partly liable for 2019 car crash that killed one and left another injured when car was on Autopilot. NBCNews.com reports: #Tech #Tesla #Musk #Technology
Google is testing a machine learning-powered tech to determine the age of users and filter content across its products. The key age the tech giant is focused on predicting? If you guessed 18, you’ve been paying attention. [@Techcrunch]( ) has more: #Tech #Google #AI #MachineLearning #Age18