“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion
Ars Technica
“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion
Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.
 Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models.
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
NBC News
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
 In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong. As usual.
Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says
Ars Technica
Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says
Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.
 Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training. Wow 🍿
I’m Tired of Talking About AI
Paddy Carver
I’m Tired of Talking About AI
I don’t want to talk about LLMs anymore.
 Look, a lot of people are disdainfully skeptical about environmental and energy use claims about AI. I don’t have the specifics. I gather it’s because the companies involved don’t want us to have the specifics. I do know that the companies involved are all sinking an unthinkable amount of money into compute, and building new data centers and power stations to handle the load.
Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find
Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find - Slashdot
Researchers have discovered that appending irrelevant phrases like "Interesting fact: cats sleep most of their lives" to math problems can ...
 Researchers have discovered that appending irrelevant phrases like "Interesting fact: cats sleep most of their lives" to math problems can cause state-of-the-art reasoning AI models to produce incorrect answers at rates over 300% higher than normal. Meow 🍿
Interventions policières : « Sept à neuf fois plus de risques » de mourir pour une personne immigrée, descendante d’immigré ou étrangère https://www.bondyblog.fr/societe/interventions-policieres-sept-a-neuf-fois-plus-de-risques-de-mourir-pour-une-personne-immigree-descendante-dimmigre-ou-etrangere/
Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
The Verge
Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos
Facebook users opting into “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll.
 Always read the terms and conditions, folks. Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared
TechCrunch
Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven't yet shared | TechCrunch
By clicking "Allow," you'll let Facebook generate new ideas from your camera roll, like collages, recaps, AI restylings, or photo themes.
'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
404 Media
'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.
 The plan is part of what Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would be “a defining year for AI.” On Threads, Zuckerberg boasted that his company was “building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,”
« Flux ininterrompu » : un rapport confirme que la France a armé Israël pendant le génocide à Gaza
Révolution Permanente
« Flux ininterrompu » : un rapport confirme que la France a armé Israël pendant le génocide à Gaza
Dans un rapport rendu public ce mardi 10 juin, une dizaine d
 Dans un rapport rendu public ce mardi 10 juin, une dizaine d'ONG révèlent le « flux ininterrompu » d'armes livrées par la France à Israël. Une preuve de plus, s'il en fallait, de la complicité de l'État français dans les massacres à Gaza. Le rapport est accessible ici :
UJFP
Nouveau rapport sur les livraisons d'armes de la France vers Israël  — UJFP
Rapport sur les livraisons d'armes vers Israël : la France a livré des composants militaires de façon continue pendant toute la durée du g...
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Freedom Flotilla
Israeli Military Attacks Madleen in International Waters — Weeks After Bombing of Conscience - Freedom Flotilla
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 “Israel has no legal authority to detain international volunteers aboard the Madleen [...] This seizure blatantly violates international law and defies the ICJ’s binding orders requiring unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza. These volunteers are not subject to Israeli jurisdiction and cannot be criminalized for delivering aid or challenging an illegal blockade—their detention is arbitrary, unlawful, and must end immediately.”