ChatGPT's new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends (www.techradar.com)
ChatGPT’s new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends::OpenAI: ‘We also don’t allow GPTs dedicated to fostering romantic companionship’
Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage (arstechnica.com)
Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? (www.vox.com)
Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?::Can special lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts?
AI fraud act could outlaw parodies, political cartoons, and more (reason.com)
Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms (www.theguardian.com)
Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies - Consumer Reports (www.consumerreports.org)
Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies - Consumer Reports::A Consumer Reports investigation found that Facebook collected data on each user from an average of 2,230 companies.
YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (www.bloomberg.com)
Users of those services will be steered toward the web...
Google lays off 100 at YouTube; CEO says more layoffs are coming (arstechnica.com)
Google lays off 100 at YouTube; CEO says more layoffs are coming::undefined
Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. (lemmy.world)
People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD comic says won’t pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those people...
Former NASA administrator hates Artemis, wants to party like it’s 2008 (arstechnica.com)
Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Bastyon: First Fully Decentralized Social Network on Blockchain (bastyon.com)
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Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads. (mastodon.social)
AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman (www.cnn.com)
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March (www.reuters.com)
1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll (ktla.com)
1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll::For years, scholars and science fiction writers have warned about the possibility of workers being replaced by machines. Now after the world of artificial intelligence took a giant leap forward in 2023, it appears we are one step closer to that...
Memory chip production at risk as North Korea ramps up threats against South Korea, which produces 71% of global memory supply, 51% of NAND for SSDs | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term (fortune.com)
Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.
"AI made us do it" is Big Tech's new layoff rationale (www.axios.com)
“AI made us do it” is Big Tech’s new layoff rationale::undefined
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses (www.theregister.com)
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses::Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses
Delivery workers won a mandated raise from NYC. Now they say the apps figured out a way to undermine it (www.fastcompany.com)
Delivery workers won a mandated raise from NYC. Now they say the apps figured out a way to undermine it::undefined
Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content (www.nbcnews.com)
Rep. Joe Morelle, D.-N.Y., appeared with a New Jersey high school victim of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes to discuss a bill stalled in the House.
Apple Watches with blood oxygen tech are banned again (www.theverge.com)
Apple Watches with blood oxygen tech are banned again::A ban on selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 will be reinstated after the US Court of Appeals lifted its stay.
Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year. (www.theverge.com)
Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year.::In an internal memo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said recent layoffs are about “removing layers to simplify execution and drive velocity in some areas.” He warned that more are coming.
