Google AI health chatbot passes U.S. medical exam: study (www.thehindu.com)
University professors in Texas are suing the state over ‘unconstitutional’ TikTok ban (www.engadget.com)
Nebraska Mom pleads guilty to abortion after Meta gives DMs to cops (www.theregister.com)
Facebook messages, obtained via valid warrant, help make case against women
A Proposed Law Would Force Internet Companies to Spy on Their Users for the DEA | The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it... (gizmodo.com)
The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.
Twitter Faces $500 Million Lawsuit for Allegedly Not Paying Employee Severance (gizmodo.com)
Young people in Guangzhou commute in electric wheelchairs as e-bikes face tighter rules (www.straitstimes.com)
The trend has reportedly sparked a backlash from some in China due to safety reasons. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool (techcrunch.com)
Plastic surgeon who livestreamed procedures on TikTok banned from practicing medicine in Ohio (www.kbtx.com)
The fediverse is empowering users like never before, but concerns persist (lemmy.world)
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Mark Zuckerberg & Meta to Release Commercial Version of its AI/LLM (LLaMA) In Effort to Catch Rivals
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Deepfake voices improving kidnapping scams (www.cnn.com)
“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.
CEO lays off 23 of 26 of support staff in favor of AI (www.businessinsider.com)
In similar case, US National Eating Disorder Association laid off entire helpline staff. Soon after, chatbot disabled for giving out harmful information.
Elon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk. (www.mirror.co.uk)
Salesforce raises prices for the first time in 7 years – stock rises (www.crmrank.com)
Salesforce, the leading provider of software for customer relations management, announced that it will implement a price increase for some of its cloud and marketing tools starting in August....
Finland may make emergency services video calls a reality (yle.fi)
Video calling to emergency service dispatchers is not yet possible anywhere in the world, but Finland is aiming to find out if it could be done....
Class-Action Lawsuit Says Google Stole Everyone's Data to Train Its AI (gizmodo.com)
A 6-year-old, a best-selling author, and others accuse Google of stealing “everything ever shared on the internet" after Gizmodo noted a privacy policy change.
Twitter owes ex-employees $500 mln in severance, lawsuit claims (www.reuters.com)
Buffalo mass shooting victims sue social media platforms that they say contributed to the massacre (www.13newsnow.com)
Reddit beats lawsuit by WallStreetBets founder (www.reuters.com)
A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit in which the founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite investors’ fascination with “meme” stocks, accused Reddit of wrongly banning him from moderating the community and usurping his trademark rights.
Amazon tells court it shouldn't have to police its platforms for hate speech and disinformation (www.businessinsider.com)
Amazon filed a petition with an EU court asking it to annul its designation as a “very large online platform” in the Digital Services Act.
A lawsuit claims Google has been 'secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans' to train its AI (www.businessinsider.com)
A lawsuit claims Google took people’s data without their knowledge or consent to train its AI products, including chatbot Bard.
Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API (jcs.org)
FTC says it will appeal to block Microsoft-Activision deal (www.cnbc.com)
The world's most-powerful AI model suddenly got 'lazier' and 'dumber.' A radical redesign of OpenAI's GPT-4 could be behind the decline in performance. (www.businessinsider.com)
Users of OpenAI’s GPT-4 are complaining that the AI model is performing worse lately. Industry insiders say a redesign of GPT-4 could be to blame.