#aiassisted — Public Fediverse posts

Mediaite: Business Titan Cops to Using AI to Pen Blockbuster WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing His Protégé Scott Bessent: ‘Of Course I Did’. “A billionaire investor who slammed U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal quickly copped to using artificial intelligence while writing the piece, according to a report. Stanley Druckenmiller, who once worked with Bessent […]

CNBC: OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used in covert misinformation campaign. “OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia that it said were being used to support a covert online influence campaign to spread misinformation. The company discovered the issue after investigating AI-generated social media posts, which led it to a ‘much broader influence operation,’ […]

VentureBeat: Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs. “Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic ‘Computer’ platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own — starting with Nvidia’s DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux machines equipped with Nvidia RTX GPUs.”

The Conversation: Listening to the bush: how AI can help NZ rid its wilderness of ‘hold‑out’ pest possums. “Even a handful of remaining animals can eventually rebuild a population, making it essential that conservation workers have effective tools to detect them. One promising solution lies in microphones that record sounds overnight, combined with artificial intelligence (AI) software […]

The Kurzweil Library: Breakthrough AI method generates 3D holograms in real-time.. “…researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) designed a new way to produce holograms — almost instantly. The software they’re using is called a deep learning artificial intelligence program, because it can teach itself. They said it’s so efficient that it can create a hologram on a […]

Deadline: Dr. Dre Admits He Uses AI To Produce, Doesn’t See It “As A Threat”: “I’m Embracing It”. “As creative industries remain divided on AI, Dr. Dre is full steam ahead on implementing the technology in his own work. The 8x Grammy winner recently admitted to using artificial intelligence in his music producing, explaining the he doesn’t see the technology ‘as a threat,’ but as […]

The Day: Connecticut police are using AI to make officers look like children in online stings. “A 24-year-old Connecticut man was chatting online with someone he never met. He stayed with the conversation even when the stranger said she was 14. Instead of leaving the chat, he allegedly asked for pictures…. The ‘girl’ was a Bloomfield police officer who used AI technology to make herself look […]

Philadelphia Inquirer: Fighting AI and Flock, today’s Luddites are the revolutionaries we need. “[Cody] Morelock was arrested after the June incident and then prosecutors in Clermont County, Ohio took what looked like an open-and-shut case — with surveillance tapes, credit-card receipts, and other hard evidence connecting the 35-year-old man to the alleged crime — before a grand jury of […]

Associated Press: Workers in China worry over being replaced as they adapt to the growing impact of AI on jobs. “Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun’s boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues. It’s an increasingly common scenario as artificial […]

CNBC: Goldman Sachs partner warns of ‘huge danger’ in letting AI replace bankers’ reasoning skills. “A Goldman Sachs partner leading one of the bank’s flagship artificial intelligence projects warned that AI’s spread across Wall Street risks hobbling the thinking capabilities of the next generation of financiers.”

TechCrunch: Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors. “As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These avatars were created by a startup called HeyGen and are included in the eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs. The program offers live sessions with instructors every week, […]

Korea Times: Hallucinating history: Korea enlists youth ambassadors to fix AI errors on cultural heritage. “The glitch is symbolic of a growing challenge for cultural institutions in the digital age and maintaining historical truth as generative AI becomes the world’s default reference tool. To counter these digital distortions, the Korean government, in partnership with a civil diplomacy […]

Racket Minnesota: 3M Paid Expert Witness $475/Hour to Use ChatGPT to Defend Company in Major Explosion Lawsuit. “Previous decisions against 3M and Watson Grinding have tallied more than $150 million, and more cases are working through the courts. ‘It’s David and Goliath, no doubt about it,’ Rob Kwok, a lawyer representing plaintiffs, tells ABC13 Houston. Turns out Goliath is relying on expert […]

It’s a Binary World 2.0: More Fun With Local AI Models. “A few days ago I mentioned playing around with local AI models, despite having low strength hardware for the task. Yesterday I was trying our some new models – tinyllama and smollm2 – and I asked each model the same question to compare the answers. After doing this for a few questions, I had the same feeling I always have when I’m doing […]

NiemanLab: Facing a “deluge” from AI, this publication will only take pitches by phone. “Whether you’re a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence. They’re likely bad, irrelevant, and annoyingly clogging up your email. But one publication is over it. If you want to write for The Food Section, you’ll […]

Capital & Main: Mental Health Workers Say Algorithmic Triage Is Hurting Patients. “To understand some of the ways that AI is affecting mental health care, Capital & Main spoke with more than a dozen therapists, clinicians, academic experts and advocates in Wisconsin and California, who said the hasty integration of the technology is eroding patients’ access to timely and appropriate mental […]

Michelle Barker: Little Websites Everywhere.. “Building a website feels old-fashioned these days. How many more websites do I have left in me before the old fire flickers and dies? Is snuffed out. Before making websites is no longer a viable way to earn a living? The web will change drastically within my lifetime, maybe someday soon, indeed it already has. Maybe it really will fizzle out, a […]

Creative Commons: Open Heritage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. “CHIs [Cultural Heritage Institutions] understand that, as a representation of who we are, heritage helps define our shared humanity and that providing access to heritage generates numerous benefits for society. As such, CHIs, as stewards of trustworthy information imbued within knowledge and culture, have a crucial role to […]

Reuters: Your AI research is your responsibility — California court sanctions attorney for delegating AI citation verification to paralegal. “On appeal, the central legal questions concerned the trial court’s reduction of compensable attorney hours, its sua sponte exclusion of paralegal fees from the fee award, and the propriety of sanctions the trial court had imposed against Del Biaggio’s […]

Rest of World: Why we should all be worried about AI in elections. “The more important question is not what happens when AI generates a fake video of a candidate, but what happens when it is embedded in the systems that administer elections themselves — in procurement decisions, biometric voter-verification systems, and data-sharing arrangements. That is where AI’s impact on democracy may […]

Invisible Parade: Learning Mahjong with AI help. “A number of my dad friends play Mahjong, so I figured this would be a good time to finally take the time to learn to play. I’ve been able to use AI tools in a way that makes learning extremely efficient (at least I think so).”

Tubefilter: OnlyFans investor says it will “never use AI in any capacity to disrupt creators”. “OnlyFans‘ newest investor is talking up his future plans for the platform–including promising that it will ‘never use AI in any capacity to disrupt creators.'”

The Register: Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too. “Our cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons spent last week in Las Vegas for the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences, and at both events there was only one thing on everyone’s mind: AI agents and their growing threat to cybersecurity defenders.”

University of Exeter: Scientists increasingly depend on ‘black-box’ tools they cannot control or fully understand . “As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, this lack of transparency will make scientific findings harder to interpret and verify. This issue extends beyond AI. Many remote sensing products rely on proprietary processing that researchers cannot fully access and verify, while […]

Gizmodo: Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt. “In a blog post on Friday, Anthropic elaborated on its controversial watermarking system, announced earlier this week as an effort to comply with the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act. Watermarking will make it harder for users to get away with pretending they wrote AI-generated text.”

NiemanLab: Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes. “Every day the fact-checking team for one of India’s largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media. For the six-person team at India Today, that might include addressing an AI-generated archival photograph of a politician, a clip of deadly flooding […]

TechCrunch: Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users. “Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange with more than 300 million registered users, on Thursday launched a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users’ behalf, bringing autonomous AI directly into the business of managing real money.” Today in “what could […]

Tom’s Hardware: Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won’t support projects without consultation — energy and water consumption, air quality, noise, and cultural resource protection among concerns. “Cherokee Nation, the largest tribe in the U.S. with more than 475,000 citizens, has banned hyperscale data center development on its tribally owned and trust lands, after a […]