#aiassisted — Public Fediverse posts

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 […]

Poynter: Opinion | An FT column was condensed with AI. It crossed a novel ethical line.. “Every week seems to bring a new scandal at the crossroads of journalism and artificial intelligence: plagiarism, outright fabrication, em dashes and ‘not this but that’ galore. Using AI to condense a writer’s work, though, is a somewhat novel addition to the genre.”

Cornell University: Cornell Tech’s New Faculty Are Changing How AI Learns, Reasons, and Solves Problems. “Six new faculty members will join Cornell Tech during the coming year, bringing expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, programming languages, and operations research at a pivotal moment for the future of computing. Their work tackles some of the field’s most pressing […]

Pew (PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW!): Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs. “Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and 37% say they’re equally excited and concerned, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted […]

New York Times: Chatbots Are Pushing Us Toward a Post-Human Internet. This link goes to a gift article. “Depending on whom you ask, bot loops might be banal, dystopian or genuinely useful. No matter how people feel about them, researchers say we’re going to see bot loops much more often as we deputize A.I. systems to do our bidding.”

State of Arizona: Governor Katie Hobbs Launches AI Tool to Make Government Work Better for Arizonans. “Today Governor Katie Hobbs launched FindServices.az.gov, a centralized, artificial intelligence-powered search tool that simplifies how Arizonans find and learn about government resources. In Arizona, there are over 60 Departments, Agencies, Boards, and Commissions offering more than 300 […]

How-To Geek: I automated my research workflow with open-source AI, and I finally own my data. “Online AI services are a great way to search through and parse long documents, but they come with some drawbacks. Your data is held by someone else, you use up tokens or require a subscription to get access, and you need internet access for it to work. By switching to a local-only approach, I can […]

Yale School of Medicine: Yale School of Medicine Launches New Online Master of Health Science in Medical AI. “Yale School of Medicine is launching a new Master of Health Science in Medical Artificial Intelligence, a graduate degree combining flexible online learning with in-person sessions at Yale, designed to train professionals to develop and implement AI tools across clinical and healthcare […]

Associated Press: OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, promising a more age-appropriate chatbot. “The San Francisco-based company says ChatGPT for Teens, which launches Tuesday, is tailored for kids aged 13 to 17 with stronger protections including content restrictions around things like suicide, self-harm and romantic or sexual chats. It also provides homework and study support designed to help […]

Forward Kentucky: Kentucky counties struggle with how to regulate data centers. “In rural Bell County, Kentucky, residents’ activism led to a two-year moratorium on data center construction, while other counties continue to grapple with how to zone and regulate the massive, energy-intensive facilities.”

NASA: NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun . “As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA’s COFFIES (Consequence Of Fields and Flows in the Interior and Exterior of the […]