Month: February 2024

Mark Warner, CEO of London-based Faculty AI, sees new body as an international standard setter The UK should concentrate on setting global standards for artificial intelligence testing instead of trying to carry out all the vetting itself, according to a company assisting the government’s AI Safety Institute. Marc Warner, chief executive of Faculty AI, said …

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Digital rights advocates warn little is known about how collected data is used – and that privacy laws are playing catch-up Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Take a look around your home and chances are you have one, or at least you have considered the convenience of …

Is my home spying on me? As smart devices move in, experts fear Australians are oversharing Read More »

Midjourney’s CEO David Holz says company close to ‘hammering’ images of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and others ‘for next 12 months’ The groundbreaking artificial intelligence-image generating company Midjourney is considering banning people from using its software to make political images of Joe Biden and Donald Trump as part of an effort to avoid being used …

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The London-based food photographer created an image that makes you want to dive in and eat it ‘Where do we start … all ice-cream is mashed potato?” asks Georgia Glynn-Smith, food photographer and creator of the London School of Food & Film online masterclasses. When it comes to the industry secrets on photographing food – …

‘My friend in hospital said she really missed fresh fruit and bright colours’: Georgia Glynn-Smith’s best phone picture Read More »

Researchers find large language models, which power chatbots, can deceive human users and help spread disinformation The UK’s new artificial intelligence safety body has found that the technology can deceive human users, produce biased outcomes and has inadequate safeguards against giving out harmful information. The AI Safety Institute published initial findings from its research into …

AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds Read More »

Seine-Port is introducing restrictions on phone use in streets, shops and parks – but young people say there’s little else to do A picture of a smartphone with a red line through it serves as a warning in the window of a hairdresser’s shop in a French village that has voted to ban people scrolling …

Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public Read More »

Arab, Muslim and pro-Palestinian organizations expressed alarm about company’s policy on ‘Zionist’ in meeting Meta is considering expanding and “revisiting” its hate speech policy around the term “Zionist”, the Guardian has confirmed. The company reached out to and met with more than 10 Arab, Muslim and pro-Palestinian organizations on Friday to discuss the company’s plans …

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‘It seems like something from the far-off future, but this threat is already here,’ says chair of Federal Communications Commission The US government on Thursday outlawed robocalls that use voices generated by artificial intelligence, a decision that sends a clear message that exploiting the technology to scam people and mislead voters won’t be tolerated. The …

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Ahead of London fashion week, optimists believe new tools can open up an industry that can be elitist – and costly to enter The impact of artificial intelligence on the creative industries is a subject that has prompted widespread anxiety about job losses and the death of imagination, and the world of fashion is no …

How AI is ‘amplifying creativity’ in the fashion world Read More »

A group known as Volt Typhoon, geared toward sabotage, quietly burrowed into critical US infrastructure networks An advanced group of Chinese hackers taking aim at critical US infrastructure has been active for as long as half a decade, American and allied intelligence agencies said in a joint statement on Wednesday. The US National Security Agency, …

Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says Read More »