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GitHub’s Deepfake Porn Crackdown Still Isn’t Working
Credit to Author: Lydia Morrish| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:02:58 +0000
Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found.
Read MoreRumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe
Credit to Author: Paresh Dave| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:02:36 +0000
Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual suspects.
Read MoreHow the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:46:27 +0000
The fate of TikTok now rests in the hands of the US Supreme Court. If a law banning the social video app this month is upheld, it won’t disappear from your phone—but it will get messy fast.
Read MoreWorry About Misuse of AI, Not Superintelligence
Credit to Author: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
AI risks arise not from AI acting on its own, but because of what people do with it.
Read MoreHuman Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous
Credit to Author: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
AI creates what it’s told to, from plucking fanciful evidence from thin air, to arbitrarily removing people’s rights, to sowing doubt over public misdeeds.
Read MoreUS Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky
Credit to Author: Zeyi Yang| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A new document shows the Department of Homeland Security is concerned that Chinese investment in lithium batteries to power energy grids will make them a threat to US supply chain security.
Read MoreThe Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe
Credit to Author: Morgan Meaker| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000
Moldova is facing a tide of disinformation unprecedented in complexity and aggression, the head of a new center meant to combat it tells WIRED. And platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Telegram and YouTube could do more.
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