AI chatbots know how to make deadly poisons and biological weapons. They're trained to keep mum, but if you keep asking, some will share recipes with you. Or with a user who implied to ChatGPT that he'd used ricin on his parents. w/ @amrithramkumar.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
OpenAI and other leading AI labs are getting a flurry of queries about making biological weapons and poisons, worrying administration officials and experts who see the trend as one of the next big risks associated with AI: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
AI Chatbots Know How to Make Deadly Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You.
AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries.
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What to do when users discuss plans for violence? Inside a debate at OpenAI: www.wsj.com/podcasts/the...
Inside a Debate at OpenAI Over Mass Shootings - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
This past summer, employees at OpenAI had a meeting. On the table were about 10 cases where users discussed violence. Months later, one of those users committed one of the deadliest mass shootings in ...
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Non-consensual intimate imagery created with the help of AI tools continues to wreak havoc through schools and the lives of young people impacted by these online harms. Graphika's Matthew Patane spoke with @wsj.com's @georgiawells.bsky.social about the services being used to create the images.
AI Supercharges Deepfake Nudes—Unleashing a New Form of Bullying Among Kids
As ‘nudify’ tools proliferate online, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims.
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“If you think about the high-school boy that does this, this is the boy who would have had a Sharpie and drawn boobs on his classmate’s yearbook picture. And now he’s got a bazooka" -the lawyer of a class-action against Grok www.wsj.com/tech/ai-deep...
AI Supercharges Deepfake Nudes—Unleashing a New Form of Bullying Among Kids
As ‘nudify’ tools proliferate online, parents and schools are struggling to protect young victims.
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He asked ChatGPT for advice on a mass killing. Minutes later, two were dead. OpenAI is wrestling with how to handle its most chilling conversations --> www.wsj.com/us-news/chat...
ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack?
OpenAI’s chatbot dispenses advice on weapons and role-plays mass shootings. The carnage is raising scrutiny on when and how companies intervene.
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OpenAI’s bid to allow X-rated talk is freaking out its own advisers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... By @samschechner.com and me
OpenAI’s Bid to Allow X-Rated Talk Is Freaking Out Its Own Advisers
Warnings surface that the company risks creating a ‘sexy suicide coach’ if it begins allowing sexually explicit chats
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OpenAI says it would have referred the Canadian shooting suspect's ChatGPT account to law enforcement if it were discovered today www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
OpenAI Tells Canada It Will Strengthen Safety Protocols After Mass Shooting Left Eight Dead
OpenAI made a series of pledges to Canadian officials to bolster safety protocols following the fatal shooting in British Columbia in which the suspect interacted with its chatbot.
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#OpenAI met with BC gov't the day after an 18-year-old killed 6 in a school shooting in #TumblerRidge, but province says the tech giant did not disclose then that the company was aware of the shooter's concerning #ChatGPT conversations in the months before. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
OpenAI did not mention Tumbler Ridge shooter’s posts in meeting with B.C. officials day after the shooting: province
Company handed over evidence that shooter had been banned from using its ChatGPT chatbot
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Mike Hager@mikehager.bsky.social · 6mo agoBreaking: #OpenAI waited two days after the #TumblerRidge school shooting to alert RCMP they had evidence about the shooter's interest in gun violence, as flagged by internal #ChatGPT screening.
OpenAI had a pre-planned meeting w/ B.C. gov the day after Tumbler Ridge shooting but did not disclose then that the company was aware of concerning conversations between its AI chatbot and shooter months before, @mikehager.bsky.social and Jesse Winter report: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
OpenAI did not mention Tumbler Ridge shooter’s posts in meeting with B.C. officials day after mass shooting: province
Company handed over evidence that shooter had been banned from using its ChatGPT chatbot
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Last summer, OpenAI employees debated alerting law enforcement about Jesse Van Rootselaar's interactions with ChatGPT In February, Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago
The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.
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Ashley St. Clair is suing xAI over deepfake images. “The intention of the lawsuit is to deter this dehumanizing treatment by xAI for all of the public,” says her lawyer @cagoldberglaw.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/infl...
Influencer Who Had Child With Elon Musk Sues xAI Over Deepfake Images
Ashley St. Clair is seeking a temporary restraining order to stop xAI’s Grok from creating images that undress her.
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Elon Musk has repeatedly expanded the boundaries of permitted speech on his social-media platform X. Child-safety watchdogs and international regulators say a recent update to its AI chatbot Grok crossed a dangerous line: permitting sexualized editing of photos, including of children.
xAI Under Fire for Sexualized Child Photos on Grok
Researchers say Elon Musk’s company is bringing dangerous imagery into the mainstream
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Musk has repeatedly expanded the boundaries of permitted speech on X. Child-safety watchdogs say a recent update to Grok crossed a dangerous line: permitting sexualized editing of photos, including of children www.wsj.com/tech/xai-gro...
xAI Under Fire for Sexualized Child Photos on Grok
Researchers say Elon Musk’s company is bringing dangerous imagery into the mainstream
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The hottest place to buy wine in wine country is…the local Costco www.wsj.com/lifestyle/co...
How Costco Won Over Wine Snobs
It’s boom times for consumers as the wine industry navigates too much supply and too little demand. That’s turned the Napa Costco into a hub.
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New from @georgiawells.bsky.social Stu Woo and me A profile of Tony Sayegh and How TikTok’s Trump Whisperer Changed Minds in Washington www.wsj.com/business/how...
How TikTok’s Trump Whisperer Changed Minds in Washington
Tony Sayegh, the head of public affairs at one of TikTok’s biggest investors, led the effort to win Trump’s support for the popular app with ties to China.
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New resource for reporters: the Committee to Protect Journalists has released a chatbot that offers safety info for journalists while reporting cpj.org/2024/05/cpj-...
CPJ expands access to safety chatbot amid spiking threats to the press in a record year of global elections - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, May 2, 2024—Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today announced the launch of CPJ’s journalist safety chatbot, which equips journalists with...
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CHAOS IS SOMETIMES JUST THE POINT. Take a look at the overseas networks flooding TikTok with political lies, assisted by artificial intelligence. www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...
Months before the actual assassination attempt, an account on TikTok claimed Trump had been shot It was one of 91 accounts with overseas ties that generated videos with the help of AI to push lies about politics + Trump By me, @johnwest.bsky.social + the WSJ dream team www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...
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TikTok pledged to protect U.S. data. $1.5 billion later it’s still struggling www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...
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ICYMI: Google quietly bankrolled a campaign to attack California’s Journalism Preservation Act, keeping its name off of advertisements that mischaracterized the bill as a “tax increase.” Read more from Queenie Wong. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Why Google's lobbying in California skyrocketed this year
Google funded advertising against legislation that would require large tech platforms to pay news publishers.
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Young Americans increasingly get their news from TikTok—and it’s filled with intense, polarized and hard-to-verify videos about the Israel-Hamas war www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...
ByteDance execs transferred to high-level roles at TikTok earlier this year www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...
WSJ News Exclusive | TikTok Employees Say Executive Moves to U.S. Show China Parent’s Influence
U.S. staff have raised questions internally about recent personnel transfers from ByteDance
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TikTok had hardly any friends in government earlier this year. TikTok now has many more friends, with something in common: backing from billionaire financier Jeff Yass. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Billionaire Keeping TikTok on Phones in the U.S.
Financier Jeff Yass made a big bet on the app, and he’s a top donor to lawmakers who support it
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When Kanye wanted back on Twitter, he called his friend Elon. Here’s a look at how the company is making decisions nearly a year after Elon bought the platform. w/ @alexacorse.bsky.social + @kirstengrind.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...
How Elon Musk’s Impulses Transformed Twitter
Favors for friends Kanye West and Marc Andreessen, and gut decision-making, followed his takeover of the platform now called X
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A committee of China’s Communist Party members accessed the data of TikTok users in Hong Kong, alleges a former ByteDance exec https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-bytedance-executive-claims-chinese-communist-party-accessed-tiktoks-hong-kong-user-data-e9d5554f
WSJ News Exclusive | Former ByteDance Executive Claims Chinese Communist Party Accessed TikTok’s H...
Allegation is made in suit against TikTok parent company; ByteDance says it vigorously opposes the claim
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