Category «AI»

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 29, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 29, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Mail, E-Records, Privacy, Social Media

How Software Engineers Actually Use AI

Wired: ‘We conducted a survey of 730 software engineers and developers to explore how they utilize AI chatbots in their daily work, unveiling some surprising insights. The results indicate a fractured landscape; while some programmers embrace AI as an integral part of their workflow, others remain steadfastly opposed. This divergence raises an important question: is …

Subjects: AI

Job hunting and hiring in the age of AI: Where did all the humans go?

Washington Post via MSN – The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools and overreliance on software such as ChatGPT is making the job market increasingly surreal. “The speedy embrace of AI tools meant to make job hunting and hiring more efficient is causing headaches and sowing distrust in these processes, people on both sides of the …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 22, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 22, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Government Documents, ID Theft, Privacy, Search Engines

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Legislation

Multistate: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Legislation. “Lawmakers are increasingly addressing AI through legislation. As AI technologies have burst on the scene, state lawmakers have responded by addressing concerns with this ubiquitous technology through public policy. In 2023, we saw less than 200 bills introduced across state legislatures addressing the issue of AI. But that shifted in …

Subjects: AI, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets

TechCrunch: “Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe — claiming the results show that news is essentially worthless to Google’s ad business. The search giant conducted the test because European copyright law requires it …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, E-Records, EU Data Protection, Internet, Knowledge Management

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

The Atlantic – no paywall: “…Meta and OpenAI have both argued in court that it’s “fair use” to train their generative-AI models on copyrighted work without a license, because LLMs “transform” the original material into new work. The defense raises thorny questions and is likely a long way from resolution. But the use of LibGen …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Toolu

Toolou is a collection of privacy-first small tools for formatting, converting, and generating data. Includes: LinkedIn post date finder; JSON Formatter; Word to markdown converter (for ChatGPT); Word, character, paragraph and sentence count Essential web tools – with data privacy.The tools you were looking for with no tracking, no ads, and no data collection. The …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Realit

404 Media unlocked: “Any of these Reels could have been and probably was made in a matter of seconds or minutes. Many of the accounts that post them post multiple times per day. There are thousands of these types of accounts posting thousands of these types of Reels and images across every social media platform. …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

AI in Finance and Banking, March 18, 2025

Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, March 18, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Adapted Semantic Search

“At Free Law Project, we believe in transparency and sharing our innovations. Today we’re excited to announce our latest development in semantic search: our embedding generation tool and the underlying machine learning model that we will be using in our new semantic search engine. While semantic search might sound complex, we’ve focused on making it …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Punishing AI doesn’t stop it from lying and cheating it just makes it hide better, study shows

Live Science: “Punishing artificial intelligence for deceptive or harmful actions doesn’t stop it from misbehaving; it just makes it hide its deviousness, a new study by ChatGPT creator OpenAI has revealed. Since arriving in public in late 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) have repeatedly revealed their deceptive and outright sinister capabilities. These …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines