Category «Internet»

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT’s new study feature, helps with exams

Bleeping Computer – “BleepingComputer previously reported that OpenAI is testing a new ‘Study together’ feature, and today, a new announcement within the ChatGPT web app confirms it. This announcement is titled ‘Study and Learn,’ and it looks like the feature will be called Study Together. With the Study Together feature on ChatGPT, you’ll be able …

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

How big tech is force-feeding us AI

Blood in the Machine: “I do not think it will shock anyone to learn that big tech is aggressively pushing AI products. But the extent to which they have done so might. The sheer ubiquity of AI means that we take for ground the countless ways, many invisible, that these products and features are foisted on …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

What is AI Reading – Report by Muck Rack

Muck Rack Complete Report – Snipped from Executive Summary • Citations affect responses: Simply enabling or disabling the ability for AI to search the web drastically modifies responses, indicating that the systems are truly basing their responses on the cited works. • Journalism and earned media are important drivers: More than 95% of links cited …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, E-Commerce, E-Government, Education, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

New ICE mobile app pushes biometric policing onto American streets

BiometricUpdate.com: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quietly deployed a new surveillance tool in its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arsenal – a smartphone app known as Mobile Fortify. Designed for ICE field agents, the app enables real-time biometric identity verification using facial recognition or contactless fingerprints. Based on leaked emails reported by 404 Media, the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Here’s the list of websites gig workers used to fine-tune Anthropic’s AI models

Business Insider – Its contractor left it wide open. “An internal spreadsheet obtained by Business Insider shows which websites Surge AI gig workers were told to mine — and which to avoid — while fine-tuning Anthropic’s AI to make it sound more “helpful, honest, and harmless.” The spreadsheet allows sources like Bloomberg, Harvard University, and …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors

404 Media – no paywall: “When your laptop is infected with infostealing malware, it’s not just hackers that might get your passwords, billing and email addresses, and a list of sites or services you’ve created accounts on, potentially including some embarrassing ones. A private intelligence company run by a young founder is now taking that …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Try these hidden ‘NOPE’ buttons to stop AI content

Washington Post via MSN: “Let’s say that you’re worried about artificial intelligence turning us into mushy-brained monsters, draining resources from the planet, slurping all your data and human knowledge, preying on vulnerable minds, wiping out jobs, choking your favorite websites, lying to you, or not being useful. Too bad. AI is becoming increasingly unavoidable in …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

Introducing Duck.ai Customizations

Right from the http://Duck.ai prompt box, now you can control: *the tone of responses *the length of responses *how you want http://Duck.ai to act *what you want to be called *and more. Any customizations get applied to all future conversations until reset or modified. You can see all additional instructions applied with the toggle on …

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

Proton launches privacy-focused AI chatbot

The Verge: “Proton, the company behind the encrypted email service Proton Mail, has launched an AI assistant aimed at preserving user privacy. The new chatbot, called Lumo, can summarize documents, generate code, write emails, and more, while storing data locally on users’ devices. Proton says it will protect this information using “zero-access” encryption, which grants …

Subjects: AI, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

ChatGPT users send 2.5 billion prompts a day

TechCrunch: “ChatGPT receives 2.5 billion prompts from global users every day, OpenAI told Axios. About 330 million of those are coming from users in the U.S. These numbers show just how ubiquitous OpenAI’s flagship product is becoming. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, does not release daily search data, but recently revealed that Google receives 5 trillion …

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