Category «Internet»

At least 13.5% of biomedical science papers’ abstracts last year were likely crafted using artificial intelligence chatbots

Science Advances: “Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate and revise text with human-level performance. These models come with clear limitations, can produce inaccurate information, and reinforce existing biases. Yet, many scientists use them for their scholarly writing. But how widespread is such LLM usage in the academic literature? To answer this question for …

Subjects: AI, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Medicine

States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.

The New York Times – no paywall – “Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud. As the Trump administration has sought to amass personally sensitive data on millions of individuals in America, it has run into one roadblock. The states, and …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Legal Research, Medicine, Poverty, Privacy

Are AI companies committed to a safe future?

Safrer AI: “We rate frontier AI companies’ risk management practices. Our objective is to make frontier AI safer through improved risk management practices and to enhance the accountability of private actors shaping the development of AI. Advanced AI systems are arguably one of the most transformative technologies ever built. Frontier AI companies are advancing technology …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management

Substack Is Where Writers Go to Be Weird

Vulture [no paywall] “It has become the premier destination for literary types’ unpublished musings. What is an author without an editor? Look to Substack for your answer. You’ll find the novelist Garth Greenwell reflecting on a single paragraph from James Baldwin’s Another Country for 3,500 words; Fuccboi author Sean Thor Conroe on “why Faulkner is …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Internet, Social Media

Block Google Sign in PopUp

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply  @[email protected] – So…who hates those Google log-in pop-ups that are seemingly everywhere now? Wanna make them go away? Get uBlock Origin (which you should have already been using): https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock Open the plugin and click the settings button. Click on the “my filters” tab and paste this into the input: ||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p

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

Why Smart People Fall for False Information and What to do About It

UCSF – “In a post-truth world, this false belief researcher offers a simple three-step recipe for building trust and finding common ground. Hint: It starts by recognizing you might be wrong. America has a misinformation problem. It’s in our news feeds, on our social media timelines, and at our kitchen tables. It’s driving wedges between …

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

Google could be reading your ChatGPT conversations. Concerned? You should be

Fast Company – no paywall – “Google is indexing conversations with ChatGPT that users have sent to friends, families, or colleagues—turning private exchanges intended for small groups into search results visible to millions. A basic Google site search using part of the link created when someone proactively clicks “Share” on ChatGPT can uncover conversations where …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

AI In Finance and Banking, July 31, 2025

Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking July 31, 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, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Artificial Intelligence and the Law: a discussion paper

UK. Law Commission: “The paper aims to raise awareness of legal issues regarding AI, prompting wider discussion of the topic, and to act as a step towards identifying those areas most in need of law reform. ” July 31, 2025.”…With the rapid development and improved performance of AI has come increased investment and wider and more …

Subjects: AI, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Marketing, Search Engines