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As TikTok ban looms, Substack launches short video content
As the deadline for the TikTok sale approaches, the San Francisco-based publishing platform Substack hopes to capitalize on the loss by releasing a short video feature in its app. Creators will now be able to create TikTok-style videos in what was previously the Substack app’s Media tab. Videos can be up to ten minutes in ...
OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art comes under hailstorm of criticism
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman today announced that he was withdrawing the free-tier rollout of the new image-generation tool trained partly by the renowned Japanese animation school Studio Ghibli after images flooded the internet just a day after its release. Altman explained that the “rollout to our free tier is unfortunately going to be delayed ...
New York judge allows New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI to proceed
A federal judge in New York today rejected OpenAI‘s bid to dismiss a copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times accusing the company of scraping data from its content to train its products. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein narrowed the scope of the case, but the core of the copyright infringement claim will remain. ...
NSA warned about vulnerabilities in Signal prior to White House group chat fiasco
The National Security Agency issued an operational security special bulletin to its staff at the end of February 2024, carrying the warning that the encrypted messaging application Signal might not be secure, according to a report published by CBS News today. Such a perceived vulnerability puts the White House in an even worse light after ...
Security sloppiness at the White House: Yemen war plans shared with Atlantic editor over Signal
The National Security Council today said it’s reviewing an incident in which The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a Signal chat in which top White House officials discussed operational war plans against the Houthis in Yemen. Goldberg, who described the experience in an article today, said he couldn’t believe it was real until ...
Court rules copyrighting AI-generated art is a no-go – even if you invented the software
A U.S. federal appeals court today ruled that art created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be granted copyright protection. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was unanimous in saying there must be initial human authorship to be granted a copyright. The ruling upheld a decision by the ...
FTC commissioners claim they were ‘illegally fired’ by Trump
In an effort to establish more control over regulators, President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission today. Historically, the FTC’s five members have comprised three people from the same party as the president and two from the opposing party. Today, Trump terminated the roles of the two Democratic Commissioners, Rebecca ...
Meta says it’s almost ready to start testing Community Notes
Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, announced today that it will begin testing its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, on March 18. The old system of third-party fact-checking has been with the company since 2016. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s new design for getting to the truth coincides with his warmer ...
After confusion, FTC says it will go ahead with Amazon deceptive practices case
Following a short delay over what may or may not have been staffing shortages, the Federal Trade Commission now says it will now continue with its consumer protection trial against Amazon.com Inc. “We have lost employees in the agency, in our division and on our case team,” FTC attorney Jonathan Cohen said at a status ...
Sam Altman says OpenAI has trained a fiction writing AI model that’s actually decent
So far, generative artificial intelligence models have been able to pull off only crude assimilations of fiction writing, but OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman today said his firm has trained a model for that particular purpose, and he claims it’s “really good.” “This is the first time I have been really struck by something written ...
