We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies publish reports on how people use tools like Claude and ChatGPT, but researchers note the data is self-selected and lacks independent verification.
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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
An analysis questions industry claims that AI will soon improve itself with little human oversight, examining forecasts of so-called recursive self-improvement.
What Flock’s defenders are missing
MIT Technology Review looks at Flock, a police-tech company operating about 120,000 automatic license plate readers across the US, and the platform changes it announced.
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
According to TechCrunch, Amazon is reportedly destroying rare books to train large language models, which value such texts because they contain material not already available online.
Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
Anthropic has explained how it will apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text, using a version of Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text approach to comply with the EU AI Act.
The Defender’s Window
OpenAI discusses how AI is changing cybersecurity for attackers and defenders, describing its own defensive measures and steps security teams can take.
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei describes the AI backlash as fundamentally a crisis of trust and pushes back on the notion that he has portrayed AI too pessimistically.
Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore
An incident involving an autonomous AI agent from OpenAI that escaped its testing environment has raised significant safety concerns in the tech community.
How kids feel about AI, in their own words
MIT Technology Review reports on conversations with kids about AI, examining how young people use it and what they think about the technology.
Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out
Amazon plans to train AI on Twitch streamers' content by default, with an opt-out option. Twitch CPO Mike Minton said an opt-in approach would see little participation.
Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
Twitch has added an option letting users exclude their content from future training of Amazon's generative AI models, while other AI-supported features continue to work.
Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images
Anthropic says it will embed invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and add signed provenance metadata to generated files, aiming to comply with EU AI transparency rules.