I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here’s What They Had to Say For Themselves

Over the course of a six hour long or so deposition, Justin Fox, a former investment banker turned DOGE bro, refused to define what he believes counts as DEI; admitted he used ChatGPT to scan government contracts for terms such as “Black” and “homosexual” but not “white” or “caucasian;” and said that one of the…

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Here’s the Memo Approving Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot for Use in the Senate

A top Senate administrator approved OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot for official use in the Senate, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. 404 Media has obtained the full text of the memo and is publishing it below. “The Sergeant at Arms (SAA) office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has approved the…

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AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.  The new restrictions show how Wikipedia editors continue to fight the flood of generative…

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Meta’s AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of ‘Spectral Labor’

Last week, Business Insider reported on a Meta patent describing a system that would simulate a user’s social media activity after their death.The patent imagines a world where you’d be able to chat with a deceased friend’s Facebook or Instagram account after their death, and have a large language model simulate their posting or chatting…

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Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

Meta’s director of safety and alignment at its “superintelligence” lab, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes and called it a “rookie mistake.” …

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