Immigration Raid Tracking App ‘ICE Block’ Keeps Your Data Private, Researcher Finds

ICE Block, an app that lets users warn others about the location of ICE officers, and which for a short while was the top of the social media App Store chart, does protect users’ privacy and doesn’t share your location with third parties, according to a recent analysis from a security researcher. ICE Block already…

Read More

Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers

A venture capital-backed “AI performance monitoring system for factory workers” is proposing what appears to be dehumanizing surveillance of factories, where machine vision tracks workers’ hand movements and output so a boss can look at graphs and yell at them about efficiency. In a launch video demoing the product, Baid and Mohta put on a…

Read More

Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google

A researcher has scraped nearly 100,000 conversations from ChatGPT that users had set to share publicly and Google then indexed, creating a snapshot of all the sorts of things people are using OpenAI’s chatbot for, and inadvertently exposing. 404 Media’s testing has found the dataset includes everything from the sensitive to the benign: alleged texts…

Read More

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia.  “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies,” Wikipedia’s new…

Read More