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Teachers Are Not OK
Last month, I wrote an article about how schools were not prepared for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, based on thousands of pages of public records I obtained from when ChatGPT was first released. As part of that article, I asked teachers to tell me how AI has changed how they teach. The response…
Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions
The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they’ve made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May. “LLMs [Large language models] today…
An industry first: Sophos Firewall and NDR Essentials
Sophos Firewall is once again pioneering new innovations.
Weird Signals from Space Are ‘Unlike Any Known Galactic Object’
Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, scientists accidentally discovered a weird thing in space that is like nothing we have ever seen before. This happens a lot, yet never seems to get old. Then, a shark banquet, the Ladies Anuran Choir, and yet another reason to side-eye shiftwork. Last, a story about the importance…
Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool
The surveillance company Flock told employees at an all-hands meeting Friday that its new people search product, Nova, will not include hacked data from the dark web. The announcement comes a little over a week after 404 Media broke the news about internal tension at the company about plans to use breached data, including from…
Behind the Blog: Lighting Money on Fire and the Meaning of Vetting
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss an exciting revamp of The Abstract, tech betrayals, and the “it’s for cops” defense. EMANUEL: Most of you already know this but we are expanding The Abstract,…
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
Earlier this month authorities in Texas performed a nationwide search of more than 83,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras while looking for a woman who they said had a self-administered abortion, including cameras in states where abortion is legal such as Washington and Illinois, according to multiple datasets obtained by 404 Media. The news…
No One Knows How to Deal With ‘Student-on-Student’ AI CSAM
Schools, parents, police, and existing laws are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of students and minors using generative AI tools to create child sexual abuse material of other their peers, according to a new report from researchers at Stanford Cyber Policy Center. The report, which is based on public records and interviews…