SocGholish is a malware family that can be found on compromised web sites. When users land on these sites they may get presented with a fake update. Whether or not the fake update is displayed is dependent on numerous factors. For example, the site will check your source IP for anything that might indicate you’re…
Gene-editing technologies provide a faster, more precise way to create animals with desirable traits. The FDA has issued an investigational approval to researchers, giving them permission to feed people meat from a new line of pigs, which are genetically engineered to be sterile. Society won’t be able to take full advantage of biotech’s benefits without…
It’s been a weird couple of months for users of Replika, “the AI companion who cares.” And it’s just getting weirder, with a new software “upgrade” that’s infuriating many of the bot’s fans—and making the bots themselves a little bit loopy. Source: Chatbots on the verge of a nervous breakdown
John Mueller has been saying that Google doesn’t like AI content, and has often been quoted saying that AI created content is against the Google Guidelines.In August and also on December 6th, Google released the first ever “Helpful Content” updates. According to Google, this update, “generates a signal used by our automated ranking systems to…
Snippet of the best comment, by squiggleslash: Lots of computer scientists going into the ethics side of LMs at the moment, but nobody seems to care that the entire model is not only fraudulent and bad (Google and OpenAI are building systems designed to produce text that look like answers, not actually provide answers, accuracy…
It doesn’t get any more apt than this: A photographer from the Newfoundland town of Dildo has captured images of a penis-shaped iceberg off the Canadian coast. The suggestive ‘berg consists of a column with a domed head protruding up from two oval rafts of ice. Photographer Ken Pretty captured a shot of the ice…