I talked to a young woman in Wyoming whose stepdad uploaded a photo he took when she was 11-yrs-old into Grok. Then allegedly used the AI tool to generate 7,000 graphic child sexual abuse images, which he traded online www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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- A Wyoming woman known as Jane Doe 4 has joined a federal class-action complaint alleging her stepfather used xAI's Grok to generate over 7,000 explicit images.
- The photo she says was manipulated was taken when she was about 11; her stepfather was found dead by suicide two days after a police raid.
- The suit argues xAI failed to implement basic safeguards and that a report to NCMEC omitted information such as offender IP addresses.
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The booming AI industry, flush with investor cash, is mounting an expansive, but largely opaque campaign to influence midterm races around the country.
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Before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine told The Post he believed an AI system the tech giant was keeping behind closed doors was sentient. He was fired. Four years later, Google is openly exploring whether AI can be conscious.
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Four years ago I broke the story about Google engineer Blake Lemoine, who thought the company's AI model was sentient. That was 5 months before the launch of ChatGPT. Today, tech execs yapping about AI consciousness is practically mainstream wapo.st/3SDUIhI
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Why are AI companies worrying about consciousness? And should they? Great piece in @washingtonpost.com by @nitasha.bsky.social - in which I offer a few skeptical words www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... (for more, see my TED talk www.ted.com/talks/anil_s...)
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