Tag Archives: AI ethics

Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge

reader comments 56 with Without announcement, OpenAI recently added details about its web crawler, GPTBot, to its online documentation site. GPTBot is the name of the user agent that the company uses to retrieve webpages to train the AI models behind ChatGPT, such as GPT-4. Earlier this week, some sites quickly announced their intention to… Read More »

AI-powered grocery bot suggests recipe for toxic gas, “poison bread sandwich”

reader comments 123 with When given a list of harmful ingredients, an AI-powered recipe suggestion bot called the Savey Meal-Bot returned ridiculously titled dangerous recipe suggestions, reports The Guardian. The bot is a product of the New Zealand-based PAK’nSAVE grocery chain and uses the OpenAI GPT-3.5 language model to craft its recipes. PAK’nSAVE intended the… Read More »

Pope warns of AI risks so “violence and discrimination does not take root”

Getty Images reader comments 152 with Discussion about artificial intelligence is everywhere these days—even the Vatican. On Tuesday, Pope Francis issued a communiqué announcing the theme for World Day of Peace 2024 as “Artificial Intelligence and Peace,” emphasizing the potential impact of AI on human life and calling for responsible use, ethical reflection, and vigilance… Read More »

Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend

Getty Images | Aurich Lawson reader comments 118 with Use of facial recognition software led Detroit police to falsely arrest 32-year-old Porcha Woodruff for robbery and carjacking, reports The New York Times. Eight months pregnant, she was detained for 11 hours, questioned, and had her iPhone seized for evidence before being released. It’s the latest… Read More »

Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up prohibited content

MirageC/Getty Images reader comments 78 with ChatGPT and its artificially intelligent siblings have been tweaked over and over to prevent troublemakers from getting them to spit out undesirable messages such as hate speech, personal information, or step-by-step instructions for building an improvised bomb. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University last week showed that adding a… Read More »

OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a slot machine in a desert. Midjourney reader comments 38 with On Thursday, OpenAI quietly pulled its AI Classifier, an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text. The decommissioning, first noticed by Decrypt, occurred with no major fanfare and was announced through a small note added to OpenAI’s official… Read More »

Redditors prank AI-powered news mill with “Glorbo” in World of Warcraft

Enlarge / A World of Warcraft illustration from the Zleague.gg article on “Glorbo.” Zleague.gg reader comments 62 with On Thursday, a Reddit user named kaefer_kriegerin posted a fake announcement on the World of Warcraft subreddit about the introduction of “Glorbo” to the game. Glorbo isn’t real, but the post successfully exposed a website that scrapes… Read More »

Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced

Benj Edwards / Getty Images reader comments 38 with On Tuesday, researchers from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley published a research paper that purports to show changes in GPT-4‘s outputs over time. The paper fuels a common-but-unproven belief that the AI language model has grown worse at coding and compositional tasks over the… Read More »

Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues

Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images) reader comments 30 with OpenAI has been testing its multimodal version of GPT-4 with image-recognition support prior to a planned wide release. However, public access is being curtailed due to concerns about its ability to potentially recognize specific individuals, according to a New York Times report on Tuesday. When OpenAI announced… Read More »

EU votes to ban AI in biometric surveillance, require disclosure from AI systems

Enlarge / The EU flag in front of an AI-generated background. EU / Stable Diffusion reader comments 47 with On Wednesday, European Union officials voted to implement stricter proposed regulations concerning AI, according to Reuters. The updated draft of the “AI Act” law includes a ban on the use of AI in biometric surveillance and… Read More »