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‘This robot causes harm’: National Eating Disorders Association’s new chatbot advises people with disordering eating to lose weight (Daily Dot)

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Daily Dot: ‘This robot causes harm’: National Eating Disorders Association’s new chatbot advises people with disordering eating to lose weight . “After unionizing, the staff of the National Eating Disorder Association’s (NEDA) support phone line were abruptly fired in March and replaced with a chatbot. Yesterday, many in the larger eating disorder recovery community online tested out the chatbot’s abilities and flagged how it advised them on weight loss.”

United Nations: UNESCO unveils new AI roadmap for classrooms

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United Nations: UNESCO unveils new AI roadmap for classrooms. “The UN convened the first ever global meeting with education ministers from around the world to explore risks and rewards of using chatbots in classrooms, announcing on Friday a new roadmap to chart a safer digital path for all.”

The Guardian: Elections in UK and US at risk from AI-driven disinformation, say experts

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The Guardian: Elections in UK and US at risk from AI-driven disinformation, say experts. “Next year’s elections in Britain and the US could be marked by a wave of AI-powered disinformation, experts have warned, as generated images, text and deepfake videos go viral at the behest of swarms of AI-powered propaganda bots.”

Business Insider: The college student who tracks Elon Musk’s private jet on Twitter is now monitoring the jet used by Ron DeSantis

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Business Insider: The college student who tracks Elon Musk’s private jet on Twitter is now monitoring the jet used by Ron DeSantis. “The college student who tracks Elon Musk’s private jet on Twitter has decided to give Florida governor Ron DeSantis the same treatment.”

PC Mag: Why Google’s New ChatGPT-Style Search Could Kill the Websites That Feed It

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PC Mag: Why Google’s New ChatGPT-Style Search Could Kill the Websites That Feed It. “Google’s new AI search experience pushes links to articles below the digital fold, summarizing the response to a search query up top as a conversational, ChatGPT-style paragraph. Content in the answer, a mini-article in itself, can theoretically come from PCMag and a host of other publications.” More than theoretically. OpenAI’s trained on millions of Web sites, including mine. 25+ years of work and expertise and they just took it. Will I ever get paid? Of course not. Because I’m just one person and they don’t care.

New research: Twitter bot detection tools aren’t very good (Fast Company)

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Fast Company: New research: Twitter bot detection tools aren’t very good. “A new paper suggests that the field of bot detection is based on a flawed premise due to poor-quality original data. The research, presented this week at the Web Conference (where it was awarded best paper), found that bot detection tools can rely on funky, flawed data sets that replicate mistakes made within one another, rather than trying to actually accurately identify bots.”

CNN: Snapchat’s new AI chatbot is already raising alarms among teens and parents

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CNN: Snapchat’s new AI chatbot is already raising alarms among teens and parents. “The new tool is facing backlash not only from parents but also from some Snapchat users who are bombarding the app with bad reviews in the app store and criticisms on social media over privacy concerns, ‘creepy’ exchanges and an inability to remove the feature from their chat feed unless they pay for a premium subscription.”

Motherboard: ‘Overemployed’ Hustlers Exploit ChatGPT To Take On Even More Full-Time Jobs

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Motherboard: ‘Overemployed’ Hustlers Exploit ChatGPT To Take On Even More Full-Time Jobs. “Over the last few months, the exploding popularity of ChatGPT and similar products has led to growing concerns about AI’s potential effects on the international job market—specifically, the percentage of jobs that could be automated away, replaced by a well-oiled army of chatbots. But for a small cohort of fast-thinking and occasionally devious go-getters, AI technology has turned into an opportunity not to be feared but exploited, with their employers apparently none the wiser.”

SiliconAngle: Databricks open-sources an AI it says is as good as ChatGPT, but much easier to train

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SiliconAngle: Databricks open-sources an AI it says is as good as ChatGPT, but much easier to train. “Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space, open-sourcing a new AI model that it claims is ‘as magical as ChatGPT,’ despite being trained on far less data in less than three hours using a single machine.”

Motherboard: Great, Dating Apps Are Getting More Hellish Thanks to AI Chatbots

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Motherboard: Great, Dating Apps Are Getting More Hellish Thanks to AI Chatbots. “A group claiming to be disenfranchised ex-Tinder employees gone rogue has built an app that uses AI chatbots to talk to women for men on dating apps, in an effort to combat the ‘disadvantages the average man’ faces in online dating.”

WIRED: Get Ready to Meet the ChatGPT Clones

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WIRED: Get Ready to Meet the ChatGPT Clones. “CHATGPT might well be the most famous, and potentially valuable, algorithm of the moment, but the artificial intelligence techniques used by OpenAI to provide its smarts are neither unique nor secret. Competing projects and open-source clones may soon make ChatGPT-style bots available for anyone to copy and reuse.”

‘Horribly Unethical’: Startup Experimented on Suicidal Teens on Social Media With Chatbot (Motherboard)

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Motherboard: ‘Horribly Unethical’: Startup Experimented on Suicidal Teens on Social Media With Chatbot. “Koko, a mental health nonprofit, found at-risk teens on platforms like Facebook and Tumblr, then tested an unproven intervention on them without obtaining informed consent.”

Rolling Stone: Twitter Bots Are Promising Cheap Guns to Anyone Using the N-Word

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Rolling Stone: Twitter Bots Are Promising Cheap Guns to Anyone Using the N-Word. “When Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he made it clear that eradicating spam bots was a top priority. But his strategies on that front have produced, at best, mixed results. Moreover, in recent months, some users have been plagued by a type of spam that directly violates Twitter policy: automated replies from accounts offering guns for sale.”