South Korean lawmakers are planning to tighten their recently enacted artificial intelligence law. The new bill mandates embedding permanent watermarks directly into AI-generated files and introduces harsh criminal penalties – including prison time – for netizens who intentionally modify or remove them.
Artificial intelligence is rarely completely certain of its answers, but we trust it implicitly anyway. A new study published in Communications Psychology shows that users massively overestimate algorithms’ confidence. Our sky-high expectations for technology make us blindly accept information from machines as a given, even when the system is merely guessing and prone to error.
Nearly 45,000 unionized workers at the South Korean tech giant are planning an 18-day strike set to begin on May 21. A potential shutdown of 12 production lines at the company, which is investing a record $73 billion this year, could send massive shockwaves through the artificial intelligence market and cost the firm between 30 and 100 trillion won.
Flashing popular hand gestures for selfies could cost us our biometric data. As reported by The Korea Herald, a new generation of AI tools can easily reconstruct fingerprints from ordinary photos posted online.
If you ask a chatbot about politics, its answer will largely depend on the language you use. Researchers from top US universities have published a report showing that authoritarian governments are successfully influencing global AI models by flooding the internet with state-controlled media.
Internal artificial intelligence usage stats at Amazon might be heavily skewed. According to recent reports, corporate employees are mass-assigning pointless tasks to the company’s MeshClaw assistant simply to boost their numbers on token-usage leaderboards and score points with management.
The rise of AI has handed cybercriminals the ultimate manipulation tool. Experts are sounding the alarm over a drastic spike in scams across Michigan. Criminals are successfully leveraging deepfake technology and audio cloning to impersonate loved ones and extort money from victims.
The CEO of OpenAI believes a user’s age brutally dictates how they use artificial intelligence. While older generations treat ChatGPT merely as a modern Google replacement, young adults and college students entrust the algorithms with critical life decisions, treating the bot as their digital operating system.
A US court has rejected Nvidia’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit. The tech giant tried to convince the judge it wasn’t liable for downloading over 197,000 pirated books. The ruling sparked a heated debate online, with netizens calling out the company’s hypocrisy and demands for special treatment.
German startup DeepL, widely considered the global leader in high-precision machine translation, has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services. Experts and competitors warn that handing digital infrastructure over to American corporations poses a severe threat to the independence of Europe’s tech sector.