YouTube's AI editing scandal reveals how reality can be manipulated without our consent
Disclosure, consent and platform power have become newly invigorated battlefields with the rise of AI.
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Page 32: Research news on Generative AI ethics
Generative AI ethics examines how text-, image-, and audio-generating systems reshape cognition, creativity, work practices, and public decision-making, and how these changes raise normative and regulatory questions. The field investigates trust and distrust in algorithmic guidance, human–AI collaboration in creative and professional domains, risks such as misinformation, bias, rights violations, and safety failures, and the erosion or transformation of expertise. It integrates humanities and socio-technical perspectives to guide responsible deployment, governance, and human-centric design of generative AI systems.
Machine learning & AI
3 questions: The pros and cons of synthetic data in AI
Synthetic data are artificially generated by algorithms to mimic the statistical properties of actual data, without containing any information from real-world sources. While concrete numbers are hard to pin down, some estimates ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
A digital language divide: How multilingual AI often reinforces bias
Johns Hopkins computer scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are creating a digital language divide, amplifying the dominance of English and other commonly spoken languages while sidelining ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
What is AI slop? A technologist explains this new and largely unwelcome form of online content
You've probably encountered images in your social media feeds that look like a cross between photographs and computer-generated graphics. Some are fantastical—think Shrimp Jesus—and some are believable at a quick glance—remember ...
Sep 2, 2025
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Computer Sciences
A firewall for science: AI tool identifies 1,000 'questionable' journals
A team of computer scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a new artificial intelligence platform that automatically seeks out "questionable" scientific journals.
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AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious
At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence.
Aug 29, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Amplifying AI's impact by making it understandable
As AI becomes a ubiquitous part of everyday life, people increasingly understand how it works. Whereas traditional computer programs operate on clear logic—"If A happens, then do B"—AI models, especially neural networks, ...
Aug 29, 2025
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Robotics
The '100,000-year data gap': Researcher explains why robots lag behind AI chatbots
AI chatbots have advanced rapidly over the past few years, so much so that people are now using them as personal assistants, customer service representatives and even therapists.
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The rise of humanlike chatbots detracts from developing AI for the human good
Grok is a generative artificial intelligence (genAI) chatbot by xAI that, according to Elon Musk, is "the smartest AI in the world." Grok's latest upgrade is Ani, a porn-enabled anime girlfriend, recently joined by a boyfriend ...
Aug 26, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Can large language models figure out the real world? New metric measures AI's predictive power
In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately predict where our solar system's planets would appear in the sky as they orbit the sun. But it wasn't ...
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