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The New ‘Ethical’ AI Music Generator Can’t Write a Halfway Decent Song
Song generators are in hot water over alleged copyright infringement, but the AI tool Jen was trained on licensed material. We asked pro musicians to test it, and the results were uninspiring.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-new-ethical-ai-music-generator-cant-write-a-halfway-decent-song/
How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’
Generative AI is seeping into the core of your phone, but what does that mean for privacy? Here’s how Apple’s unique AI architecture compares to the “hybrid” approach adopted by Samsung and Google.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-android-hybrid-ai-privacy/
AI Is Rewriting Meme History
TikTok’s latest trend involves videos of people traveling back in time to interrupt the viral memes of yore. The results are uncanny.
Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results
Google adjusted its policies to target AI spam earlier this year, but plagiarizing content still comes up higher in search results months later—and SEO experts aren’t sure why.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-ai-spam-original-reporting-news-results/
Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like the New York Times and the Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes.
https://www.wired.com/story/quora-chatbot-poe-download-paywalled-articles/
He Helped Invent Generative AI. Now He Wants to Save It
Illia Polosukhin doesn't want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence. His alternative vision for “user-owned AI” is already starting to take shape.
https://www.wired.com/story/user-owned-ai-illia-polosukhin-open-source-web3/
This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It’s Human
Bland AI’s customer services and sales bot is the latest example of “human-washing” in AI. Experts warn against the consequences of blurred reality.
French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election
With polls suggesting voters are about to swing toward the far right or hard left, the AI industry is starting to freak out.
https://www.wired.com/story/french-ai-startups-felt-unstoppable-then-came-the-election/
Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites of major outlets, prompting an inquiry into potential rules violations.
https://www.wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/
OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI
Having humans rate a language model’s outputs produced clever chatbots. OpenAI says adding AI to the loop could help make them even smarter and more reliable.
Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All
Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone.
https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-detection-get-real-labs/
With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life
Google’s AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes and their products work inside the body—and how and why they sometimes go wrong.
https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-pushmeet-kohli-deepmind-ai-google/
With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life
Google’s AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes and their products work inside the body—and how and why they sometimes go wrong.
https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-pushmeet-kohli-deepmind-ai-google/
The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling
How accurate are gunshot detection systems, really? For years, it's been a secret, but new reports from San Jose and NYC show these systems have operated well below their advertised accuracy rates.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-gunshot-detection-accuracy-san-jose-nyc/
Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors
The most notorious deepfake sexual abuse website is hosting altered videos originally published as part of the GirlsDoPorn operation. Experts say this new low is only the beginning.
https://www.wired.com/story/girlsdoporn-deepfake-victim-videos/
EU says Apple's App Store Is in Breach of Rules
Apple has been warned that its App Store is in breach of EU rules, and has backtracked on plans to roll out AI tech in Europe over regulatory concerns.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-hits-a-major-roadblock-as-eu-targets-app-store/
Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
Experts aren't unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup's practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.
My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now
Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity.
https://www.wired.com/story/my-memories-are-just-meta-training-data-now/
We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI
Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary.
https://www.wired.com/story/were-still-waiting-for-the-next-big-leap-in-ai/
Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?
This week, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-powered search tools, and how content publishers are fighting to reverse this trend.