It is certainly a noble gesture, but one that is doomed to fail. The San Francisco city attorney is suing 16 websites that create and distribute non-consensual AI-generated pornography. This is a first of a kind lawsuit. The sites, which are not named, allow paying customers to upload photos of real people, apply AI to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter’s AI tool, Grok, has very limited “guard rails”. For example, one Grok AI image shows Trump piloting a plane that looks like it is about to crash into the Twin Towers with one of the towers already in flames. Even though Grok says that it won’t let you create images that infringe on copyrights […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Interpol Recovers Over $40 Mill from Biz Email Compromise Attack INTERPOL has created a global stop-payment mechanism that it can use to recover funds. A company in Singapore thought they were paying a vendor. Instead they paid a hacker. INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments or I-GRIP was able to recover $39 million out of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]But everyone does it, right? The Irish Data Protection Commission asked the High Court of Ireland in Dublin to stop the social media company from using customer data to train its large language model. Twitter added a setting last month, which defaults to enabled, that allows it to use any user data to train its […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Texas Attorney General is making big headlines and while he is not running for election this year, you can count on him bringing this up next time. Meta has agreed to pay Texas $1.4 billion or about one percent of its annual revenue (plus likely a tax deduction) for using facial recognition on Texas […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NYC’s Gotham Restaurant Forced to Close After Cyber Scam Hopefully they will be able to re-open, but for businesses, the law is much less forgiving. The ritzy Greenwich Village restaurant fell for a business email compromise attack that had it send its payroll money to what they thought was their payroll service’s “new” bank account. […]
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