Kate Knibbs

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‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company

He’s not a famous name in the wider world, but copyright lawyer Mark Lemley is equal parts revered and feared within certain tech circles. TechDirt recently described him as a “Lebron James/Michael...

This New AI Search Engine Has a Gimmick: Humans Answering Questions

When online search engines first appeared, they seemed miraculous. Now, though? It is a truth near-universally acknowledged that search is in the dumps, corroded by spam and ads.Big players like Google are...

That Sports News Story You Clicked on Could Be AI Slop

Next time you’re checking sports news online, double-check the URL.For instance, a headline like “Red Sox Urged to Risk Passing on Alex Bregman in Favor of $427 Million Superstar” looks ordinary enough—and...

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement over how it trained its artificial intelligence models. Against the...

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and...

A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead

Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year summary feature recapping what books users read in 2024. It was meant...

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from Westlaw,...

OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs

One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the robots will take our jobs. The extent to which this fear is founded remains to be seen, but...

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