I recently got to watch what happens when you jailbreak some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence models. Don’t worry—this AI manipulation wasn’t used…
Category: Primers
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Last year, when the novelist Laura Brooke Robson began writing Love Is an Algorithm—a love story between the cofounder of an AI dating app and…
Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
Every parent of young children has a book they’re sick of reading aloud, whether it’s The Rainbow Fish or Goodnight Moon. In recent years, however,…
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face’s platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack.…
Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
For most companies, spending upwards of $20 million on a single legal fight with an uncertain outcome might mean the boss has some explaining to…
Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
A decade ago, Ryan Carrier was a failed hedge fund manager watching as AI systems began to spin out of control. Facebook’s algorithms shook US…
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Ever so slowly, the crackdown on harmful sexual deepfakes is taking hold. Over the past few months, US law enforcement officials have seized deepfake hosting…
Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not always stay between you and a chatbot. Just ask Google. Over the weekend, people were…
This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
As China’s open-weight AI models become increasingly powerful, the Trump administration is relying on a small group of officials to decide whether and what restrictions…
The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI research platform Hugging Face in…