Reality Defender, one of several startups developing tools to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated content, raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by DCVC, Comcast Ventures, Ex/ante, Parameter Ventures, and Nat Friedman’s AI Grant. Co-founder and CEO Ben Colman plans to double Reality Defender’s 23-person team next …
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Microsoft-affiliated research finds GTP-4 flaws
Following instructions too closely can get you in trouble if you’re a large language model. A new Microsoft-affiliated scientific paper examined the “trustworthiness” and toxicity of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3.5. The co-authors suggest that GPT-4 may be more susceptible to “jailbreaking” prompts that bypass the …
Read More »LinkedIn will cut 668 more jobs this year, bringing the total to nearly 1,400
LinkedIn announced a rollout of AI-powered tools across the company this month. It’s laying off 668 workers today, a future-focused announcement. An informed source says 563 layoffs will be in R&D, affecting engineering, product, talent, and finance teams. The cuts, announced this morning, come five months after LinkedIn cut 716 …
Read More »A study found that 42% of Mac users use AI apps daily
According to a new report from app subscription service Setapp, 42% of Mac users use AI-based apps daily, and 63% believe they are more beneficial than those without AI. Mac app developers are also adopting AI, with 44% having implemented AI or machine learning models and 28% working on it. …
Read More »Asia offers hope amid the crypto winter
At Token2049, it was hard to tell the crypto industry was in “winter” mode. The September crypto conference in Singapore drew an unprecedented 20,000 attendees, who visited hundreds of side events across the city to avoid the expensive main event ticket. While the government’s actions against FTX, Ripple, Binance, and …
Read More »Lakera launches to defend large language models from evil prompts
The generative AI movement relies on large language models (LLMs) to interpret and create human-language texts from simple prompts, such as summarizing a document, writing a poem, or answering a question using data from multiple sources. Bad actors can use “prompt injection” to trick an LLM-powered chatbot into giving unauthorized …
Read More »Yepic fail: This startup promised not to deepfake without consent but did
According to Yepic AI, it uses “deepfakes for good” and will “never reenact someone without their consent.” However, the company did what it said it would never do. Yepic AI sent a TechCrunch reporter two “deepfaked” videos of the reporter, who had not consented to their likeness, in an unsolicited …
Read More »Linda Yaccarino tells EU: 700 Community Notes, 5K+ Israel-Hamas war images, “thousands” of content removed
Earlier this week, European Commissioner Thierry Breton sent a stark open letter to X, formerly Twitter, criticizing its failure to curb disinformation and illegal content on the platform after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. Today, X responded with a lengthy letter that was short on numbers and directly acknowledged …
Read More »Strange Object Movements Beyond Neptune The Alternative Gravity Effect, Astrophysicists Say
The “Planet Nine” has been sought many times, but without success. In a new paper, a team proposes that gravity is wrong. Astronomers have been puzzled by a Kuiper Belt clustering for decades. Astrophysicists believe small objects are being “shepherded” by a large unknown planet far beyond Neptune’s orbit. Theoretical …
Read More »Open OSIRIS-REx cannister live today from NASA. How to Watch
A few weeks ago, OSIRIS-REx delivered priceless Bennu samples to Earth. NASA’s Johnson Space Center will livestream the opening of the canister today, revealing the precious material. To avoid contamination from Earth’s atmosphere, the asteroid bits will be opened in a glovebox. On Wednesday, October 11, showtime is 11 am …
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