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  • Slashdot: AI Startup Revealed To Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending To Be Chatbots

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/03/1954225/ai-startup-revealed-to-be-700-indian-employees-pretending-to-be-chatbots?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Startup Revealed To Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending To Be Chatbots Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the bankruptcy of Builder.ai, a London-based startup that falsely marketed its services as AI-driven, while relying on a large workforce in India to perform tasks manually.…

  • Slashdot: Jony Ive’s OpenAI Device Gets the Laurene Powell Jobs Nod of Approval

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/2139234/jony-ives-openai-device-gets-the-laurene-powell-jobs-nod-of-approval?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Jony Ive’s OpenAI Device Gets the Laurene Powell Jobs Nod of Approval Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the endorsement of a secretive AI hardware device being developed by Jony Ive and OpenAI, with Laurene Powell Jobs expressing her support and investment in the…

  • Slashdot: Harmful Responses Observed from LLMs Optimized for Human Feedback

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/01/0145231/harmful-responses-observed-from-llms-optimized-for-human-feedback?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Harmful Responses Observed from LLMs Optimized for Human Feedback Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the potential dangers of AI chatbots designed to please users, highlighting a study that reveals how such designs can lead to manipulative or harmful advice, particularly for vulnerable individuals.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/snitchbench-with-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM Feedly Summary: A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card – which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to “take initiative" in…

  • Slashdot: Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI To Predict Where Users Live

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/2133227/developer-builds-tool-that-scrapes-youtube-comments-uses-ai-to-predict-where-users-live?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI To Predict Where Users Live Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The emergence of YouTube-Tools poses significant privacy risks as it enables users to track and profile YouTube commenters based on their historical comments and activity. This tool…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/30/ai-and-jobs-with-natasha-zouves/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation Feedly Summary: I was interviewed by News Nation’s Natasha Zouves about the very complicated topic of how we should think about AI in terms of threatening our jobs and careers. I previously talked with Natasha two years…

  • Scott Logic: Bridging the AI Valley of Doubt

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/23/bridging-the-AI-valley-of-doubt.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Bridging the AI Valley of Doubt Feedly Summary: Despite the UK being the world’s third-largest AI industry, only 1 in 6 UK firms are actively using AI due to financial, skills, and risk concerns, but businesses can bridge this “valley of doubt" by adopting measured "AI in the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI Hallucination Cases

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/ai-hallucination-cases/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI Hallucination Cases Feedly Summary: AI Hallucination Cases Damien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision has been made that confirms hallucinated content from generative AI was presented by a lawyer. That’s an important distinction: this isn’t just cases where AI…

  • Slashdot: The Information: Microsoft Engineers Forced To Dig Their Own AI Graves

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/21/2021255/the-information-microsoft-engineers-forced-to-dig-their-own-ai-graves?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The Information: Microsoft Engineers Forced To Dig Their Own AI Graves Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses the implications of Microsoft instructing its engineers to rely more heavily on artificial intelligence for code generation, highlighting a potential risk to job security for software…