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- Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says
A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Would Australians support a smart glasses ban?
As Australia considers barring the use of smart glasses in government offices, the BBC asks people in Sydney what they think. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety WarningsThe company is expected to generate $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei calls for slowing down development of some advanced A.I. models. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
- The Rise of Parasite Authors
Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.Earlier this summer, Tamra Westberry received a Facebook notification that made her heart sink. A fellow author had taken to social media to endorse Westberry’s latest book, Project Erebus, after reading about it in a weekly roundup of the latest paranormal-romance releases. Independent authors like Westberry, who is based in Texas and has published dozens of books under the pen name Tara West, usually welcome an encouraging word and a bit of cross-promotion. But Westberry was dismayed. She had never heard of a book called Project Erebus. And she certainly wasn’t its author. She looked up her author profile on Amazon, and there it was: Project Erebus, a book that featured character names she’d previously used, with a cover echoing that of her recent work. Translations were available in German, French, Italian, and Spanish. The book was a complete mystery to her, but after she read its sample pages, she suspected it was made by someone who’d used AI tools. (I ran the book’s cover and promotional blurb through Pangram, which suggested that they were completely AI-generated.)Westberry emailed Amazon and requested that the company delink the unaffiliated books from her profile. Amazon removed the books from the platform within a week or so—but not before some of her fans purchased them, read them, and left reviews. “No real detail, characters remain undeveloped. I almost felt I was reading an essay written by a school child,” one disappointed reader wrote in a two-star review for Project Erebus on Goodreads, a literary social network owned by Amazon that had also attributed the book to West.[Read: These 183,000 Books Are Fueling The Biggest Fight In Publishing And Tech]Across categories—fantasy, horror, even coloring books—writers say they’re seeing AI-generated listings crop up on their Amazon author pages. Some of these works are in entirely different genres from their usual work—such as a children’s series misattributed to a writer of steamy love stories—whereas others echo the subject matter or jacket designs of preexisting books. One writer reported someone sneaking in a fake edition under the listing of their real book. Because Amazon often sends out emails notifying author-page followers about new listings, these titles are able to leech a writer’s fan base, make ill-gotten revenue, and confuse readers.AI companies pirated millions of books to train today’s most popular models, as… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Uber to Pay $40 Million to Parents of Woman Fatally Hit by CarEmily Normandin-Parker, 23, was struck and killed on a California freeway after an Uber driver ordered her and a friend out of his car in August 2023. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
- California Governor Gavin Newsom Issues A.I. Safety Executive OrderGov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state to develop recommendations on safety measures, including requiring companies to build a “kill switch,” amid mounting concerns. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
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