AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
Some Medium writers and editors do applaud the platform’s approach to AI. Eric Pierce, who founded Medium’s largest pop culture publication Fanfare, says that he doesn’t have to fend off …
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The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down
It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t …
Scientists Made an AI Model That Beats CAPTCHAs Every Single Time
Researchers have made an AI bot capable of beating image-based CAPTCHAs 100 percent of the time, according to a new scientific paper. Internet users will be familiar with image-based CAPTCHAs …
New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free
According to Dark Visitors founder Gavin King, most of the major AI agents still abide by robots.txt. “That’s been pretty consistent,” he says. But not all website owners have the …
Telegram Removes Some Features, Adds Few As Pavel Durov Faces Criminal Charges
Home Business Telegram Removes Some Features, Adds Few As Pavel Durov Faces Criminal Charges In France Telegram was founded in 2013 by Nikolai and Pavel Durov. New Delhi: Pavel Durov, …
One Man’s Army of Streaming Bots Reveals a Whole Industry’s Problem
A man in Denmark was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for using fake accounts to trick music streaming services into paying him 2 million Danish kroner ($290,000) in …
This New Breed of AI Assistant Wants to Do Your Boring Office Chores
This week, OpenAI announced a service that makes it possible for just about anyone to build a custom version of ChatGPT, no coding skills required. The company suggests that users …
OpenAI Wants Everyone to Build Their Own Version of ChatGPT
OpenAI announced its new custom chatbot features at its first ever developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, in San Francisco. “You can build a GPT—a customized version of ChatGPT—for almost anything,” Sam …
The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contest
The index is a good predictor of whether a company will raise a round, says Konstantin Vinogradov, a general partner at Runa. Around a third of all the companies listed …
The Meta AI Chatbot Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Answer to ChatGPT
The AI mimics are available today in beta on Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. They include a chatbot based on Paris Hilton playing a mystery-solving detective, another based on Snoop …