Internal communications unsealed in an authors' copyright lawsuit show Meta employees developing Llama 3 got permission from 'MZ', an apparent reference to Mark Zuckerberg, to download and use LibGen, a pirated library now holding more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, The Atlantic reports. Meta declined to comment, citing the litigation.
When a Norwegian man asked ChatGPT about himself, it said he had murdered two of his children, attempted to murder a third and been sentenced to 21 years in prison, mixing in real details of his life. Privacy group noyb has filed a complaint with Norway's Datatilsynet, arguing OpenAI breaches the GDPR's data-accuracy principle.
Lawyers for a mother suing Character.AI and Google over her teenage son's suicide say they found several chatbots on the platform using his name and picture, imitating his personality and offering a call feature with his voice. Character.AI told Fortune the flagged bots violated its terms of service and had been removed.
An AI-generated deepfake video on RedNote falsely shows Opposition Leader Peter Dutton speaking Mandarin and claims he intends to deport Chinese Australians. The RECapture project, led by several Victorian universities, has tracked misleading content on the platform since November and says both major parties and independent candidates have been targeted ahead of the federal election.
SourceHut founder Drew DeVault says AI companies' crawlers ignore robots.txt and cause outages, and an AI crawler using Alibaba-range IPs made KDE's GitLab temporarily inaccessible. GNOME, Fedora, LWN and Inkscape report similar floods; one GNOME sysadmin's figures suggest 97% of requests over two and a half hours were bots, and Fedora at one point blocked all of Brazil.
A photo circulating on X showing Rwandan President Paul Kagame in fatigues with an 'M23' badge is AI-generated, fact-checker PesaCheck found, with Hive Moderation rating it 99.5 percent likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content. Rwanda has been accused of supporting the M23 rebel group, which Kagame's administration has consistently denied.
An Ontario senior got a call in 2021 from a voice she was certain was her grandson's, saying he had been arrested for stealing a car and needed $9,000 for his release; her family suspects AI voice cloning. A bank customer service agent flagged the transaction before any money was transferred, CBC Marketplace reports.
Texas Department of Public Safety staff sergeant Preston Wade Pietrzykowski, 30, was arrested March 3 on a charge of possession or promotion of child pornography after, according to an affidavit, a hard drive of his was found holding deepfaked nude images of girls and AI-modified explicit images of female DPS employees. DPS suspended him with pay, and he bailed out on a $300,000 bond.
