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Meta AI asked a mother to name the child in her own video, then, she says, pulled her daughters' ages and location out of years of family posts. Meta says the answer used only data she could already reach.
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A viral video showed Meta AI naming a user's two daughters from years of posts uploaded mostly by relatives, and Meta says the assistant never should have asked the question that started it.
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Four named jazz musicians had synthetic tracks and anime cover art attached to their catalog pages on three streaming services, and the labeling feature Spotify has been promoting would not have stopped any of it.
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MIT's committee says models can credibly do essentially every written assignment it sets, which turns the problem from dishonesty into the missing human interactions that education and training products were built to sell.
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Simon Weckert tuned a garish pattern against an open-source detector until it stopped seeing a person at all, which puts the weak point in the one stage of a vision pipeline most teams inherit and never test.
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Six kinds of venue moved against camera eyewear in a fortnight, for reasons that share almost nothing. Any roadmap assuming glasses are wearable in public needs a fallback.
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