Ashley Belanger reports: An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, classes were canceled after parents forced leaders to either resign or face a lawsuit potentially seeking criminal penalties and accusing the school of skipping mandatory reporting of the harmful images. The outcry erupted after a single student created…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence and cybercrime: implications for individuals and the healthcare sector
Introduction: The malicious use of artificial intelligence has created new types of security threat for both individuals and the healthcare sector. Although artificial intelligence is a fundamental technology of our age, it has enabled the creation of new types of large-scale cyberthreat, and artificial intelligence-based cybercrime has grown rapidly worldwide. Medical data are a prime…
PIZZA PRIVACY PROBLEM: Domino’s Hit with Class Action Over Alleged AI Wiretapping
Tori Guidry of Troutman Amin, LLP writes: A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of California residents, alleging that Domino’s Pizza, Inc. and ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. secretly intercepted and recorded phone calls placed by California customers. Plaintiff alleges that Domino’s utilized ConverseNow’s Voice AI technology, which wiretaps…
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Garance Burke and Hilke Schellmann report: Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers…