Article URL: https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/voters-increasingly-use-ai-political-advisor-new-study-shows-risks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214568

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Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot army. Researchers at Eye Security found the updater for a Popcorn Time fork called "Time4Popcorn" still running on tons of Windows, macOS, and Android devices located around the world, phoning home to now-abandoned web domains over unencrypted HTTP and running an outdated, insecure version of Chrome.

Eye Security's Niels Teus …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny.

Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam. The conversation between the model and the speaker does have a mostly natural back and forth (though for some reason, the model initially mistakes the speaker for somebody named "Ronaldo").

Read the full story at The Verge.

The Pentagon is building weapons and projects with AI capabilities that officials say don't always closely adhere to the agency's own guidelines for AI, according to a congressional watchdog report published in October.

(Image credit: Government Accountability Office)

Article URL: https://block.xyz/dessa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213925

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Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-impersonates-dead-florida-man-moved-into-home-rcna604844

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213826

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