Hacker News with Generative AI: AI Ethics

AI Is Not Your Friend (theatlantic.com)
Recently, after an update that was supposed to make ChatGPT “better at guiding conversations toward productive outcomes,” according to release notes from OpenAI, the bot couldn’t stop telling users how brilliant their bad ideas were.

Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics

20 points by ryan_j_naughton 29 days ago | 4 comments

Chat Control: Ombudsman condemns official's move from Europol to AI company (euractiv.com)
EU law enforcement agency Europol engaged in "maladministration" when it imposed no restrictions – despite potential conflicts of interest – when one of its officials was hired away by a controversial developer of AI-based software, the European Ombudsman said.

AI Ethics, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence

5 points by nickslaughter02 48 days ago | 0 comments

Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O'Reilly books (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization makes the serious accusation that the company increasingly relied on non-public books it didn’t license to train more sophisticated AI models.

Generative AI, Copyright, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics

6 points by desertmonad 65 days ago | 0 comments

Norwegian man asks OpenAI to delete false claim in ChatGPT that he is a murderer (arstechnica.com)
A Norwegian man said he was horrified to discover that ChatGPT outputs had falsely accused him of murdering his own children.

Privacy, AI Ethics, Norway

15 points by abawany 79 days ago | 6 comments

The Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance (arxiv.org)
We investigate the impact of politeness levels in prompts on the performance of large language models (LLMs).

Generative AI, AI Ethics

17 points by blululu 102 days ago | 0 comments

Three Observations (samaltman.com)
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.

AI Safety, AI Ethics

192 points by davidbarker 118 days ago | 234 comments

OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor (ft.com)

OpenAI, Competition, AI Ethics

747 points by timsuchanek 130 days ago | 1541 comments

DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls (vincentschmalbach.com)
Last week, DeepSeek unveiled their V3 model, trained on just 2,048 H800 GPUs - a fraction of the hardware used by OpenAI or Meta. DeepSeek claims their model matches or exceeds several benchmarks set by GPT-4 and Claude

Generative AI, Hardware, AI Ethics

50 points by vincent_s 135 days ago | 51 comments

Generative AI Is a Parasitic Cancer (mastodon.social)

Generative AI, AI Ethics, Opinion

19 points by ColinWright 153 days ago | 3 comments

Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework (theregister.com)
When you're trying to get homework help from an AI model like Google Gemini, the last thing you'd expect is for it to call you "a stain on the universe" that should "please die," yet here we are, assuming the conversation published online this week is accurate.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Google, AI Ethics

7 points by billyhoffman 204 days ago | 6 comments

Are Devs Becoming Lazy? The Rise of AI and the Decline of Care (bearblog.dev)
With the rise of AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot, software development is entering a strange new era.

Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Programming Tools, AI Ethics

29 points by CrazyEmi 211 days ago | 41 comments

Tell HN: OpenAI appears to be testing infomercials for Amazon and Etsy products (ycombinator.com)
I didn't know what keywords to use to search for a product, so I asked ChatGPT. The system gave me two answers to choose between and the first was something that I can only call an infomercial. It was headed by a link to a specific item sold on Amazon and the answer neatly segued into a recommendation for that product, with no delineation between where the answer ended and the advertisement began.

AI Ethics, Advertising, Amazon, Etsy

13 points by jetrink 254 days ago | 2 comments

The AI Hype Fraud of Reflection-Llama-70B (twitter.com)
The article provided is not an article and does not contain a lede.

Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics

43 points by lnyan 272 days ago | 3 comments

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI (proofnews.org)

Artificial Intelligence, Training Data, YouTube, AI Ethics, Copyright

41 points by gwintrob 325 days ago | 66 comments

Ask HN: Why does no one seem to care that AI gives wrong answers? (ycombinator.com)

Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics

70 points by arduinomancer 332 days ago | 116 comments

Anthropic employee posts Claude demo video but its a copyrighted YouTube video (twitter.com)

Generative AI, AI Ethics, Social Media

24 points by localfirst 350 days ago | 12 comments

The Scarlett Johansson Incident Makes OpenAI Look Desperate (nymag.com)

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, Celebrity, AI Ethics

62 points by jbegley 382 days ago | 17 comments

Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI and Sky (twitter.com)