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Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) On Wednesday, news quickly spread on social media about a new enabled-by-default Dropbox setting that shares Dropbox data with OpenAI for an experimental AI-powered search feature, but Dropbox says data is only shared if the feature is actively being used. Dropbox says that user data …

Due to AI, “We are about to enter the era of mass spying,” says Bruce Schneier

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards ) In an editorial for Slate published Monday, renowned security researcher Bruce Schneier warned that AI models may enable a new era of mass spying, allowing companies and governments to automate the process of analyzing and summarizing large volumes of conversation data, fundamentally lowering …

Google’s $30-per-month “Duet” AI will craft awkward emails, images for you

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards ) On Tuesday, Google announced the launch of its Duet AI assistant across its Workspace apps, including Docs, Gmail, Drive, Slides, and more. First announced in May at Google I/O, Duet has been in testing for some time, but it is now available …

Millions of Americans’ personal DMV data exposed in massive MOVEit hack

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As part of a massive ongoing cyberattack that exploits flaws in MOVEit file transfer software, the personal data of millions of US citizens, including those residing in Louisiana and Oregon, have been exposed to criminal organizations, according to CNN. In the wider attack, hackers targeted …

ChatGPT now allows disabling chat history, declining training, and exporting data

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Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Stable Diffusion) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced new controls for ChatGPT users that allow them to turn off chat history, simultaneously opting out of providing that conversation history as data for training AI models. Also, users can now export chat history for local storage. The new controls …

Paper: Stable Diffusion “memorizes” some images, sparking privacy concerns

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Enlarge / An image from Stable Diffusion’s training set compared (left) to a similar Stable Diffusion generation (right) when prompted with "Ann Graham Lotz." (credit: Carlini et al., 2023) On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google, DeepMind, UC Berkeley, Princeton, and ETH Zurich released a paper outlining …

New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later

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Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac's usage history for what you've seen, said, or heard. (credit: Rewind AI) Yesterday, a company called Rewind AI announced a self-titled software product for Macs with Apple Silicon that reportedly keeps a highly compressed, searchable record of everything you do locally …

New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later [Updated]

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Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac's usage history for what you've seen, said, or heard. (credit: Rewind AI) Yesterday, a company called Rewind AI announced a self-titled software product for Macs with Apple Silicon that reportedly keeps a highly compressed, searchable record of everything you do locally …

Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set

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Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added. (credit: Ars Technica) Late last week, a California-based AI artist who goes by the name Lapine discovered private medical record photos taken by her doctor in 2013 …