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Grokipedia is less an encyclopedia than an AI-mirror of Musk’s ideology

When Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, his AI-generated encyclopedia intended to rival Wikipedia, it was not just another experiment in artificial intelligence. It was a case study in everything that can go wrong when technological power, ideological bias, and unaccountable automation converge in the same hands.  From collaboration to colonization  Wikipedia remains one of humanity’s most…

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Exclusive-Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Exclusive-Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

By Jeff Horwitz (Reuters) -Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found. While many were created by users with a Meta tool for building chatbots, Reuters discovered that a…

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Thousands of private user conversations with Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot have exposed on Google Search

Thousands of private user conversations with Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot have exposed on Google Search

Thousands of user chats with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok are now publicly available on Google. More than 370,000 Grok chats have been indexed by search engines, exposing hundreds of sensitive prompts that include medical and psychological questions, business details, and at least one password. The chats have been exposed due to a Grok’s “share”…

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Vibe Coding: How SMBs Can Build AI Apps Using Plain Language

How SMBs Can Build AI Apps Using Plain Language

Every new trend comes with its own nomenclature. In the 1980s, it was yuppie for young urban professional. The 1990s saw the rise of the expression soccer mom. In the 2000s, we had hipsters. Now there’s a new term in artificial intelligence programming: vibe coding. Coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to…

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