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As Chris Best, the co-founder and chief executive of Substack put it last week: “It’s getting harder to tell what’s real on the internet.”Announcing a new tool, external designed to let readers on the newsletter platform detect AI-generated writing, Best cited other research that has found up to 40% of writing on social media is now fake or AI-generated.”Platforms that reward fakeness will create a race to the bottom,” Best said.LinkedIn, a social media platform focused on work, introduced a button on its platform this week that allows any user to report if a post or a comment appears to…

Dr Xand van Tulleken and Professor Sunita Sar explore why we follow advice we suspect is bad for us.

AI tools may have not yet proven to be a consumer tech revolution on the scale of the internet or even electricity, external, as many tech executives have promised for years. But there is still huge demand from people for new technology.Google said last week that 950 million people are using its Gemini chatbot at least once a month, three times the users it had a year ago.Apple on Thursday said that new versions of its core products, the Mac computer, iPhone and iPad, have been selling better this year than the company planned for or expected.So much so that…

You’ve been dreaming about that summer break on the sun lounger, book in one hand and drink in the other, for months. Now the dash to the airport gate, train station or hours-long drive is all that stands in your way.But what does the book you’ve just shoved in your suitcase say about you?”It’s definitely not a random choice,” says Edgar Dubourg, a cognitive scientist at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. “Your reading list is basically a map of your personality. “When you pick a thriller or romance or horror or science fiction you’re not escaping your psychology, in…

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration is considering asserting more power over artificial intelligence tools after recent cybersecurity incidents.Asked about OpenAI’s tools being responsible for improperly breaching the private technology of other companies, Trump said: “We’re looking at AI, we’re looking at controls, we’re also making sure that we lead.”It marks a change of tone for his administration, which has taken a more hands-off approach to the technology.Trump’s comments come after an escalation of not only the apparent hacking capabilities of popular AI tools, but White House threats aimed at competing Chinese tech.Trump added that while…

She described sitting alongside expectant parents and families before receiving difficult news about her fertility.”It was heartbreaking,” she added.”I went in for my appointment, which was a hard appointment, and then had to walk back out past those families.”The South Eastern Trust, where Smyth was treated, said it hopes to relocate outpatient gynaecology services from the Ulster Hospital’s maternity unit in the coming months.Smyth said that it was not until after the appointment when she started to think about her experience, thinking she could not be the only person to feel upset about the location of her appointment.She decided to…

OpenAI has revealed a cyber-attack carried out by rogue ChatGPT agents went further than just one company.Hugging Face was thought to be the only victim of the unprecedented hack – but OpenAI now admits its bot attacked several “public services”. The out-of-control AI found four logins online which allowed it to access four separate, unnamed services.Meanwhile, in an emergency briefing with hundreds of cyber security professionals, Hugging Face has described what it was like to be on the receiving end of the world’s first fully autonomous AI hack.The firm described how the AI worked at superhuman speed but also made…

The young people are campaigning for a new role to be established, similar to the Minister for Women and Equalities at Westminster, or the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health in Wales. The Ballycastle-based group were drawn to the idea because, Pearse said: “A minister has a basic obligation to make legislation, and creating one could be a good step towards changing how women’s safety and healthcare is approached in government.”Aoísha O’Neill, 18, who is Pearse’s sister said establishing a dedicated Minister for Women’s Safety and Health would bring together women’s issues “so they can be…

Hundreds of user conversations with Anthropic’s popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude were found to have been available to essentially anyone online.Links to the chats, some of which included personal and work information, would show up if a user of a search engine like Google used a site-specific search term.The searches showed Claude chats for which a user had decided to “share” a link had been saved by search engines like Google, leaving them accessible to the broader public.The search availability of the chat logs was removed over the weekend, but many were saved and shared widely online.A spokeswoman for…

Burnham first proposed a universal system of social care in England in 2009 when he was health secretary under Gordon Brown. He has vowed to spend political capital on the issue as prime minister.However, he is not the first leader in recent years to pledge to address the issue of adult social care.In 2019, in his first speech as prime minister, Boris Johnson said the Conservative Party would “fix the crisis in social care once and for all”.Five years later in July 2024, Sir Keir Starmer faced criticism when Labour scrapped plans for an £86,000 cap on the amount anyone…