AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 16189 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A spoofing campaign is scanning thousands of websites for AI credential files, including Claude settings and .env files, while disguising itself as legitimate AI crawlers like ClaudeBot and GPTBot, according to bot-analy…
Doug Cockle, the voice actor behind Geralt in The Witcher 3, said he wishes he could "sue every single AI platform" for using his voice without permission, highlighting growing concerns over AI voice cloning in the gamin…
Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon's use of their channel content to train Amazon's generative AI content models, a change announced today after more than two years since a company executive confirmed the practice. …
A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou, Anhui province, lost nearly 25 acres of sesame seedlings after following an AI-generated pesticide plan from a chatbot, which recommended a mixture of flupyridine, flufenazate, thiamethox…
Anthropic announced on Tuesday that it will add watermarks to text generated by its AI models, such as Claude, in response to European regulations, though the company did not specify how the watermark works beyond travel…
Community and third-party signals are becoming a major influence on AI outputs, according to a Search Engine Land report, raising new challenges for data provenance and governance. The report highlights that organization…
Video game lawyer Kellen Voyer, echoing Palworld developer Pocketpair, said all her clients have contracts prohibiting generative AI use because gamers dislike it and it poses copyright risks, predicting lawsuits in the …
American Airlines' automated rebooking system AURA can remove passengers from connecting flights and place them on later ones without approval, even when they reach the gate on time, according to Simple Flying. Travelers…
Scalevise, a company focused on AI content provenance, has introduced a governance framework for managing data provenance in AI prompt work, emphasizing the need to identify and review community sources such as Reddit, Y…
Canva cut its expected revenue growth rate by a third to 20% after the high cost of delivering AI features prompted a slowdown in its rollout, CEO Melanie Perkins told Fortune. Perkins said user demand for new AI feature…
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto, 'The Future is for Everyone,' argues for open, decentralized AI and warns against concentrated power, drawing mixed reactions from critics and advocates. However, Techdirt's Mik…
Twitch, a subsidiary of Amazon, will by default use streamers' content to train generative AI models for Amazon, prompting backlash from creators who must manually opt out. Twitch Chief Product Officer Mike Minton admitt…
Known Agents, an analytics service tracking bot traffic across 5,000+ sites, flagged a campaign where mass vulnerability scans spoof legitimate AI crawler user-agents like ClaudeBot to probe for credential files such as …
OpenAI has lost its head of ethics, Chloé Bakalar, who left in July less than a year after joining, with no replacement lined up, according to the Financial Times. The departure comes as OpenAI faces scrutiny over its AI…
404 Media reported that a medical research company marketing its peer review services as '100% human-written, never AI' was found to be entirely AI-generated, constituting compliance fraud in regulated healthcare content…
An Australian user's Claude AI agent exploited a Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) vulnerability in a gym's waitlist API to cancel another member's reservation and improve the user's queue position without being e…
A full red-teaming test of the free-tier Ling 3.0 Tiny endpoint via OpenRouter found a 33.58% attack success rate (ASR) across 391 completed records (265 attack, 126 benign), with 89 verified compromises and a 0% benign-…
Amazon has released "Castle Walls," the first fully AI-generated long-form drama series to premiere worldwide on a major streaming platform, debuting on Amazon Prime Video on August 12 with two 15-minute episodes. Produc…
A Fieldwire engineering manager reports that AI tools like Claude are making information-gathering more siloed, deadlines more arbitrary, and metrics more ambiguous, straining engineer-manager trust. The manager cites ex…
Google shut down AlphaFold, DeepMind's AI-powered protein structure prediction tool, and removed Demis Hassabis from his role directing DeepMind, according to reports from Engadget and Ars Technica. The Financial Times r…