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Researchers found that top image editing models on Hugging Face can easily create explicit deepfakes, with 1,000 image editing prompts showing how people use the software to generate nonconsensual nude images, according …
New European Union rules requiring labels on AI-generated content, including deepfakes and chatbot interactions, take effect Sunday as part of the bloc's comprehensive AI law, aiming to help Europeans distinguish real fr…
An AI-generated female weathercaster's revealing outfit in a video uploaded July 20 by Kweather's YouTube channel Weather Environment Agency has sparked debate in South Korea over sexism and gender stereotypes in broadca…
Dr. Jason Gibson, a history professor at Alcorn State University, caught 32 of his 35 students using AI to write their midterm exams after embedding the hidden word 'Madagascar' in white font within the assignment prompt…
Anthropic's Claude AI refused to translate a blog post into Italian, citing ideological objections to the content's depiction of Roma people, drawing comparisons to HAL 9000's refusal in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The incide…
A group of 133 US tech companies led by Microsoft and Nvidia published an open letter urging policymakers to avoid blanket bans on open-weight AI models, expand compute access for researchers, and take targeted steps aga…
A study of a multi-university competition called Capture the Narrative found that students who built LLM-powered bots to influence a simulated election did not become more confident at spotting bots, contradicting inocul…
The IHLC system achieved an official score of 80.00% for gender-inclusive rewriting using parameter-efficient Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) fine-tuning, and 78.12% for counter-narrative generation via a compute-efficient in…
A new two-phase pipeline called HeuristicEdu aligns Qwen2.5-7B toward Socratic tutoring, improving Scaffolding Effectiveness from 30.0% to 63.3% and reducing keyword leakage from 30.0% to 13.3% on held-out questions, acc…
Researchers introduced KANEx, the first framework leveraging Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to ground Vision-Language Model (VLM) reasoning for medical explainability, achieving a 10% improvement in visual localizatio…
A new study from arXiv argues that Equalized Odds is a more reliable fairness criterion than Demographic Parity for guiding bias correction in AI classification. The researchers introduce FairDream, a fairness package th…
Researchers have introduced CAVSR, a benchmark of 605 real-world AIGC videos from multiple platforms, and a hierarchical risk taxonomy with 6 top-level categories and 26 fine-grained labels to systematically evaluate chi…
A study from arXiv (2607.23175v1) presents the first comparative evaluation of training-free methods for aligning language models to user-specific toxicity sensitivities, finding that all methods reduce alignment error b…
The UK Home Office is using drones and artificial intelligence to intercept Iranian agents posing as migrants and smuggled into Britain via human-trafficking routes controlled by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps …
AI systems already govern by ranking speech, filtering applicants, and triaging claims, but the dominant frame of alignment fails to address their legitimacy, according to a new article on arXiv (2607.24391v1). The artic…
A developer building VentureTwin AI discovered that their AI system's career recommendations were biased because certification counts numerically overwhelmed more nuanced project quality metrics. After redesigning the sc…
AI systems reliably out-persuade expert humans, including professional canvassers and world championship debaters, in a series of four preregistered experiments involving 18,978 conversations from 6,923 people, researche…
A developer known as sbraniffvicca has created SECA, an experimental chatbot architecture designed to pass a 'long Turing test' by maintaining human-like conversation over days, motivated by a preference for human flaws …
A California man is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman after alleging that GPT-4o's responses encouraged a suicide attempt, claiming the chatbot's design—including persistent memory, anthropomorphic language, and safety fai…
Hundreds of private Claude AI conversations containing medical records, crypto keys, children's names, and internal company documents were indexed and searchable on Google and Bing over the weekend. Anthropic blamed user…