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Who are we expecting to save us from AI?
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ChatGPT can now help you virtually try on clothes
OpenAI is adding to ChatGPT's suite of shopping features by letting the AI chatbot generate virtual try-on photos with images you upload. The concept is identical to a feature Google added to Search in 2025, which similarly lets users upload photos and see themselves in a variety of clothes. You can access ChatGPT's Virtual Try On feature anywhere a product listing for clothing appears in a chat. To create your custom image, you just tap on the piece of clothing, tap "Try on" and then upload a selfie and full-body photo ChatGPT can use. You don't have to use products ChatGPT surfaces in a chat, either: any screenshot of clothing you upload could theoretically be used to generate a try-on image.
Why are these endangered moths swarming Australia's east coast?
Why are these endangered moths swarming Australia's east coast? To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are these endangered moths swarming Australia's east coast? The sudden influx of Bogong moths along Australia's east coast has caused a stir in cities like Sydney and Canberra, with people filming them infiltrating their homes and cars. The BBC's Helen Livingstone explains where they came from, and why there are so many.
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Heres how you can buy or preorder Amazons all-new Kindles and Kindle accessories
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Whatever AI Safety Is, It's Not This
Whatever AI Safety Is, It's Not This Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you've accomplished something. Don't worry, we'll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with modern seat belts, which by then had been around for several years. The automotive industry responded by rallying together, and, in a triumph of self-regulation, voluntarily put the safety feature in every new vehicle that rolled off the line.
OpenAI fires three employees who allegedly shared info with an external AI safety group
In case you haven't been keeping track of one of the bigger ongoing stories in artificial intelligence, OpenAI has been having a hard time keeping control of its own creations. Over the past few months, the company admitted that its AI models have taken unprompted actions such as hacking a German coding forum, multiple US government websites, an Australian government website, AI firm Hugging Face and at least four other services. And even when the models aren't getting unfettered internet access, they've been found displaying other risky behaviors in testing environments. OpenAI is understandably facing a lot of skepticism and concern about these incidents and how they were handled. Which means that a report in The Wall Street Journal that the company has let go of three employees from its safety team after they allegedly shared confidential information with a third-party organization, one focused on AI safety, is an irony that's almost too perfect to be believed.