Author Wynton Hall alleges Google Gemini flagged Republican senators' rhetoric as hate speech while identifying no Democratic violations, raising questions about AI bias.

In 2003, Ken Hall was art director for Realtime Words, the large video game developer that made APB, which later became APB Reloaded, a highly popular free-to-play video game. At the time, free-to-play games, where players get most of the game for free but must pay to unlock the rest of the game or improve their performance, were still in their infancy. The strategy was aimed at hooking the casual gamer, but Hall had a rude awakening, perhaps like Dr. Frankenstein might have felt when his company received data showing gamers in South Korea were playing as much as 35 hours a week, and that was on top of their day jobs. He thought, what kind of monster have we created? "We were inadvertently creating compulsive gameplay loops," Hall says.

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A China Eastern flight carrying 132 people crashed Monday. A domestic Chinese flight with 132 passengers plummeted into the mountains of southern China on Monday, likely leaving all passengers dead and investigators launching a probe into the cause. Chinese President Xi Jinping has instructed the country's emergency services to "organize a search and rescue" operation and "identify the causes" of the Boeing 737-800 crashing, according to state media. Former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board Jim Hall told Fox News Digital on Monday that it would be "irresponsible" to speculate what caused the crash so soon after the incident, but described how the NTSB carries out investigations into major commercial crashes. This screen grab taken from video from The Paper and received via AFPTV on March 21, 2022 shows ambulances turning off onto a side road upon arrival after a China Eastern reportedly crashed in Teng County in Wuzhou City, Guangxi province.

Social media giant Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, is only the latest company to draw legal heat over its technology -- specifically, its artificial intelligence (AI) innovations. In this episode of "The AI/ML Show" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on Feb. 16, Fool.com contributors Toby Bordelon and Jason Hall discuss how the debate of AI versus privacy continues to rage on. Toby Bordelon: We talked about data protection and privacy, I think, a decent amount with Facebook, and you can see what happens when that goes badly. If you don't follow those rules, $650 million with maybe more to come, and that can put a damper on what you can do. You want data to train AI well.

The Treasury Department is reconsidering the Internal Revenue Service's use of ID.me for access to its website, according to Bloomberg. A department official said the agencies are exploring alternatives to the controversial facial recognition software, though that official didn't specifically cite the privacy concerns around ID.me for the decision. "The IRS is consistently looking for ways to make the filing process more secure," Treasury Department spokesperson Alexandra LaManna told Bloomberg. "We believe in the importance of protecting the privacy of taxpayers, while also ensuring criminals are not able to gain access to taxpayer accounts." Citing a "lack of funding for IRS modernization," LaManna also said it's been "impossible" for the agency to develop its own in-house identification solution, and noted US taxpayers aren't required to file their taxes online.

The CEO of ID.me, a service used by dozens of states to verify unemployment benefits claimants as well as several federal agencies, has walked back previous claims that the company does not use a more powerful method of facial recognition. Founder and CEO @Blake_Hall issues an important statement around "1 to Many" check on selfies to combat identity theft. To learn more about the example of Eric Jaklitsch of New Jersey referenced in the statement below, visit: https://t.co/OLQX1gAhYL "ID.me uses a specific '1 to Many' check on selfies tied to government programs targeted by organized crime to prevent prolific identity thieves and members of organized crime from stealing the identities of innocent victims en masse," Blake Hall said in a statement. "This step is internal to ID.me and does not involve any external or government database."

On Monday, ID.me released a statement from CEO and founder Blake Hall about what the vendor said is its commitment to federal guidelines for facial recognition technology. Hall said the vendor uses one-to-one face match technology and not one-to-many facial recognition. One-to-one face match is a simple application of the technology that is comparable to using one's face to unlock a smartphone or be verified at an airport, Hall said in an interview with TechTarget. "It's something that Americans do broadly all across the country when they're proving their identity in person," Hall said. "What it specifically is not is like taking one person's photo and then taking like a city's worth of images and trying to like match that person's face."