'Companies in the US are increasingly turning to AI to make faster and more efficient workplace decisions, often under the guise of objectivity.' 'Companies in the US are increasingly turning to AI to make faster and more efficient workplace decisions, often under the guise of objectivity.' Will AI give you the job? F or the last four years, Erin Kistler has applied for thousands of jobs at companies like Paypal, Microsoft and Netflix, only to find her résumé disappear into a black hole. A product manager with nearly 20 years of experience, Kistler believes she was qualified for every role, yet she never received a single interview.

Amid heated race with Anthropic, firm says it's overhauling research and training and will require greater safety parameters of AI after hack OpenAI on Tuesday said it had slowed down the pace of its AI development while it overhauled its research and training systems. The company's researchers were caught unaware last month when an AI agent under testing hacked another AI firm, Hugging Face. The AI research lab behind ChatGPT said its new measures included pausing its model testing for two weeks and investing more in adding other AI systems to monitor the activities of AI agents in testing. Some of the company's largest planned training runs remain on hold, the company said. The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: 'Regain your humanity' The company did not reply to questions about when the slowdown began or when it planned to return to its normal pace of development.

The San Francisco-based company launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based company launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. OpenAI is launching a version of ChatGPT designed for teenagers - the first generation to grow up with artificial intelligence - who are already using it for schoolwork, questions about daily life and even companionship. The San Francisco-based company says ChatGPT for Teens, which launches on Tuesday, is tailored for children aged 13 to 17 with stronger protections including content restrictions around things such as suicide, self-harm and romantic or sexual chats. It also provides homework and study support designed to help students learn rather than spit out answers and school essays.

The changes to the Claude AI chatbot will leave a pattern in the text that is detectable to Anthropic itself and to those able to decode it. The changes to the Claude AI chatbot will leave a pattern in the text that is detectable to Anthropic itself and to those able to decode it. Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text - but will it make quality worse? The world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word "delve", an excess of em dashes, and the chirpy, relentless construction of "it's not X but Y" . But is it about to get even worse?

Matt Arnold was incorrectly identified of being a shoplifter at Sainsbury's East Dulwich superstore. Matt Arnold was incorrectly identified of being a shoplifter at Sainsbury's East Dulwich superstore. Sainsbury's store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation Supermarket chain says'human error', not its Facewatch technology, to blame for ejecting a customer Sainsbury's has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop. "I was embarrassed, mortified even, and felt quite humiliated and powerless," Matt Arnold, 46, said of his ordeal. The comedy promoter was buying supplies in the store in East Dulwich, in south-east London, for a standup event at Dulwich Hamlet football club when, after scanning his items and a Nectar card, he was approached by two managers who told him he could not be served owing to an earlier incident.

The communications minister, Anika Wells, had said the report showed'many effective options' for online age verification in implementing Australia's social media ban. The communications minister, Anika Wells, had said the report showed'many effective options' for online age verification in implementing Australia's social media ban. Report supporting Australia's teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears The authors of a report testing the technology underpinning Australia's social media ban have conceded ChatGPT was used in editing, but denied a number of citation errors in the report were due to AI hallucinations. The $3.48m age assurance technology trial, run by the UK-based Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) last year, tested various types of technology that could be used by social media platforms as part of Australia's under-16 social media ban. The communications minister, Anika Wells, heralded the report as showing "many effective options" for checking people's ages, and it paved the way for the ban to come into effect in December last year.

Along with Anthony Albanese, common targets for deepfakes included ABC financial journalist Alan Kohler; and politicians Jacqui Lambie and Angus Taylor. Along with Anthony Albanese, common targets for deepfakes included ABC financial journalist Alan Kohler; and politicians Jacqui Lambie and Angus Taylor. Deepfake Anthony Albanese used in celebrity scams duping Australians out of $7.4m, Asic warns Australia's corporate watchdog says PM is the figure most commonly used in deepfakes to promote phony investment opportunities There has been a steep rise in scammers luring victims into phony investment opportunities using deepfakes of celebrities and politicians, Australia's corporate watchdog has warned. And Anthony Albanese is the figure most commonly co-opted. Real footage of the prime minister, overlaid with fake audio promising Australians can invest $4,000 to earn $40,000 a month, appears in one video online.

'My theory is that it's masses and masses of AI money': Stuart and Mary Manley, the co-owners of Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland. 'My theory is that it's masses and masses of AI money': Stuart and Mary Manley, the co-owners of Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland. Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind'strange' bulk orders Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for'data acquisition' Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from mystery buyers, amid speculation AI companies are acquiring the tomes for their data. Bookshops contacted by the Guardian say they have been receiving orders from buyers in the US, Canada, continental Europe and the UK. The increase has been replicated around the world, with booksellers in the US, Australia and Europe also reporting unusual orders.

One Queensland man lost more than $166,000 to an investment scam constructed by AI. One Queensland man lost more than $166,000 to an investment scam constructed by AI. A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Within days of clicking on an online ad for a cryptocurrency trading app, a 29-year-old Queensland man watched his dashboard soar with profits. Making investment gains was as simple as downloading the slick-looking app and browser extension linked to his crypto wallet.

Bumble has abandoned its proposition that women make the first move - and is about to ditch the swipe. Bumble has abandoned its proposition that women make the first move - and is about to ditch the swipe. As online dating goes into'salvage mode', can AI solve all its problems? Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as'swipe fatigue' grows B umble was supposed to be different. When it launched in 2014, it offered women a simple proposition: if you matched with a man, you had to make the first move. The rule was meant to make online dating safer and less intimidating, while giving women control over who got to speak first.