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Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess

Just days after launching, Roblox’s much-hyped AI-powered age verification system is a complete mess.Roblox’s face scanning system, which estimates peoples’ ages before they...

X Didn’t Fix Grok’s ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate...

People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good

In the hours after a masked federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, social media users have...

The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams

The Chinese-language artificial intelligence app Haotian is so effective that it’s made millions of dollars selling its face-swapping technology on Telegram. The service...

AI ‘Nudify’ Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars

For years, so-called “nudify” apps and websites have mushroomed online, allowing people to create nonconsensual and abusive images of women and girls, including...

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

On June 5, a Pinal County Board of Supervisors meeting was asked to approve a $500,000 contract between the county and Massive Blue...

GitHub’s Deepfake Porn Crackdown Still Isn’t Working

“When we look at intimate image abuse, the vast majority of tools and weaponized use have come from the open source space,” says...

The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2024

For its entire existence as a global medium, the internet's evolution has been caught in a tug of war, pulled by opposing forces:...

tiktok: UK plans to fine tech executives for illegal weapon sales online

Technology company executives could be held personally liable for allowing illegal knives to be advertised on their platforms, under new British government plans...

It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions

In 2017, then 9-year-old Kayla Unbehaun was abducted. For years, the South Elgin, Illinois police department searched for Unbehaun and her noncustodial mother,...