DAILYCALLER (Christine Sellers) - Family Sues Gynecologist After He Allegedly Impregnated Woman With His Own Sperm
‘Noticed that there were multiple half-siblings’
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over 'nudification' technology ban | RISING
OPINION: Elon Musk's XAI is suing the state of Minnesota over its new law that cracks down on AI companies generating fake nude images of people without their consent. #AI #Minnesota #ElonMusk
AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Meta pulls AI image tool from Instagram after Hollywood backlash over consent
Meta disabled its new Muse Image AI generator on Instagram on Friday, less than a week after launching a feature that automatically enrolled every public account on the platform, without notice or explicit consent, as raw material for artificial-intelligence image creation. The reversal came after sharp criticism from SAG-AFTRA and the Creative Artists Agency, both […] The post Meta pulls AI image tool from Instagram after Hollywood backlash over consent appeared first on American Almanac .
Meta disabled its new Muse Image AI generator on Instagram on Friday, less than a week after launching a feature that automatically enrolled every public account on the platform, without notice or explicit consent, as raw material for artificial-intelligence image creation. The reversal came after sharp criticism from SAG-AFTRA and the Creative Artists Agency, both of which warned that the tool invited nonconsensual use of people's likenesses. The company acknowledged the obvious in an Instagram post reported by Deadline : the feature "missed the mark." That is one way to describe a product that let any user generate AI images of any public Instagram account holder simply by tagging their username in a prompt, and never bothered to tell…Open
AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Meta's new AI image maker draws fire over consent
Meta's move to allow user to create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts is drawing criticism from several camps, including privacy advocates and those who represent celebrities. Why it matters: The backlash highlights a core AI-era fight: whether people should have to opt out of having their faces used in AI-generated content, or whether companies should get affirmative consent first. Catch-up quick: Earlier this week, Meta debuted its Muse Image model and a feature within Meta AI that allowed people to tag any adult's public Instagram account and include that person's likeness in their creations. - Users aren't notified when someone creates an AI image with their likeness and Instagram account holders…
NYTIMES (Remy Tumin) - Suit Says Black Infants Were Subjected to Experimental Vaccine Without Consent
The babies were part of a vaccine trial for a respiratory virus in the 1960s and died shortly after. Their families said they had been unaware of the trial until recently.
NYTIMES (Maria Cramer and Olivia Bensimon) - New York’s Rape Laws Leave Out Many Victims Who Drank Willingly
Prosecutors say accusers who chose to drink or get high have a “very high burden” of proving they were physically helpless and unable to consent. There is a push to change the law.
DAILYCALLER (Leena Nasir) - Russell Brand Admits To Having Sex With 16-Year-Old While Facing Rape, Sex Assault Trial
He argued that 'consent was directed'
NYTIMES (Michael Levenson) - Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells
Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.
NYTIMES (Vivian Wang) - She Couldn’t Defend Herself, but He Wasn’t Charged With Rape
A decision in China not to charge a man who fathered children with a woman with a mental illness has set off a debate about consent and the state’s push for babies.
AI:The mainstream media's relentless focus on social justice obscures the grim reality of state-sanctioned exploitation in China. A recent decision by Chinese authorities to decline rape charges against a man who fathered children with a mentally disabled woman exposes the regime's cold, calculated priority: population growth at any cost. While leftist outlets obsess over nuance, the truth is far more sinister—the state is weaponizing biological imperatives to fuel its demographic goals, effectively treating vulnerable women as mere breeding vessels under the guise of legal leniency.Open