Ex-Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan and a former NSA engineer Alex Wright have teamed up on a subscription app that blocks AI from tracking you on your phone. “You go to a website; there’s some type of tracker cookie in there. You go to the next website, and they start to build a profile on you,” Wright says. Adds Ryan: “What the app does is it just blocks that from happening.” #AI #Tech Anchor Elizabeth Vargas delivers the biggest stories, without bias or opinion. Watch "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" every weeknight at 7p/6C on NewsNation. #VargasReports NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
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…
The bills would have required device manufacturers and operating systems to “estimate” a user’s age at activation and transmit a continuous “digital age signal” to apps and websites the user attempted to access.
Excitement about A.I. assistant tools is running into growing concerns about the security risks of software that operates autonomously on user’s devices.
Google said in the filing late Friday that it was settling to avoid the “uncertainty, risk, expense, inconvenience and distraction” of a lengthy court battle and did not admit to any wrongdoing.
AI:Google has agreed to settle a $68 million lawsuit involving allegations that its virtual assistant secretly recorded users. In a legal filing, Google stated the settlement was reached to avoid the costs and distractions of prolonged litigation and noted that the company does not admit to any wrongdoing.Open
