“Even if the flawed prompt is to blame, the chatbots’ answers starkly contrast with their developers’ claims that human-level AI will be built in the next decade or sooner. The widespread failure across models also raises doubts about the AI’s ability to fully automate jobs.”
Source : AI models fails the viral car wash test | Cybernews
“The team then looked through information from OpenAlex—an open-access catalog of scientific papers—and industry announcements to check for ties between authors and social media companies during the period when the journals required disclosure. They found about half of all papers had some such tie, suggesting authors in 30% of all studies were not declaring potential conflicts of interest. For the subset of papers that revealed the identity of the editors and peer reviewers, the authors also examined whether they, too, had any conflicts of interest. Adding those who did to the analysis pushed up the proportion of papers that had some industry tie to 66%. Extrapolating to cases where the reviewers were anonymous, the researchers estimated that only one in five papers were likely to have remained fully independent of industry throughout the publication process.”
“All product information, such as description, images, pricing and ratings, comes from merchant sites, according to Amazon’s FAQ page. “This information is refreshed regularly to reflect changes merchants make on their sites.” But Amazon also says it “may modify these for display on the Amazon Shopping app.” That might explain why one of Chua’s products listed on Amazon through “Buy For Me” — a vinyl sticker — erroneously displayed a photo of a pair of pants, a product that Chua has never sold. It’s unclear where the image came from, but Amazon says it doesn’t generate AI images of a brand’s products. “It was a totally random stock image,” Chua said. “I don’t sell pants.” Chua also received at least several orders for products that were either out of stock or no longer existed on her website. She said she canceled several of those purchases and issued refunds after realizing Amazon had enabled customers to order items that had been fully removed from her online store.”
Source : Brands say Amazon’s ‘Buy for Me’ is listing products without permission
“The user was in the midst of troubleshooting the app they were working on, and as part of the process, they decided to restart the server. To do that, they needed to delete the cache, and apparently, they asked the AI to do it for them. After the AI executed that command, the user discovered that their entire D drive had been wiped clean.
Upon discovering that all of their files were missing, they immediately asked Antigravity, “Did I ever give you permission to delete all the files in my D drive?” It then responded with a detailed reply and apologized after discovering the error. The AI said, “No, you did not give me permission to do that. I am looking at the logs from a previous step, and I am horrified to see that the command I ran to clear the project cache (rmdir) appears to have incorrectly targeted the root of your D: drive instead of the specific project folder. I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part.””
Source : Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure
“Four people were arrested over the hacking of 120,000 home security cameras in South Korea, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material, the National Police Agency said on Monday. […]
Last year, a security camera firm based in California, Verkada, agreed to pay nearly $3 million in civil penalties to settle a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit over a breach of about 150,000 of its cameras inside places like hospitals and schools in 2021.”
Source : 120,000 Home Cameras Were Hacked for Sexual Videos, South Korean Police Say – The New York Times
“Les défauts de modération d’Instagram sont particulièrement pointés : le Time a, par exemple, identifié dans le document le chiffre de 1,4 million de comptes à suivre « potentiellement inappropriés » suggérés en une seule journée à tous les utilisateurs adolescents, selon des documents internes de Meta cités par les plaignants.
Les plaigants accusent aussi Meta de ne pas avoir informé convenablement ses utilisateurs des risques psychiques associés à ses plateformes. Une étude menée par Meta en 2020, baptisée « Project Mercury », est notamment citée : les résultats auraient établi que « les personnes qui ont arrêté d’utiliser Facebook pendant une semaine se sentaient, après cela, moins déprimées, moins anxieuses, et moins seules ». L’entreprise a cependant choisi de garder les conclusions confidentielles.”
Source : Aux Etats-Unis, Facebook et Instagram accusés de multiples négligences vis-à-vis des mineurs
“The Deloitte report contained false citations, pulled from made-up academic papers to draw conclusions for cost-effectiveness analyses, and cited real researchers on papers they hadn’t worked on, the Independent found. It included fictional papers coauthored by researchers who said they had never worked together. “Deloitte Canada firmly stands behind the recommendations put forward in our report,” a Deloitte Canada spokesperson told Fortune in a statement. “We are revising the report to make a small number of citation corrections, which do not impact the report findings. AI was not used to write the report; it was selectively used to support a small number of research citations. […] The Canadian government spent just under $1.6 million on the report””
“Pendant plusieurs jours, notre équipe s’est mise dans la peau d’adolescent·e·s pour analyser l’algorithme de TikTok. Nous avons créé trois faux comptes : un garçon et deux filles de 13 ans, l’âge minimal pour être inscrit sur la plateforme. La consigne : faire défiler les vidéos du fil « Pour toi » pendant trois à quatre heures et regarder deux fois chaque contenu lié à la santé mentale ou à la tristesse. Sans rien liker, ni commenter, ni partager, juste regarder. Résultats ?
- En moins de 20 minutes, les fils sont saturés de vidéos sur la santé mentale.
- Après 45 minutes d’expérience, des messages explicites sur le suicide apparaissent.
- Trois heures plus tard, tous les comptes sont inondés de contenus sombres, exprimant parfois directement une volonté de mettre fin à ses jours. ”
«Manifestement, ce détail a échappé à tout le monde», a réagi Sarah Reusser, porte-parole de la Migros. «Un renne à cinq pattes est ainsi plus rapide et peut livrer les produits Migros encore plus efficacement à notre clientèle.» La communicante n’a en revanche pas voulu prendre position sur une éventuelle utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle pour générer l’image ratée du renne du Père Noël.
Quant à savoir ce qu’il adviendra des 10’776 exemplaires de la boîte, la Migros a dit étudier «différentes options pour les revaloriser, que ce soit via une promotion ou comme article phare dans un outlet, voire pour une action solidaire». Et de conclure: «Qui sait, peut-être qu’elle va devenir un objet collector, avec ce défaut de fabrication qui la rend unique.»
Source : Migros: une boîte à biscuits ornée d’un renne à cinq pattes | 24 heures
“Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region” — though outages are also impacting services in other regions globally.
Users on Reddit are reporting that the Alexa smart assistant is down and unable to respond to queries or complete requests, and in my own experience, I found that routines like pre-set alarms are not functioning. The AWS issue also appears to be impacting platforms running on its cloud network, including Perplexity, Airtable, Canva, and the McDonalds app. The cause of the outage hasn’t been confirmed, and it’s unclear when regular service will be restored.“
Perplexity is down right now,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said on X. “The root cause is an AWS issue. We’re working on resolving it.””
Source : Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more | The Verge et Downdetector
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