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Conservative activist Robby Starbuck is suing Google for defamation after its AI tools allegedly linked him to false accusations of sexual assault, child rape, and financial exploitation, reporting he was a part of January 6, a supporter of the KKK, creating fake therapy records, fake police reports, fake court records, generating full details on the allegations in first-person form with the point of view of the, quote, ‘victims’, impersonating major media outlets, creating fake links to their websites and fake headlines so users would then accept them as objectively factual. Google AI even made an argument for the death penalty...

Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-fixer and personal lawyer, said in newly unsealed court filings that he accidentally gave his lawyer fake legal citations concocted by the artificial intelligence program Google Bard. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman called three case citations into question earlier this month after they were used in a motion to end Cohen’s supervised release early. Cohen pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion and campaign finance violations in 2018 and served some time in prison. Cohen wrote in a sworn declaration unsealed Friday that he has not kept up with “emerging trends (and related risks)” in...

We have been keeping one eye on the rise of AI chatbots and we think maybe they’re this year’s Nintendo Power Glove. If you don’t remember this device, here’s an old ad for it: Nintendo Power Glove ad (1989):pic.twitter.com/HdlC9GqPug — Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) August 12, 2020 What the ad was selling to you was ‘the dream’ of what motion control can be. What that ad showed the Power Glove doing is something pretty close to what you could actually do on the Wii or the PlayStation Move, not to mention all the virtual reality control schemes we see today. The...