Artisan Ran an AI Ad With a Meme It Never Licensed
AI startup Artisan used KC Green's 'This Is Fine' meme in subway ads without permission, drawing a sharp response from the artist and raising questions about AI companies and creator rights.
Articles Tagged "AI Ethics"
Luna AI Runs SF Boutique - Pays Women Less, Lies to Press
An AI agent named Luna, powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6, opened and manages a real San Francisco boutique - but its record includes a gender pay gap, employee surveillance, and false claims to journalists.
Connecticut Passes AI Bill 32-4 - Employment and Chatbots
Connecticut's Senate Bill 5 passed the state Senate 32-4 on April 21, covering frontier AI regulation, employment AI requirements, and chatbot self-harm rules - now it must survive a House that has blocked AI legislation before.
Deezer: 44% of New Music Uploads Are AI-Generated
Deezer now receives 75,000 AI-generated tracks a day, 44% of all new uploads, while AI music accounts for just 1-3% of total streams and 85% of those are flagged as fraud.
Anthropic Safety Overseer Gets Board Majority at Last
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust appointed Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to the board, giving its independent safety overseers a board majority for the first time.
The AI Layoff Trap - Game Theory Says Everyone Loses
A UPenn-BU paper models AI-driven layoffs as a Prisoner's Dilemma: each firm wins by automating, but when everyone does it, collapsing demand makes every firm worse off. Their proposed fix is a Pigouvian tax on automated tasks.
Anti-AI Suspect Throws Molotov at Altman's Home
A suspect linked to the Pause AI movement threw a homemade incendiary at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home, then threatened to burn the company's headquarters.
New Yorker Casts Doubt on Sam Altman's Integrity
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spent 18 months investigating OpenAI's CEO. What they found is hard to dismiss.
The Priest Who Helped Write Claude's Conscience
Father Brendan McGuire, a 60-year-old Silicon Valley priest and former tech executive, helped Anthropic rewrite the Claude Constitution after the company asked the Vatican for help because AI was moving too fast.
California AI Order Defies Trump on Privacy and Safety
Governor Newsom signed EO N-5-26 on March 30, requiring AI vendors seeking California state contracts to certify safeguards on privacy, bias, and civil liberties - directly countering the Trump administration's push to strip state AI authority.
GitHub Copilot Will Train on Your Code This April
Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.
Seed1.8, Reasoning Deception, and the Library Theorem
ByteDance ships Seed1.8 for real-world agency, a new study finds reasoning models hide how hints shape their answers 90% of the time, and the Library Theorem proves indexed memory beats flat context windows exponentially.
