Axon’s #DraftOne is Designed to Defy #Transparency
#Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid #audits that could provide any #accountability to the public, an @eff investigation has found.
#ai #artificialintelligence #gai #generativeai
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/axons-draft-one-designed-defy-transparency
"If you want a job at McDonald’s today, there’s a good chance you'll have to talk to Olivia. Olivia is not, in fact, a human being, but instead an AI chatbot that screens applicants, asks for their contact information and résumé, directs them to a personality test, and occasionally makes them “go insane” by repeatedly misunderstanding their most basic questions.
Until last week, the platform that runs the Olivia chatbot, built by artificial intelligence software firm Paradox.ai, also suffered from absurdly basic security flaws. As a result, virtually any hacker could have accessed the records of every chat Olivia had ever had with McDonald's applicants—including all the personal information they shared in those conversations—with tricks as straightforward as guessing that an administrator account's username and password was “123456."
On Wednesday, security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry revealed that they found simple methods to hack into the backend of the AI chatbot platform on McHire.com, McDonald's website that many of its franchisees use to handle job applications. Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers."
The AI race to the bottom is painful… Quality human made creative and products being replaced with AI slop is so depressing.
#AI #GenerativeAI
https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/114835025353921777
Someone at work called #GenerativeAI "Nightmare on LLM Street with the villain Dunning-Kruger"
A HUGE Problem: #Elites Do Not Understand #AI.
#water #energy #generativeAI
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/U44Lv-EjPfo
A mind-boggling report on #generativeAI and online dating:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/how-ai-is-changing-dating/
The female reporter said she tried out an AI game within a dating app and was given advice on her flirting technique by the male presenting persona. The way she put it, it's sinister, almost manosphere sounding advice!
Interesting podcast.
My first dabble wi #ChatGPT. Downside is that ye only get so many opportunities to do this then ye either wait a month to do it again or ye pay £19 a month to get to do it again...
KI-Update kompakt: Code of Practice, Alignment Faking, SAG-AFTRA, Drohnenprüfung
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.europesays.com/us/56816/ What Is the Environmental Cost of Generative AI? #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Computing #Emissions #energy #Environment #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US #Water #WaterUsage
Google brings Flow for Veo and AI Ultra subscription to Germany
Flow is an AI tool from Google that is designed to improve video production with Veo. There is also a new subscription for 275 euros.
Diese Werkzeuge sollen Kunstwerke vor KI schützen – doch die lassen sich umgehen
Tools wie Nightshade sollen Kunst vor KI schützen, doch eine neue Methode namens Lightshed unterläuft diese Schutzmaßnahmen.
https://technologiesinternetz.blogspot.com/2025/07/advanced-prompt-engineering-unlocking.html
Advanced Prompt Engineering: Unlocking the Full Potential of Generative AI
Gen AI is transforming customer service by delivering instant, accurate, and personalized responses. It reduces wait times, boosts satisfaction, and frees up human agents for complex issues.
https://infogram.com/transform-customer-service-with-generative-ai-1h984wv8z8p8z2p
#xAI qualche giorno fa ha presentato la nuova versione di #Grok, che sembra già il modello più potente sul mercato.
Tutti i dettagli: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alessiopomaro_xai-grok-o3-activity-7349390372164308992-vVHz
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"Early examples show agents autonomously managing calendars, retrieving emails, and summarizing meetings via APIs. But that’s just the beginning. From healthcare to insurance, and logistics to customer service, transformative agentic AI use cases are starting to emerge.
“By combining LLMs with robust tool integration, APIs enable agents to act as operational hubs,” says Sutherland’s Gilbert. In insurance, for instance, APIs can inform autonomous claims processing engines that extract data from external documents, validate claims against policy terms, detect fraud, and process outcomes with minimal human input.
AI agents can make unprecedented optimizations on the fly using APIs. Gartner reports that PC manufacturer Lenovo uses a suite of autonomous agents to optimize marketing and boost conversions. With the oversight of a planning agent, these agents call APIs to access purchase history, product data, and customer profiles, and trigger downstream applications in the server configuration process.
“The real transformation will come in areas like finance, warehouse management, logistics, and scheduling, where workflows are complex and traditionally hard to optimize,” says Fox. APIs could even reduce the need for bloated ERP platforms by replacing them with specialized services, cutting costs and complexity."
https://www.cio.com/article/4018578/why-cios-see-apis-as-vital-for-agentic-ai-success.html
Google bringt Flow für Veo und KI-Ultra-Abo nach Deutschland
Flow ist ein KI-Werkzeug von Google, das die Videoproduktion mit Veo verbessern soll. Zudem gibt es ein neues Abo für 275 Euro.
