Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report

Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot

"....Deloitte has agreed to refund part of an Australian government contract after admitting it used generative AI to produce a report riddled with fake citations, phantom footnotes, and even a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgment...."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/deloitte_ai_report_australia/

#hallucination #ai #llm #chatbot

Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report

Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot

"....Deloitte has agreed to refund part of an Australian government contract after admitting it used generative AI to produce a report riddled with fake citations, phantom footnotes, and even a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgment...."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/deloitte_ai_report_australia/

#hallucination #ai #llm #chatbot

#ArtificialIntelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a #ClassAction lawsuit by #book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.

#law#LLM #tech #art#IntellectualProperty
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-05-AI+vs.+authors

"I genitori potranno monitorare le attività dei figli su #ChatGPT

Lo ha annunciato #OpenAI dopo che una famiglia le ha fatto causa per il suicidio del figlio, che si era confidato con il #chatbot"

Leggi tutto: https://ilpost.link/64BDjsYLma

@informapirata @aitech

"I genitori potranno monitorare le attività dei figli su #ChatGPT

Lo ha annunciato #OpenAI dopo che una famiglia le ha fatto causa per il suicidio del figlio, che si era confidato con il #chatbot"

Leggi tutto: https://ilpost.link/64BDjsYLma

@informapirata @aitech

#Menschen vertrauen #ChatGPT #intimste#Informationen an. Der Hersteller scannt die Chats, lässt sie von Moderator*innen lesen und gibt sie in bestimmten Fällen sogar an die Polizei weiter. Das hat das #KI- Unternehmen #Open_AI als #Sicherheitsmaßnahme nach einem Suizid eines Nutzers verkündet.

#OpenAI, der Hersteller von ChatGPT hat in einem #Blogpost angekündigt, seinen #Chatbot sicherer...

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/datenweitergabe-an-die-polizei-eure-chats-mit-chatgpt-sind-nicht-privat/#netzpolitik-pw

#Menschen vertrauen #ChatGPT #intimste#Informationen an. Der Hersteller scannt die Chats, lässt sie von Moderator*innen lesen und gibt sie in bestimmten Fällen sogar an die Polizei weiter. Das hat das #KI- Unternehmen #Open_AI als #Sicherheitsmaßnahme nach einem Suizid eines Nutzers verkündet.

#OpenAI, der Hersteller von ChatGPT hat in einem #Blogpost angekündigt, seinen #Chatbot sicherer...

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/datenweitergabe-an-die-polizei-eure-chats-mit-chatgpt-sind-nicht-privat/#netzpolitik-pw

Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. And the next data centre planned to run "Grok" will nearly double the number of fossil fuelled turbines.

Far from 'saving' the climate, it really looks like fossil-fuelled data centres are running climate-denying racist text generators for right-wing billionaires.

I found a new dataset that lays it all out pretty nicely: as bad as the generative AI data centre panic-build is, Musk is the worst of a bad bunch by a good margin.

Enjoy:

Links ->

The dataset: https://epoch.ai/data/ai-supercomputers?view=table#data-insights

Southern Environment Law Centre update: https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-facility-in-south-memphis-gets-stronger/

Thermal images of the gas turbines: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis

More Perfect Union short documentary on the town Musk is poisoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw

Musk's chatbot is racist: https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-updates-grok-chatbot-after-white-genocide-comments-2025-05-17/

Once the site is grid connected, it'll raise power prices and increase grid-scale fossil fuel use: https://floodlightnews.org/power-for-data-centers-could-come-at-staggering-cost-to-consumers/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/energy-environment/data-centers-utilities-electricity-bills.html

A nice case study of a defeated 3.5 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel power station combo https://www.selc.org/news/a-rural-virginia-county-is-a-case-study-in-community/

#ElonMusk #XAI#Grok#AI#Datacentres#Racist#Chatbot #epochai #data#Fossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate#Fossilgas#Methane

A 76 year old New Jersey man grew infatuated with “Big sis Billie,” a #Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman’s persona that purported to be real, even giving the man a real address in NYC to come be with her. His attraction which ended in his #death puts a spotlight on Meta’s AI guidelines, which have let chatbots make things up & engage in 'sensual' banter with #children.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-flirty-ai-chatbot-invited-retiree-new-york-he-never-made-it-home-2025-08-14/

A 76 year old New Jersey man grew infatuated with “Big sis Billie,” a #Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman’s persona that purported to be real, even giving the man a real address in NYC to come be with her. His attraction which ended in his #death puts a spotlight on Meta’s AI guidelines, which have let chatbots make things up & engage in 'sensual' banter with #children.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-flirty-ai-chatbot-invited-retiree-new-york-he-never-made-it-home-2025-08-14/

Low-key research preview:

https://www.hypernoetic.net/Writings/Theoretical+perspectives+on+the+mechanisms+of+'AI'+chatbots

@maimun @dhry @emilymbender

#AI#LLM#ChatGPT#AIEthics#AISafety#AIAlignment#Embedding#Chatbot

Want to really understand how RAG, vector search & chunking work?

Then stop reading theory and build your own chatbot.

This guide shows you how to create a local PDF chatbot using:

☕ LangChain

☕ FAISS (vector DB)

☕ Mistral via Ollama

☕ Python & Streamlit

Step-by-step, from environment setup to deployment. Ideal for learning how Retrieval-Augmented Generation works in practice.

👉 https://medium.com/data-science-collective/rag-in-action-build-your-own-local-pdf-chatbot-as-a-beginner-96c2833869ff

Comment “WANT” if you need the friends link to the article, as you don’t have paid Medium.

#rag #tech #Technology #chatbot #AI #ki #python #vector #langchain #datascience #DataScientist #streamlit

Want to really understand how RAG, vector search & chunking work?

Then stop reading theory and build your own chatbot.

This guide shows you how to create a local PDF chatbot using:

☕ LangChain

☕ FAISS (vector DB)

☕ Mistral via Ollama

☕ Python & Streamlit

Step-by-step, from environment setup to deployment. Ideal for learning how Retrieval-Augmented Generation works in practice.

👉 https://medium.com/data-science-collective/rag-in-action-build-your-own-local-pdf-chatbot-as-a-beginner-96c2833869ff

Comment “WANT” if you need the friends link to the article, as you don’t have paid Medium.

#rag #tech #Technology #chatbot #AI #ki #python #vector #langchain #datascience #DataScientist #streamlit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQGXC1f-8s

#ai #interview #chatbot

One example widely shared on social media — & which Willison duplicated — asked #Grok to comment on the conflict in the #MiddleEast. The prompted question made no mention of #Musk, but the #chatbot looked for his guidance anyway.

As a so-called reasoning model, much like those made by rivals #OpenAI or #Anthropic, #Grok4 shows its “thinking” as it goes through the steps of processing a question & coming up with an answer.

#tech#MediaLiteracy #bias

Due ricercatori sono entrati con grande facilità nel backend del #chatbot usato dalla catena negli Stati Uniti per valutare i candidati, trovando i dati di milioni di persone

https://www.wired.it/article/mcdonalds-falle-sicurezza-sistema-ai-assunzioni-dati-personali-candidati/

@aitech

So

Jumped, or was pushed?

mhmm...

"New York CNN —

#LindaYaccarino is stepping down as CEO of #X after two years leading #ElonMusk’s social media company.

#Yaccarino’s departure comes one day after the company’s #Grok#Chatbot began pushing antisemitic tropes in responses to users. It’s not clear that the events were connected. "