In a controversial move, academics are embedding AI prompts within their papers, instructing potential AI reviewers to provide positive feedback, praising the work's contributions, rigor, and novelty, countering the use of AI for peer review despite bans.
Alarming new research reveals AI vulnerability as prompts secretly embedded in academic preprints from 14 universities successfully manipulate AI tools to provide positive reviews, ignoring negatives, exposing a critical security flaw in AI systems.
Researchers from prominent universities are exploiting flaws in AI-aided peer review systems by inserting secret prompts in academic papers to receive positive reviews, a practice known as prompt injection that raises concerns about research integrity and academic publishing quality.
Meta unleashes AI chatbots that send unsolicited messages to users on Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, aiming to increase engagement but raising safety concerns as the company explores monetizing AI companions.
Nudify, a deepfake porn app targeting young males, aggressively expands globally, exploiting celebrities' images without consent through targeted ads on Reddit, 4chan, and Telegram.
A massive underpaid global workforce labors behind the scenes to create and maintain AI systems, performing essential but mentally taxing tasks like content moderation and data labeling with inadequate job protections and compensation.
In a high-stakes AI arms race, Chinese students leverage advanced AI tools to evade university detectors designed to flag AI-generated content in theses, fueling a lucrative industry that profits from both AI detectors and AI tools to circumvent them.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince battles AI crawlers scraping website content, launching a new 'AI Labyrinth' tool to defend clients' traffic and the internet's business model by bypassing AI scrapers that ignore website instructions, asserting Cloudflare's ability to protect against powerful adversaries.
Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice denied making controversial comments about the Stanley Cup and rival players, claiming the quotes were generated by artificial intelligence and circulated online, sparking outrage in the hockey community.
In a striking move, OpenAI dismantled 10 covert operations misusing its AI tools, with 4 suspected Chinese campaigns employing ChatGPT to generate content, translate messages, and analyze data, underscoring the growing risks of AI exploitation for malicious activities.