Data greed of the tech giants

Data greed of the tech giants

Article by Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant in the New York Times, April 6, 2024 The tech giants’ greed for data: How AI models are being trained at the expense of ethics. Big tech companies like OpenAI, Google and Meta...
AI and child abuse

AI and child abuse

Article Matt Burgess, WIRED, OCT 24, 2023 Child abuse: an AI-generated nightmare. How images of child abuse are already being marketed by AI. You can find the link here. WIRED’s article “The AI-Generated Child Abuse Nightmare Is Here” reports on a...
Water consumption for AI

Water consumption for AI

Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa – with a lot of water Article by Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut in AP News, September 9, 2023 This is how much water AI models consume. Click here for the article The hidden...
Sustainability

Sustainability

Bonn Sustainable AI Conference 2023 “Sustainable AI Across Borders” From May 30 to June 1, 2023 Sustainability and ethics in AI: impulses from Bonn Artificial intelligence (AI) can be an important tool for sustainable development, but the sustainability of...
Virtual AI influencers

Virtual AI influencers

Article by Viktoria Tangermann in Futurism, July 19, 2023: Fully AI-Generated Influencers Are Getting Thousands of Reactions Per Thirst Trap Virtual influencers: fictional personalities dominate social media. Click here: The rise of virtual influencers has led to the...
Avatars: In love with an AI?

Avatars: In love with an AI?

KI Podcast by BR24 and SWR with Gregor Schmalzried, Marie Kilg and Fritz Espenlaub from 9.8.23.   Social avatars: In love with an AI. Why AIs are becoming increasingly personal. AI-avatars, for example from Replika, are revolutionizing digital interaction by...