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An #AI Image Generator’s #Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For

An unsecured database used by a #generativeAI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.
#security #privacy

wired.com/story/genomis-ai-ima

WIRED · An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It ForBy Matt Burgess

:blobcoffee: What are embeddings?

Embeddings are numerical representations of things like words, sentences, images – or even customer profiles. They help models understand meaning and similarity between those objects.

:blobcoffee: Example:
The word "king" might be turned into a vector like [0.8, 0.1, …],
while "queen" becomes [0.81, 0.12, …]
→ Because these vectors are close, the words are semantically similar.

Embeddings are the backbone of:
📌 Similarity searches
📌 Recommendation engines
📌 Semantic search
📌 or RAGs (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

And where are all these vectors stored? In vector databases, which let you search through embeddings lightning-fast.

:blobcoffee: This was the focus of Day 2 of the 5-Day Kaggle Generative AI Challenge: Embeddings & Vector Stores.

"AI firms are interested in developing tools and marketing strategies that revolve around the allure of AGI—around a stillborn god that will transform large swaths of society into excessively profitable enterprises and incredibly efficient operations. Think of it as a desperate attempt to defend capitalism, to preserve the status quo (capitalism) while purging recent reforms that purportedly undermine it (democracy, liberalism, feminism, environmentalism, etc.). Sam Altman, OpenAI’s co-founder, has repeatedly called for “a new social contract,” though most recently has insisted the “AI revolution” will force the issue on account of “how powerful we expect [AGI] to be.” It doesn’t take much to imagine that the new social contract will be a nightmarish exterminist future where AI powers surveillance, discipline, control, and extraction, instead of “value creation” for the whole of humanity.

The subsuming of art springs out of the defense of capitalism—more and more will have to be scavenged and cannibalized to sustain the status quo and somehow, someday, realize this supposedly much more profitable horizon. The ascendance of fascism comes with the purge—the attempt to rollback institutions and victories seen as shackles on the ability of capitalism to deliver prosperity (and limiters on the inordinate power and privilege for an unimaginably pampered and cloistered elite).

Both are part and parcel to what’s going on, but one project is objectively more dangerous (and ambitious) than the other. In that way, then, all of this is a distraction."

thetechbubble.substack.com/p/d

The Tech Bubble · Does OpenAI's latest marketing stunt matter?By Edward Ongweso Jr

"In a new joint study, researchers with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab found that this small subset of ChatGPT users engaged in more "problematic use," defined in the paper as "indicators of addiction... including preoccupation, withdrawal symptoms, loss of control, and mood modification."

To get there, the MIT and OpenAI team surveyed thousands of ChatGPT users to glean not only how they felt about the chatbot, but also to study what kinds of "affective cues," which was defined in a joint summary of the research as "aspects of interactions that indicate empathy, affection, or support," they used when chatting with it.

Though the vast majority of people surveyed didn't engage emotionally with ChatGPT, those who used the chatbot for longer periods of time seemed to start considering it to be a "friend." The survey participants who chatted with ChatGPT the longest tended to be lonelier and get more stressed out over subtle changes in the model's behavior, too."

futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-

Futurism · Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a LotBy Noor Al-Sibai

Anthropic announces updates on security safeguards for its #AI models

Anthropic announced updates to the “responsible scaling” policy for its AI, including defining which of its model safety levels are powerful enough to need additional security safeguards.

cnbc.com/2025/03/31/anthropic-

CNBCAnthropic announces updates on security safeguards for its AI modelsAnthropic on Monday announced updates to the "responsible scaling" policy for its AI.
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100-110% net revenue retention rate

I believe ADSK has been unduly penalized by Generative AI concerns. As with many graphical programs, AI can only take you to 90% of the solution. The commodification of AI is well underway, and Autodesk is actively adapting.
Read the full analysis: bit.ly/4ccBV2N
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