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Submission + - AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by esm88 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:29AM

esm88 writes: Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC.

The BBC gave OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news.

It said the resulting answers contained "significant inaccuracies" and distortions.

In a blog, Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, said AI brought "endless opportunities" but the companies developing the tools were "playing with fire".

"We live in troubled times, and how long will it be before an AI-distorted headline causes significant real world harm?", she asked.

The tech companies which own the chatbots have been approached for comment.

Submission + - Did weak wi-fi password lead the police to our door? (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by esm88 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:23AM

esm88 writes: After a year of lockdowns, home schooling and a bout of Covid, Kate and Matthew (not their real names) were hoping for better times as 2021 dawned.

Instead, one January morning, there came a knock on the door from the police who were investigating a very serious crime, involving images of child abuse being posted online.

The couple insisted they had nothing to do with it.

But the next few months were "utter hell" as they attempted to clear their names.

And it was only when the case was dropped in March, with no further action, that they realised the most likely explanation for the false accusation was their wi-fi router — and its factory-set password.

Back in January, there was confusion and shock when three police officers and three detectives banged on the door of their London flat with a search warrant.

"They took everything: our desktop computer, both our laptops, our mobile phones, a laptop I had borrowed, even old mobile phones that were lying around in drawers," said Kate.

Submission + - Beyond Platforms: Private Censorship, Parler, and the Stack (eff.org)

Submitted by esm88 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:13PM

esm88 writes: The EFF has made a statement raising concerns over tech giants control over the internet and who gets to decide which speech is allowed.

Submission + - Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by esm88 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:36AM

esm88 writes: An attacker who gained access to the servers of Vastaamo, a large psychotherapy clinic in Finland has contacted patients demanding a ransom. Failure to pay the ransom would result in notes from their private therapy sessions being published. "About 300 records have already been published on the dark web" according to the Associated Press news agency. The attacker has claimed that "Vastaamo had refused to pay 40 bitcoin (£403,000)" ransom, so they are instead blackmailing individual patients. One patient said "Those notes contain things I'm not ready to share with the world. And having someone threaten me with said notes certainly makes me extremely uncomfortable".

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