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Our fights used to feel like tense reality TV episodes: action-packed, a little too loud, and downright exhausting. Then one night, feeling a bit on edge, I called on an unexpected ally: ChatGPT. Yes, artificial intelligence. And no, it's not as cold and weird as it sounds. One evening, after yet another argument We've been together for 8 years. The kind of relationship where we finish each other's sentences... and sometimes also get on each other's nerves. Despite the love (still there, I assure you) , communication was becoming more and more... acrobatic. It only took one wrong word for everything to degenerate: poorly worded reproaches, icy silences, sentences we regret barely having said. One evening, the atmosphere was frosty. We had argued—again—over something trivial. I think it was about summer vacation: she wanted the mountains this time, me the sea again, and we found ourselves throwing reproaches at each other about two-year-old issues. You get ...

Disney and Universal sued popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday. This is the first time major Hollywood companies have taken legal action against a maker of generative AI technology that could upend the entertainment industry. The copyright lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios to generate and distribute “endless unauthorized copies” of their famed characters, such as Darth Vader from the Star Wars franchise and the Minions from “Despicable Me”. Related More than 400 artists send letter to Trump over AI companies exploiting copyrighted works Disney sued for using Peter Cushing's likeness in Star Wars, 22 years after his death “Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism. Piracy is piracy, and whether an infringing image or video is made with AI or a...

A ban on deep-sea fishing in parts of the Atlantic rich with marine life has been upheld by the EU’s General Court. It means these areas will remain restricted to help preserve vulnerable species and ecosystems. The decision comes after the same court ruled last month in a German case that Marine Protected Areas must be protected from bottom trawling. Separate legal actions were filed by the Spanish government and fishermen from Galicia and Asturias who challenged a 2016 EU rule that banned fishing with nets and longlines in 87 areas of the Atlantic off the coasts of Spain, Ireland, Portugal and France. Related What is UNOC? World leaders gather in Nice to confront ocean emergency ‘A golden opportunity’: UK unveils plan to ban bottom trawling in more marine protected areas When the rules came into effect in 2022, Spain sued the European Commission, claiming that it failed to consider t...

Fears around the safety of Boeing ’s aircraft have resurfaced following the fatal crash of an Air India flight. The Boeing 787-8 plane carrying 242 people, crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, India . It’s currently unclear what caused the crash , but at least 105 deaths have been recorded; 53 British nationals, 169 Indian nationals, 7 Portuguese passengers and 1 Canadian were onboard the flight to London Gatwick . This is the first ever hull loss for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a model that first began commercial service in 2011. Up until now, the plane had recorded no fatal accident of any kind. But the latest tragedy in a series of recent incidents adds to concerns over the safety of the company’s aircraft, with some travellers uncertain about flying on Boeing-manufactured planes. Which airlines use Boeing planes? The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner is a wide-body, long-range aircraft designed for inter...

A viral video which shows three different chatbots speaking in their own "secret language" has amassed hundreds of thousands of views across various social media platforms. The clip shows three chatbots engaging in a phone call in English, in which they discuss "an employee's badge number". When the machines realise that they are all speaking to other bots, they ask each other whether they should switch to "Gibberlink", prompting them to start emitting high-pitched noises, in what appears to be something out of a science-fiction film. Hype or a real technology? Gibberlink — a term which combines "gibberish" and "link" — is real. While use of the technology is limited, it enables AI engines to communicate in their own language. EuroVerify asked Anton Pidkuiko, who co-founded Gibberlink, to review a number of online clips. "Many of the videos are imitating an existing technology — they show phones which aren...

‘Real and frightening privacy and safety risks.’ That’s the view of experts at Cambridge University in a report released this week on period tracker apps , warning that our personal information can be collected and sold at scale. Hundreds of millions of women are estimated to use these apps, which track menstrual cycles , and the risks are plentiful. The first and perhaps most striking comes when we consider what happens if this intimate data were to end up in the wrong hands. Knowing which women are pregnant and which women want to be is information which, if passed on to health insurers, could cause discrimination; if accessible by potential employers, could put jobs at risk; and that’s before we consider the threat of coercive control and domestic violence. It is also frightening to consider what this risk could look like for our reproductive rights, under threat at home and abroad. Recent police guidance suggests officers who suspect wo...