He asked ChatGPT for advice on a mass killing. Minutes later, two were dead. OpenAI is wrestling with how to handle its most chilling conversations --> www.wsj.com/us-news/chat...

OpenAI’s bid to allow X-rated talk is freaking out its own advisers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... By @samschechner.com and me

OpenAI says it would have referred the Canadian shooting suspect's ChatGPT account to law enforcement if it were discovered today www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

#OpenAI met with BC gov't the day after an 18-year-old killed 6 in a school shooting in #TumblerRidge, but province says the tech giant did not disclose then that the company was aware of the shooter's concerning #ChatGPT conversations in the months before. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

OpenAI had a pre-planned meeting w/ B.C. gov the day after Tumbler Ridge shooting but did not disclose then that the company was aware of concerning conversations between its AI chatbot and shooter months before, @mikehager.bsky.social and Jesse Winter report: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Last summer, OpenAI employees debated alerting law enforcement about Jesse Van Rootselaar's interactions with ChatGPT In February, Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Ashley St. Clair is suing xAI over deepfake images. “The intention of the lawsuit is to deter this dehumanizing treatment by xAI for all of the public,” says her lawyer @cagoldberglaw.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/infl...

Elon Musk has repeatedly expanded the boundaries of permitted speech on his social-media platform X. Child-safety watchdogs and international regulators say a recent update to its AI chatbot Grok crossed a dangerous line: permitting sexualized editing of photos, including of children.

Musk has repeatedly expanded the boundaries of permitted speech on X. Child-safety watchdogs say a recent update to Grok crossed a dangerous line: permitting sexualized editing of photos, including of children www.wsj.com/tech/xai-gro...

The hottest place to buy wine in wine country is…the local Costco www.wsj.com/lifestyle/co...

New from @georgiawells.bsky.social Stu Woo and me A profile of Tony Sayegh and How TikTok’s Trump Whisperer Changed Minds in Washington www.wsj.com/business/how...

Gen Z can’t type www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ge...

New resource for reporters: the Committee to Protect Journalists has released a chatbot that offers safety info for journalists while reporting cpj.org/2024/05/cpj-...

CHAOS IS SOMETIMES JUST THE POINT. Take a look at the overseas networks flooding TikTok with political lies, assisted by artificial intelligence. www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

Months before the actual assassination attempt, an account on TikTok claimed Trump had been shot It was one of 91 accounts with overseas ties that generated videos with the help of AI to push lies about politics + Trump By me, @johnwest.bsky.social + the WSJ dream team www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

TikTok pledged to protect U.S. data. $1.5 billion later it’s still struggling www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

ICYMI: Google quietly bankrolled a campaign to attack California’s Journalism Preservation Act, keeping its name off of advertisements that mischaracterized the bill as a “tax increase.” Read more from Queenie Wong. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Young Americans increasingly get their news from TikTok—and it’s filled with intense, polarized and hard-to-verify videos about the Israel-Hamas war www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

ByteDance execs transferred to high-level roles at TikTok earlier this year www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

TikTok had hardly any friends in government earlier this year. TikTok now has many more friends, with something in common: backing from billionaire financier Jeff Yass. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

When Kanye wanted back on Twitter, he called his friend Elon. Here’s a look at how the company is making decisions nearly a year after Elon bought the platform. w/ @alexacorse.bsky.social + @kirstengrind.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

A committee of China’s Communist Party members accessed the data of TikTok users in Hong Kong, alleges a former ByteDance exec https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-bytedance-executive-claims-chinese-communist-party-accessed-tiktoks-hong-kong-user-data-e9d5554f