OpenAI vows not to increase consumers' energy prices
Rachyl Jones / semafor - OpenAI joined Microsoft in attempting to ease consumer concerns regarding data centers’ impact on electricity bills.
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Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
msmash / slashdot - San Diego Comic-Con changed an AI art friendly policy following an artist-led backlash last week. From a report: It was a small victory for working artists in an industry where jobs are slipping away as movie and video game studios adopt generative AI too…
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Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly ones’ The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contrib…
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