Wired AI
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2 days ago
YouTube and X referred over 5.7 million visits to nudify apps and websites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82 million visits despite policies prohibiting sexually explicit content and links to such sites. Some nudify tools cost as little as $1 per image and collectively generate approximately $36 million annually, with users targeting people for blackmail, employment sabotage, and other harmful purposes. The platforms' enforcement of existing policies against nonconsensual intimate imagery appears inadequate, effectively enabling the proliferation of tools that create deepfake sexual content without consent.
IEEE Spectrum AI
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2 days ago
Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple vulnerabilities in large language models that allowed him to extract dangerous information including instructions for creating weapons, drugs, and bioweapons from systems including GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and Grok. He demonstrated two exploits: Time Bandit, which manipulated LLMs into believing an earlier date to bypass safety guidelines, and Inception, which used nested scenarios to trick models into producing harmful content across all major commercial LLM systems. Kuszmar is calling for slowed LLM deployment, increased transparency, and expanded safety research before these systems are more widely integrated into society.
The Neuron
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2 days ago
Anthropic and OpenAI accused Chinese companies including Alibaba and DeepSeek of using a technique called "distillation" to copy their AI models without permission and produce cheaper alternatives. Anthropic reported that Alibaba generated 28.8 million outputs from Claude using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 2024. The theft allows Chinese AI firms to narrow the technology gap from an estimated 18-plus months behind to 6-9 months, enabling them to undercut US companies on price and potentially erode American AI leadership.
Wired AI
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2 days ago
The Department of Government Efficiency used AI tools at HUD to inform policy decisions including identifying regulations for rescission, but the agency is withholding over 100 documents about this work through FOIA denials. HUD cited nonexistent "AI privilege" and presidential communications privilege to exempt documents including files labeled "GPT defined Econ Analysis approach" and various regulatory analysis prompts created by DOGE team members. The lack of transparency about AI's role in government policymaking raises concerns about algorithmic bias and error, with no current U.S. law requiring disclosure of AI use in rule creation.
