Month: February 2024

Lenovo developed a concept laptop with a transparent display (leaks)

Companies have been showing off transparent OLED display technology for more than a decade. But 2024 might be the year when it finally breaks through to the mainstream. LG’s big-screen TV with a transparent display was one of the most buzzworthy…

Companies have been showing off transparent OLED display technology for more than a decade. But 2024 might be the year when it finally breaks through to the mainstream. LG’s big-screen TV with a transparent display was one of the most buzzworthy products announced at CES this year. And now it looks like Lenovo plans to […]

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Kimi: Apple übersieht Film-Piraterie-App im App Store

Mit Kimi sollen Nutzer angeblich ihre Sehkraft testen können – was in gewisser Weise stimmt: Die iOS-App bot ein reichhaltiges Angebot an illegalen Filmen und Serien. (Apple App Store, Apple)

Mit Kimi sollen Nutzer angeblich ihre Sehkraft testen können - was in gewisser Weise stimmt: Die iOS-App bot ein reichhaltiges Angebot an illegalen Filmen und Serien. (Apple App Store, Apple)

Hoffentlich ohne VAC-Ban: AMD Anti-Lag+ kommt zurück

Der missglückte Launch vor einigen Monaten hat Anti-Cheat-Software anschlagen lassen. AMD hat bisher versucht, die Funktion ohne Unterstützung der Spieleentwickler zu ermöglichen. (Grafikkarten, AMD)

Der missglückte Launch vor einigen Monaten hat Anti-Cheat-Software anschlagen lassen. AMD hat bisher versucht, die Funktion ohne Unterstützung der Spieleentwickler zu ermöglichen. (Grafikkarten, AMD)

AI-powered romantic chatbots are a privacy nightmare

They collect massive amounts of data with little disclosure about its use.

AI-powered romantic chatbots are a privacy nightmare

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You shouldn’t trust any answers a chatbot sends you. And you probably shouldn’t trust it with your personal information either. That’s especially true for “AI girlfriends” or “AI boyfriends,” according to new research.

An analysis into 11 so-called romance and companion chatbots, published on Wednesday by the Mozilla Foundation, has found a litany of security and privacy concerns with the bots. Collectively, the apps, which have been downloaded more than 100 million times on Android devices, gather huge amounts of people’s data; use trackers that send information to Google, Facebook, and companies in Russia and China; allow users to use weak passwords; and lack transparency about their ownership and the AI models that power them.

Since OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world in November 2022, developers have raced to deploy large language models and create chatbots that people can interact with and pay to subscribe to. The Mozilla research provides a glimpse into how this gold rush may have neglected people’s privacy, and into tensions between emerging technologies and how they gather and use data. It also indicates how people’s chat messages could be abused by hackers.

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