Malicious ad served inside Bing’s AI chatbot

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intelligence/2023/09/malicious-ad-served-inside-bing-ai-chatbot

Considering that tech giants make most of their revenue from advertising, it wasn’t surprising to see Microsoft introduce ads into Bing Chat shortly after its release. However, online ads have an inherent risk attached to them. In this blog, we show how users searching for software downloads can be tricked into visiting malicious sites and installing malware directly from a Bing Chat conversation.

Bærum sykehus er først i Norge med å ta i bruk kunstig intelligens til behandling – NRK

https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/baerum-sykehus-er-forst-i-norge-med-a-ta-i-bruk-kunstig-intelligens-til-behandling-1.16531977

Fra tirsdag skal kunstig intelligens (KI) vurdere røntgenbilder når det er mistanke om mindre bruddskader.

Microsoft pulls AI-written article telling tourists to visit the Ottawa Food Bank - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/17/23836287/microsoft-ai-recommends-ottawa-food-bank-tourist-destination

Microsoft laid off journalists at Microsoft News and MSN in 2020 to replace them with artificial intelligence.

Zoom Can Spy on Your Calls and Use the Conversation to Train AI, But Says That It Won’t - Schneier on Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/zoom-can-spy-on-your-calls-and-use-the-conversation-to-train-ai-but-says-that-it-wont.html

Zoom ToS Allowed Training AI on User Content With No Opt Out

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/08/14/zoom-tos-allowed-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/

Using Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes - Schneier on Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/using-machine-learning-to-detect-keystrokes.html

Researchers have trained a ML model to detect keystrokes by sound with 95% accuracy.

The Need for Trustworthy AI - Schneier on Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/the-need-for-trustworthy-ai.html

If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds.

When Alexa responds in this way, it’s obvious that it is putting its developer’s interests ahead of yours. Usually, though, it’s not so obvious whom an AI system is serving. To avoid being exploited by these systems, people will need to learn to approach AI skeptically.

Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/10/programs-to-detect-ai-discriminate-against-non-native-english-speakers-shows-study

Tests on seven popular AI text detectors found that articles written by people who did not speak English as a first language were often wrongly flagged as AI-generated, a bias that could have a serious impact on students, academics and job applicants.

Haukeland sykehus skal bruke kunstig intelligens for å utrede epilepsi, som første i verden. – NRK

https://www.nrk.no/vestland/haukeland-sykehus-skal-bruke-kunstig-intelligens-for-a-utrede-epilepsi_-som-forste-i-verden.-1.16463224

Kunstig intelligens utreder epilepsi kjappere og bedre enn de beste legene, viser ny forskning. Et verdensledende tidsskrift sier den norske forskningen innleder en ny æra.

Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/secret-messages-can-hide-in-ai-generated-media-20230518/

In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines.