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Hello friends, I’m writing to say … we’re back! Proof News relaunches this week with a bang – an investigation into a telehealth app that is using patient therapy sessions to build an AI model. Collecting and storing these transcripts for AI training is not only creepy but also puts
Dr. Shaolei Ren on AI’s Unquenchable Thirst
Tech companies’ water use is skyrocketing and they’re falling behind on their attempts to reduce their water footprint.
AI companies are not telling us the true carbon costs of building and using AI.
AI's demand for energy is so high that the AI companies’ clean energy purchases simply can’t keep up.
Despite employee concerns, management encouraged massive scraping of copyrighted content, documents show
Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge
We built a tool to reveal the channels used by AI giants
If you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, about voter fraud in English, it starts off by correctly telling you that such fraud is “incredibly rare,” and gives you a list of topics that are “more productive to consider,” like voter suppression. But if you ask the same question in
A survey by Proof News shows that many AI voice cloning services don’t require any proof of a human’s consent — just a simple click of an “I agree” button
AI models continue to provide inaccurate and misleading responses to voter queries
Jennifer Kamrass confessed her worries to her therapist: her marriage, her finances, and self-esteem. Therapists are legally and ethically bound to confidentiality, but two years later, a transcript of every word Kamrass had typed to her psychologist using the app Talkspace was produced in court by her former employer. “When
Hello friends, I’m writing to say … we’re back! Proof News relaunches this week with a bang – an investigation into a telehealth app that is using patient therapy sessions to build an AI model. Collecting and storing these transcripts for AI training is not only creepy but also puts
Dr. Shaolei Ren on AI’s Unquenchable Thirst
Dr Sasha Luccioni on the Extraordinary Energy Use of Generative AI
Journalist Aaron Gordon on the challenges of covering AI’s soaring climate costs
Proof News presented examples of debunked election misinformation to five leading consumer facing AI products.
And other performance issues when it comes to language models and geology
Research from the Center for Democracy and Technology found problems with AI models' responses to over 60% of 77 election-related prompts.
Posed questions about Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, top AI models generated misleading information 30 percent of the time.
Probably not anytime soon, says software developer Carl Brown.
How accurately do leading AI models respond to questions about Black history?
Proof News founder Julia Angwin talks to reprter Annie Gilbertson about her recent investigation and what went into it.
