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  • Rayner says Farage ‘failing young women’ with plan to scrap Online Safety Act

    Deputy PM says move would cause rise in ‘revenge porn’, as Labour launches attack ads against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is “failing a generation of young women” with his plans to scrap the Online Safety Act, Angela Rayner has said, arguing the move would cause an increase in the prevalence of “revenge porn”. The…

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  • UK traffic to popular porn sites slumps after age checks introduced

    Figures from digital data company show effect of strict rules brought in last month under Online Safety Act British visits to popular pornography sites have slumped following the introduction of strict age checks last month, data shows. Daily visits to Pornhub, the UK’s most used porn site, fell from 3.6m on 24 July, the day…

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  • Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt

    US medical journal article about 60-year-old with bromism warns against using AI app for health information A US medical journal has warned against using ChatGPT for health information after a man developed a rare condition following an interaction with the chatbot about removing table salt from his diet. An article in the Annals of Internal…

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  • AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds

    Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research has found. The study found that when using…

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  • Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot

    Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AI-generated image at a recent Rod Stewart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomenon will affect grieving Rod Stewart had a few surprise guests at a recent concert in Charlotte, North Carolina. His old friend Ozzy Osbourne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath who died last month, was apparently…

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  • FBI and NSPCC alarmed at ‘shocking’ rise in online sextortion of children

    Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms combined Tech companies including Snapchat and Facebook reported more than 9,600 cases of adults grooming children online in the UK in just six months last year – the equivalent of about 400 a week. Law enforcement agencies,…

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  • I spoke to the AI avatar of a Leeds MP. How did it cope with my Yorkshire accent?

    Leeds MP Mark Sewards has launched a digital assistant, but the results of my chat show MPs’ aides have nowt to worry about As anyone with even a trace of a regional dialect who has had to pay a parking fine can attest, voice recognition services struggle with accents. Now, people in Mark Sewards’ constituency…

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  • OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners

    Instead of giving definitive answers to personal challenges the chatbot will help people reflect on a problem ChatGPT will not tell people to break up with their partner and will encourage users to take breaks from long chatbot sessions, under new changes to the artificial intelligence tool. OpenAI, ChatGPT’s developer, said the chatbot would stop…

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  • Social media battles and barbs on both sides of Atlantic over UK Online Safety Act

    Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims The UK’s Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated. Amid mounting concerns about the ease of accessing harmful content online, rules were drawn up to force social platforms to protect children from posts and videos that incite hatred…

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  • ‘The BBC feels very samey and boring’: the over-50s who prefer YouTube

    More Britons in this age group are switching to the video platform, with its shorter, niche and more personal content UK viewers over the age of 55 watched almost twice as much YouTube last year as they did in 2023, with 42% of them watching on a TV, according to a survey by the communications…

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