Georgia Wells

Inside Google’s AI push into schools: "It slowed my thinking down" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

AI chatbots know how to make deadly poisons and biological weapons. They're trained to keep mum, but if you keep asking, some will share recipes with you. Or with a user who implied to ChatGPT that he'd used ricin on his parents. w/ @amrithramkumar.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

OpenAI and other leading AI labs are getting a flurry of queries about making biological weapons and poisons, worrying administration officials and experts who see the trend as one of the next big risks associated with AI: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

What to do when users discuss plans for violence? Inside a debate at OpenAI: www.wsj.com/podcasts/the...

Non-consensual intimate imagery created with the help of AI tools continues to wreak havoc through schools and the lives of young people impacted by these online harms. Graphika's Matthew Patane spoke with @wsj.com's @georgiawells.bsky.social about the services being used to create the images.

“If you think about the high-school boy that does this, this is the boy who would have had a Sharpie and drawn boobs on his classmate’s yearbook picture. And now he’s got a bazooka" -the lawyer of a class-action against Grok www.wsj.com/tech/ai-deep...

Elon Musk's Grok is losing ground www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

He asked ChatGPT for advice on a mass killing. Minutes later, two were dead. OpenAI is wrestling with how to handle its most chilling conversations --> www.wsj.com/us-news/chat...

OpenAI’s bid to allow X-rated talk is freaking out its own advisers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... By @samschechner.com and me

OpenAI says it would have referred the Canadian shooting suspect's ChatGPT account to law enforcement if it were discovered today www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

#OpenAI met with BC gov't the day after an 18-year-old killed 6 in a school shooting in #TumblerRidge, but province says the tech giant did not disclose then that the company was aware of the shooter's concerning #ChatGPT conversations in the months before. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

OpenAI had a pre-planned meeting w/ B.C. gov the day after Tumbler Ridge shooting but did not disclose then that the company was aware of concerning conversations between its AI chatbot and shooter months before, @mikehager.bsky.social and Jesse Winter report: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Last summer, OpenAI employees debated alerting law enforcement about Jesse Van Rootselaar's interactions with ChatGPT In February, Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Ashley St. Clair is suing xAI over deepfake images. “The intention of the lawsuit is to deter this dehumanizing treatment by xAI for all of the public,” says her lawyer @cagoldberglaw.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/infl...

Elon Musk has repeatedly expanded the boundaries of permitted speech on his social-media platform X. Child-safety watchdogs and international regulators say a recent update to its AI chatbot Grok crossed a dangerous line: permitting sexualized editing of photos, including of children.

Musk has repeatedly expanded the boundaries of permitted speech on X. Child-safety watchdogs say a recent update to Grok crossed a dangerous line: permitting sexualized editing of photos, including of children www.wsj.com/tech/xai-gro...

The hottest place to buy wine in wine country is…the local Costco www.wsj.com/lifestyle/co...

New from @georgiawells.bsky.social Stu Woo and me A profile of Tony Sayegh and How TikTok’s Trump Whisperer Changed Minds in Washington www.wsj.com/business/how...

Gen Z can’t type www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ge...

New resource for reporters: the Committee to Protect Journalists has released a chatbot that offers safety info for journalists while reporting cpj.org/2024/05/cpj-...

CHAOS IS SOMETIMES JUST THE POINT. Take a look at the overseas networks flooding TikTok with political lies, assisted by artificial intelligence. www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

Months before the actual assassination attempt, an account on TikTok claimed Trump had been shot It was one of 91 accounts with overseas ties that generated videos with the help of AI to push lies about politics + Trump By me, @johnwest.bsky.social + the WSJ dream team www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

TikTok pledged to protect U.S. data. $1.5 billion later it’s still struggling www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

ICYMI: Google quietly bankrolled a campaign to attack California’s Journalism Preservation Act, keeping its name off of advertisements that mischaracterized the bill as a “tax increase.” Read more from Queenie Wong. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Young Americans increasingly get their news from TikTok—and it’s filled with intense, polarized and hard-to-verify videos about the Israel-Hamas war www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

ByteDance execs transferred to high-level roles at TikTok earlier this year www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

TikTok had hardly any friends in government earlier this year. TikTok now has many more friends, with something in common: backing from billionaire financier Jeff Yass. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...