ResearchBuzz: FirehoseBloomberg: Musk’s xAI promised staff $420 for their tax returns, hasn’t paid. “Elon Musk’s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company’s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven’t materialized.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/19/bloomberg-musks-xai-promised-staff-420-for-their-tax-returns-hasnt-paid/
AnneTheWriterWith all the vast amount of sexually explicit material using real people to make #DeepFake #AI (including victimizing children), this is a truly heinous and terrible idea beyond words.
Real children's faces and features are being fed into the AI, then it can later produce #CSAM without the child ever being aware that they've been made into a Dark Web CSAM celebrity.
My brain goes to some very dark places for where and how this data is most likely to be used, and almost none of them are ethical.
#TrainingAI #AITrainingData #GenerativeAI #ChildrensSafety #ChildrensPrivacy #ChildrensOnlinePrivacy
Reuters: US judge considers Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement of authors’ lawsuit. “A federal judge on Thursday pressed lawyers for more information on several points of artificial intelligence company Anthropic’s proposed $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chatbot Claude.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/17/reuters-us-judge-considers-anthropics-1-5-billion-settlement-of-authors-lawsuit/Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. “A $1.5 billion settlement over claims AI developer Anthropic pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its large language models inched toward final approval Thursday.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/courthouse-news-authors-publishers-near-final-approval-of-1-5-billion-anthropic-copyright-settlement/
Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement
Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. “A $1.5 billion settlement over claims AI developer Anthropic pirated hundreds of thou…
Reuters: Journalists sue Google for allegedly using their voices in AI training. “Google has been sued by a group of award-winning journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators in Illinois federal court for allegedly misusing recordings of their voices to train the artificial intelligence models that power Google Assistant, Gemini Live and other systems that replicate human voices.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/reuters-journalists-sue-google-for-allegedly-using-their-voices-in-ai-training/
The Register: Yet another experiment proves it’s too damn simple to poison large language models. “Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinced several bots that he was the reigning world champion of a popular German card game, even though no such […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/07/the-register-yet-another-experiment-proves-its-too-damn-simple-to-poison-large-language-models/
The Register: Yet another experiment proves it’s too damn simple to poison large language models
The Register: Yet another experiment proves it’s too damn simple to poison large language models. “Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots …
BBC: Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs. “Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/07/bbc-meta-in-row-after-workers-who-say-they-saw-smart-glasses-users-having-sex-lose-jobs/
BBC: Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
BBC: Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs. “Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to t…
Associated Press: Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege. “Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, alleging the company illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/06/associated-press-mark-zuckerberg-personally-authorized-metas-copyright-infringement-publishers-allege/
Associated Press: Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege
Associated Press: Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege. “Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on…
Ars Technica: The hidden cost of Google’s AI defaults and the illusion of choice. “What we’re seeing in both free and paid Google accounts is the power of defaults in the AI era. The default is sharing data for AI training. The default is AI summaries in your email. The default is AI-powered document creation. You can change these settings, but Google has to know most people won’t do […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/01/ars-technica-the-hidden-cost-of-googles-ai-defaults-and-the-illusion-of-choice/
BBC: Meta to track workers’ clicks and keystrokes to train AI. “Meta will start tracking the way employees work, including their keystrokes and mouse clicks, to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The company, which owns Instagram and Facebook, told workers on Tuesday that a new tool will run on Meta’s computers and internal apps, logging their activity to be used as training data […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/22/bbc-meta-to-track-workers-clicks-and-keystrokes-to-train-ai/