Stable Diffusion Trained On Child Sexual Abuse Material, Stanford Says
Stable Diffusion and other top text-to-image generative AI tools have been trained on illegal images of kids, according to research by the Stanford Internet Observatory.| Forbes
Stable Diffusion and other top text-to-image generative AI tools have been trained on illegal images of kids, according to research by the Stanford Internet Observatory.| Forbes
JP Morgan paid $175 million for a startup it believes it was conned into buying. Now, amid an ongoing legal battle, it’s got to clean up a very public mess.| Forbes
The former Frank CEO said JP Morgan had full knowledge of Frank’s customer data before the acquisition—and Chairman Jamie Dimon personally pushed for it to happen.| Forbes
J.P. Morgan is quietly building financial tools for ByteDance products like TikTok, expanding China’s grip on the high stakes payments space.| Forbes
The TikTok parent company owns a diverse set of companies across sectors including news, video gaming, and education, in addition to its short-form video apps.| Forbes
The videos, which praise a terrorist manifesto written by Osama Bin Laden justifying the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., amassed millions of views in just 12 hours.| Forbes
TikTok has said under oath that Americans’ data has always been stored outside China. Now it’s saying there are big exceptions for creators.| Forbes
Americans are increasingly using code words known as “algospeak” to evade detection by content moderation technology, especially when posting about things that are controversial or may break platform rules.| Forbes
Women sharing nursing images on the internet are being sexualized, harassed and, in some cases, exploited by voyeurs around the world.| Forbes
TikTok’s Chinese parent company is recruiting across the U.S. for experts in science and healthcare disciplines far afield from social media. Its motives are unclear.| Forbes
ByteDance appears to be using word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube to marginalized Uyghurs to 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump.| Forbes
Deepfake news segments that appear to be delivered by top journalists and TV networks are going viral across the internet. It’s an inflection point for manipulated media that experts see as troubling just a year out from an historic election.| Forbes
The top Republican on the Senate Intel Committee has called on the Justice Department to "investigate whether Chew committed perjury" in his testimony before Congress.| Forbes
“There were definitely times where I painted a rosier picture than things truly were,” Frank founder Charlie Javice said months before JP Morgan bought her startup for $175 million.| Forbes
JP Morgan is suing the founder of a Mark Rowan-backed startup it acquired, claiming the fintech, Frank, had sold the financial giant on a “lie.”| Forbes
India’s 150 million users were forced to stop using TikTok in 2020, but employees at the company and its parent ByteDance can still mine some of Indian users' most sensitive data.| Forbes
TikTok content moderators at the third-party company Teleperformance were shocked to be shown graphic videos and images of children involved in sexual acts during training. Now, one former moderator has taken concerns about that material to the FBI.| Forbes
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has launched a Meta-backed platform to help kids and teens get naked or sexual content of themselves removed from social media.| Forbes
Twitter CEO Elon Musk must grapple with the platform's tidal wave of child sexual abuse material, but only a skeleton crew remains to deal with it.| Forbes
Private accounts on TikTok have become portals to some of the most dangerous and disturbing content on the internet.| Forbes
Amazon’s turning to TikTok to tap into social, and TikTok’s turning to Amazon to strengthen its e-commerce business. These “frenemies” locking arms may help thwart a ban.| Forbes
Hours after former President Donald Trump was shot at a rally, videos purporting to be posted by the suspected shooter began circulating on top social media platforms.| Forbes
TikTok Shop has gained even more traction since the president signed a law that may ban the app. If it goes away, Chinese e-commerce giants Temu and Shein could win big.| Forbes
Utah’s governor and attorney general announced a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging youth are pushed to perform sexually suggestive acts for gifts and money on TikTok Live.| Forbes
Images of AI children on TikTok and Instagram are becoming magnets for many with a sexual interest in minors. But content of fake people falls into a troubling gray area.| Forbes
Livestreams on the social media app are a popular place for men to lurk and for young girls—enticed by money and gift—to perform sexually suggestive acts.| Forbes
TikTok and ByteDance staff's easy access to the friend lists of the First Family and public figures has created national security and privacy risks ahead of the election.| Forbes
TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — those in its "Creator Fund" — on servers in China.| Forbes
