AI Afghanistan
“Women in Afghanistan have been forced to turn to artificial intelligence for friendship after the Taliban government restricted their rights across the country.”...
ChatGPT Numbers
ChatGPT just gained 200 million users in the last two months. "By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached another milestone of 100 million weekly active users, which grew to 300...
Chatbot’s potential impact
Grok 3 (+) under discussion in Metro: Jen Mills, Metro, Elon Musk’s chatbot which has phone sex with users ‘will hit global birth rates’, 4 Mar 2025 “An AI...
‘AI Deepfake Terrorism‘
Bryon Kaye, Reuters, Google reports scale of complaints about AI deepfake terrorism content to Australian regulator, 5 Mar 2025 “In its report, Google said it received 258 user reports...
Islam, IP and AI
I’m interested in Islamic approaches to copyright in AI, especially when using tools like Sora. I would appreciate any research links. OpenAI launches Sora video generation tool in UK...
Prabawo Deepfake Scam
AFP/France24, Indonesians swindled by scams using President Prabowo deepfakes, 2 Mar 2025 “Since last year’s Indonesian election, experts have warned of a tidal wave of deepfakes — audio, images...
Disinformation and Chatbots
I’m very interested in the disinformation issue in relation to my own research so have added @disinfo.eu’s fact sheet to my Reading List....
Grok AI Issues
Noor al-Sibai, Futurism, Elon’s Grok 3 AI Provides “Hundreds of Pages of Detailed Instructions” on Creating Chemical Weapons, 26 Feb 2025. “Elon Musk has boasted that his AI efforts will...
AI Middle East (Report)
Alvin R. Cabral, The National, Many Middle East firms struggle to know where to start with AI, 26 Feb 2025 “A report from global consultancy Deloitte has found that...
AI Turkish Translation Replacement
Kaya Genç, Rest of World, Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them, 20 Feb 2025. “Translation has become a job for a limited number of...