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The Download: AI-generated lawsuits and virtual power plants for data centers

The Download: AI-generated lawsuits and virtual power plants for data centers

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The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The EU has proposed new legislation to end its Big Tech dependenceThe laws aim to boost domestic ​cloud, AI and semiconductors. (CNBC)+ US firms would be blocked from critical public tenders. (Reuters $)+ It also wants to make sure non-EU actors cannot disrupt tech services with a “kill switch.” (The Guardian)+ But the proposal needs to be negotiated with EU member states. (Politico $) 2 Intelligence agencies warn Chinese spies are recruiting on LinkedInThe Five Eyes alliance said Beijing is using job platforms for espionage. (BBC)+ The spies are allegedly recruiting government and military staff. (Politico $)+ The Chinese embassy in the UK condemned the accusations. (Bloomberg $)+ Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone. (MIT Technology Review) 3 AI CEOs have called for a law protecting against biological weaponsThey warn that synthetic DNA could be used for bioweapons. (Wired $)+ Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis joined the call. (WSJ $)+ No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will …

The Download: AI-generated lawsuits and virtual power plants for data centers

How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits

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Courts are starting to grapple with this question. In February, a federal court in Michigan ruled that a self-represented person’s conversations with ChatGPT to prepare her case were work product—legal work that is shielded from the opposing side. The decision came on the same day a federal court in New York held that documents a criminal defendant had generated using Claude were not privileged attorney-client conversations or work product. The court argued that Claude is not an attorney and that a user has no “reasonable expectation of confidentiality in his communication” with it because AI companies can disclose user data to third parties.  In March, Judge Braswell ruled that a self-represented person’s use of a chatbot should stay off limits. “It is true that AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others … collect user data for training and other purposes. But … that does not eliminate all expectations of privacy,” she wrote. Courts have since remained split on the issue. Malpractice without a pulse Some judges are also wondering whether a chatbot, like a …

AI-Generated Stories, Books, and More

AI-Generated Stories, Books, and More

Published by Jenni Sidey

What happens when people use AI to write short stories? Film movies? Compose plays? We don’t have to speculate anymore: We’re watching this unfold today and will most likely have to contend with this sort of practice for the foreseeable future. Granta is a considered an elite literary publication on par with The Paris Review and The New Yorker, and it’s many a writer’s dream to find their own name etched in its pages. The literary magazine caught flak a couple of weeks ago, however, for running a story that many discerning readers believed to be heavily infused with AI-generated prose. The story is called “The Serpent in the Grove“, written by Jamir Nazir, and not only was it published; it also won the coveted Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The main flaw in the text is the overuse of mixed metaphors, a common defect in large language model “writing.” Here is the first paragraph or so of the story: They say the grove still hums at noon. Not the bees’ neat industry or the clean …

AI-Generated Film About Iranian Protest Violence Heads to Tribeca Film Festival

AI-Generated Film About Iranian Protest Violence Heads to Tribeca Film Festival

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Lights, camera … artificial intelligence?  Dreams of Violets, a feature-length movie inspired by the protest violence and massacres that unfolded in Iran in early 2026, is coming to the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10. The movie was directed and produced by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha under their AI-focused production company, Fountain 0, and every visual featured in the 75-minute docudrama was generated by AI. The inclusion of Dreams of Violets at Tribeca comes amid the US-Israel war on Iran and ongoing tensions in the Middle East. At a time when relatively few filmmakers from the region can tell stories like this on a global stage, the subject matter feels especially timely and likely to spark debate. The questions surrounding films like this shaped nearly every panel and discussion at an AI filmmaking conference I attended this week in Culver City, California, called AI on the Lot. Throughout the event, speakers expressed sustained optimism that AI video tools will expand access to filmmaking for underrepresented creators who have historically faced financial barriers to bringing their projects …

Thai police in drag is AI-generated fake

Thai police in drag is AI-generated fake

Published by Sam Flores

UK and US news outlets have fallen victim to an AI-generated hoax after publishing reports that Thai police dressed in drag to arrest a drug dealer. The story originated on the Facebook page of Tha Luang police station in Thailand and was picked up by the New York Post and UK titles including the Telegraph, Sun, Mirror, GB News and Express. The story appeared on the front page of the Daily Star print edition. The Sun said: “Undercover cops have caught a drug dealer by dressing in drag and pretending to be in a glitzy dance troupe. “The burly crew of five men and one woman slipped into skin tight sequins and feathers for the covert mission in Thailand.” The Sun has since updated its story with no admission of the earlier mistake. The Telegraph similarly reported the story as fact stating: “Police caught the suspect, Mekha Fa-wap-wap, with more than 53 pills of methamphetamine.” The other outlets caught out similarly reported the story and most have, at the time of writing, not amended or …

Lights, camera, algorithm: First fully AI-generated film set to premiere at Tribeca Festival

Lights, camera, algorithm: First fully AI-generated film set to premiere at Tribeca Festival

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A movie made entirely with artificial intelligence has become the first of its kind to be accepted into a film festival. Dreams of Violets — the 75-minute docudrama movie generated by AI — has been programmed to make its world premiere June 10 at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, making it the first AI-generated live-action feature-length film to make a festival’s official lineup, according to its production studio Fountain 0. The movie, inspired by real events from 47 years of Iranian civilian resistance, was made on a $2,000 budget across three months by directors and producers Ash and Pooya Koosha. The Koosha brothers, who were born in Iran and left the country in 2009, said that making a movie with no actors, sets or cameras was not what they initially had in mind. “I want to be honest about …

Ansel Adams Trust Slams Danziger for AI-Generated Artwork

Ansel Adams Trust Slams Danziger for AI-Generated Artwork

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement on Saturday slamming the recent decision by New York’s Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing the famed photographer’s work at the 2026 edition of the AIPAD Photography Show in April. The artwork, which still appears on Danziger’s website, does not contain a title but is headlined A.I. GENERATED, From the prompt: Make a realistic color version of Ansel Adams’ iconic “Moonrise Over Hernandez”. It is listed as printed by master printer Esteban Mauchi. Danziger offered the piece in its booth at the fair—which ran from April 22 to April 26—alongside work by Seydou Keïta, Hoda Afshar, and Matthew Porter, among others. Related Articles In the statement, the trust said it “did not authorize, endorse, consent to, or acquiesce” to the work being exhibited or offered for sale and claimed that the piece “exploited Ansel’s name, reputation, and his most iconic image, while failing to identify any human artist responsible for its creation.” The trust said further that it was not notified by the gallery …

It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week

It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a provocative story claiming that a fully AI-generated movie called “Hell Grind” was being screened at the iconic Cannes Film Festival, dropping a nuclear bomb in the middle of the already-heated debate on the tech’s intrusion into the art and business of cinema. “Four street thieves are on the road to hell, literally, in an action-adventure movie debuting at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday,” the newspaper wrote. “But what’s compelling about ‘Hell Grind’ isn’t the campy plot: It’s that every character, setting and prop in the 95-minute movie was generated by AI.” But we couldn’t find the AI movie on the official schedule of the prestigious event, which is held every year on the French Riviera. So we reached out to the organizers of the festival, who denied that they’re showing it at all, saying instead that the film was presented in a third-party screening at a local theater in the …

Can people identify AI-generated images? Try this experiment

Can people identify AI-generated images? Try this experiment

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artificial intelligence: A type of knowledge-based decision-making exhibited by machines or computers. The term also refers to the field of study in which scientists try to create machines or computer software capable of intelligent behavior. behavior: The way something (often a person or other organism) conducts itself or acts towards others. data: Facts and/or statistics collected together for analysis but not necessarily organized in a way that gives them meaning. For digital information (the type stored by computers), those data typically are numbers stored in a binary code, portrayed as strings of zeros and ones. digital: (in computer science and engineering)  An adjective indicating that something has been developed numerically on a computer or on some other electronic device, based on a binary system (where all numbers are displayed using a series of only zeros and ones). engine: A machine designed to convert energy into useful mechanical motion. Sometimes an engine is called a motor. (in computer science) A computer program that performs a particular, narrow range of functions. generator: A device used to convert mechanical …

Fans create AI-generated team songs ahead of World Cup | World Cup 2026 News

Fans create AI-generated team songs ahead of World Cup | World Cup 2026 News

Published by Sam Flores

Published On 21 May 202621 May 2026 World Cup fans are wielding artificial intelligence to mass-produce viral songs supporting their teams ahead of next month’s tournament. As the fan-made football anthems are raking in millions of plays across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, experts say that the viral tunes raise questions about song ownership, artist compensation and the valuation of human creativity. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list But many users do not appear to mind, with some even showing a preference for the AI-generated songs over an official anthem that football’s world governing body FIFA commissioned from musicians Jelly Roll and Carin Leon. A highly-anticipated World Cup track from Shakira was also released last week, but the fad of AI fan songs was still drumming up excitement on social media for the tournament taking place in cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico in June and July. The trend appears to have started with a song dedicated to the French team, “Imbattables”, released in February by artist Crystalo, who is listed on …