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All storiesHachette Pulls Horror Novel 'Shy Girl' After AI-Generated Text Suspicions
Hachette Book Group has announced it will not publish the horror novel "Shy Girl" in the U.S. and will discontinue it in the UK following concerns that the text was AI-generated. The decision followed public speculation from readers on GoodReads and YouTube, as well as a direct inquiry from The New York Times. Author Mia Ballard denies using AI herself, blaming an editor she had hired for the self-published version and stating she is pursuing legal action.
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AI-Generated Pro-Trump Women Soldiers, Truckers & Cops Go Viral — and Many Think They're Real
Social media accounts are spreading AI-generated images of women depicted as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and police officers, with thousands of users apparently believing these fabricated personas are real people. The trend highlights the growing challenge of distinguishing AI-generated content from authentic social media profiles. The viral spread of these accounts underscores how AI image generation tools are being weaponized for political influence campaigns.
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Kaiser Therapists Strike Over AI-Assisted Screening System They Say Endangers Mental Health Patients
About 2,400 northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health workers, represented by the National Union of Health Care Workers (NUHW), staged a one-day strike to protest a new patient screening system introduced in January 2024 that replaced licensed therapists with clerical workers and online questionnaires for initial mental health assessments. Therapists claim the changes have caused high-risk patients to wait longer for care while low-risk patients clog the system, with over 70 reported negative care outcomes filed in an administrative complaint. Workers also raised alarms about Kaiser's potential use of AI to replace licensed therapists, citing concerns around tools like the AI note-taking software Abridge and an algorithm allegedly used to generate triage scores.
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NC Man Pleads Guilty to $10M AI Music Fraud Scheme — One of the First of Its Kind
Michael Smith, 52, of Cornelius, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud after flooding music streaming platforms with thousands of AI-generated songs and using bots to rack up billions of fake streams, netting over $10M in fraudulent royalties. The scheme, which ran from 2017 to 2024, is among the first successful prosecutions of AI-related fraud in the music industry. Smith now faces up to five years in prison and must forfeit over $8 million when sentenced in July.
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FBI Admits Buying Americans' Location Data, Exposing Mass Surveillance Loophole That AI Makes Far More Dangerous
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed under oath that the agency purchases commercially available data on Americans, including location data, bypassing the warrant requirements established by the Supreme Court. This revelation comes amid Anthropic's high-profile standoff with the Pentagon over preventing its AI from being used for domestic mass surveillance, highlighting how data broker loopholes already enable large-scale surveillance without AI — and how AI could make it exponentially more powerful. OpenAI, which signed a Pentagon contract Anthropic refused, added language prohibiting "intentional" domestic surveillance, but privacy experts warn the wording is too vague to be enforceable.
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UK-OpenAI Partnership All Talk, No Action — Zero Trials Eight Months In
Eight months after the UK government signed a high-profile memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, a Freedom of Information request has revealed that the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has conducted zero trials under the agreement. Despite ministers touting the partnership as a means to "address society's greatest challenges" through AI-led public service reform, the only tangible outcome cited was enabling Ministry of Justice civil servants to access ChatGPT. Critics and policy experts are questioning the government's intent, accountability, and the lack of measurable goals in these voluntary big-tech AI partnerships.
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