Image: The Verge If you're on LinkedIn, then you should know that the social network has, without asking, opted accounts into training generative AI models. 404Media reports that LinkedIn introduced the new privacy setting and opt-out form before rolling out an updated privacy policy saying that data from the platform is being used to train AI models. As TechCrunch notes, it has since updated the policy.

Image: The Verge A few months ago, my doctor showed off an AI transcription tool he used to record and summarize his patient meetings. In my case, the summary was fine, but researchers cited by ABC News have found that's not always the case with OpenAI's Whisper, which powers a tool many hospitals use - sometimes it just makes things up entirely.Whisper is used by a company called Nabla for a medical transcription tool that it estimates has transcribed 7 million medical conversations, according to ABC News. More than 30,000 clinicians and 40 health systems use it, the outlet writes. Nabla is reportedly aware that Whisper can hallucinate, and is addressing the problem."A group of researchers from Cornell University, the University of Washington, and... Continue reading...

Image: The Verge The Wall Street Journal is experimenting with AI-generated article summaries that appear at the top of its news stories. The summaries appear as a Key Points" box with bullets summarizing the piece. The Verge spotted the test on a story about Trump's plans for the Department of Education, and the Journal confirmed it's trialing the feature to see how readers respond.The Key Points" box has a message explaining that an artificial intelligence tool created this summary" and that the summary was checked by an editor. The box also points to a page about how the WSJ and Dow Jones Newswires use AI tools. Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge The AI-generated Key Points" from this WSJ article. We are always... Continue reading...