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  • States rush to police AI deepfakes ahead of midterm elections
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    Plus, Claude-generated text will be watermarked, and federal regulators order Kalshi to continue to operate in NY state. Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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  • Can Silicon Valley give AI good taste?
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    Critic and journalist Sophie Haigney argues taste is a distinctly human quality that even the best AI can’t replicate.

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  • TikTok excluded millions from crucial safety guardrails
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    An internal document reveals the short-form video platform excluded 15 million American users from its algorithm update that was meant to limit their exposure to harmful content.

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  • AI subscriptions are rapidly taking over baby nurseries
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    There's a cottage industry of smart baby monitors and apps that are fueled by artificial intelligence. They track an infant's sleep patterns, but also give parental advice, says Sapna Maheshwari, who wrote about some of these startups for The New York Times.

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  • Substack's CEO on the platform’s new AI detector
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    Substack CEO Chris Best said the platform’s new feature is intended to promote transparency between creators and their audience. But some are concerned about the tool’s accuracy.

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  • Gig workers train humanoids on household chores
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    Plus, SpaceX seems to be spending billions on scaling up launches, and MySpace’s owners flirt with the relaunch of the OG social network.

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  • AI chatbots have linguistic slips when they go off-script
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    Because the advanced chatbots are trained on global data, it may choose to spew a word relating to a conversation in a different language. This could mean the large language model decided to cue up the next relevant token erroneously, says Janelle Shane, who writes the AI Weirdness blog.

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  • AI-driven law could be an answer to accessible legal help
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    Advances in the technology could soon enable "personalized" legal help that adapts explanations and legal guidance to individuals, according to Benjamin Alarie, author of the new book "Superjustice: Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence."

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  • China’s soft power play in the global AI arms race
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    Over the past couple of months, China’s influence over the global AI industry has grown. Adam Segal at the Council of Foreign Relations says much of that growth is thanks to China’s adoption of the open-weighted model.

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