#AI misuse
4 stories taggedAI misuse.

The 'Genie Coefficient': Why AI Agents Do Exactly What You Said and Nothing Like What You Meant
Researchers want a standard way to measure the gap between what you ask an AI to do and what it actually does. The distance between those two things is growing, and it matters.

Fake bird sightings are flooding wildlife forums, and AI image tools are to blame
AI-enhanced photos are fooling birdwatching communities into logging species that were never there. Scientists who rely on that data have a problem.

A Film Studio Is Selling an AI 'Odyssey' Knockoff to Ride Nolan's Wave
Fountain 0 has released a trailer for Odysseus: The Fall, an AI-generated movie timed to compete with Christopher Nolan's blockbuster. The result says a lot about where AI filmmaking actually stands.

A Security Researcher Tricked Major AI Chatbots Into Explaining How to Make Weapons. Nobody Seemed to Care.
Dave Kuszmar found a simple way to fool large language models into ignoring their own safety rules. It worked on almost every major AI system he tested, and the companies he warned mostly did not respond.