Bobby Allen

Reddit says AI search engine Perplexity and other data scraping companies engage in an industrial-scale, unlawful collection of comments from millions of the site's users.

Lawyers for Reddit compare the actions to would-be bank robbers who can't get into a vault, so they break into an armored truck instead.

Perplexity denied the allegations, saying its practices remained principled and responsible.

A wave of lawsuits are now playing out centered on how AI companies train chatbots to become so powerful.

Vast corners of the internet have been scanned without permission, spurring copyright lawsuits from publications like the New York Times.

In this case, Reddit says other AI chatbots have struck licensing deals, but perplexity has refused.

Bobby Allen, NPR News.

Meta is laying off about 600 employees who work on AI development.

That's according to an internal announcement confirmed by NPR.

There are still thousands of Meta employees working on AI projects, including superintelligence, or building AI systems that can exceed the capabilities of the human brain.

But the layoffs indicate that some of Meta's recent AI hiring has been overzealous.

It comes just as investor fears grow that the AI industry has become a bubble that could pop and cause economic upheaval.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spent billions to recruit top AI talent from OpenAI, Google, and other tech companies to try to stave off competition in the AI race.

Bobby Allen, NPR News.

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Since OpenAI launched its Sora 2 app three weeks ago, thousands of realistic-looking deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr.

have flooded social media.

Some of the videos were ridiculous and absurd.

Others were offensive and racist.