Last week, the Copyright Office released the third and final part of its report exploring copyright-related issues posed by artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike the first two parts, the third was released as a “pre-publication” version. It was published less than a day after Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump
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Workado Settles With FTC Over Alleged Misrepresentations of AI Accuracy
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release this week announcing that it settled with Workado over alleged misrepresentations of its ability to detect whether content was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) or humans.
Workado’s AI Content Detector was marketed to consumers as a tool to decipher whether online content was generated by AI…
Threat Actors Use AI to Launch Identity Theft Scams
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
Identity theft will continue to rise in 2025. According to the Better Business Bureau of Missouri (BBB), it received over 16,000 identity theft complaints in the past three years. Scammers are “increasingly using advanced tactics such as artificial intelligence to exploit victims.”
The BBB notes that threat actors are taking over social media accounts to…
AI Powered Bot Targeted 400,000 Websites
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
SentinelOne researchers have discovered AkiraBot, which is used to target small- to medium-sized company websites with generative AI, and drafted outreach messages for website chats, comments, and contact forms. SentinelOne estimates that over 400,000 websites have been targeted, and the bot has successfully spammed “at least 80,000 websites since September 2024.”
The bot generated…
Cleo AI Agrees to $17 Million Settlement with FTC
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
Sometimes, deals are too good to be true. That was the case for Cleo AI, an online cash advance company that promised consumers fast, up-front cash payments. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Cleo AI offered consumers a mobile personal finance application that “promises consumers instant or same-day cash advances of hundreds of dollars.”…
AI Governance: Steps to Adopt an AI Governance Program
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
There are many factors to consider when assisting clients with assessing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in an organization and developing and implementing an AI Governance Program. Although adopting an AI Governance Program is a no-brainer, no form of a governance program is insufficient. Each organization has to evaluate how it will use…
AI Governance: The Problem of Shadow AI
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
If you hang out with CISOs like I do, shadow IT has always been a difficult problem. Shadow IT refers to refers to “information technology (IT) systems deployed by departments other than the central IT department, to bypass limitations and restrictions that have been imposed by central information systems. While it can promote innovation and…
What is AI Washing and Why are Companies Getting Sued?
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) usage over the last two years, companies are developing AI tools at an astonishing rate. When pitching their AI tools, these companies claim that their products can do certain things and promise and exaggerate their capabilities. AI washing “is a marketing tactic companies employ to exaggerate the amount…
Artists Protest AI Copyright Proposal in the U.K.
By Daniel Lass on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to turn the U.K. into an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower to help grow the British economy by using policies that he describes as “pro-innovation.” One of these policies proposed relaxing copyright protections. Under the proposal, initially unveiled in December 2024, AI companies could freely use copyrighted material to train…
Privacy Tip #434 – Use of GenAI Tools Escaping Corporate Policies
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Privacy Tips
According to a new LayerX report, most users are logging into GenAI tools through personal accounts that are not supported or tracked by an organization’s single sign on policy. These logins to AI SaaS applications are unknown to the organization and are “not subject to organizational privacy and data controls by the LLM tool.”…