French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced a bill to sharply increase penalties for spreading false content during elections. He set out the plan in the Senate on 8 July, according to Public Sénat, in response to a question about AI in the coming presidential campaign. Lecornu argued that current penalties are “not sufficiently deterrent”. He […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
Meta's Oversight Board has examined the planned global expansion of Community Notes. Its conclusion: the system is too slow, too thinly staffed, and vulnerable to manipulation, especially given t [...]
A NewsGuard audit found that Mistral's Le Chat repeats state-sponsored disinformation about the Iran war about half the time. The error rate ranged from 10 percent for neutral queries to 80 perce [...]
Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overviews that came back [...]