Booksby.ai is an online bookstore which sells science fiction novels generated by an artificial intelligence.
Even the covers to this collection of AI-written science fiction novels were created by AI. The reviews are also written by AI. Titles include Bitches of the Points, Auro-Minds and the Hungers, The Table in 10, and Breath Chanter. Of course it’s an art project and the writing is a mess, but an excerpt from any of the books could be slipped in the pages of a Gor novel without anyone being the wiser. Read More
Daily Archives: October 18, 2019
With more US doors closing to China what are the supply chain options for its emerging AI champions?
China’s tech champions took a body check last week after eight of them were added to a US trade blacklist, preventing them from buying US technology.
The companies will shrug off US move, but ultimately they will have to find domestic alternatives to current US hardware. Read More
How a Bitcoin Trail Led to a Massive Dark Web Child-Porn Site Takedown
The Department of Justice said today that it has taken down the massive dark web child-porn site Welcome to Video. The site generated and distributed exploitative content, and had infrastructure in place that could have supported up to a million users. In a press conference this morning, US attorney Jessie Liu called it “one of the worst forms of evil imaginable.” …
The takedown is notable also for the investigation that enabled it, which focused not on offensive hacking efforts or surveilling encrypted communications, but on tracing bitcoin transactions. Read More
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