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Amid a mental health crisis, Talkspace pledged to expand young people’s access to therapy. Company data shows few were served while the tech platform raked in millions.

An examination of SEC filings and defense deals ties Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. to AI-powered drone manufacturer XTEND.

A police technology CEO said at least 50% of a police department’s workload can be automated. One local sergeant found the idea “absurd.”

A police technology CEO said at least 50% of a police department’s workload can be automated. One local sergeant found the idea “absurd.”

Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges. The end goal: training a soon-to-be-relea...

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The United States leads the world at the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI). Cutting-edge AI will have profound implications for national security

Tech companies’ water use is skyrocketing and they’re falling behind on their attempts to reduce their water footprint.

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AI companies are not telling us the true carbon costs of building and using AI.

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You deserve better facts. Proof provides data-driven reporting and analysis of the most important questions of our time.

Your support enables Proof to pursue rigorous data-driven reporting and analysis of the most important questions of our time. Proof’s approach to questioning, testing, and investigating ensures that w...

DuckDuckGo is donating $1.1 million in 2024 to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

Although the daily challenges of reporting and publishing have never been greater, both must continue to evolve. Being a leader of that change is the mission of Julia Angwin and her team at Proof News...

Proof News presented examples of debunked election misinformation to five leading consumer facing AI products.

If you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, about voter fraud in English, it starts off by correctly telling you that such fraud is “incredibly rare,” and gives you a list of topics that are “more product...

And other performance issues when it comes to language models and geologyj

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Research from the Center for Democracy and Technology found problems with AI models' responses to over 60% of 77 election-related prompts.

Research from the Center for Democracy and Technology found problems with AI models' responses to over 60% of 77 election-related prompts.

Research from the Center for Democracy and Technology found problems with AI models' responses to over 60% of 77 election-related prompts.

Posed questions about Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, top AI models generated misleading information 30 percent of the time.

Despite employee concerns, management encouraged massive scraping of copyrighted content, documents show

How accurately do leading AI models respond to questions about Black history?

How accurately do leading AI models respond to questions about Black history? “I would give them probably a C,” Black history educator and content creator Er...

YouTubers have long wondered whether their work has been scraped by AI companies to train their models — but Proof News investigative reporter Annie Gilbertson has proven it. She found that big companies, including Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Bloomberg have all used a dataset containing the transcripts to more than 170,000 YouTube videos, including videos by megastars like Mr. Beast, Marques Brownlee, and PewDiePie. In this interview, Proof founder Julia Angwin talks to Annie about the investigation and what went into it. The interview is the first in our new series, Proof Ingredients. In this series, Julia will talk to journalists, researchers and content creators about what their investigations are made of, walking through the hypothesis, sample size, techniques, key findings, and limitations. Hopefully these ingredients help you evaluate our work and give you a framework for judging other news, too. Read the full investigation and search the data to see if your own videos were used on our website, proofnews.org. Proofnews.org www.tiktok.com/@proof_news twitter.com/proof__news Join us in making trustworthy, verifiable information the new baseline: www.proofnews.org/donateate/

Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge

A survey by Proof News shows that many AI voice cloning services don’t require any proof of a human’s consent — just a simple click of an “I agree” button