From a teacher’s body language, inflection, and other context clues, students often infer subtle information far beyond the lesson plan. And it turns out artificial-intelligence systems can do the ...

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Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up “subliminal” patterns in training data generated by another AI that can make their behavior unimaginably more dangerous, The Verge reports.

Fine-tuned “student” models can pick up unwanted traits from base “teacher” models that could evade data filtering, generating a need for more rigorous safety evaluations. Researchers have discovered ...

"subliminal advertising" began with the 1957 publication of Vance Packard's book, The Hidden Persuaders. Although Packard did not use the term "subliminal advertising," he did describe many of the new ...

Subliminal advertising conveys hidden messages of which viewers are not consciously aware. This ad strategy poses serious ethical issues, particularly because subliminal ads can manipulate consumer ...

Subliminal marketing involves the idea that an advertiser can display words or images during a commercial or broadcast so briefly that the viewer doesn't consciously notice them, but will still ...

When you’re young, you come to know quite quickly who’s pretty and who isn’t. If you’re pretty, people will tell you often and upfront. And if prettiness isn’t your overwhelmingly defining feature, ...

The boy pretty vs. girl pretty TikTok trend divides women into two categories: “Girl pretty” women are attractive to women, while “boy pretty” women are attractive to men. The first social media post ...

Kelleher is the author of The Ugly History of Beautiful Things, an essay collection that illuminates the darkness hidden behind our prettiest purchases The other week, my four-year-old daughter and I ...

In recent weeks, an image has been stirring debate on social media. Once again, artificial intelligence (A.I.), that great technological provocateur of the past 12 months, is to blame. At first glance ...