Nintendo has added four new Retro games to its Switch Online membership: Kirby’s Dream Land 2 and BurgerTime Deluxe for the Game Boy collection, Xevious for the NES collection, and Side Pocket for the Super NES collection.
These classic titles are free if you’re already subscribed to the standard Switch Online membership ($3.99 monthly).
PimEyes, a “face search engine,” has populated its facial recognition database by scraping pictures from Ancestry.com without consent, allegedly allowing its algorithm to identify living people using images of deceased relatives by indexing their facial features.
Ancestry prohibits data scraping. PimEyes acknowledged its crawlers had “somehow broken the rule,” and is now blocking Ancestry’s domain and erasing facial indexes related to it.
During Black History month this year, students at Carmel High School in Carmel, New York created AI deepfake videos depicting their principal saying racist slurs and threatening Black students. According to local police, the students’ actions were completely legal.
Protections for deepfake victims are already murky. And as AI deepfaking tools become increasingly accessible, more incidents like this will likely emerge.
