A 50-megawatt AI project just died in a barangay hall.
A Norwegian firm withdrew its 50-megawatt AI data center proposal in Oton, Iloilo three days after residents rejected it, a Sainsbury's face scanner had an innocent shopper walked out of the store, and 404 Media tracked a rare book to an Amazon facility that cuts spines off to feed AI training.
Oton killed its 50-megawatt AI plan
The Norwegian firm behind a 50-megawatt AI data center on 10 hectares in Oton, Iloilo pulled its proposal on Monday, three days after residents rejected it and its executive cursed at reporters and walked out of the public consultation.
A face scanner threw out a shopper
Sainsbury's has paused the face-scanning system Facewatch in its East Dulwich store after two managers refused to serve Matt Arnold, walked him out, and left a red circle around his face on the shop's monitor.
Amazon is shredding rare books
404 Media hid a tracking device inside a rare book, sold it, and followed it to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas where books have their spines cut off and are scanned to train AI, then destroyed.
A $3.48M report cited fake papers
The $3.48 million trial used to justify Australia's under-16 social media ban links to academic articles that do not exist, and its authors admit ChatGPT was used in editing while denying it invented the citations.
A librarian wrote the AI off switch
A free guide at NoToAI.org lists the exact menu taps that switch AI off in the apps that added it uninvited, covering Adobe Acrobat, Android, Gemini, Windows and more, written from questions asked at a library help desk.