Use the ApplyGuardrail API with long-context inputs and streaming outputs in Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

Use the ApplyGuardrail API with long-context inputs and streaming outputs in Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications become more prevalent, maintaining responsible AI principles becomes essential. Without proper safeguards, large language models (LLMs) can potentially generate harmful, biased, or inappropriate content, posing risks to individuals and organizations. Applying guardrails helps mitigate these risks by enforcing policies and guidelines that align with ethical principles and legal requirements. Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock evaluates user inputs and model responses based on use case-specific policies, and provides an additional layer of safeguards regardless of the underlying foundation model (FM). Guardrails can be applied across all LLMs on Amazon Bedrock, including fine-tuned models and even generative…
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Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop

Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop

"We weren't happy about it at all, and we were absolutely not involved in putting it up."Porn ParadeDeath with dignity? Not in this AI age.In the latest horrifying turn in the slow-bleed demise of journalism, Wired reports that several beloved alt-weeklies, including LA Weekly and The Village Voice, have suddenly started running a deluge of suspiciously similar listicles recommending porn models.The listicles are almost certainly generated by AI, and to make matters worse, are being presented to readers as real editorial content.At the New York-based Village Voice — which, with its ceasing of publication in 2017 but subsequent revival in…
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Cribl Peers Into the Data Currents. Here’s What It Found

Cribl Peers Into the Data Currents. Here’s What It Found

(Image source: Cribl) IT observability firm Cribl today took the wraps off “Navigating the data current,” a new report that digs into details of its customers’ data operations from IT and security perspectives. Among the noteworthy trends highlighted by Cribl are the growth of data sources, the popularity of specific cloud destinations, and what’s going on with the SIEM market. Before we get into the report, it’s important to be aware of Cribl’s position in the IT observability market. The company, which was founded six years ago, serves as a sort of independent broker for fast-moving observability data, including event…
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Trump kicked off his NABJ appearance in a combative mood. It only got worse from there.

Trump kicked off his NABJ appearance in a combative mood. It only got worse from there.

Most people expected fireworks when it was announced that former President Donald Trump would appear at this year's National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago.And that's exactly what happened almost immediately after Trump walked onto the stage, as the former president complained about the tone of the first few questions that he was asked and accused Vice President Kamala Harris of downplaying her Indian heritage."I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black," the former president said of Harris."Is she Indian…
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Ingest data from SQL Server, Salesforce, and Workday with LakeFlow Connect

Ingest data from SQL Server, Salesforce, and Workday with LakeFlow Connect

We’re excited to announce the Public Preview of LakeFlow Connect for SQL Server, Salesforce, and Workday. These ingestion connectors enable simple and efficient ingestion from databases and enterprise apps—powered by incremental data processing and smart optimizations under the hood. LakeFlow Connect is also native to the Data Intelligence Platform, so it offers both serverless compute and Unity Catalog governance. Ultimately, this means organizations can spend less time moving their data and more time getting value from it.More broadly, this is a key step towards realizing the future of data engineering on Databricks with LakeFlow: the unified solution for ingestion, transformation…
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Senators introduce bill to protect individuals against AI-generated deepfakes

Senators introduce bill to protect individuals against AI-generated deepfakes

Today, a group of senators introduced the , a law that would make it illegal to create digital recreations of a person's voice or likeness without that individual's consent. It's a bipartisan effort from Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), fully titled the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2024.If it passes, the NO FAKES Act would create an option for people to seek damages when their voice, face or body are recreated by AI. Both individuals and companies would be held liable for producing, hosting or sharing…
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Meta’s AI Says Trump Wasn’t Shot

Meta’s AI Says Trump Wasn’t Shot

Facebook owner Meta had some very awkward questions to answer after its AI assistant denied that former president Donald Trump had been shot, even though he absolutely was indeed wounded by a gunman earlier this month — bizarre, conspiracy-laden claims that highlight the technology's glaring shortcomings, even with the resources of one of the world's most powerful tech companies behind it.It's especially striking, considering that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Trump's immediate reaction to being shot "badass" and inspiring, contradicting his company's lying chatbot.In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta's global head of policy Joel Kaplan squarely placed the blame…
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