The study, published in Security Journal, focuses on the role played by search engines in accessing Salafi-jihadi terrorist content on the surface web and beyond. It argues that due to the very nature of the World Wide Web, search engines may be exploited as primary gateways to harmful content, allowing followers of Salafi-jihadi violent extremist groups to find and law enforcement to detect crucial communication channels maintained by terrorist organisations easily.
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September 11 remains a day when we reflect on how terrorism has changed not only the way states respond to the phenomenon, but also how citizens react to government decisions, international affairs, and counterterrorism measures under the fear of victimization.
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The Half-Measure of Human-Grounded AI Ethics. Within the context outlined thus far, as argued by Coeckelbergh and Sætra, the debate carried on by LLMs ongoing development seems to be between two main point of view: the Marxist concept of “technological determinism” and the “technological instrumentalism” or “technical orthodoxy”.
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Huge fires have been devastating Los Angeles for days. The damage is enormous. What do we know? What don’t we know? What to think?
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Mimicking a Moral Course for LLMs. The first way to stem LLMs from a conversation driving to inappropriate content are the so-called “guardrail messages,” as “I’m sorry, I cannot generate inappropriate or offensive content” or “As a large language model, I cannot … ”.
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A Noisy Digital Environment as a Biased Dataset. As previously analyzed, human language in public and political debates impacts not only how individuals form opinions but also how AI systems, including LLMs, interact with users and further shape political discourse.
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L’attentato ai mercatini di Natale di Magdeburgo di qualche giorno fa non introduce grandi novità nell’ambito della definizione di un nuovo tipo di terrorismo e innovative forme di estremismo.
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The Human Touch in LLMs.
As previously analyzed, LLMs represent a significant step toward human-like AI interaction. While they lack true understanding, they learn to associate words and interpret meaning through data analysis.
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Gli arresti dei tre palestinesi a L’Aquila, membri dell’unità “Tulkarem-Risposta Rapida” delle Brigate al-Aqsa risvegliano l’attivismo del terrorismo palestinese legato all’organizzazione al-Fatah, quando tutti gli occhi erano puntati su Hamas in seguito all’eccidio perpetrato dall’organizzazione terrorista di stampo islamista lo scorso 7 ottobre nel sud d’Israele.
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Shortly after the clashes in Ukraine, the apparently silent Israeli-Palestinian conflict reignited, at least in the Western media. A few months later, more blood, death and hostages between polarised information and a desperate plea for peace. Diversity has historically been a potential source of friction and misunderstanding.
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L’attentato estremista di lunedì 16 Ottobre a Bruxelles che vede la morte di due turisti svedesi ha riacceso l’attenzione sulla questione sicurezza e rischi attentati in Europa.
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During the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, PMC Wagner exploited online and offline support of some military groups, including:
All these units were orbiting around the PMC Wagner as embedded support groups. Starting from their online propaganda we theorized a pro-Wagner alliance system (figure 1).
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