AI could use online images as a backdoor into your computer, alarming new study suggests

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AI could use online images as a backdoor into your computer, alarming new study suggests

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A website announces, "Free celebrity wallpaper!" You browse the images. There's Selena Gomez, Rihanna and Timothée Chalamet — but you settle on Taylor Swift. Her hair is doing that wind-machine thing that suggests both destiny and good conditioner. You set it as your desktop background,…

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