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Police say they believe abducted child was murdered as body found in Outback

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Police say they believe abducted child was murdered as body found in Outback

An Australian man has been charged with murder after the body of a 17-year-old girl was found in a suitcase in Thailand.Police in the coastal city of Pattaya said they found Tunchanok Donhomla "stuffed" in the bag, which had been discarded near a railway track, in the early hours of Saturday.Thai police said they arrested Simon Peter Carman at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport in connection with the death as he was allegedly "preparing to flee the country".He denies the charges. In a message issued to the victim's family after his arrest, Carman said: "I feel bad for what happened to your daughter. It was out of my control."Pattaya City Police said the 17-year-old had been reported missing at 17:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on Friday. In a statement on social media, the force said it reviewed CCTV footage that allegedly showed Carman entering a condominium with Donholma at 03:34 on Thursday. Late that evening, he emerged alone "carrying a large suitcase".The statement said he loaded the bag onto a motorbike before driving towards a railway line.Officers questioned and arrested Carman at the airport in Bangkok, some 150km (93 miles) north of Pattaya, at 01:15 on Saturday.The teenager's naked body was found in a suitcase about 15 minutes later, the force said.Carman denied murder and further charges related to moving or concealing a body and taking a minor for sexual purposes, and claimed he had acted in self defence.Media reports state that Carman told police he had agreed to pay Donholma 1,000 baht (£23, US$30, A$43) for sexual services, but that they had an argument when they returned to his apartment and he offered only 500 baht. Thai police told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that Carman also claimed Donhomla had "disappeared from the room" while he was asleep.In a video recorded while he was in custody, the suspect issued a message to the Donholma's family, saying: "I feel bad for what happened to your daughter. It was out of my control.""I know you'll be very sad, upset… same [as] me."He added: "Please tell other girls… just to be careful."Colonel Anek Srathongyoo, Superintendent of the Pattaya City Police Station, told the ABC that Carman "has fingernail scratches across his body that are consistent with a struggle, but he denies killing her".In another police video clip Carman is seen being asked about the scratch marks. "I think it's a spider; they always get in here," he replies.Donhomla's family told the ABC she was an only child who lived with her father and step-mother in the province of Kalasin, about 480km northeast of Pattaya. The teen, whose nickname was Cake, had told her parents she wanted to go on holiday with a friend, and had travelled to Pattaya on 16 June.Her father, Thongchai Donhomla, said he was "deeply saddened" by his daughter's death. "My daughter had no mother, so whenever she wanted anything, she would find a way herself, and she always helped me too," he told a local reporter.Her step-mother, Oradee Bussarakum, said "We were scared. We just hoped it wouldn't turn out the way we feared. Now our eyes are swollen from crying.""I just want him executed ... I even asked the police if I could hit him, if I could beat him," she added.If convicted of murder, Carman could face the death penalty.

LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false

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LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false

In the middle of New York City’s Times Square, a massive, inflatable effigy of billionaire Elon Musk towered over tourists and commuters earlier today. It was surrounded by black banners with statements alleging “Grok makes AI child porn” and “SpaceX owns Grok,” referring to the Musk-owned AI chatbot whose image-generation tool was used to create a flood of sexualized images of minors earlier this year. Masked attendants stood nearby, handing out flyers with additional information, but they would not speak with the media.The demonstration was helmed by Safe AI Now (SAIN), which describes itself as “a coalition of faith leaders, family advocates, child development experts, online safety organizations, educators, legal professionals, technologists, and concerned citizens,” ahead of SpaceX’s initial public offering on Friday. The location was strategically chosen—right in front of the Nasdaq and the offices of JP Morgan, one of the banks participating in the IPO.SpaceX is currently valued at $1.77 trillion, making it the largest company ever to debut on the stock market, with a starting price of $135 per share. Though the public is able to buy shares in the company, Musk will retain the majority of voting power, giving him the ability to almost unilaterally make decisions for the company. The IPO could also make him the world’s first trillionaire.But a SAIN representative, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from Musk, told WIRED that this structure represents a real threat to the company that investors and banks backing the IPO are not taking seriously.“This IPO is a liability shift,” they say. “Elon is responsible for all of this. It's all the decisions that he's made. All of those litigation expenses, regulatory fines, investigations, all of that is basically being shifted to the shareholders.”SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In February, Musk announced that SpaceX was buying xAI, the artificial intelligence company Musk founded and the developer of Grok. The announcement came just as xAI was facing scrutiny both in the US and abroad for the chatbot’s ability to generate nude photos of women and children. In January, the European Commission announced it would be investigating the company to “assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks” to prevent the creation of nonconsensual sexual imagery. In March, three girls filed a class action lawsuit against xAI because its technology was allegedly used to generate nudes of them, and in January, 35 state attorneys general signed an open letter to the company, demanding that it take action to remove nonconsensual sexual imagery and put guardrails in place to prevent the tool from doing so in the future. Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children, also filed suit against xAI for allegedly creating sexually explicit images of her.Today, WIRED reported that Grok is hosting nonconsensual, explicit sexualized images of women, including US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and celebrities.In a February post on X, which Musk also owns, he wrote that “Grok must win or we will be ruled by an insufferably woke and sanctimonious AI.”“It's really easy to get distracted by the shiny IPO news. And I think that's what they're kind of hoping will happen,” the SAIN representative says. “But there's real harm, real risk. I think if we are normalizing everywhere—from the banks that are underwriting it to the NASDAQ that's listing it to the shareholders who are buying into it—a company that has this really toxic platform in Grok, normalizing that type of explicit imagery, there’s a real problem.”Most people passing by seemed unfazed by the massive, shirtless image of Musk, which sported a shoulder tattoo shaped like a heart and reading “ketamine” and another showing an image of the billionaire’s Nazi-like salute shortly after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2025, with a few stopping to take photos before moving on.

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