Dr. Elinor Carmi
@elinorcarmi.bsky.social
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🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data politics/feminist data/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
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🤩🎉NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! 🎊 I am thrilled to share my new OPEN ACCESS paper with Panagiota Nakou - "Building data citizenship and learning to resist in the datafied
society" -
Here's a short 🧵 on what we did ->
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Abstract of the paper
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
I don't dare to go to the upside down...
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
DON'T WORRY EVERYONE, THEY MITIGATED MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES!
mattburgess1.bsky.social
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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agreenberg.bsky.social
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
Together with the TUC & other online harms experts, I signed a letter to call TikTok to:
1. Reverse the planned Trust& Safety redundancies in London
2. Maintain robust human-led content moderation standards
3. Respect workers' rights to organise w/o interference

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
UK MPs urged to investigate TikTok’s plans to cut 439 content moderator jobs
Trade unions and online safety experts sign letter warning jobs losses could expose children to harmful content
www.theguardian.com
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
Another opportunity to check @danmk.bsky.social and my article on how NSO normalizes its surveillance. Our analysis identified four legitimation practices: securitization, Zionist patriotism, ethics washing, and normalization

And it is open access 😉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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elinorcarmi.bsky.social
This is one of the funniest videos I've seen about people who rely too much on AI 😆
vm.tiktok.com/ZNdn6HT2T/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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Meta ends (at least for now) political ads in the EU today. Per their ad library data, they've run nearly 11,000,000 different political, social and issue ads in the EU since 2018 and made around €800m from them.
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jasonsanford.bsky.social
The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results
Welcome to the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website
Are you the legal or beneficial copyright owner of a book included in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement?
You could get a payment from the $1.5 billion Settlement.
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joolia.bsky.social
I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
www.theguardian.com
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mylee.bsky.social
Escape Misinformation in the Library (ESC-MISINFO) will build the capacity of public #libraries across Europe, helping them to become active hubs for youth engagement, digital literacy, and democratic participation.
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Escape Misinformation in the Library
esc-misinfo.eu
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
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cliu.bsky.social
The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
We know OpenAI is not making enough money to cover its insane costs, so by creating these kinds of tools, what they are doing is opening additional markets for disinformation, political intervention, scammers, conspiracy theorists, blackmail, and other types of crimes.
Crime pays off, apparently...
drewharwell.com
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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premnsikka.bsky.social
Streeting rules out VAT on private healthcare.

Govt levies VAT on private school fees. Why not on healthcare? Billions can be raised.

Private sector freeloads on NHS trained staff, doesn't pay for training. Makes excessive profits from NHS contracts.
Streeting rules out VAT on private healthcare
The health secretary says
www.bbc.co.uk
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
I am so bad at giving articles/chapters a good title.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it snappy? 🤔😐
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
Exactly. Plus, Eisenberg has that neurotic and awkwardness of Zuckerberg that I just don't think he will be able to portray as well.... but I guess let's see!
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
A real shame they didn't bring back Jesse Eisenberg, who was an amazing Zuckerberg.... Sorry I don't think Strong will manage to be as good...
The Social Network
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
Sending big hugs to you both 💜😘