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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 2h

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Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 2h

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Governments are spending billions on their own ‘sovereign’ AI technologies – is it a big waste of money?

Many US-built AI systems fall short but competing against tech giants neither easy nor cheap

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 4h

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Legendary Apple designer Jony Ive wants to fix our relationship with the phones he helped create—and has up to 20 different OpenAI gadgets to do so | Fortune

Ive said he hopes the new generation of AI-first devices brings more joy and less anxiety.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 7h

BBC News - MrBeast: AI means it's 'scary times' for YouTube creators - BBC News
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MrBeast: AI means it's 'scary times' for YouTube creators

He says he's worried about what will happen to millions of creators when AI videos are as good as normal ones.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 8h

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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 9h

BBC News - ChatGPT image snares suspect in deadly Pacific Palisades fire
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Pacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigators

Investigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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Suspected Chinese government operatives used ChatGPT to shape mass surveillance proposals, OpenAI says | CNN Politics

Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and to help promote another that allegedly scans social media accounts for “...

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’

Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

We can’t count our way out: Rethinking quantification amidst digital Authoritarianism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 1d

NEW: Justice systems around the world are struggling to address damage from deepfakes, which are increasingly used for financial scams, in political messaging, and to spread non-consensual sexual imagery

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes

AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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Launching Sora responsibly

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app with safety at the foundation. Our approac...

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

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How AI became our personal assistant

New data shows the ways millions have integrated the technology into their everyday lives

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

Can Donald Trump muzzle America’s press?
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From The Economist

Can Donald Trump muzzle America’s press?

He has bullied some outlets, but intimidating them all is a daunting task

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 1d

Why AI systems may never be secure, and what to do about it
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From The Economist

Why AI systems may never be secure, and what to do about it

A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 2d

techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/t...

Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch

The Texas senator blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.

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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 2d

BBC News - One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China - BBC News
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One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China

BBC News is given access to what the Met Police says is the UK's largest operation against mobile phone thefts.

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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 2d

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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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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