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Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages
Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages
New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…
www.forbes.com
January 30, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Voice cloning startup ElevenLabs lands $80M, achieves unicorn status.

ℹ️ In business, a unicorn is a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion.
January 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Bluesky absolutely has to become the home of journalism online.

Twitter is now actively hostile towards journalists, Meta uses every opportunity possible to be malevolent towards journalism as an industry, and Mastodon doesn't want us there.

Truly, this is the only place that makes any sense.
it appears to be a purge
January 9, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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#Meta, not learning the lesson and doubling down on its spying.

It rolled a new setting that is turned on by default to track the links you click on in the #Facebook mobile app.

#PhilTech #privacy #Surveillance #AIEthics

gizmodo.com/meet-link-hi...
Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit
Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.
gizmodo.com
January 6, 2024 at 9:42 PM
The 7-day feed
January 2, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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On how facial recognition can lead to worse policing. Great, well documented examples of how human beings tend to defer to the algorithm against their common sense. #AIEthics #PhilTech #facialrecognition #AI #privacy #surveillance

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Does A.I. Lead Police to Ignore Contradictory Evidence?
Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation.
www.newyorker.com
December 8, 2023 at 9:33 PM
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Microsoft is reportedly planning to roll out an AI-focused version of Windows with the operating system's next big update: decrypt.co/209025/micro...
Microsoft May Be Working On an AI Edition of Windows - Decrypt
The 2024 Windows release is rumored to have AI in everything from its graphical user interface to its command line.
decrypt.co
December 8, 2023 at 9:20 AM
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Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2023 at 8:37 PM
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Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the Israel-Palestine hostilities.

This censorship is furthering the erasure of Palestinians’ suffering.
Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content
Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestini...
www.hrw.org
December 21, 2023 at 3:18 PM
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Psychological surveillance in schools creates more problems than it solves.

Read the report: www.stopspying.org/orwells-clas...
December 21, 2023 at 2:59 PM
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Stable Diffusion has removed a widely used AI training dataset after Stanford researchers found that the data scraper had ingested child sexual abuse material: decrypt.co/210461/stabi...
AI Training Data Included Child Sexual Abuse Material, Say Stanford Researchers - Decrypt
Illegal and inappropriate images are so pervasive, one researcher says, some tools depict nude women and children by default.
decrypt.co
December 21, 2023 at 10:03 AM
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“The finding highlights the danger of largely indiscriminate scraping of the internet for the purposes of generative artificial intelligence.”

Gee, go figure.
Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
The model is a massive part of the AI-ecosystem, used by Stable Diffusion and other major generative AI products. The removal follows discoveries made by Stanford researchers, who found thousands inst...
www.404media.co
December 20, 2023 at 8:05 PM
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The rise of AI fake news is creating a ‘misinformation superspreader’ "Since May, websites hosting AI-created false articles have increased by more than 1,000 percent" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The rise of AI fake news is creating a ‘misinformation superspreader’
Artificial intelligence is automating the creation of fake news, spurring an explosion of websites that can disseminate false information about wars and elections
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2023 at 5:19 PM
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Hugely important story revealing how X is allowing hate to flourish

www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusi...
Exclusive: the X Files – how Elon Musk’s new rules allow hate to flourish
Leaked documents reveal how staff of the social media channel were stripped of powers to remove toxic content from its platform
www.businesspost.ie
December 17, 2023 at 10:21 AM
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Twitter faces its first official EU government inquiry over failing to moderate illegal content and disinformation. decrypt.co/210217/twitt...
Twitter Faces EU Inquiry Over Failing to Moderate Illegal Content and Disinformation - Decrypt
The first-of-its-kind investigation will review whether Twitter did what it said it would do about Israel-Palestine content.
decrypt.co
December 19, 2023 at 9:28 AM
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I’m finding it shocking how quickly journalists are racing to Meta’s Threads, when we all know how hostile the company is to news.

For fun, I did a thread on Threads about this. Doubt it will get boosted by the algorithm there: www.threads.net/@julia__angw...
@julia__angwin on Threads
I’m finding it shocking how quickly journalists are embracing this platform given that we know how hostile Meta is to news. See latest example 👇🏼
www.threads.net
December 19, 2023 at 12:45 PM
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The social media platform x/Twitter, is being investigated for allegedly breaking EU law on disinformation, illegal content and transparency

#europe #EU #socialmedia #twitter #x #DSA #hatespeech #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #technology #tech

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news
EU launches proceedings against Elon Musk’s social media platform under new Digital Services Act
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2023 at 4:33 PM
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This is a year of big payouts:
Fox News pays out $787.5 million to Dominion to settle;
Facebook agrees pays out $725 million to settle data privacy lawsuit;
Google agrees to pay out $700 million to settle antitrust.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
102 million people eligible for Google’s $630M lawsuit settlement
Android phone users in the U.S. will also see changes in how they download apps as Google settles an antitrust lawsuit over the high fees it charges app developers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2023 at 1:34 PM
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Elon Musk should adapt to the Swedish system, not the other way around - FT editorial board
Tesla meets the European social model
Elon Musk should adapt to the Swedish system, not the other way around
www.ft.com
December 7, 2023 at 1:49 PM
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These losers would happily fuck a Roomba.
December 14, 2023 at 4:36 PM