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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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This thread unpacks the questionable motives of the author whose guest essay about not voting was published in the NYT today (cool timing, guys! Very patriotic!) I don't see the point of choosing to publish such a view in a country with comparatively low turnout www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?

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I just posted a draft of my latest article with Daniel Solove, "The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy." We argue that scraping is in fundamental tension to the core principles of privacy and that reconciliation is overdue. We propose a public interest framework for scraping.

The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacypapers.ssrn.com <p>Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping” – the automated extraction of large amounts of data f

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MAIHT3k Ep 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire … in which the magnificent Prof. @safiyanoble.bsky.social joined me and @alex.bsky.social to situate the problems with Google's AI overviews in the context of Google's history of bad practices. Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production!

Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000www.buzzsprout.com You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's AI overviews. But the problems with the internet's most-used search engine go way back. UCLA scholar and

“…Proton is launching the ability to create, edit, and collaborate on end-to-end encrypted documents within its online file storage systems.”

Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docswww.wired.com Proton is adding an end-to-end encrypted documents editor to its privacy tools, boosting its competition with Google’s suite of productivity apps.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain textwww.theverge.com Oops.

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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

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What's the name of that Futurama episode with Lucy Liu where downloading the likeness of old celebrities to turn into hollow dolls caused them physical pain

“The company said it made deals with the estates of the actors whose voices are being used, but did not share details about compensation.”

AI resurrects deceased actors’ voices to read audiobooks | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you’ll soon be able to hear her rendition of the children’s novel that inspired the movie nonethel...

“The company said it made deals with the estates of the actors whose voices are being used, but did not share details about compensation.”

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🤦‍♀️ layered security, people, layered security

OpenAI updates its ChatGPT macOS app to encrypt locally stored conversations, after a user discovered that the app was storing chats in plain text (Jay Peters/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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oh. another story that journalism actually does make enough money but not in the right way so it looks like its losing money. WaPo edition.

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If people are wondering why Meta is floundering, it's because Zuck had one good idea: rip off Friendster. Dude has never created anything. He even ripped off Hot or Not for his Facemash thing.

"’There are significant risks involved in developing and deploying AI and there can be no assurance that the usage of AI will enhance our products or services or be beneficial to our business, including our efficiency or profitability,’ Meta's 2023 annual report read.”

Tech giants like Google and Meta are admitting AI could actually hurt their businesseswww.businessinsider.com AI seems like it's everywhere, with companies racing to develop the new tech. Still, tech giants have started acknowledging the risks, too.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi

Literally admits that "hallucinations" and bias are "limitations of GenAI systems themselves." My god 😂😭

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So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄 www.404media.co/google-ai-po...

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bugwww.404media.co “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

“Companies with voice-ordering technology say their AI doesn’t replace jobs — it just frees up workers for other tasks. They also tout secondary benefits.” 🙄 Businesses & other institutions work hard to maintain this lie when the people making these tools explicitly say the tools exist to kill jobs

AI drive-thru ordering is on the rise — but it may take years to iron out its flawswww.cnbc.com Artificial intelligence is closer than ever to taking down drive-thru orders, but fast-food restaurants like McDonald's show that the tech still needs time.

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Their rhetoric is always “let AI do the boring stuff so teachers can focus on the important things.” But then they turn around and claim AI can/should do all of the art and practice of teaching. The vision of AI in education is scale, not learning.

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Folks so anti cancel culture you helped cancel most of your rights and now are helping fascists rewrite history

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I'm incredibly proud to be part of the latest issue of the BU Law Review, which features essays from our fall symposium on "Information Privacy at the Crossroads." I think these essays are a fantastic reflection of where we've been, where we are, and where we can and should be going.

Volume 104, Issue 4 | Law Reviewwww.bu.edu

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Industry will take everything from us in developing AI tools. We will get used to it. This will be done "for our benefit," exhibit no. 1,324,528. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

No matter who says that these tools aren’t intended to replace teachers or how many times it’s said, that’s exactly what will happen. (Or it will be used as a justification for eliminating teacher jobs because now teachers can “grade” more efficiently) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-t...

Two AI Truths and a Liepapers.ssrn.com Industry will take everything it can in developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. We will get used to it. This will be done for our benefit. Two of these

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sooo much AI boosterism is just a desperate attempt to make people forgot about algorithmic bias literature

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This piece is full of head-scratching quotes, but the strangest is a teacher who asserts that the “ai” tools keep her from bringing “bias” into her grading.

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students use AI to generate essays; educators use AI to grade it… AI that is built on the backbone of stolen data and packaged as a shiny EdTech tool that educational institutes have to pay a fortune for… folks, do you see who benefits from all of this?

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"These big box hardware stores aren't intended to replace neighborhood hardware stores . . ."

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It's a risible fig leaf to say what they are intended to do when everyone including their creators knows what people /will/ do with them.

This piece is full of head-scratching quotes, but the strangest is a teacher who asserts that the “ai” tools keep her from bringing “bias” into her grading.

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The article mentions that the US lags behind Britain in smart highways, but does not mention that safety concerns have dogged the UK's to the point that the govt abandoned building more last year and is now spending close to a billion pounds trying to make the existing ones less dangerous.

“There’s something disconcerting about a sophisticated piece of surveillance technology deployed for something as banal as selling candy.”

I Don’t Want to Pay for Things with My Face | The Walrusthewalrus.ca Attention shoppers, there's a data grab masquerading as a perk in aisle five