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🔗 linkblog: Cops Released a Car’s Travel History to a Total Stranger'


ALPRs suck.

🔗 linkblog: OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo'


I don’t think intellectual property is the way to fight back against generative AI, but it is wildly out of line for a company who profits off using other’s intellectual property to be this petty.

🔗 linkblog: We Can, and We Must, Clown on the Humane AI Pin Forever'


I have not been following this discourse, but I feel like I’d agree with this article even if I had and, besides, the article makes me glad I haven’t been following it.

🔗 linkblog: Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child'


Ugh, so creepy.

🔗 linkblog: All Bad Bosses at Amazon Are Now Named ‘Wayne’'


Funny meme, depressing reality.

🔗 linkblog: Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money'


Helpful reminder that it’s low-paid, underappreciated workers who contribute to AI as much as high-paid programmers and household-name executives.

🔗 linkblog: Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books'


This strikes me as illustrating the digital labor issues associated with generative AI. It’s someone else profiting off of one’s work.

🔗 linkblog: Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools'


Aw, geez, and I liked Automattic, too. I get that financing Tumblr is hard, but why this?

🔗 linkblog: Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base''


There are few phrases grosser than “monetizing our user base.”

🔗 linkblog: University of Michigan Sells Recordings of Study Groups and Office Hours to Train AI'


This is straight-up awful. Shame on the university for doing this.

🔗 linkblog: ‘Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI’: How Universities Bend Over Backwards to Accommodate Food Delivery Robots'


I work on a campus with Starship robots, so this was a fascinating read.