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🔗 linkblog: Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns'
Scary stuff. I don’t think I’ll ever be convinced that facial recognition tech does more good than harm.
🔗 linkblog: Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic'
In a roundabout way, I think this helps demonstrate why scraping data for generative AI isn’t a question of copyright. Even when there is a legal agreement, it can still be exploitative—it’s a question of digital labor.
🔗 linkblog: Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal'
Some better, broader coverage of complaints I made in a blog post earlier this week.
🔗 linkblog: New Catan game has overpopulation, pollution, fossil fuels, and clean energy'
Interesting! I haven’t been into Catan for years, but this could bring me back.
🔗 linkblog: Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data'
We live in a dumb timeline. Why are we turning TVs into surveillance machines?
🔗 linkblog: Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot'
Very interesting case.
🔗 linkblog: Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D'
Bookmarking for later reference. I get that there are some complicated factors at play here, but this still seems wrong to me.
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI went back on a promise to make key documents public | Ars Technica'
If OpenAI is going to be an influential company, it would be nice for it to be more transparent.
🔗 linkblog: Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos | Ars Technica'
The phrase popped into my head before the article could even get to it: We are the product.
🔗 linkblog: Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform | Ars Technica'
The headline obscures something important—that this is about research, access to data, and Terms of Service. Worrying stuff.
🔗 linkblog: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images | Ars Technica'
Content moderation is a good thing.
🔗 linkblog: Musk shut off Starlink to prevent Ukraine attack on Russian ships, report says | Ars Technica'
Don’t love the idea of a fickle billionnaire having this much influence in world affairs.
🔗 linkblog: As X bleeds cash, Musk threatens Anti-Defamation League with defamation lawsuit | Ars Technica'
This feels like a page out of Gab’s playbook.
🔗 linkblog: Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon | Ars Technica'
I’m not thrilled about AI’s ability to do this, but let’s be clear: Amazon is as much to blame here, and I like them even less.
🔗 linkblog: A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work | Ars Technica'
Haven’t read this yet, but I’m bookmarking for my classes.
🔗 linkblog: Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI | Ars Technica'
I don’t like generative AI, and I get grumpy about advice to accept it and work it into classes (even though I probably agree with that approach at the end of the day). For all that dislike and grumpiness, though, I feel even more strongly that AI detectors are not the way to go. This is a really interesting article.
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT users drop for the first time as people turn to uncensored chatbots | Ars Technica'
I get that it’s straightforward language that everyone will get, but I think “uncensored” is the wrong word here. Content moderation is not (necessarily) censorship, and content moderation is good and helpful for tools like generative AI.
🔗 linkblog: Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams | Ars Technica'
Content moderation is hard, and it’s especially hard at scale. Because AI makes doing things at scale easier, it necessarily makes content moderation harder.
🔗 linkblog: Musk apologizes for mocking and firing Twitter exec with muscular dystrophy | Ars Technica'
Twitter just gets worse and worse. What a joke.
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare, and we ought to be concerned | Ars Technica'
Important points in here.