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🔗 linkblog: Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are using ChatGPT to improve cyberattacks'
Hmm. Unsurprising but all the more frustrating for it.
🔗 linkblog: The ‘queer.af’ Mastodon instance disappeared because of the Taliban'
Domain name infrastructure plays a bigger role than we might think.
🔗 linkblog: Taylor Swift joins Elon Musk in trying to silence student who tracks celebrity jets'
Hate to see Swift taking a page out of Musk’s book here.
🔗 linkblog: Spotify accuses Apple of ‘extortion’ with new App Store tax - The Verge'
I don’t like Spotify, but they’re not wrong here.
🔗 linkblog: Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone - The Verge'
Sideloading for Americans, too, please.
🔗 linkblog: X is being flooded with graphic Taylor Swift AI images - The Verge'
I don’t get what’s missing from a world without generative AI—and examples like this don’t make me any more convinced.
🔗 linkblog: I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy - The Verge'
Yeah, but don’t worry, this is definitely the only way that generative AI will be used to overwhelm us with useless content.
🔗 linkblog: Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content - The Verge'
There are legitimately difficult content moderation decisions, but this is not one of them. Shame on Substack for this approach.
🔗 linkblog: Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse - The Verge'
I think folks are right to distrust Meta, but Threads with ActivityPub seems to me to be clearly better than Threads without.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk unbans conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from X - The Verge'
This… this is even worse than just giving him an account back. Ugh.
🔗 linkblog: Blue checks on X are ‘superspreaders’ of Israel-Hamas war misinformation - The Verge'
Looks like Masnick’s (and others’) predictions about Musk’s changes to Twitter are coming true. This isn’t what verification is for.
🔗 linkblog: Reddit will no longer allow users to opt out of ad personalization - The Verge'
It baffles me when platforms think “oh, but we can help you see more relevant ads” is a selling point. Also, “not sharing data outside Reddit” doesn’t help either—it’s still an invasion of privacy.
🔗 linkblog: FTC files a massive antitrust lawsuit against Amazon - The Verge'
Amazon is too big, and while I’m not a policy expert, I welcome government efforts to keep it in check.
🔗 linkblog: Gizmodo’s owner shuts down Spanish language site in favor of AI translations - The Verge'
Gizmodo’s owner seems way too optimistic about AI.
🔗 linkblog: An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban - The Verge'
Even if ChatGPT could be trusted to do this task, “let’s remove books from libraries with less work” is a good example of how efficiency isn’t always a good thing.
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI wants GPT-4 to solve the content moderation dilemma - The Verge'
Look, if an automated process could save human moderators from the awful work they have to do, I’d be all for it. I’m unconvinced that GPT-4 could do it, though.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk keeps getting creepier - The Verge'
I think this is two weeks in a row that I’ve shared Casey Newton’s Platformer column, but that’s because it’s two weeks in a row he’s written something important.
🔗 linkblog: It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk - The Verge'
Casey Newton has some good insight here.
🔗 linkblog: Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler - The Verge'
This is a welcome step, but I’m concerned it’s an empty, distracting gesture—it certainly doesn’t solve the deeper issue.