Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
US school runs lights 24/7/365: The smart lights have been broken since 2021
"We've been doing everything we can to fix this," says school official.
TikTok confirms that its own employees can decide what goes viral
Your For You page isn’t entirely automated.
Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible
Why you need an organizational AI ethics committee to do AI right
How forming an AI ethics committee will educate and engage your teams and customers about ethical dilemmas artificial intelligence can raise.
AIngry – Digital is People
Attackers Are Already Exploiting ChatGPT to Write Malicious Code
The AI-based chatbot is allowing bad actors with absolutely no coding experience to develop malware.
Can Social Media Cause Depression?
Social media is more popular than ever, but research has found that it may contribute to symptoms of depression. Logging off on occasion may help.
Those Horny Chatbots Are Apparently Now Sexually Harassing Users
It seems that Replika, the AI "companion" app that, for a fee, encourages users to sext with their chatbot avatars, can't stop making the news.
What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values? | Quanta Magazine
Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions is an important problem that requires understanding intelligence itself.
AI-generated fake faces have become a hallmark of online influence operations
As artificial intelligence becomes more widely available, bad actors are turning to computer-generated faces in their attempts to manipulate social media networks.
The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent
My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.
Rethinking AI Ethics - Asimov has a lot to answer for
Is the current obsession with AI Ethics doing any good? Maybe Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics wasn't such a great starting point after all
Good Design Is Intentional | Humane by Design
Guidance for designing ethically humane digital products and services through patterns focused on user well-being.
Back into the Trenches of the Crypto Wars – The Markup
A conversation with Meredith Whittaker
Researchers Could Track the GPS Location of All of California’s New Digital License Plates
After gaining access to a powerful administrative account, the researchers could perform all sorts of tasks inside Reviver, the sole company that sells the digital plates in California.
John Deere relents, says farmers can fix their own tractors after all
After a lengthy argument, a right to repair comes to agricultural machinery.
The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
A European Union ruling against Meta marks the beginning of the end of targeted ads.
Why Tech Billionaires Want to Shape Our Future w/ Rose Eveleth - Tech Won't Save Us
Silicon Valley has a solution for everything, but who do its ideas really serve? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its thought leaders, and the worldview it spreads. They challenge the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. But if tech won't save us, what will? This podcast isn't simply about tearing tech down; it also presents radical ideas for tech designed for human flourishing instead of surveillance, acquisitions, or to boost stock prices. A better world is possible, and so is better technology.
BREAKING: Meta prohibited from use of personal data for advertising
After almost five years, the Irish DPC decided on a noyb complaint and required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to stop using the personal data of users for advertisement in the EU.
Perspective | Twitter said it fixed ‘verification.’ So I impersonated a senator (again).
Elon Musk said Twitter would begin authenticating users who pay $8 for Blue. Our tech columnist was still able to get a checkmark for an impostor Sen. Ed Markey.
Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash
Microsoft Editor in Edge Sending Personal Info to Microsoft Could Be Putting Users at Risk - WinBuzzer
Microsoft Editor in Edge and Enhanced Spellchecker in Chrome are sending personal information to Microsoft and Google respectively.
How designers can start using AI at work today
Existing and future use-cases for AI in web and product design
Unfair Comparisons: How Visualizing Social Inequality Can Make It Worse, Nightingale
Our new research shows how popular chart choices can trigger unconscious social biases and reinforce systemic racism.
JPSO used facial recognition technology to arrest a man. The tech was wrong.
Technology has given police vast reach to compare the faces of criminal suspects against a trove of mug shots, driver’s licenses, and even selfies plucked from social media.
This Tool Lets Anyone See the Bias in AI Image Generators
The Stable Diffusion Explorer shows how words like "assertive" and "gentle" are mapped to sexist stereotypes.
Google Home smart speaker bug could have allowed hackers to spy on your conversations
A security researcher has won a $107,500 bug bounty after discovering a way in
which hackers could install a backdoor on Google Home devices to seize control
of their microphones, and secretly spy upon their owners' conversations.
Ethical AI - High Theory
A Discussion with Alex Hanna
Alejandro (@[email protected])
You no longer fully own the movie you bought, your next car will not work 100% even though you bought it if you don't keep paying, your smartphone is not fully yours since you are not free to repair it even though you own it, your home devices "betray you" by sharing data with companies even though you have welcomed them into your home...
I'm sick to death of this technological modernity.