150 AI Workers Vote to Unionize at Nairobi Meeting
More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union
Amnesty International criticised for using AI-generated images
Group has removed AI images used to promote their reports on social media, including fake photos of Colombia’s 2021 protests
Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking
Today Apple and Google jointly submitted a proposed industry specification to help address the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices.
Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of h…
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AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms
A new report documents 49 new websites populated by AI tools like ChatGPT and posing as news outlets
The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust
In the 2014 movie Ex Machina, a robot manipulates someone into freeing it from its confines, resulting in the person being confined instead.
‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
Situating Search | Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
Chatbots Are Digesting the Internet. The Internet Wants to Get Paid.
Artificial-intelligence companies are using content created by millions of people, without their consent or any compensation. Some tech and media companies are beginning to ask for payment.
Inclusivity should not be W.E.I.R.D: Sparkling long-lasting inclusive technology
Inclusivity should not be W.E.I.R.D: Sparkling long-lasting inclusive technology
We can change history by enlightening the dark corners of technology.
Found through Google, bought with Visa and Mastercard: Inside the deepfake porn economy
The nonconsensual deepfake economy has remained largely out of sight, but it's easily accessible, and some creators can accept major credit cards.
Dr Johnny Ryan on the Digital Services Act
Speaking for Information Law and Policy Centre (University of London School of Advanced Studies) conference in November 2022 on online safety. See event page
https://www.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/ials-ilpc-annual-conference-2022-online-safety-a-connected-world-day2
Google bard ai chatbot raises ethical concerns from employees
Chatgpt write performance reviews sexist and racist
Understanding artificial intelligence ethics and safety
A guide to AI ethics, including responsible design and implementation of AI systems in the public sector
The stupidity of AI
The long read: Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous
The belief in this kind of AI as actually knowledgeable or meaningful is actively dangerous. It risks poisoning the well of collective thought, and of our ability to think at all. If, as is being proposed by technology companies, the results of ChatGPT queries will be provided as answers to those seeking knowledge online, and if, as has been proposed by some commentators, ChatGPT is used in the classroom as a teaching aide, then its hallucinations will enter the permanent record, effectively coming between us and more legitimate, testable sources of information, until the line between the two is so blurred as to be invisible. Moreover, there has never been a time when our ability as individuals to research and critically evaluate knowledge on our own behalf has been more necessary, not least because of the damage that technology companies have already done to the ways in which information is disseminated. To place all of our trust in the dreams of badly programmed machines would be to abandon such critical thinking altogether.
Big Tech Lobbyists Explain How They Took Over Washington
An amazing research paper unearths how the tech industry invented the concept of digital trade and sold it to government officials.
Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say
The search giant is making compromises on misinformation and other harms in order to catch up with ChatGPT, workers say
a vice president of engineering. She pledged to double the size of the AI ethics team and strengthen the group’s ties with the rest of the company.
The internet is about to get a lot safer
Europe's big tech bill is coming to fruition. Here's what you need to know.
#AIhype take-downs
On reflecting on how much time I spend working to deflate and counteract AI hype, and how much of that ends up as Twitter threads, I…
Researchers Accused Google And “60 Minutes” Of Spreading AI “Disinformation”
AI is not “some mysterious, magical, autonomous being,” one critic said.
Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed
It not only told everyone I died but tried to fake my obit. Are we ready for this machine-driven future?
I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
ChatGPT recently passed the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, but using it for a real-world medical diagnosis would quickly turn deadly.
Some Glimpse AGI in ChatGPT. Others Call It a Mirage
A new generation of AI algorithms can feel like they’re reaching artificial general intelligence—but it’s not clear how to measure that.
GLAAD Responds To Twitter’s Roll-Back of Long-Standing LGBTQ Hate
Contact: press@glaad.org Earlier this Month, Twitter Covertly Removed Section of Hateful Conduct Policy Protecting Transgender People from Targeted Misgendering and Deadnaming GLAAD: “Twitter’s
Google CEO peddles #AIhype on CBS 60 minutes
Another tweet thread turned into a blog post, to keep it all in one place, reacting to this tweet/clip from CBS 60 Minutes (as flagged by…
Amazon’s Twitch Safety, AI Ethics Job Cuts Raise Concerns Among Ex-Workers
Job cuts at Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch division are raising concerns among former employees and content monitors about the popular livestreaming site’s ability to police abusive or illegal behavior — issues that have plagued the business since its inception.
A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
As the U.S. deals with a nationwide swatting wave, Motherboard has traced much of the activity to a particular swatting-as-a-service account on Telegram. Torswats uses synthesized voices to pressure law enforcement to specific locations.
IRS Wants to Buy Internet Mass Monitoring Tool
The U.S. military and FBI have previously bought access to netflow data from a company called Team Cymru. Now the IRS wants to buy products from the company too.
Hackers Can Remotely Open Smart Garage Doors Across the World
A security researcher found a series of vulnerabilities with the Nexx brand of smart garage openers. He says he could remotely find garages to target, and then open them across the internet.