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The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online
The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online
Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to information in the name of protecting children online. KOSA was introduced in 2022 but failed to gain traction, and today its authors, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and...
·eff.org·
The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online
My Internet: Nilay Patel
My Internet: Nilay Patel
The Verge editor-in-chief says media is in denial about the future of search.
·embedded.substack.com·
My Internet: Nilay Patel
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
The technology, as it’s currently imagined, promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative imaginable?
·newyorker.com·
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
Chatbots Are Digesting the Internet. The Internet Wants to Get Paid.
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.
·wsj.com·
Chatbots Are Digesting the Internet. The Internet Wants to Get Paid.
Dr Johnny Ryan on the Digital Services Act
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
·vimeo.com·
Dr Johnny Ryan on the Digital Services Act
The stupidity of AI
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.
·theguardian.com·
The stupidity of AI
Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say
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.
·bloomberg.com·
Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say