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Digital Ethics
What are Emotions, Legally Speaking? And does it even matter?
Exploring the Legal Framework for Emotion in Emotion Recognition Tech
Statement from the No Tech For Apartheid Campaign on Google’s retaliation against and firing of…
Google workers and NYC community protest outside the Mind The Tech Conference in NYC on March 4th, 2024.
The digital revolution has failed
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.
Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination
Jalon Hall was featured on Google’s corporate social media accounts “for making #LifeAtGoogle more inclusive!” She says the company discriminated against her on the basis of her disability and race.
Microsoft accused of selling AI tool that spews violent, sexual images to kids
It looks like Microsoft may be filtering violent AI outputs flagged by engineer.
The Public Is Rapidly Turning Against AI, Polling Shows
AI isn't nearly as popular as some would have you believe — and it seems that public opinion is shifting against it.
A Hard Energy Use Limit of Artificial Superintelligence
We argue that the high energy use by present-day semiconductor computing technology will prevent the emergence of an artificial intelligence system that could reasonably be described as a “superintelligence”. This hard limit on artificial superintelli
Covert racism in LLMs
Shocking new paper with potentially serious implications
Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement using popular books, and GPT-4 performed worst
Patronus AI on Wednesday released research showcasing how often leading AI models produce copyrighted content.
Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s.
Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.
AI automated discrimination. Here’s how to spot it.
The next generation of AI comes with a familiar bias problem.
Predicted benefits, proven harms: How AI’s algorithmic violence emerged from our own social matrix
AI’s social benefits are unproven but its harms are clear. We must kick out the bad politics and mould a better future, says Dan McQuillan.
The work of creation in the age of AI | Andrew Perfors
In which I become an old man yelling futilely at the clouds
Better Images of AI
We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as inspiration for more helpful and diverse representations of AI.
Meta's AI Watermarking Plan is Flimsy, At Best
Watermarks are too easy to remove to offer any protection again disinformation
AI and Democracy
I wrote an essay about the tensions of "AI" and democracy because I don't believe their respective values and goals fully match.
Understanding Electronic Waste (e-waste)
Every year millions of electrical and electronic devices are discarded as products break or become obsolete and are thrown away. These discarded devices are considered e-waste and can become a threat to the environment and to human health if they are not treated, disposed of, and recycled appropriately. Common items in e-waste streams include computers, […]
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a "Generally Reliable" Source After AI Scandal
Conversations between Wikipedia editors following CNET's AI scandal reflect the reputational hazards of AI content and dubious ownership.
AI Is Taking Water From the Desert
New data centers are springing up every week. Can the Earth sustain them?
'Take this as a threat' -- Copilot is getting unhinged again | Digital Trends
Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot appears to get tripped up by a specific prompt that sends it down a dark, unhinged rabbit hole.
Google made an A.I. so woke it drove men mad
Gemini's woke A.I., Taylor Lorenz x Chaya Raichik, and the death of scenes
A.I. software companies have built something cool, but they, and the millions of people using that something, still don’t seem to have a clear idea of what it is. Which means, naturally, it’s going to constantly fail.
How ChatGPT Works: Secret ChatGPT Instructions Revealed
How does ChatGPT generate images? When does it search the internet? We dug into the backend to figure how how ChatGPT works.
Chile partially pulls Google data center permit, seeks tougher environmental checks
A Chilean environmental court partially reversed a permit allowing Google to build a data center in the country on Tuesday, asking the U.S. company to revise its application to take into account the effects of climate change.
Behind a Secretive Global Network of Non-consensual Deepfake Pornography - bellingcat
An online video game marketplace says it has referred user accounts to legal authorities after a Bellingcat investigation found nonconsensual pornographic deepfake tokens were being surreptitiously sold on the site.
PFAS in Electronics
Chemicals ban could derail EU’s chips ambitions, lobbies warn
A handful of member countries are pushing to outlaw chemicals used to produce microchips.
Two-phase cooling will be hit by EPA rules and 3M's exit from PFAS "forever chemicals"
No future for the forever chemicals?
Gods, slaves and playmates
On other minds and why we should stop humanising tech