Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms

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Platforms Are Fighting Online Abuse—but Not the Right Kind
For some people, particularly marginalized groups, harassment is a chronic problem. But the best tools to help them only work for “acute” situations.
Tech’s very bad year, in numbers
Reduced investment and large-scale layoffs have created dark times for tech globally.
Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly
As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone
When Content Creation Goes to Zero
AI is making a world where it costs nothing to produce anything. What happens next?
Your Brain Could Be Controlling How Sick You Get—And How You Recover
Scientists are deciphering how the brain choreographs immune responses, hoping to find treatments for a range of diseases
Algorithmically embodied emissions: algorithmic harm and climate change
by Jutta Haider and Malte Rödl
ChatGPT’s alter ego, Dan: users jailbreak AI program to get around ethical safeguards
Certain prompts make the chatbot take on an uncensored persona who is free of the usual content standards
Writing Essays With AI: A Guide
We should take AI seriously as a creative tool—here's how
When Women Suffer From Online Hate, So Do Democracies
A new global study finds that disinformation campaigns against women in politics are a national security threat.
Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger
Researchers have spent years warning that text-generation algorithms can spew bias and falsehoods. Tech giants are rushing them into products anyway.
The age of Agile must end
30 years ago the technology industry attempted to import Lean practices — it failed. Instead of “continuous improvement,” progress halted…
Here's how to work around ChatGPT's inaccuracies
We already have Google, so why expect ChatGPT to have all the answers, asks an academic? Here he outlines how to make creative use of its capabilities.
ChatGPT Needs Some Help With Math Assignments
‘Large language models’ supply grammatically correct answers but struggle with calculations.
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete | Semafor
The company behind ChatGPT now employs around 1,000 people around the world to label data and help OpenAI’s models learn software engineering tasks.
Product design is going down a weird path, but we can still save it
A casual analysis of our current design industry compared to the old days and principles, and why it's important to step back and re-think…
We are all playing Covid roulette. Without clean air, the next infection could permanently disable you | George Monbiot
As rich people plough money into ventilation to protect themselves, those with long Covid are treated as an embarrassment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Our Brain Typically Overlooks This Brilliant Problem-Solving Strategy
People often limit their creativity by continually adding new features to a design rather than removing existing ones
The Content Cyborg: How to Use AI Writing Tools in Content Marketing - Animalz
It took us two years to decide that AI is a force-multiplier for great writers. Here’s what we’ve learned in our experimentation with generative AI and human, and how you can make it work for you.
I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)
It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy.
You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.
The House Always Wins: The Algorithmic Gamblification of Work
Recent technological developments are transforming the basic terms of worker compensation. Rather than receive a salary or predictable hourly wage, workers in the on-demand economy are often paid…
Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like Magic
This is no ordinary next big thing for Silicon Valley.
CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism
CNET's AI-generated articles appear to show deep structural similarities, amounting to plagiarism, with previously published work elsewhere.
I’m a copywriter. I’m pretty sure artificial intelligence is going to take my job | Henry Williams
My amusement turned to horror: it took ChatGPT 30 seconds to create, for free, an article that would take me hours to write
Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach
With the rise of the popular new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures.
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 we need new stories on climate | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: So much is happening, both wonderful and terrible – and it matters how we tell it. We can’t erase the bad news, but to ignore the good is the route to indifference or despair
OpenAI's attempts to watermark AI text hit limits
OpenAI is working on a way to watermark text, according to a guest researcher working at the lab. But it's limited in key ways.
A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business
A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.