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In this Director’s Note, Christopher Newfield shares some of his thoughts ahead of the forthcoming

Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties

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A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

2/2 ... for content creation, media, & news. They all think they're buying tax evasion & government subsidies. They all believe AI will be an effective wage suppression scheme and it'll thwart unions & rising wage demands. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/middle-east-ai-tech-companies-saudi-arabia-uae/ https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-investors-latest-funding-round-2024-10 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/us/politics/kushner-private-equity-saudi-arabia.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2024/09/28/tax-breaks-the-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-the-game-edition/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-28/hk-unveils-ai-policy-for-finance-floats-tax-breaks-for-crypto https://www.yalejreg.com/bulletin/belaboring-the-algorithm-artificial-intelligence-and-labor-unions/ https://www.thestar.com/business/drivers-worry-uber-s-new-pricing-algorithm-will-hike-fares-for-riders-while-reducing-their/article_43001daa-8592-11ef-b757-3fab1576058b.html

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This is a great piece by Jamelle Bouie, which lays out in plain language what Musk and Trump are doing to the federal government, why it matters, and what can be done about it. To describe the current situation in the executive branch as merely a constit

We may have found the killer app for AI. Well, actually, British telecom provider O2 has. As The Guardian reports, they have an AI chatbot that acts like a 78-year-old grandmother and receives phon…

A.I. is continuing to impact the art world is ways both expected and surprising, here is our guide to the biggest breakthroughs of 2024.

We built an Ethical Hardware Kit with a PCB microcontroller made of wild clay retrieved from the forest in Austria and fired on a bonfire...

There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

Attached: 1 image #LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional. #ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such. https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

You could be forgiven for thinking there’s no water in the Atacama Desert. In fact, the driest desert on Earth has underground springs that feed the Chaxa, Cejar and Tebenquiche lagoons, as well as other bodies of water, providing oases for various animals such as flamingos and extremophiles. It’s said that the ancestors of the […]

A new peer-reviewed paper from experts at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, highlights the need for a clear framework when it comes to AI research, given the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by children and adolescents using digital devices to access the internet and social media.  Its recommendations are based on a critical appraisal of current shortcomings in the research on how digital technologies' impact young people's mental health, and an in-depth analysis of the challenges underlying those shortcomings.  The paper, 'From Social Media to Artificial Intelligence: Improving Research on Digital Harms in Youth,' published 21 January in

Kan AI skriva hemtentan, uppsatsen eller magistersexamen? Ett nystartat projekt ska forska i hur studerande använder AI.

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The near future could see AI assistants that forecast and influence our decision-making at an early stage, and sell these developing “intentions” in real-time to companies that can meet the need –

"In exchange for mere crumbs of their fortune, this Big Tech fraternity receives three extraordinary gifts: massive public contracts; the removal of regulatory safeguards against the dangers of their methods and products – autonomous vehicles, AI-controlled "bots" and drones, massive increases in electricity consumption; and finally, huge bargaining power, legitimized by the state, in their dealings with workers, suppliers, competitors, and the rest of us." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/01/04/yanis-varoufakis-former-greek-finance-minister-big-tech-giants-have-moved-into-trump-s-oval-office_6736701_23.html #USA #Trump #BigTech #Oligopolies

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We are beyond excited to announce that our book, The AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want is now available for pre-order. It'll...

Data center emissions have tripled since 2018. As more complex AI models like OpenAI’s Sora see broad release, those figures will likely go through the roof.

The co-author of the forthcoming book explains what is wrong with data science and how we can effect positive change today

Principle #4 of Data Feminism is to Rethink Binaries and Hierarchies. Data feminism requires us to challenge the gender binary, along with other systems of counting and classification that perpetuate oppression.

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