🌎 Discussion: Online Piracy, AI, Net Neutrality, Killswitch, and Other Internet Issues II

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - Instagram Head Wants Threads to Be a Sterile, News-Free Environment
Zuckerberg and Mosseri have repeatedly said that Threads is supposed to be an app for 'kindness' without all those news publishers demanding a cut.

Bloomberg News - Threads’ ‘Positive’ Vibe Tested by Users Known for False Claims

Bloomberg News - Meta’s Threads Has 70 Million Signups, Surprising Zuckerberg
Meta Platforms Inc.’s new social media app Threads has garnered 70 million users in just two days after its launch, a sign of enthusiasm that Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said was “way beyond our expectations.”

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI

Let the lawsuits commence.

Scripps News - Sarah Silverman joins copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, Meta
The comedian and author claims the companies use artificial intelligence software in a way that violates copyright law.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Hill - A record share [30%] of Americans is living alone

Social media doing and online dating a great job of bringing people together IRL.

 

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The Hill - A record share [30%] of Americans is living alone

Social media doing and online dating a great job of bringing people together IRL.

You can be a lot more interesting in your fake life, lol. The reality sucks.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Associated Press - 3 tax prep firms [H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer] shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta [Facebook/Instagram], lawmakers say
Their report said highly personal and financial information about sources of taxpayers’ income, tax deductions and exemptions was made accessible to Meta as taxpayers used the tax software to prepare their taxes.

Popular Science - Google stole data from millions of people to train AI, lawsuit says

 

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Nothing is safe! What are they doing with this data? I'm not buying the traing AI excuse.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - The Feds Are Investigating ChatGPT's Hallucination Problem
The FTC sent a letter demanding documents on OpenAI's datasets and the steps it takes to prevent ChatGPT from making false statements about people.

AI, also known as, libel machines and perpetual lawsuit defendants.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Scripps News - Meta faces daily $100,000 fine over practices concerning privacy
Norway's data protection authority will fine Facebook's parent company $100,000 daily starting Aug. 4 due to the company's behavioral advertising.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Associated Press - James Patterson, Margaret Atwood among authors cautioning AI companies

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Apple Insider - [Anti-Encryption] Online Safety Bill in UK may force Apple to shut off iMessage & FaceTime

 

[Teelie]

As if making "backdoors" into encryption is going to work and criminals won't find a better, even harder to decrypt alternative instead. Remember, "think of the children" is merely a ploy for law enforcement to more easily spy on the civilian population who is innocent of any real crimes.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Ars Technica - FCC chair: [Internet] Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore
Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Vivaldi - Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” [DRM] Web-Environment-Integrity specification
Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

FBI just issued new warning over AI malware attacks — how to stay safe

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Associated Press - Don't expect quick fixes in 'red-teaming' of AI models. Security was an afterthought
White House officials concerned about AI chatbots' potential for societal harm and the Silicon Valley powerhouses rushing them to market are heavily invested in a three-day competition ending Sunday at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Verge - AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge
“Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - 'Benefits of Slavery:' Google's AI Search Gives Absurd, Wrong Answers
Google’s experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google gave cooking tips for Amanita ocreata, a poisonous mushroom known as the “angel of death.”

 

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Gizmodo - 'Benefits of Slavery:' Google's AI Search Gives Absurd, Wrong Answers
Google’s experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google gave cooking tips for Amanita ocreata, a poisonous mushroom known as the “angel of death.”

Did they take notes from DeSantis?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Did they take notes from DeSantis?

Let DesAIntis into your heart.

 

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Let DesAIntis into your heart.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

'We're accusing you of spying for China...when we really want you to spy for us.'

Gizmodo - The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features
A draft agreement with a federal agency to avoid a ban would have given US agencies unprecedented access to TikTok's facilities and servers.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - Big Tech braces for EU Digital Services Act regulations

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores
Gizmodo’s tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech.

Just like the third party tax filing companies were caught doing the same with your tax filings.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Opposition criticised for using AI-generated deepfake voice of PM in Polish election ad | Notes From Poland

Vanity Fair - How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality
In an excerpt from his new book, The End of Reality, the author warns about the curses of AI and transhumanism, presenting the moral case against superintelligence.