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

[MagnarTheGreat]

Microsoft's New AI Recall Feature Could Already Be in Legal Trouble

Recall can take screenshots of everything a user does on the company's new AI-powered laptops

gizmodo.com

Governments need to act stop Microsoft's (and others) digital industrial espionage.

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI​

Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is.

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI

Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is.

www.wired.com

And govts whine about TikTok but Microsoft is 10 times worse.

 

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OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

A former OpenAI researcher became so convinced that the technology would usher in doom for humanity, he left the company and called it out.

futurism.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

How to build a DOA product: Humane AI Pin founders banned internal criticism

Questioning the design and dev progress was apparently "against company policy."

arstechnica.com

 

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Big Telecom Again Takes Net Neutrality To Court, But Faces Long Odds

Back in April the Biden FCC finally got around to restoring both net neutrality rules, and the agency’s Title II authority over telecom providers. The modest rules, as we’ve covered ext…

www.techdirt.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

7,000 LockBit decryption keys now in the hands of the FBI, offering victims hope

The announcement could be good news for those whose data has been inaccessible.

arstechnica.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids

The New York state legislation will ban social media platforms from algorithmically recommending content to children.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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AI chatbots got questions about the 2024 election wrong 27% of the time, study finds

AI language models sometimes gave incorrect information about election and voting laws.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Google Will Track Your Location For The Next 180 Days—Then It Stops

Yes, you are still being tracked, but it’s all finally about to change…

www.forbes.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

New York Bill to Protect Actors From AI Voice and Likeness Replicas Passes Assembly

An act to protect actors' voices and likenesses from being copied or used without permission, as in AI, passed the New York legislature.

www.thewrap.com

Megan Thee Stallion fights back tears over possible release of AI-generated sex tape​

https://thegrio.com/2024/06/10/megan-thee-stallion-tears-a-i-tape/

 

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New York Bill to Protect Actors From AI Voice and Likeness Replicas Passes Assembly

An act to protect actors' voices and likenesses from being copied or used without permission, as in AI, passed the New York legislature.

www.thewrap.com

Megan Thee Stallion fights back tears over possible release of AI-generated sex tape​

https://thegrio.com/2024/06/10/megan-thee-stallion-tears-a-i-tape/

This type of AI generated crap makes me sick. People suicide over this all the time.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Can’t spell ‘inauthentic’ without the letters AI.

That’s the primary use of it, along with spyware/copyright trampling these companies do to facilitate it.

 

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The End of Affordable Internet | Common Dreams

The federal funding contained in the Affordable Connectivity Program offered a vital lifeline for people in South Carolina and nationwide. Now we must fight to resurrect such a program so that everyone has digital access that enriches individual lives and communities.

www.commondreams.org

 

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NY’s ‘SAFE For Kids Act’: A Lesson in How Not to Regulate The Internet

We’ve written a few times about New York’s preposterously bonkers “SAFE for Kids Act” (SAFE standing for “Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation”). It’s an obviously unconstitutional bill that insists, …

www.techdirt.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Apple and Google won’t be able to stop third-party app stores in Japan

Japan has taken a leaf out of the EU’s regulatory book.

www.theverge.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Can’t spell ‘inauthentic’ without the letters AI.

That’s the primary use of it, along with spyware/copyright trampling these companies do to facilitate it.

Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board

Another new board member.

www.theverge.com

OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired general of the US Army and a former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors, the company announced on Thursday.

Nakasone, who was nominated to lead the NSA by former President Donald Trump, directed the agency from 2018 until February of this year. Before Nakasone left the NSA, he wrote an op-ed supporting the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the surveillance program that was ultimately reauthorized by Congress in April.

 

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The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked

Why some tech leaders are so worried about a California AI safety bill.

www.vox.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Man sues Apple after wife finds 'deleted' iMessages and divorces him

He should have used WhatsApp

www.tomsguide.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

How Your Printer Leaves Invisible Tracking Codes on Every Page

As if printers weren't evil enough already.

www.howtogeek.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Man Behind 2021 T-Mobile Data Breach Finally Arrested

Ever wondered what happened to cybercriminals? Unlike what we see on TV and the movies, they don’t exactly live happily ever after their crimes. But in the case of John Binns, the man behind the 2021 T-Mobile data breach, his taste for freedom is about to run out. After hacking T-Mobile’s...

www.tmonews.com

Whistleblower Says Microsoft Dismissed Warnings About a Security Flaw That Russians Later Used to Hack U.S. Government

Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.

www.propublica.org

 

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AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns

Text, photos, videos and audio created using artificial intelligence are increasingly making their way into campaigns for state and local office.

apnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Chrome sends AI history search data to Google - gHacks Tech News

Google is working on a new AI history search feature in its Chrome web browser that searches page contents as well. There is a privacy downside, however.

www.ghacks.net

Google is working on a new feature in Chrome that gives artificial intelligence control over a user's browsing history. Chrome users may then interact with the AI when they run searches in their browsing history.

Good news is that the feature can be turned off or on in Chrome. Whether it is enabled by default or not remains to be seen. It would probably go against GDPR in the EU, if it would be turned on automatically.

AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell

Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.

www.404media.co

Google image search is serving users AI-generated images of celebrities in swimsuits and not indicating that the images are AI-generated. In a few instances, even when the search terms do not explicitly ask for it, Google image search is serving AI-generated images of celebrities in swimsuits, but the celebrities are made to look like underage children. If users click on these images, they are taken to AI image generation sites, and in a couple of cases the recommendation engines on these sites leads users to AI-generated nonconsensual nude images and AI-generated nude images of celebrities made to look like children.

The news is yet another example of how the tools people have used to navigate the internet for decades are overwhelmed by the flood of AI-generated content even when they are not asking for it and which almost exclusively use people’s work or likeness without consent. At times, the deluge of AI content makes it difficult for users to differentiate between what is real and what is AI-generated.

I discovered that Google image search was doing this completely by accident. Jason was reporting his story about how fan pages of Taylor Swift and other celebrities on Facebook have been taken over by images bestiality and scams and we were trying to check whether an image of Taylor Swift sticking her tongue out was AI-generated or edited. To find it, I typed the search term “taylor swift beach sunglasses tongue out,” which pulled up a couple of AI-generated images on the Google image search tab. One, pulled from a Japanese Pinterest page which included a number of other AI-generated images of Swift, looked fairly realistic. The other, pulled from an AI-image generation site called Neural Love, included a bunch of typical AI-generated deformities and was clearly fake.

US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel

The DOJ accuses Adobe of trapping users in subscriptions.

www.theverge.com

Meta halts plans to train AI on Facebook, Instagram posts in EU

Meta was going to start training AI on Facebook and Instagram posts on June 26.

arstechnica.com

 

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Brands Are Beginning to Turn Against AI

Brands and companies are growing increasingly suspicious of AI, and promising customers they won't use it in their ads or products.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Anybody that has spent any time on YouTube (or social media in general): no s***.

YouTube's algorithm more likely to recommend users right-wing and religious content, research finds

Researchers tested YouTube's recommendation system by setting up a collection of profiles that appeared to be interested in various types of content.

www.nbcnews.com

Even if you proactively click the options for 'hide this channel', 'not interested', or delete the selected watch history the stench will hang around in your future recommends.

Leading privacy firm launches foundation and goes non-profit

Proton, creators of privacy-focused email and VPN service change direction

www.tomsguide.com

Proton, an industry leader in digital privacy, and creator of one the best VPNs, has announced a big change in the way that it operates. It's going the non-profit route.

The newly created Proton Foundation is now the main shareholder for the Proton group, with its "legally binding purpose" aiming to further the "advancement of privacy, freedom, and democracy around the world."

Now in its tenth year, the company has advocated for digital freedom since its inception. Further enhancing its credentials, the foundation can even count the man who invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, amongst its board members.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

TikTok is copying Instagram again with Whee

To start, it’s only available on Android in a few countries.

www.theverge.com

TikTok Is in Some Minority Report-Style Legal Trouble

The social media app might get hit with a federal lawsuit before its ban officially begins as the FTC has issued a warning for possible future crimes.

gizmodo.com

The FTC issued a statement on Tuesday saying its investigations “uncovered reason to believe” that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, are “violating or are about to violate the law.” The commission says the violations (or would-be violations) are of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and the FTC Act but didn’t provide specifics. Also, the statement mentions how making this action public is something the FTC doesn’t normally do, but it determined that it was in the public’s interest to release the statement. So, we’re letting you know that they think you should know.