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

[Lily Adler]

Yeah and we need to do it whether the legislation is perfect or not or offends the NRA-esque tech rights extremist groups.

Let's throw in regulations for social media as well. I get people worry it will hurt free speech and freedom of expression, but when flimsy ToSs do next to **** to prevent hate speech on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, it's time for Congress to reel them in.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Google has an illegal monopoly on search, judge rules. Here’s what’s next | CNN Business

Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans get information online and to upend decades of dominance.

amp.cnn.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Google has an illegal monopoly on search, judge rules. Here’s what’s next | CNN Business

Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans get information online and to upend decades of dominance.

amp.cnn.com

It does make me sick that our major search options are both owned by Google and Microsoft. DuckDuck Go and Ecosia can't fully compete since they also use Bing to perform their searches.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Apple Intelligence is marking phishing scams as priority emails — here’s what you need to know

Apple Intelligence is having some growing pains

www.tomsguide.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Chuck Schumer eyes opportunities to pass deepfake and AI bills as 2024 elections near

In an interview with NBC News, Schumer suggested deepfake election bills could hitch a ride on a funding bill, while AI national security bills could be linked to a big defense policy package.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed

Stolen data was then put up for sale on the dark web

www.tomsguide.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Child Disney star 'broke down in tears' after criminal used AI to make sex abuse images of her

Sky News has been granted access to a cyber crime operation in California, where a growing trend is emerging of AI being used by criminals to "fuel" child abuse obsessions. The technology has even been used by children to target their fellow classmates.

news.sky.com

 

[squeekness]

Why do people have to be so cruel?

 

[blueharvest]

How Google's huge defeat in antitrust case could change how you search the internet

A judge ruled Monday that Google illegally monopolized search on phones and browsers. That ruling may change how you get information online.

www.usatoday.com

 

[blueharvest]

Watch: AI robot dentist performs human dental crown in minutes

The footage shows a robot performing a procedure that can take over two hours when done by a human dentist.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Lily Adler]

How Google's huge defeat in antitrust case could change how you search the internet

A judge ruled Monday that Google illegally monopolized search on phones and browsers. That ruling may change how you get information online.

www.usatoday.com

AltaVista and Ask Jeeves will get a second wind?

 

[Lily Adler]

Why do people have to be so cruel?

I would use creepy because you know some perves are doing this.

 

[Teelie]

2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed

Stolen data was then put up for sale on the dark web

www.tomsguide.com

One giant reason data scraping like this should be illegal. What can you do to secure yourself? Not a damned thing. They can steal your identity with little to no effort thanks to this kind of activity.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Lily Adler]

OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught

But not doing it could make it look irresponsible.

www.theverge.com

See watermarking would help with this misinformation/disinformation crisis the world is experiencing like cheating in school or posting fake pics and news articles to incite a riot against immigrants.

 

[blueharvest]

It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically

Anthropic is opposing Scott Wiener’s California bill to regulate AI, taking Google and Amazon money, and scraping web data without permission.

www.vox.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Facebook’s Twisted Incentives Created Its AI Slop Era

The social media giant's Creator Bonus Program has created a world where AI-generated spam is a business.

gizmodo.com

Reddit might let users make paid subreddits

You may have to pay to access certain subreddits in the future.

www.theverge.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

Subscribe to read

www.ft.com

Google and Meta made a secret deal to target advertisements for Instagram to teenagers on YouTube, skirting the search company's own rules for how minors are treated online. According to documents seen by the Financial Times and people familiar with the matter, Google worked on a marketing project for Meta that was designed to target 13- to 17-year-old YouTube users with adverts that promoted its rival's photo and video app. The Instagram campaign deliberately targeted a group of users labelled as "unknown" in its advertising system, which Google knew skewed towards under-18s, these people said. Meanwhile, documents seen by the FT suggest steps were taken to ensure the true intent of the campaign was disguised. The project disregarded Google's rules that prohibit personalising and targeting ads to under-18s, including serving ads based on demographics. It also has policies against the circumvention of its own guidelines, or "proxy targeting".

When contacted by the FT, Google initiated an investigation into the allegations. The project has now been cancelled, a person familiar with the decision said. Google said: "We prohibit ads being personalised to people under-18, period. These policies go well beyond what is required and are supported by technical safeguards. We've confirmed that these safeguards worked properly here" because no registered YouTube users known to be under 18 were directly targeted by the company.

However, Google did not deny using the "unknown" loophole, adding: "We'll also be taking additional action to reinforce with sales representatives that they must not help advertisers or agencies run campaigns attempting to work around our policies." Meta said it disagreed that selecting the "unknown" audience constituted personalisation or a circumvention of any rules, adding that it adhered to its own policies as well as those of its peers when advertising its services. It did not respond to questions about whether staff were aware that the "unknown" group skewed to younger users.

Google won the mandate from Spark and the teams on both sides took precautions, banning any direct reference to the age range in writing, one of the people said. Staff used euphemisms in presentations, such as slides with only the words "embrace the unknown", according to documents reviewed by the FT.

 

[blueharvest]

Hackers rally behind Kamala Harris' presidential campaign

Organizers of "Hackers for Harris," which took place at DEF CON in Las Vegas, said the fundraiser brought in more than $150,000 in pledged donations.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Lily Adler]

This **** needs to be regulated NOW!

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Apple says Patreon must switch to its billing system or risk removal from App Store | TechCrunch

Apple has threatened to remove creator platform Patreon from the App Store if creators use unsupported third-party billing options or disable transactions

techcrunch.com

Apple adds nearly endless 20 percent fee for developers in latest EU update

The new fee applies across “any platform.”

www.theverge.com

Apple wants a 30% cut not just for apps now on their store (annoying but fair), but from everything you buy on a device Apple manufactured, potentially like a purchase on Amazon.

Governments need to come down hard on this.

Apple’s greed is also inflationary.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

TikTok Is Pushing Old and False News as ”Breaking” Alerts

No, Taylor Swift did not cancel her tour through Florida because of racism.

www.howtogeek.com

 

[blueharvest]

Older Americans prepare themselves for a world altered by artificial intelligence

Older adults are grappling with how artificial intelligence is changing the world. The technology offers them significant benefits, from the ability to curb loneliness to making it easier to get to medical appointments.

apnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Bloomberg News - US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google​

• Antitrust enforcers soliciting input from outside companies
• Judge ruled Alphabet unit monopolized online search, ads

Let's add Apple and Amazon to the list too. It's not illegal to have a monopoly; it's illegal to have and use your monopoly to attain another monopoly in something else as well as dictate/strongarm other corporations outside your own.