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

[blueharvest]

Artists Score Major Win in Copyright Case Against AI Art Generators

The court declined to dismiss copyright infringement claims against the AI companies. The order could implicate other firms that used Stable Diffusion, the AI model at issue in the case.

www.google.com

 

[Lily Adler]

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.

Free YouTube?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Google’s ex-CEO blames remote working on the company’s AI woes | Fortune

‘Working from home was more important than winning,’ Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt told students.

fortune.com

Google's stock is up overall 200% since 2020 but to the greedy like Schmidt that is never enough. He sounds like a crybaby because of the recent market correction for AI companies has pushed some of them down a bit.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. Here's how to protect yourself

In an epic data breach, hackers claim to have taken 2.9 billion personal records from National Public Data. Most of the data are leaked online.

www.latimes.com

 

[blueharvest]

X’s AI image generator debuts with few guardrails on political content

X users swiftly embraced the new feature to generate everything from “Baroque Obama” to images of candidates kissing.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. Here's how to protect yourself

In an epic data breach, hackers claim to have taken 2.9 billion personal records from National Public Data. Most of the data are leaked online.

www.latimes.com

X’s AI image generator debuts with few guardrails on political content

X users swiftly embraced the new feature to generate everything from “Baroque Obama” to images of candidates kissing.

www.nbcnews.com

I have no clue which is more horrifying.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Google’s ex-CEO blames remote working on the company’s AI woes | Fortune

‘Working from home was more important than winning,’ Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt told students.

fortune.com

Google's stock is up overall 200% since 2020 but to the greedy like Schmidt that is never enough. He sounds like a crybaby because of the recent market correction for AI companies has pushed some of them down a bit.

 

[blueharvest]

This Week in AI: AI isn't world-ending — but it's still plenty harmful | TechCrunch

In this edition of TechCrunch's This Week in AI newsletter, we look at a new study that suggests that AI models aren't, in fact, world-threatening.

techcrunch.com

 

[blueharvest]

Cyber "chaos" warning issued for 2024 election

After Microsoft announced that Iranian groups hacked into a presidential campaign, documents from the Trump campaign were sent to Politico.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Lily Adler]

With the advent of AI and robotics, should we expand Social Security into a Universal Basic Income safety net and fund it with a wealth tax?

 

[Lily Adler]

California’s AI Safety Bill Is a Mask-Off Moment for the Industry

AI’s top industrialists say they want regulation—until someone tries to regulate them.

www.thenation.com

 

[blueharvest]

MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks | TechCrunch

A group of researchers at MIT and elsewhere have compiled what they claim is the most thorough databases of possible risks around AI use.

techcrunch.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

T-Mobile Faces $60 Million Penalty for Repeated Data Security Violations

Oopsie.

www.howtogeek.com

 

[blueharvest]

Iranian group used ChatGPT to try to influence US election, OpenAI says

AI company bans accounts and says operation did not appear to have meaningful audience engagement

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

People are using ChatGPT for therapy—but is it a good idea?

As more people turn to ChatGPT for their mental health, professionals warn that they must tread with caution.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Lily Adler]

I wonder if Google gets broken up that it will affect Microsoft. I can see them wanting to break Bing away from them.

 

[blueharvest]

Meta's use of AI has far from peaked. But the technology may already be getting the company in trouble.

Mark Zuckerberg recently predicted that AI will revolutionize targeted ad services. But AI may already be getting Meta in trouble.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[blueharvest]

Wyoming voters face mayoral candidate who vows to let AI bot run government

‘There’s a new intelligence in town’ as Victor Miller and his ChatGPT bot, Vic, plan to lead Cheyenne in a hybrid format

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

T-Mobile Faces $60 Million Penalty for Repeated Data Security Violations

Oopsie.

www.howtogeek.com

Report: T-Mobile Support Team Uses Third-Party Service to Collect Sensitive Data

After the rise of data security concerns and hacks, people have become more cautious about the links they click on and the information they share. This is why when T-Mobile’s T-Force social media support team sent out a form hosted by a third-party company, it got a lot of users scared whether...

www.tmonews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Artificial Intelligence: Vogue publisher and OpenAI strike deal

The multi-year deal is the latest such agreement to be struck between OpenAI and a major media company.

www.bbc.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Former OpenAI researchers warn of 'catastrophic harm' after the company opposes AI safety bill

Former OpenAI researchers warned of "catastrophic harm" in a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom after the company opposed an AI safety bill.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Former OpenAI researchers warn of 'catastrophic harm' after the company opposes AI safety bill

Former OpenAI researchers warned of "catastrophic harm" in a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom after the company opposed an AI safety bill.

www.businessinsider.com

Big Tech needs to be reigned in. They have failed us time and time again by pushing disinformation during elections and during a global pandemic. Instead of bringing us together, they tore us apart and turned us against each other through conspiracies and blatant lies. When we can no longer trust the private sector to run the industry without harming consumers, that's when the government should step in. Enough is enough. We must regulate now!

 

[blueharvest]

There’s a Humongous Problem With AI Models: They Need to Be Entirely Rebuilt Every Time They’re Updated

New research shows that AI models need to be completely retrained to learn new concepts — which is an expensive problem for AI companies.

futurism.com