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

[Lily Adler]

Google open-sourced its watermarking tool for AI-generated text

It’s available via Google’s Responsible Generative AI Toolkit.

www.theverge.com

It's a start I guess.

 

[blueharvest]

New rules for US national security agencies balance AI's promise with need to protect against risks

New rules from the White House on the use of artificial intelligence by U.S. national security and spy agencies aim to balance the technology’s promise with the need to protect against its risks

www.independent.co.uk

 

[blueharvest]

Missouri Republican says he is investigating Google for ‘censoring conservative speech’

State attorney general alleges without providing evidence that Google is manipulating search results, as tech firm says claim ‘totally false’

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

President Biden sets up new AI guardrails for military, intelligence agencies

The White House's new guidelines for artificial intelligence use prohibits uses such as nuclear launches and granting asylum to immigrants.

www.engadget.com

 

[Teelie]

Missouri Republican says he is investigating Google for ‘censoring conservative speech’

State attorney general alleges without providing evidence that Google is manipulating search results, as tech firm says claim ‘totally false’

www.theguardian.com

This is the idiot who tried to have Media Matters stopped for exposing Twitter's becoming a Nazi bar.

 

[blueharvest]

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.

apnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight

Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.

www.wired.com

 

[squeekness]

Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight

Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.

www.wired.com

Sounds scary.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

AT&T praises itself after getting caught taking too much money from FCC program

AT&T obtained subsidies for duplicate users and non-users, will pay $2.3 million.

arstechnica.com

 

[blueharvest]

Meta is pushing for the government to use its AI

Mark Zuckerberg said during Meta’s Q3 earnings call that work is underway to get its Llama AI models used “across the US government.”

www.theverge.com

 

[blueharvest]

Is Google a bigger threat to democracy than Trump? A debate.

Tech companies are the “absolute monarchs” of our day, according to anti-monopolist Barry Lynn.

www.vox.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

AIs show distinct bias against Black and female résumés in new study

Language models seem to treat “masculine and White concepts… as the ‘default’ value.”…

arstechnica.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

From ‘Social Media Better Not Touch Politics’ To ‘Social Media Must Push One Sided Nonsense’

As we head into next week’s election, it is worth taking a step back and realizing how absolutely ridiculous it is that we spent five or six years with people insisting that Facebook and Twitter ab…

www.techdirt.com

 

[blueharvest]

OpenAI's former head of 'AGI readiness' says that soon AI will be able to do anything on a computer that a human can

Former senior policy and head of AGI readiness Miles Brundage told Hard Fork that "people should be thinking about what that means."

www.businessinsider.com

 

[blueharvest]

AI Has Likely Spread Through Cosmos, Says Former NASA Chief Historian

Hollywood has made a cottage industry out of imagining biological space aliens, but if intelligent life is out there it’s probably in the form of artificial intelligence.

www.forbes.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Hackers Are Using Police Emails to Send Tech Companies Fraudulent Data Requests

Law enforcement send "emergency" requests to tech giants when they believe it's necessary to stop an immediate threat. Hackers are taking advantage of that.

gizmodo.com

 

[blueharvest]

OpenAI Gets a Win as Court Says No Harm Was Demonstrated in Copyright Case

A judge found that two media outlets alleging copyright violations hadn't demonstrated that they'd been harmed by OpenAI removing "copyright management information" from its training data.

gizmodo.com

 

[blueharvest]

ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes | TechCrunch

Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters'

techcrunch.com

 

[blueharvest]

A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr

The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Musk’s influence on Trump could lead to tougher AI standards, says scientist

Tycoon might help president-elect realise that race for artificial general intelligence is a ‘suicide race’, says Max Tegmark

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Meta Will Get Its Unwanted Day in Antitrust Court

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that an FTC complaint alleging that Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were anticompetitive should proceed to a jury trial.

gizmodo.com

 

[blueharvest]

Judge: Just Because AI Trains On Your Publication, Doesn’t Mean It Infringes On Your Copyright

I get that a lot of people don’t like the big AI companies and how they scrape the web. But these copyright lawsuits being filed against them are absolute garbage. And you want that to be the case,…

www.techdirt.com

 

[blueharvest]

FBI raids home and seizes phone of Polymarket founder

Shayne Coplan calls incident ‘discouraging’ as firm suggests raid was retaliation for site’s users betting on Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

 

[:eek:]

Is AI better than Shakespeare? People resonate better with deepfake poems because they are "more beautiful" and easy to understand: "Because of the way deepfakes are created, you will literally not know what is real and what is fake"

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was right. As AI advances, it's increasingly difficult for users to distinguish deepfakes from authentic work.

www.windowscentral.com