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

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How the far right is weaponising AI-generated content in Europe

Experts say fake images raising fears around issues such as immigration have proliferated since EU elections

www.theguardian.com

 

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Senator introduces bill to compel more transparency from AI developers

The legislation, if passed, would allow copyright holders to subpoena AI training data when trying to prove that their work was used without their consent.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Republicans: Helping Poor People And Minorities Afford Broadband Is Illegal Now, Sorry

We’ve noted more than once that the 2021 infrastructure bill is poised to deliver $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies to the states. A lot of that money will be thrown in the lap of incumben…

www.techdirt.com

 

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Mark Zuckerberg Visits Mar-a-Lago After Trump Threatened Him With Imprisonment

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, Stephen Miller confirmed to Fox News.

www.mediaite.com

 

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Kissing the ring?

 

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Kissing the ring?

It was either that or go to jail.

 

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Breaking down the DOJ’s plan to end Google’s search monopoly

Not being made to sell Android is a “silver lining” for Google.

www.theverge.com

 

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FTC changes its telemarketing rules to cover growing ‘tech support scam’ calls

Now inbound calls to tech support scammers are covered.

www.theverge.com

 

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The outlook is uncertain for AI regulations as the US government pivots to full Republican control

The federal government is about to transition from one that prioritized safeguards for artificial intelligence to one more focused on eliminating red tape.

apnews.com

 

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TikTok owner seeks $1.1 million from former intern accused of sabotaging AI project

Beijing-based ByteDance says the intern, who was dismissed in August, deliberately attacked its large language model training infrastructure.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions

Litigants say AI company used their articles to train its popular ChatGPT software without authorization

www.theguardian.com

 

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Supreme Court To Decide Whether Helping Poor Rural Americans Get Broadband Is ‘Unconstitutional’

The FCC has long run an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The historically bipa…

www.techdirt.com

 

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Appeals court upholds TikTok ban, declining to block law that would force sale

An appeals court judge wrote that the law that would force a sale or ban of TikTok "survive[s] constitutional scrutiny."

www.cbsnews.com

 

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Owner of Los Angeles Times says paper will employ AI-powered ‘bias meter’

Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong also wants to include more conservative voices in paper’s opinion section

www.theguardian.com

 

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Sundar Pichai says Google Search will ‘change profoundly’ in 2025

Pichai took a jab at Microsoft.

www.theverge.com

 

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AI Was Everywhere in 2024’s Elections, but Deepfakes Were Only Part of the Picture

The apocalypse that wasn’t.

gizmodo.com

 

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How to stop the AI you’re using from training with your data

Keep your AI chatting to yourself.

www.theverge.com

 

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TikTok could try to fight fast-approaching US ban at the Supreme Court

The popular app is staring down a deadline just before Trump returns to the White House

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip

Chip takes minutes to complete tasks that would otherwise take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years

www.theguardian.com

 

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Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip

Chip takes minutes to complete tasks that would otherwise take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years

www.theguardian.com

Sounds scary to me. How long before it plots to wipe us out?

 

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OpenAI makes AI video generator Sora publicly available in US

Firm announces tool that can create AI video clip based on user’s written prompts will be available to anyone in the US

www.theguardian.com

 

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Mom sues after AI told autistic son to kill parents for restricting screen time

The chat bot allegedly said his parents were ‘s***** people’ who didn’t ‘deserve to have kids’

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads are currently down in major Meta outage - 9to5Mac

Meta is currently experiencing a major outage across all of its services. Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and WhatsApp are down for many users.

9to5mac.com

 

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AI enters Congress: Sexually explicit deepfakes target women lawmakers

A first-of-its-kind study highlights the stark gender disparity in AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images — and puts into focus the evolving risks for women in politics and public life.

19thnews.org