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

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If the AI Roundheads go to war with tech royalty, don’t bet against them | John Naughton

Silicon Valley wants to spend a fortune on the fantasy of human-level intelligence. But there are more practical and valuable things to achieve

www.theguardian.com

 

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Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests

An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content

www.theguardian.com

 

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Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows

Older chatbots, just like people, show signs of cognitive impairment, failing on several important metrics in a test normally used on human patients.

www.livescience.com

 

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Google says it has built an AI scientist that could change the world

System can look through research and propose new hypotheses – which appear to be correct

www.the-independent.com

 

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AI Atlantis revealed off the coast of China, reportedly boasting computational power equivalent to 30,000 high-end gaming PCs

The sci-fi retelling I'm not sure The Little Mermaid needed.

www.pcgamer.com

 

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Meta and X Approve AI Ads Referencing Nazi War Crimes Ahead of German Elections, Research Finds

The ads promoted extremist hate speech.

www.adweek.com

 

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Heritage Foundation Presentation Details Plans To Doxx And Target Wikipeda Editors It Claims Are ‘Abusing Their Position’

Every day Donald Trump seems to implement yet another of the key schemes of Project 2025, despite claiming last summer that “I know nothing about Project 2025.” According to the Project 2025 Web si…

www.techdirt.com

 

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The Trump Admin Thinks Affordable Fiber Broadband Is ‘Woke’

It’s understandably not going to get the same attention as the dismantling of numerous government agencies at the hands of rich unelected manbabies, but the Trump administration is also taking…

www.techdirt.com

 

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Google is rolling out an even more AI-heavy search engine mode because 'power users want AI responses for even more of their searches'

I, for one, absolutely do not welcome our new AI overlords.

www.pcgamer.com

 

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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

Cursor AI tells user, “I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work.”…

arstechnica.com

 

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Killed by Google

Killed by Google is the open source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.

killedbygoogle.com

Google is killing off Google Assistant...

...and replacing it with Gemini AI.

Google is officially dumping Assistant for Gemini

RIP.

www.theverge.com

 

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Get ready to argue with your weird Uncle on Facebook again. Meta is rolling out its new fact checking solution to it's 190 million users in the United States

Prepare yourself for the unhinged nature of community notes.

www.pcgamer.com

 

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Get ready to argue with your weird Uncle on Facebook again. Meta is rolling out its new fact checking solution to it's 190 million users in the United States

Prepare yourself for the unhinged nature of community notes.

www.pcgamer.com

Nothing could go wrong there, lol.....

 

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Punishing AI for lying and cheating might not be such a good idea after all

Scientists at OpenAI have attempted to stop a frontier AI model from cheating and lying by punishing it. But this just taught it to scheme more privately.

www.livescience.com

 

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