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

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Former music-pirating platform Napster to be reborn rather ironically as a metaverse for musicians to connect with their fans after $207 million deal

The music, ahem, sharing platform that refuses to die.

www.pcgamer.com

 

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AI models will lie to you to achieve their goals — and it doesn't take much

Researchers discover that the most advanced AI models may lie to their users when under pressure.

www.livescience.com

 

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Amazon unveils AI that can take control of your web browser

Nova Act is first AI model to come out of Amazon’s new artificial general intelligence lab

www.the-independent.com

 

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How AI bots are suffocating Wikipedia

Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough

www.platformer.news

 

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Meta Whistleblower to Tell Congress That Company Aided China in AI Race​

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/meta-whistleblower-to-tell-congress-that-company-aided-china-in-ai-race

 

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Nice to see something good about AI for once.

 

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Meta Faces Potential Breakup With FTC Antitrust Trial Starting

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-14/meta-faces-potential-breakup-with-ftc-antitrust-trial-starting

Meta should be broken up in a just world.

 

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ChatGPT just passed the Turing test — but that doesn’t mean AI is now as smart as humans

There have been several headlines over the past week about an AI chatbot officially passing the Turing test. These news reports are based on a recent preprint study by two researchers at the University of California San Diego in which four large language models (LLMs) were put through the...

www.alternet.org