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

[squeekness]

Gizmodo - No, Biden Isn't Dead: AI Content Farms Are Pumping Out Fake Stories
A new report found 49 different websites secretly using AI to churn out low-quality posts and rake in advertising revenue.

This is just the beginning. All AI has to do is pit us against each other more than we already are. Then they can finally rule!

 

[Iceman]

Gizmodo - No, Biden Isn't Dead: AI Content Farms Are Pumping Out Fake Stories
A new report found 49 different websites secretly using AI to churn out low-quality posts and rake in advertising revenue.

You'd hope people seeing big stories ending up as fake would stop going to the same sites for news.

 

[squeekness]

You'd hope people seeing big stories ending up as fake would stop going to the same sites for news.

4chan and reddit beg to differ.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The GenX-ers and olders share all this crap on Facebook.

 

[Lily Adler]

Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site

 

[Teelie]

And no joke, Google searches for VPN's skyrocketed in Utah. They apparently consume an inordinate amount of porn in that state too.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - 'Plagiarism machines': Hollywood writers and studios battle over the future of AI

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

And no joke, Google searches for VPN's skyrocketed in Utah. They apparently consume an inordinate amount of porn in that state too.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - The FTC's Trying to Ban Meta from Using Kids' Data

 

[Teelie]

And Meta is whining it wants to exploit the children for profit.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Associated Press - AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters

 

[squeekness]

Associated Press - AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters

This concerns me a lot. How can you make an informed decision if you can't trust what you see?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Irish Times removes article suggesting fake tan is racist amid suggestion it was AI generated

Irish Times apologises for hoax AI article about women’s use of fake tan

 

[squeekness]

Who knew fake tan could be so controversial, lol.

 

[Teelie]

Anything can controversial, especially if you use AI to write it.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - AI threatens humanity’s future, 61% of Americans say: Reuters/Ipsos poll
According to the data, 61% of respondents believe that AI poses risks to humanity, while only 22% disagreed, and 17% remained unsure.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NY Times - Meta [Facebook] Fined $1.3 Billion for Violating E.U. Data Privacy Rules

 

[squeekness]

NY Times - Meta [Facebook] Fined $1.3 Billion for Violating E.U. Data Privacy Rules

Oops.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Guardian - ‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
It feels like a gold rush,” says Timnit Gebru. “In fact, it is a gold rush. And a lot of the people who are making money are not the people actually in the midst of it. But it’s humans who decide whether all this should be done or not. We should remember that we have the agency to do that.”

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Teenager charged by police after investigation into TikTok 'prank' videos

"Controversy, even though it's not good, is the best way to blow up on social media," he said. "I always know outrage is going to happen. I know exactly what I'm doing and the consequences of my actions."

Not a prankster but a criminal hiding behind it for clout and money enabled by the social media companies.

In the U.S. he'd end up seriously injured or shot dead for doing some of these things.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

All the people pushing AI are liars. From Musk calling for a pause while developing his own to these other carnies who pretend they wanted regulation for PR clout.

Reuters - OpenAI CEO's threat to quit EU draws lawmaker backlash

 

[Teelie]

Says AI should be regulated, complains "not like that" when sensible regulations are proposed.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NPR - One mom takes on YouTube over deadly social media blackout challenge

Griffin is one of an estimated 1,385 children known to have died from the blackout challenge, according to a nonprofit called Erik's Cause, which was founded by Judy Rogg, whose son also died from a choking game.

"That's just the tip of the iceberg," McGrath said. "The only ones we know of are the people that go to the news or find each other."

It’s weaponized peer pressure carried by the social media companies, and it works more effectively on children.

 

[squeekness]

Social media is evil.

 

[Teelie]

It's why I'm barely on any of it.