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

[blueharvest]

Commerce Secretary 'very worried' about AI being used nefariously in 2024 election

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said she's "very worried" about artificial intelligence being used nefariously in the 2024 election at a press conference in Washington.

abcnews.go.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Now do the same thing with Facebook.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Both apps will add a setting to let users who still want to see political content recommendations opt to do so — and, according the post, the same control will roll out on Facebook at a later date.

FB is awash in GenX/Boomer Trump garbage, from pages to Reels.

 

[squeekness]

Now do the same thing with Facebook.

Yes,please!

 

[blueharvest]

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for deepfakes

Biden's AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is "in the works."

www.businessinsider.com

 

[blueharvest]

AI firm considers banning creation of political images for 2024 elections

Midjourney’s CEO David Holz says company close to ‘hammering’ images of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and others ‘for next 12 months’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Teelie]

Too late for that. Cat is out of the bag and making all kinds of political fraud images.

 

[blueharvest]

How AI Bots Could Sabotage 2024 Elections around the World

AI-generated disinformation will target voters on a near-daily basis in more than 50 countries, according to a new analysis

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Google's Gemini AI Keeps Your Conversations for Up to 3 Years (Even If You Delete Them)

Assume just about everything you tell robots could be read in court one day.

gizmodo.com

 

[blueharvest]

ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like

How well do you want your chatbot to know you?

www.theverge.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are using ChatGPT to improve cyberattacks

Hackers are using AI tools to improve scripts, phishing emails, and more.

www.theverge.com

 

[blueharvest]

Feds Have Warned Medicare Insurers That ‘AI’ Can’t Be Used To (Incompetently And Cruelly) Deny Patient Care

“AI” (or more accurately language learning models nowhere close to sentience or genuine awareness) has plenty of innovative potential. Unfortunately, most of the folks actually in charge of the tec…

www.techdirt.com

 

[blueharvest]

New York City files a lawsuit saying social media is fueling a youth mental health crisis

New York City, its schools and public hospital system are suing the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube

abcnews.go.com

 

[squeekness]

New York City files a lawsuit saying social media is fueling a youth mental health crisis

New York City, its schools and public hospital system are suing the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube

abcnews.go.com

I have no doubt it's true.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

First ever iOS trojan discovered — and it’s stealing facial recognition data to break into bank accounts

What you need to know about the dangerous Android banking trojan that's been ported to iPhone

www.tomsguide.com

University of Michigan Is Selling Student Data to AI Companies

Tech employees are getting cold emails offering free samples of essays and recordings of students’ voices.

gizmodo.com

 

[blueharvest]

Parents of gun violence victims use AI to recreate their voices in calls to Congress

Parents of half a dozen victims of gun violence used artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate their children’s voices in calls to Congress, urging lawmakers to change the country’s gun laws as part…

thehill.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Feds probing whether Cash App leaves door open to money launderers, terrorists

The payment app, used by millions and celebrated by rappers, “had no effective procedure" to establish the true identity of customers, two whistleblowers told officials.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

The government wants to scan your face in the name of security, but who is watching the government?

Americans deserve to know more about how images of their faces will be stored and shared by the federal government.

thehill.com

 

[blueharvest]

OpenAI teases ‘Sora,’ its new text-to-video AI model

The model can take simple text prompts and generate original video, such as woolly mammoths walking through snow.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Election Deepfakes Are Coming Even If Big Tech Pledges to Stop Them

Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, OpenAI and X say they'll try to stop AI-generated deepfakes, but they'll need more than corporate talk to do it.

gizmodo.com

What the EU’s tough AI law means for research and ChatGPT

The EU AI Act is the world’s first major legislation on artificial intelligence and strictly regulates general-purpose models.

www.nature.com

 

[blueharvest]

AI tax fraud will be a nightmare this year; creative thinking is needed to thwart it

Artificial intelligence has launched threats of fraud and theft against taxpayers on a scale previously unimaginable.

thehill.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models

A Reddit-pilled AI?!

mashable.com

 

[blueharvest]

Artificial intelligence is making critical health care decisions. The sheriff is MIA

Health care regulators say they need more people and more power to monitor the new tech.

www.politico.com