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

[Lily Adler]

How companies get inside gig workers' heads with "algorithmic wage discrimination"

Reams of data allow companies to pay workers differently based on habits — just like "price discrimination" among retailers.

www.cbsnews.com

Retailers are implementing similar technology for digital shelves that will adjust pricing based on their algorithms.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Meta's AI Can Now Deepfake Your Videos and Fill Your Feed With Slop

Zuckerberg also announced that users can begin talking to Meta AI and it will talk back in the voices of celebrities.

gizmodo.com

More Zuckerslop to go along with their sloppy and inaccurate AI moderation.

 

[blueharvest]

Ex-Congressmen Pen The Most Ignorant, Incorrect, Confused, And Dangerous Attack On Section 230 I’ve Ever Seen

In my time covering internet speech issues, I’ve seen some truly ridiculous arguments regarding Section 230. I even created my ever-handy “Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’r…

www.techdirt.com

 

[blueharvest]

Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity

Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories.

arstechnica.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning

Starting Thursday, Kaspersky deleted its anti-malware software from computers across the United States and replaced it with UltraAV's antivirus solution without warning.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

This is the Russian antivirus software banned by the Biden administration.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

Did any of us ask for this? Did anyone say hey Google you know what we really need a robo chat to make me feel better.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Did any of us ask for this? Did anyone say hey Google you know what we really need a robo chat to make me feel better.

Nope they don’t care about user wants they care about executive and shareholder wants.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext

Company failed to follow one of the most sacrosanct rules for password storage.

arstechnica.com

 

[blueharvest]

Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff there's no plan for him to receive a 'giant equity stake' in company

Altman said the departures were not related to the company’s potential restructuring, contrary to some media reports.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Expert highlights danger of tech companies' power over society

ABC News sat down with Marietje Schaake to discuss Big Tech's influence on politics and government's responsibility in keeping these companies from harming society.

abcnews.go.com

 

[blueharvest]

California won’t require big tech firms to test safety of AI after Newsom kills bill

Governor vetoes bill that would require generative AI safety testing after tech industry says it’d drive companies away

www.theguardian.com

 

[Teelie]

Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning

Starting Thursday, Kaspersky deleted its anti-malware software from computers across the United States and replaced it with UltraAV's antivirus solution without warning.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

This is the Russian antivirus software banned by the Biden administration.

I would be freaking out too if suddenly some new program I never heard of, never asked for and had no say in being installed just showed up on my computer.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Apple backs out of backing OpenAI, report claims

Apple dropped out of the $6.5 billion investment round at the 11th hour.

arstechnica.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Can the US please adopt the Digital Markets Act from the EU?

 

[blueharvest]

The AI boom has raised hopes for a nuclear comeback

Microsoft’s deal to revive a Three Mile Island reactor is just part of Big Tech’s dance with a controversial power source.

www.motherjones.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

eBay listings for banned chemicals shielded by Section 230, judge rules

DOJ can’t force eBay to remove environmentally harmful product listings.

arstechnica.com

Ridiculous

This judge thinks you sell illegal objects on the internet because of the ‘magic’ of Section 230. Banned chemicals, drugs, nuclear weapons, hitmen for hire, etc.. And yes the platform be they Amazon or eBay gets a cut of every sale in addition to being a co-conspirator that publishes the sale.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Meta’s glasses are spyware.

Meta won’t answer whether it’s smart glasses are using the images you record to train its AI

'We’re not publicly discussing that'

www.tomsguide.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Meta’s glasses are spyware.

Meta won’t answer whether it’s smart glasses are using the images you record to train its AI

'We’re not publicly discussing that'

www.tomsguide.com

Of course they are. It's Facebook!

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

PayPal's data sharing controversy: New setting raises privacy concerns - gHacks Tech News

PayPal will share your shopping data with third-parties unless you disable a setting. Here is how to protect your privacy.

www.ghacks.net

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

A true opensource AI would be a foundation getting donations.

 

[blueharvest]

Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4

Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks.

venturebeat.com

 

[blueharvest]

New Yorker’s ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ Article Waits 71 Paragraphs To Admit Evidence Doesn’t Support The Premise

These days, there’s a formula for articles pushing the unproven claims of harm from social media. Start with examples of kids harming themselves, insist (without evidence) that but for social media…

www.techdirt.com