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

[Lily Adler]

 

[Lily Adler]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part

 

[blueharvest]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media

Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

www.theguardian.com

New York Governor Signs AI Protection Bills As SAG-AFTRA Executives Tout Gains for Performers

“If we want the public to trust what they see, we must have guardrails on digital replicas and synthetic creations,” said SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[squeekness]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Why the words of the year show us the internet is in a death spiral

Dictionaries are highlighting words that run from malevolent to meaningless – and reflect the dire state of the web today, writes Andrew Griffin

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner​

Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/gartner_recommends_ai_browser_ban/

 

[:eek:]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-surpasses-2024-bitcoin-mining-in-energy-usage-uses-more-h20-than-the-bottles-of-water-people-drink-globally-study-claims-says-ai-demand-could-hit-23gw-and-up-to-764-billion-liters-of-water-in-2025

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]