MS–Open AI's ~parent company–already has massive US military contracts. This is the biz model. It's also one more alarm re. the current AI paradigm, its reliance on concentrated corp power, & the undemocratic decision making power this gives these (primarily) US-based corps. https://
x.com/samfbiddle/sta
/samfbiddle/status/1745886504298381635
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@mer__edith
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Microsoft’s Military AI Contracts and Democratic Power Concentration
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The Case for Small Data Over Big Data Science
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This, from @beenwrekt
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Data Broker X-Mode Sold Sensitive Healthcare Location Data
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This is very good/another reminder that the surveillance biz is unfathomably sleazy. "X-Mode gave a clinical research company info…about consumers who had visited certain internal medical facilities & then pharmacies or infusion centers." https://
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Community College to UC Berkeley: Educational Pathway in AI Research
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Vancouver Rape Crisis Centre Server Theft Exposes Unencrypted Patient Data
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"Theft of Vancouver rape crisis centre server containing sensitive data raises privacy concerns" Patient names, services received, other intimate & data was stored unencrypted, & stolen. Medical case files were encrypted, & remain protected. QED
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Collective Work Building to Unstoppable Crescendo
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may the work collectively build to a crescendo impossible to ignore
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Surveillance Business Model: Data-Centric Platform Economics
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By "surveillance biz model" I'm referring both to the data-centric platform biz model that emerged c. 1990s, & persists as the tech industry's economic engine, & the biz of provisioning surveillance systems in particular, which generally (as here) build on top of this paradigm.
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AI and Surveillance Business Models: Empirical Evidence of Imbrication
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This paper is really important, presenting empirical evidence of the imbrication bet. AI & the surveillance biz model. This is notable particularly given that most production surveillance tech is proprietary, its existence and use hidden from the public. https://
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UK Investigatory Powers Act expansion raises urgent regulatory concerns
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On the proposed, very rushed, expansion of the Investigatory Powers Act in the UK https://
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How humanizing AI dehumanizes women
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Relevant to this point: how humanizing AI dehumanizes women x.com/IrisVanRooij/s…