Google Glass wearers were being attacked in San Francisco ten years ago – though that could partly have been a reaction against the tech industry generally, hard to know if it was directly due to surveillance concerns
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Social Acceptance Challenges for Recording Devices Privacy Concerns
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I don't see how these products can get over the social factor that nobody likes the idea that someone else is recording them without their explicit permission Whether or not the devices actually do that doesn't matter – just wearing an inactive microphone or camera is risky
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EU Commission Proposes Media Freedom Act for Digital Europe
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European Media Freedom Act: Commission proposes rules to protect media pluralism and independence in the EU | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/europe
an-media-freedom-act-commission-proposes-rules-protect-media-pluralism-and-independence-eu
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Creator Integrity and Ethical Responsibility in Digital Influence
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Marques’ reach is a function of telling the truth. He didn’t always have 18 million subscribers, but he had his integrity from the beginning. Expecting him to abandon that is the only thing that is “distasteful, almost unethical”.
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OpenAI Expansion to Tokyo: AI Hub Growth in Japan
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Great to see more companies like OpenAI also expanding to Japan. Tokyo is going to become a city with a significant presence in AI. Tokyo has always attracted the ‘right’ kind of people: creative, curious, weird and eccentric. Official announcement here:
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Generative AI Redefining Sex and Intimacy Ethics
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Discover how #GenerativeAI is redefining #sex and #intimacy, from #AI-powered #chatbots to #sexrobots with personalities, and explore the #ethical considerations this tech revolution brings. Learn how this evolution impacts human #connections. https://
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Blackfoot Wisdom Against Surveillance Capitalism and Productivity Maximization
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The Blackfoot wisdom, although please do confirm from the source, is that a person is realized when born as part of a community. No maximization of productivity directives providing a sideways deadly permission toward extractive surveillance capitalism. Just “you are enough.”
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AI Training Data Ethics and Cultural Appropriation Concerns
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Dear God make it stop. Say it with me – “AI uses human data.” So if “it” ever exhibits knowledge it’s already an aggregate of stolen data, IP and creativity from humans. Also – Maslow’s hierarchy was built on Blackfoot First Nations wisdom and has been miscommunicated.
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AI Challenges to Academic Essays and University Admissions
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Deleted a thread on how admissions essays are no longer useful as it was being interpreted as an attack on essays in all contexts, and writing instructors were getting upset (which, if that is what I meant, I would get) There are lots of challenges poised by AI to essays, though
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Admission Essays No Longer Useful in AI Era
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I deleted the original tweet because I don’t want this sort of willful misinterpretation of what I was writing about (which was admission essays are no longer useful) to spread.