This is the same horrific idea that I wrote about in my MAIHT3k newsletter post on Monday, but @techreview goes for the "ooh shiny!" angle instead: https://
buttondown.email/maiht3k/archiv
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Medical Science Shouldn’t Platform Automating End-of-Life Care
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MIT Tech Review’s Mixed AI Coverage: Ethics vs. Tech Boosterism
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The reporting in @techreview is such a mixed back. Some good critical work, some "look shiny!" tech reporting that at best quotes a few "skeptics" towards the bottom before returning to boosterism. This one is an example of that — a short thread: https://
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Art and Generative AI Inequality: Critical Analysis
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Excellent video (in Spanish, with Spanish & English subtitles) from @ArteEsEtica and @DAIRInstitute 's Data Worker's Inquiry: "Art and "Generative AI" are NOT Equal" https://
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Strategic Digital Transformation: Cybersecurity and Corporate Accountability
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To exploit the digital age's potential and mitigate risks, companies must focus on strategic plans that ensure transparency, accountability, training, and collaboration. Find out more by downloading the free report by @DeltalogiX > https://
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Generative AI on Social Media: Risk for 47% of French
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[#Article] Integrating generative AI on social media without compromising your brand: a challenge for 47% of French people https://actuia.com/actualite/integrer-lia-generative-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-sans-compromettre-sa-marque-un-defi-pour-47-des-francais/
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OpenAI commits 20% computing resources to AI safety initiatives
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a few quick updates about safety at openai: as we said last july, we’re committed to allocating at least 20% of the computing resources to safety efforts across the entire company. our team has been working with the US AI Safety Institute on an agreement where we would provide
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AI fears decrease as people become more familiar with technology
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Bad news, doomers: fears of AI plummet when people get familiar with it. https://
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Be Still and Know AI’s Not God: Human Identity
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My latest article: Be Still and Know AI's Not God https://
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Privacy-First Cookie Banners Combat Dark Patterns Data Sales
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Wanna see companies taking privacy serious? Have cookie banners that don‘t suck (speak: don‘t use dark patterns)?
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Open Models Restriction Lobbying Reaches US Administration
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For years now, some players have been lobbying to restrict open models (while at the same time deploying closed-source commercial ones to hundreds of millions of people). So much so that it made it to the top of the US administration which requested a report on the topic.