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Dutch Government Threatens Facebook Ban Over Privacy Concerns
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Court Admits EncroChat Hacked Messages in Criminal Case
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Court finds EncroChat hacked messages admissible as former footballer is jailed https://
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Open Web and Open-Source CMS Value for Government
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I hope we can help government and regulatory bodies clearly understand the value of keeping the web open and using open-source software in the CMS."
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Scaling Flawed AI Systems Increases Risk Exponentially
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Fix one and you reduce the risk of the other. The 2 go hand in hand. If we allow AI with material flaws or issues to scale then eventually something will go badly wrong.
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WHO Chatbot Reliability: Institutional Accountability Over User Skepticism
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Are you seriously suggesting that all people accessing the WHO's webpage should know better than to trust their chatbot — rather than the folks at the WHO (and contracting with them) knowing better than to set it up?
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Facial Recognition Privacy Concerns in AI Applications
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Also, this is a privacy nightmare, as mentioned in the piece — it completely gratuitously involves taking photos (videos?) of user's facial expressions.
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Person of Interest Predicted Snowden Surveillance Revelations
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Yeah Person of Interest had their Snowden episode a year before Snowden happened https://
newyorker.com/culture/cultur
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Twitter Algorithm Amplifies Extremists Over Moderate Voices
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If you use Twitter you may wonder: why is everyone so extreme in their views? It turns out that they aren’t, but an overlapping set of intentional and unintentional design choices suppresses the large number of moderate voices & amplifies extremists, with bad consequences for us https://
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Open Source AI Risks Lower Than Centralized Model Control
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Very well made argument. Risks of open source are way lower than risks of any one powerful actor owning the most capable model pic.twitter.com/1eYKZC6QAl
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) 18 avril 2024Very well made argument. Risks of open source are way lower than risks of any one powerful actor owning the most capable model
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Meta’s Evasive Response to AI Technology Failures Criticized
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The absolute obliviousness of Meta (the company)'s response in this article is astounding: "this is new technology and it may not always return the response we intend". The desired output here is actually easy to achieve: don't.