Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel
https://medium.com/... X: Dr. Ks / @katejsim : Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power 🔥 ...
Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B+ images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008+ instances of CSAM, possibly helping AI to generate CSAM
most prominently, Stable Diffusion 1.5—to see to what degree CSAM itself might be present in the training data. https://purl.stanford.edu/... Alex Stamos / @alex.stamos : Lots of people have worried a...
A review of 115 warrants for Google's location and search data in five US states shows investigators are increasingly using the data to solve nonviolent cases
Investigators increasingly use warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and even for people who had nothing to do with the crime. X: @elizabeth_joh , @deirdre...
Study: in May 2023, ~150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes, with 3.8B total views, appeared on 30 sites, up 9x since 2019, aided by services from big tech companies
To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft X: @daveyalba , @cecianasta , and @ajmartinny X: Davey Alba / @daveyalba : ...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...
Sources reveal how contractors audit Bard's answers in subjects ranging from medication doses to state laws, sometimes with deadlines as short as three minutes
As algorithms take on an increasingly big share … Bluesky: Emily Gorcenski / @emily.gorcen.ski : In the United States, this is considered “a substantial improvement over most doctors.” [embedded post...
Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped
and markets briefly dipped Shannon Bond / NPR : Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI Davey Alba / Bloomberg : How Fake AI Photo of a Pentagon Blast Went Viral ...
Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI
warning the company doesn't have one in A.I. John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog : Google and Commoditization: Anyone Need a BackRub? Agne Cimermanaite / Metaverse Post : Leaked Google Documen...
Microsoft appears to have updated the new Bing to end chats following prompts mentioning “feelings” or “Sydney”, after adding chat restrictions on February 17
but the human response is way scarier Russell Kidson / gHacks Technology News : The Problem of Other Minds: Assessing the Sentience of Chatbots like Bing Eric Hal Schwartz / Voicebot.ai : Microsoft Re...
Sources and analysis: Twitter's Community Notes does not address divisive lies; over 30K, or ~96%, of notes contributed by the community are invisible to users
Bloomberg : Tweets: @daveyalba , @silviakillings , @sarahfrier , @kegill , and @daveyalba Tweets: Davey Alba / @daveyalba : “Abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of a mother,” reads...