Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” via an “aggressive legal threat” that demands it stop Comet Assistant purchases for users, who “love this experience”
The point of technology is to make life better for people. Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Amazon Sues Perplexity Over Comet's Agentic Shopping Capabilities M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : AI is Breaking the Bro...
OpenAI shares its plans ahead of 2024 elections, including image provenance tools and not letting users make tools for impersonation or political campaigning
Here's How OpenAI Plans to Fight It PYMNTS.com : OpenAI to Implement Digital Credentials to Prevent Misuse in Elections Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : OpenAI announces steps to prevent its generative ...
Analysis of 2,000 misleading Israel-Hamas war X posts, viewed 500M times: verified users posting debunked claims are thriving and Community Notes isn't scaling
Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism … “My sisters have died,” the young boy sobbed, chest heaving, as he wailed into the sky. X: @emilybell , @davidclinchnews , and @dicktofel X: Emily...
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia
complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : NE...
Congressional hearings with tech CEOs and execs in the past few years have yielded no new laws amid partisan divides over issues like privacy and misinformation
Holding a hearing that humbles the most powerful business executives in the world is much easier than legislating. Tweets: @ceciliakang , @brandyzadrozny , @colincrowell , @nytpolitics , @nytimesbusin...
Nick Clegg, Amy Klobuchar, Josh Hawley, Chris Hughes, Clay Shirky, and others on how to reform social media platforms and limit their harm
including Nick Clegg, Amy Klobuchar, Josh Hawley, Sherry Turkle and Jaron Lanier—discuss how to deal with the problems posed by the biggest social-media sites https://www.wsj.com/... Kate Bevan / @kat...
Nick Clegg, Amy Klobuchar, Josh Hawley, Chris Hughes, Clay Shirky, and others on how to reform social media platforms and limit their harm
including Nick Clegg, Amy Klobuchar, Josh Hawley, Sherry Turkle and Jaron Lanier—discuss how to deal with the problems posed by the biggest social-media sites https://www.wsj.com/... Kate Bevan / @kat...
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I'm getting really ti...
The attack on the Capitol sparked a tense debate among online extremism researchers about crowdsourced efforts to identify the rioters and “ethical doxxing”
Joan Donovan has a panic button in her office, just in case one of the online extremists she spends her days fighting tries to fight back. Tweets: @walterolson , @josephpatrice , @issielapowsky , @bos...
A person involved in Twitter hack may have gained access to Twitter's internal dashboard using credentials pinned in one of the company's Slack channels
one of whom says he lives at home with his mother ... 19 and lived in the south of England with his mother.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Wow. Just seeing this. Twitter says...