Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023
All — The — Way — Down — This one is sooo good. I recommend this to anyone playing with #AI to understand the biases and the complexities. Oh and the discussion of alt text is amazing. … Eri...
OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking
White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI safety commitment As...
Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members
your dead relative's James Hennessy / The Terminal : Art, death and imagined conversations Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : So Will The New Alexa Feature Resurrect The Dead Or Not? Kate Kozuch / Tom's Gui...
In an Australian Senate hearing, a Google executive said that a law forcing Google to pay news outlets for links could prompt it to stop offering Search
which one senator called blackmail — revealed apparent willingness of Facebook and Google to hide or erase reliable sources of info for millions at a time when social media platforms are under 🔥 for h...
Many hospitals and clinics are introducing AI-powered decision support tools, often novel and unproven, but most patients are unaware of them
Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota's largest health systems have had their discharge … Tweets: @rebeccadrobbins , @statnews , @kncukier , @kate...
Kickstarter employees vote 46-37 to unionize with the Office and Professional Employees International Union
no matter where they work. That includes tech. #SupportUnions https://twitter.com/... @doctorow : Kickstarter workers vote to form first union in tech industry https://www.nbcnews.com/... Congrats to ...
An in-depth look at the long history of facial recognition, focusing on Woody Bledsoe, a University of Texas professor working in the 1960s backed by the CIA
Shaun Raviv / Wired : Tweets: @katecrawford and @dgolumbia Tweets: Kate Crawford / @katecrawford : Hey everyone, have a read of this excellent deep dive feature into Woody Bledsoe, a key figure in th...
Two Google employees who helped organize walkouts say they've faced demotions or dramatically changed roles, plan a town hall to share stories of retaliation
both at research institutions like @AINowInstitute, and at places like Google, which need calls for change and self-reflection from strong voices within. http://www.nytimes.com/... Kate Conger / @kate...
Predictim, a service using AI to generate character scores for babysitters based on years of online activity, provides questionable recommendations to parents
When Jessie Battaglia started looking for a new babysitter for her 1-year-old son, she wanted more information … Tweets: @zeynep , @justinhendrix , @katecrawford , @ai , @carnage4life , @etbrooking , ...
How Predictim pressures babysitters to grant broad access to their social media, uses AI to analyze years of online activity to provide evaluations to parents
When Jessie Battaglia started looking for a new babysitter for her 1-year-old son, she wanted more information … Tweets: @justinhendrix , @hunterwalk , @katecrawford , @kierisi , @lydnicholas , @lmsac...