How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify — Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake artist” issue appar...
A profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do
Nobody likes an I-told-you-so. But before Microsoft's Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta's Galactica spewed racist rants … Mastodon: @ben@werd.social , @emilymbender@dair … , ...
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...
Experts say open sourcing Twitter's algorithm will not increase transparency because recommendation engines are complex and use an immense fire hose of data
Conservatives have long claimed discrimination by the social network, but there's no one algorithm that could prove it, researchers say Tweets: @chrismessina , @kevinmarks , @peterwsinger , @nbashaw ,...