OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social . F...
A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, “the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.” Mastodon: @simontsui@infosec.excha...
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them
Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @lolgo...
Q&A with Harvard law professor and Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig on AI's impact on social media and free speech, copyright use, TikTok, and more
After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you'd think about AI and TikTok … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . LinkedIn: Andrei Nicolae Cuta , Rick Lane , and Paul ...
Mastodon fixes an issue that undercounted its MAUs by 407,814 between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs in total and 10K servers
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X … Mastodon: @Gargron@mastodon.social See also Mediagazer Mastodon: Eugen Rochk...
A writer whose AI-assisted essay went viral reflects on testing GPT-3 early, Sudowrite's novel generator, and whether AI is good for writers and literature
Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I'm not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself. Mastodon: @AthenaHelivoy@mastodon.world . X: @englishoer , @srhm_ca , @dan_jeffries1 , @aldaily ...
Academics and US agencies are overhauling or ending online misinformation research due to Representative Jim Jordan and other Republicans' escalating campaign
An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation … Mastodon: @PaulaChertok@mas.to , @dangillmor@mastodon...
As some supposedly “leaked” Harry Styles songs are being sold on Discord, fans and AI-analysis companies struggle to determine if the clips are AI-generated
Dozens of unreleased Harry Styles songs have leaked on underground Discords in the last month. The fandom can't decide if they're real or AI-generated. Mastodon: @Morisy@glammr.us , @jasonkoebler@mas...
US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user
Today let's talk about a right we currently take for granted that may soon disappear: the ability to browse and post to most websites anonymously. Mastodon: @ernie@writing.exchange , @drewharwell@mast...
Some experts say trolls who built businesses and media careers on Twitter have had to escalate shock value tactics as the audience of “normal people” shrinks
Elon Musk's business model depends on “triggering” liberals — but he's now running out of progressives to bait Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @timfordwrites@mstdn.ca , and @bruno_j_navarro … . Blues...