Researchers say hate speech and misinformation on Twitter are up; CEO Linda Yaccarino says that's “incorrect” and touts improvements, like ad placement controls
Coupled with $13 billion of debt, the company is in more than a shaky position. … Twitter: @twitterbusiness : To our partners, we want to address a recent Bloomberg article which claims that harmful c...
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
Analysis: Google Maps in the US regularly misleads people looking for abortion providers, instead pointing them towards non-medical crisis pregnancy centers
Chey was a 19-year-old college sophomore living near Orlando, Florida, when she discovered she was pregnant and decided to have an abortion. Tweets: @daveyalba , @daveyalba , @jackgillum , @davidjoach...
Twitter has aggressively defended users' privacy and free speech rights, pushing back on unmasking subpoenas, but it's unclear if this will continue under Musk
and possibly Elon himself — seem to think the Twitter algorithm actually works like this https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : The guy bleating on for years about “cancel culture” is dema...
Despite fears in the West, China's alleged AI prowess is mostly limited to computer vision, useful for domestic control of citizens, while the US is far broader
The nation excels in computer vision and facial recognition, but practical applications are limited to surveillance. Tweets: @s8mb , @parmy , @tculpan , and @markscott82 Tweets: Sam Bowman / @s8mb : P...
What it's like to get by without using or accessing a single product from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, blocking all five at once for one week
who track our movements, erode our privacy, monetize our data—have a monopoly on not just our digital lives, but on everything that bleeds into. just trying to untangle yourself from them is a radical...
Inside Zuckerberg's and Facebook's evolving approach to misinformation and filter bubbles, now that the issues have been more openly acknowledged
Graphic from the White House's “First 100 Days” website BeauHD / Slashdot : Facebook Shows Related Articles and Fact Checkers Before You Open Links Tweets: Parmy Olson / @parmy : Facebook thinks “peop...
Samsung's SmartTV privacy policy warns that spoken personal or sensitive information captured by voice recognition may be transmitted to a third party
5 things to know today Parmy Olson / Forbes : Samsung's Smart TVs Share Living Room Conversations With Third Parties Help Net Security : Be careful when talking in front of a Samsung SmartTV Graham Cl...