Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay
Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full and real union': La...
Meta scraps its celebrity AI chatbot feature less than a year after launch and now expects people to use Meta's new AI Studio to customize their own AI avatars
“What's this?” — “Oh, ok.” — “Anyway....” — RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: Brendan Brady / @bradybrendan1 : I will miss you AI Paris Hilton! Brett Dashevsky / @brettdash_ : this was so predi...
Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts
About this report Google's 2024 Environmental Report provides … Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Google's emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand The Keyword : Our 2024 Environmenta...
The RIAA sues AI music services Suno and Udio over alleged mass copyright infringement and claims they are trying to “hide the full scope of their infringement”
here's what it means Ben's Bites : Major labels are suing AI music startups Suno and Udio Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak : RIAA Sues Suno & Udio AI Music Generators For ‘Trampling’ on Copyright Markus Ka...
Stanford unveils the Foundation Model Transparency Index, featuring 100 indicators; Llama 2 led at 54%, GPT-4 placed third at 48%, and PaLM 2 took fifth at 40%
https://www.nytimes.com/... [image] Mark Coggins / @coggins@mastodon.social : This is the kind of needed AI regulation—requiring model makers to reveal how they trained their language models—that #Ma...
A comparison between US data and 5,100 Stable Diffusion-generated images related to job title and crime finds the tool amplifies gender and racial stereotypes
of some some logical and objective thinking machine. — In reality generative AI, is just fancy autocomplete based on its training data. So it'll always reflect the biases of its underlying data and...
Several artists whose work Stability AI included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion are angry that they weren't informed, asked for consent, nor paid
Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known. Tweets: @fabiochiusi , @green_footballs , @carnage4...
Users embrace “algospeak”, like saying “unalive” instead of dead, to bypass content moderation filters on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitch
I have a love-hate relationship with being sick. Tweets: Evan Greer / @evan_greer : I spoke with @TaylorLorenz about how attempting to “sanitize the internet” with automated content removal is a fools...
Clubhouse courted fresh controversy after a conversation with hundreds of listeners devolved into a platform for anti-Semitic comments on a Jewish holy day
Controversial private social app Clubhouse was again the target of criticism on Monday, after a conversation with hundreds … Tweets: @sm , @gartenberg , @saschasegan , @nicoleperlroth , @silvermanjaco...
How facial analysis software that classifies gender misidentifies trans and non-binary people, is inaccurate with people of color, and could harm these groups
Rachel Metz / CNN :