Deepfakes, which are predominantly being used to produce porn, are thriving because the stigma of porn has made it difficult for sex workers to protect their IP
But revenge porn and IP theft are the more pressing threats — OVER THE PAST three years, celebrities have been appearing across social media in improbable scenarios. Tweets: @thewalrus , @bryonycole...
How AI Dungeon, a text adventure game that uses the GPT-3 text generator, can create sex scenes involving children, and why attempts to stop it aren't working
Tom Simonite / Wired : Tweets: @hkanji , @yudhanjaya , @marklittlenews , @wired , @sesmith , and @etzioni Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : Users complained the AI would bring up sexual themes unbidd...
Ransomware hackers are targeting managed service providers, causing chaos for the city governments, medical clinics, and smaller businesses who use them for IT
On July 3, employees at Arbor Dental in Longview, Washington, noticed glitches in their computers and couldn't view X-rays. Tweets: @propublica , @sesmith , @propublicail , @propublica , @guptamnka , ...
All harmful technologies are a product of unethical design, yet, like car companies in the '70s, today's tech companies would rather blame the user
Lizzie O'Shea / Longreads : Tweets: @carnage4life , @longreads , @sesmith , and @longreads Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : This is a great read that contains an analogy I really ❤️. Lack of p...
All harmful technologies are a product of unethical design, yet, like car companies in the '70s, today's tech companies would rather blame the user
an excerpt adapted from Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Teach Us about Digital Technology | Tweets: @longreads , @sesmith , @longreads , @longreads , and @longrea...
Development of digital-accessibility maps for disabled people is being spurred by new apps but many challenges remain as most maps depend on visual/textual data
Aimi Hamraie / The Atlantic : Tweets: @ibogost and @sesmith Tweets: Ian Bogost / @ibogost : New mapping apps can make things better for disabled people negotiating the built environment. They can als...