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Alex Steffen

@alexsteffen
6 posts
2023-08-14
Some people, at least, are treating these Russian corruption and disinformation campaigns as the attacks on democracy they are. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-08-14 View on X
New York Times

How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia

Sweden has tasked its psychological defense authority with openly combating fake news from foreign actors. … X: Alex Steffen / @alexsteffen : Some people, at least, are treating th...

2023-08-13
Some people, at least, are treating these Russian corruption and disinformation campaigns as the attacks on democracy they are. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-08-13 View on X
New York Times

How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia

The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin. Mastodon: @carl@heath.social . X: ...

2020-05-20
A tiny bit of professional insurrection. https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-20 View on X
OneZero

Google says it won't “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry”, after new Greenpeace report on Big Oil ties

How Tech Companies are Helping Big Oil Profit … Sam Shead / CNBC : Google plans to stop making A.I. tools for oil and gas firms Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Google pledges not t...

2020-03-02
Police-enforced automated quarantines decided by a black box algorithm. This AI thing is going great! https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-02 View on X
New York Times

A look at China's new system using color-coded QR codes to dictate people's movements and quarantines, that may be a template for social control beyond COVID-19

A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.

2020-01-17
Microsoft's climate action plans. Lots of questions, obviously, but there's a clarity of understanding and seriousness of purpose here that show real climate leadership. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
2020-01-17 View on X
The Official Microsoft Blog

Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030, remove all carbon it has ever emitted by 2050, and launch a $1B climate innovation fund

and its $1 billion infusion of cash — could ultimately make the tech cheaper and more appealing to other companies looking for new ways to go green.” Big thanks to @justcalma for b...

2018-01-04
Humanity isn't even vaguely ready for the new technologies enabling easy, seamless fabrication of imagery (especially video). Combined with a fact-check-free 24-hour news cycle, this is going to unleash a serious force for societal destabilization. http://www.nytimes.com/...
2018-01-04 View on X
New York Times

How Nvidia researchers generated pictures of faces that appear to be real but aren't by analyzing photos of celebrities and detecting patterns

To create the final image in this set, the system generated 10 million revisions over 18 days.  —  The woman in the photo seems familiar. Tweets: @alexsteffen , @pnhoward , @rafael...