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Anna Kramer

@anna_c_kramer
21 posts
2024-03-31
this raises a big question for authors + publishing: Would publishers want authors to record their audiobooks if you could get the author's AI-simulated voice to do it? Would you, as an author, want to spend hours recording an audiobook when AI could provide a decent simulation?
2024-03-31 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 10 partners, including HeyGen

but Won't Release the Tech Yet Cade Metz / New York Times : OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI holds back wide release ...

2024-03-30
this raises a big question for authors + publishing: Would publishers want authors to record their audiobooks if you could get the author's AI-simulated voice to do it? Would you, as an author, want to spend hours recording an audiobook when AI could provide a decent simulation?
2024-03-30 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 100 partners, including HeyGen

As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it's doing so responsibly.

2022-06-16
UPDATE: NLRB is now alleging Mapbox broke labor laws during the anti-union campaign I detailed in the story. But as I explained in the above story, the NLRB doesn't have a ton of power in these situations https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-06-16 View on X
Protocol

The NLRB files a complaint against Mapbox, whose leadership allegedly threatened jobs for union organizing and fired organizers after a failed August 2021 vote

NEW: Mapbox has just been hit with a complaint alleging it did some illegal things during and after last year's anti-union campaign. https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-06-16 View on X
Protocol

The NLRB files a complaint against Mapbox, whose leadership allegedly threatened jobs for union organizing and fired organizers after a failed August 2021 vote

2022-04-02
BREAKING: @amazonlabor has the FIRST successful unionization of Amazon workers. There's a tiny handful of ballots left to be counted but the win is so large they won't matter. This is a seriously unprecedented deal!! https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-04-02 View on X
CNBC

Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US

- Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.

2021-10-28
NEW: Facebook is having a super rough time hiring engineers this year. I dug into a leaked hiring memo that details why the first quarter of this year was kind of a kaboom crisis situation https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-10-28 View on X
Protocol

Internal docs show how Facebook calculates the number of engineers needed and how it has struggled to recruit talent, missing recruitment goals in 2019 and 2021

and surprised to see no mention of obvious reputational factors. If you work at FB and have evidence of how the scandals are impacting recruiting (as I hear anecdotally all the tim...

2021-10-23
NEW: Twitter released its own research today that shows that the home feed amplifies right-wing political content more than left-leaning. I sat down with META team leader @ruchowdh to learn what Twitter will do with that information https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-10-23 View on X
Protocol

Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification

Anna Kramer / Protocol :

2021-10-22
NEW: Twitter released its own research today that shows that the home feed amplifies right-wing political content more than left-leaning. I sat down with META team leader @ruchowdh to learn what Twitter will do with that information https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-10-22 View on X
Protocol

Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification

Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform's algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians … Source: Twitter .

2021-08-30
NEW: Inside Apple, conflict is roiling over the new #AppleToo movement. I talked with @cherthedev about what she's hoping @AppleLaborers will achieve, despite the people who hate them. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-08-30 View on X
Protocol

Interview with Apple engineer Cher Scarlett, who has become the face of the #AppleToo movement, a group that wants to shed light on workplace issues at Apple

When Apple security engineer Cher Scarlett opened the anonymous worker forum Blind on Friday afternoon, she saw …

2021-08-29
NEW: Inside Apple, conflict is roiling over the new #AppleToo movement. I talked with @cherthedev about what she's hoping @AppleLaborers will achieve, despite the people who hate them. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-08-29 View on X
Protocol

Interview with Apple engineer Cher Scarlett, who has become the face of the #AppleToo movement, a group that wants to shed light on workplace issues at Apple

Anna Kramer / Protocol :

2021-08-06
Early tech union success is starting to falter https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-08-06 View on X
Protocol

Mapbox workers voted against a union 123-81, after the company forced a formal vote on whether workers wanted to form a union allied with CWA

Anna Kramer / Protocol : Tweets: @seldo , @protocol , and @anna_c_kramer Tweets: Laurie Voss / @seldo : There will be other companies, there will be further votes. The highest sup...

2021-06-24
This is the story of how Twitter is building an ethical AI team that thinks it can succeed where other tech companies have failed. I got to sit down with the brilliant @ruchowdh @williams_jutta and Ari Font to get the behind-the-scenes on Twitter META. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-06-24 View on X
Protocol

Profile of Twitter's Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team, as Responsible ML becomes one of the company's top priorities in 2021

Machine learning engineer Ari Font was worried about the future of Twitter's algorithms.  It was mid-2020, and the leader …Tweets:@anna_c_kramer,@ruchowdh,@williams_jutta,@anna_c_k...

Also exclusive from me: Two more of the industry's most-respected AI ethics researchers will be joining the team in the coming weeks, @KLdivergence to lead META research and @ubiquity75 to consult on algorithms and user choice. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-06-24 View on X
Protocol

Profile of Twitter's Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team, as Responsible ML becomes one of the company's top priorities in 2021

Machine learning engineer Ari Font was worried about the future of Twitter's algorithms.  It was mid-2020, and the leader …Tweets:@anna_c_kramer,@ruchowdh,@williams_jutta,@anna_c_k...

2021-02-21
Google ended its investigation into the firing of @timnitGebru today, and Jeff Dean's email to staff used the word “sensitive” no less than six times as a sort of euphemism for “controversial.” https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-02-21 View on X
Axios

Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations

Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.

Google ended its investigation into the firing of @timnitGebru today, and Jeff Dean's email to staff used the word “sensitive” no less than six times as a sort of euphemism for “controversial.” https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-02-21 View on X
Axios

Internal memo: Google's AI Chief Jeff Dean apologized after Timnit Gebru's exit, saying his team should have managed the situation “with more sensitivity”

even worse, way worse than the rest of the company. Hopefully no one will ask why. https://twitter.com/... Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro : Here's a sentence: “Google told employ...

2021-02-20
Google ended its investigation into the firing of @timnitGebru today, and Jeff Dean's email to staff used the word “sensitive” no less than six times as a sort of euphemism for “controversial.” https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-02-20 View on X
Axios

Report: Google's AI Chief Jeff Dean apologizes in an email after Timnit Gebru's exit, saying his team should have managed the situation “with more sensitivity”

Google told employees Friday it has wrapped up its investigation into the ouster of prominent AI researcher Timnit Gebru.

Google ended its investigation into the firing of @timnitGebru today, and Jeff Dean's email to staff used the word “sensitive” no less than six times as a sort of euphemism for “controversial.” https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-02-20 View on X
Axios

Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations

Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.

2020-11-30
During my convo with Christine, I was particularly struck when she said this. It's a good reminder of the reality we live in, and the individual humanity of the people we spend so much time talking about in the abstract: https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-30 View on X
Protocol

Profile of Christine Su, Twitter's senior PM for conversational safety, who is a queer Asian-American “activist-entrepreneur” with an MBA and MA in agriculture

Twitter's new conversational safety lead has a radical vision for the future. Here's the story of how an activist-entrepreneur landed what might be one of the toughest jobs in tech, and what she wants to do with it. https://www.protocol.com/...
2020-11-30 View on X
Protocol

Profile of Christine Su, Twitter's senior PM for conversational safety, who is a queer Asian-American “activist-entrepreneur” with an MBA and MA in agriculture

2020-11-29
During my convo with Christine, I was particularly struck when she said this. It's a good reminder of the reality we live in, and the individual humanity of the people we spend so much time talking about in the abstract: https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-29 View on X
Protocol

Profile of Christine Su, Twitter's senior PM for conversational safety, who is a queer Asian-American “activist-entrepreneur” with an MBA and MA in agriculture

About six months ago, Twitter quietly hired someone to become the head of product for conversational safety on the platform. Tweets: @neerajka , @anna_c_kramer , @protocol , @marti...