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Casilli

@antoniocasilli
42 posts
2024-09-05
🤨This NYT article is a prime example of disingenuous journalism, re-mythifying the long-debunked myth of “self-driving” cars. It turns the industry's failures into a techno-fantasy, portraying humans in high-tech command centers as eagerly “helping” cars...https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
2024-09-05 View on X
New York Times

Inside Amazon Zoox's command center in Foster City, California, which holds about 36 human technicians who oversee and provide remote assistance to robot taxis

In places like San Francisco, Phoenix and Las Vegas, robot taxis are navigating city streets, each without a driver behind the steering wheel. X: @antoniocasilli . LinkedIn: Greg C...

2023-05-08
Holy shit. How many shoes have to drop before we stop saying the AI is “artificial? These ChatGPT trainers come from Kansas and Texas. Is this why they are paid $15/h? Nice price discrimination, OpenAI. Data workers we meet in low-income countries earn 10 times less than this... https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-08 View on X
NBC News

Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the text and photos used to train ChatGPT and OpenAI's other products

Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT.

Holy shit. How many shoes have to drop before we stop saying the AI is “artificial? These ChatGPT trainers come from Kansas and Texas. Is this why they are paid $15/h? Nice price discrimination, OpenAI. Data workers we meet in low-income countries earn 10 times less than this... https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-08 View on X
Fortune

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the “technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn't averse to change—he helped kickstart the current A.I. race with chatbot ChatGPT, after all, threatening …

2023-04-22
In order to save money, small businesses are increasingly turning to ChatGPT and hope to stop using Upwork and Fiverr to recruit freelancers and microworkers. But workers have started using ChatGPT themselves. Not to turn into “prompt engineers”, but simply to cheat... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-22 View on X
Forbes

The proliferation of AI-generated content on marketplaces like Upwork is causing transactional disputes and increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : LinkedIn: Rashi Shrivastava and Patrick von Sychowski Tweets: @antoniocasilli , @fabiochiusi , @sazeracnela , @zachweiner , and @kevinokeefe See also ...

2023-03-24
Under the pretext of the 2024 Olympics, French parliament approved a controversial law allowing the use of “algorithmic surveillance cameras”. Why am I using quotation marks? Because, with the help of my colleagues at #DiPLab, I've accumulated enough evidence over the years... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-24 View on X
Politico

France plans to use large-scale AI-based video cameras for the 2024 Paris Olympics, potentially becoming the first EU country to legalize AI surveillance

PARIS — France's AI-powered array of surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday.

2023-03-06
Remember when voice assistant Alexa was the next big thing? Another good example of Amazon's approach to “automation”, which can be summarized by the old adage: in with a bang, out with a whimper. https://www.ft.com/...
2023-03-06 View on X
Financial Times

Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don't work”

Teams working on the ecommerce giant's voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company's history

Top cited AI articles since 2020 were all written by Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet-aligned researchers. Only exceptions: 2 articles by prestigious academic institutions... and the one on stochastic parrots by Timnit Gebru et al. (That really backfired on Google)https://www.zeta-alpha.com/ ...
2023-03-06 View on X
Zeta Alpha

Analysis of the top 100 most cited AI papers per year from 2020 to 2022: US-based AI research is the most impactful, and Google and Meta have dominated

2023-02-01
OpenAI launching a tool to detect ChatGPT-written text is the AI equivalent of McDonald's selling antiacid tablets. https://openai.com/...
2023-02-01 View on X
Axios

OpenAI debuts a free web-based tool to help determine if text was written by a machine, rated as “very unlikely”, “unlikely”, “unclear”, “possible”, or “likely”

2022-10-18
First Trump, then Musk, now Kanye. The trend seems to be for rich bigots to acquire their own social media platform while whining about free speech and wokeism. https://www.theverge.com/...
2022-10-18 View on X
The Verge

Parler agrees to be acquired by Ye, formerly Kanye West, to create “an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome”; the deal is set to close in Q4 2022

and will also sign up to Truth Social Clare Duffy / CNN : Kanye West's biggest challenge with owning Parler may come from Elon Musk Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times : What to kno...

2022-10-17
First Trump, then Musk, now Kanye. The trend seems to be for rich bigots to acquire their own social media platform while whining about free speech and wokeism. https://www.theverge.com/...
2022-10-17 View on X
The Verge

Parler says it has agreed to be acquired by Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, to create an “uncancelable ecosystem”, with the deal expected to close in Q4 2022

Kanye West, the musician also known as Ye, is buying Parler, a social media platform that styles itself as a “free speech” alternative to Twitter.

2022-06-27
Are we supposed to believe that Facebook and Instagram are about users' freedom of expression, when they infringe basic rights of their workers, like to engage in free speech and to participate in debates—which are tenants of the freedom of association? https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-06-27 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Meta told staff not to discuss the Roe v. Wade ruling on wide-reaching internal channels, citing a company memo issued after the May draft opinion leak

Are we supposed to believe that Facebook and Instagram are about users' freedom of expression, when they infringe basic rights of their workers, like to engage in free speech and to participate in debates—which are tenants of the freedom of association? https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-06-27 View on X
Protocol

In the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, tech companies give “no comment” in response to questions about users' data that can be used in prosecutions

Tech companies have created employee reimbursement programs, but they have been silent on whether they'll protect users' data …

2022-06-26
Are we supposed to believe that Facebook and Instagram are about users' freedom of expression, when they infringe basic rights of their workers, like to engage in free speech and to participate in debates—which are tenants of the freedom of association? https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-06-26 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Meta told staff not to discuss the Roe v. Wade ruling on wide-reaching internal channels, citing a company memo issued after the May draft opinion leak

Meta told its workers on Friday not to openly discuss the Supreme Court's ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion …

2022-05-05
The push to employ Bitcoin to “bank the unbanked” in El Salvador is a major flop. Two months after its launch, government-sponsored cryptowallet Chivo has been ditched by a majority of users. Those still have the app, use it as a debit card for dollars. https://restofworld.org/...
2022-05-05 View on X
Rest of World

Survey of 1,800 households in El Salvador shows 61% have abandoned the Chivo bitcoin wallet after withdrawing a free $30 sign-up bonus

Those who stayed are not on the Chivo app for what was intended, using it to keep their dollars safe rather than for crypto.  —  • BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA Tweets: @antoniocasilli , @cengi...

2021-12-07
Creating new databases for machine learning is too expensive. So a small number of benchmark datasets are used & reused in AI research. They originate from 7 institutions: Stanford, Microsoft, Princeton, Facebook, Google, Max Planck, AT&T. https://www.unite.ai/... ft @alexhanna
2021-12-07 View on X
Unite.AI

Study: AI research regularly reuses a small number of ML datasets by a few institutions like Stanford, Microsoft, Princeton, Meta, Google, Max Planck, and AT&T

A new paper from the University of California and Google Research has found that a small number of ‘benchmark’ machine learning datasets … Source: arXiv .

2021-03-21
This is an important inquiry into social media abuse and intimidation of academics through arbitrary rules on data access. This is also a grossly mistitled article (not the author's fault) because it sounds like an essay on how Big Tech hire and crush idealistic PhDs (also true). https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-21 View on X
Protocol

Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics

Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout.  —  “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @...

2021-03-20
This is an important inquiry into social media abuse and intimidation of academics through arbitrary rules on data access. This is also a grossly mistitled article (not the author's fault) because it sounds like an essay on how Big Tech hire and crush idealistic PhDs (also true). https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-20 View on X
Protocol

Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics

Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout.  —  “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during …

2021-03-17
After spending $200+ millions to pass #prop22 so California Uber drivers continue to be classified as contractors, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tries to buy himself a conscience by saying UK drives are workers. But only UK drivers, “and that's ok”. https://www.standard.co.uk/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-17 View on X
London Evening Standard

Uber's thinking on UK driver rights has evolved and worker flexibility “should not come at the expense of social protections”

Dara Khosrowshahi / London Evening Standard :

2020-12-05
In your opinion, how much human content moderators will be needed to provide the illusion that this “new product” inviting people “to reflect before posting” offensive comments qualifies as “automatic filtering”? https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-05 View on X
The Verge

YouTube will warn users before they post comments that “may be offensive to others” and adds better content filter systems for creators

Julia Alexander / The Verge :

2020-12-04
In your opinion, how much human content moderators will be needed to provide the illusion that this “new product” inviting people “to reflect before posting” offensive comments qualifies as “automatic filtering”? https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-04 View on X
The Verge

YouTube will warn users before they post comments that “may be offensive to others” and adds better content filter systems for creators

Julia Alexander / The Verge :