A look at Locksmith, a disk copy program that let Apple II users duplicate floppy disks, kickstarting one of the earliest copy protection battles of the PC era
Laine Nooney / VICE : Tweets: @janusrose , @sierra_offline , @motherboard , and @motherboard Tweets: @janusrose : i'm lowkey obsessed with @Sierra_OffLine's history of early softw...
Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turn out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal
I marvel the technology. But. … Kyle Dent : An open letter calls for companies to pause building AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 due to “profound risks to society and humanity...
Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods used; OpenAI co-founder says its past approach to openly sharing research was wrong
The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials …
Court document: a Colombian judge used ChatGPT to ask legal questions about a case and included its responses in his decision, to save time writing the judgment
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Netflix Japan used AI art in the anime short “The Dog & The Boy”, citing a “labor shortage” in the industry, which has long faced labor abuses and poor wages
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Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias
Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …
Bari Weiss releases “Twitter Files Part Two”, sharing images of accounts that Twitter allegedly put on “blacklists” and screenshots of internal Slack messages
all in secret, without informing users. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @DavidSacks As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left Ash...
Some public libraries in the US and Canada are using open-source software MUSICat to offer their own music streaming services and boost their local music scenes
It's not Spotify, but some cities now host music platforms with their own local flavor. — Claire Woodcock Tweets: @tedgioia , @dbschlosser , @noiseymusic , @janusrose , and @clur...
Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US
Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
Berlin-based grocery delivery startup Flink acquires Paris-based Cajoo; sources: Flink acquired Cajoo for €90M-€100M and raised €60M-€70M at a €4.8B valuation
Ebook vendors like Hoopla are offering titles with COVID-19 disinformation, conversion therapy, Holocaust denial, and more; librarians want more accountability
Claire Woodcock / VICE : Tweets: @eminencefont , @knowledge21org , @little_wow , @flexlibris , @ousfourita , @janusrose , and @techwontsaveus See also Mediagazer Tweets: @eminence...
Google's automated “inclusive warning” on Docs is very broken and annoying, like suggesting “landlord” may not be inclusive but making no notes about the N-word
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Google's automated “inclusive warning” on Docs is very broken and annoying, like suggesting “landlord” may not be inclusive but making no notes about the N-word
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Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data
and it's striking to be offered so much inside info about the CTL/Loris debacle — but it also doesn't fully connect the dots. A few thoughts/questions: https://www.zephoria.org/......