2024-09-13
The march of The Long Night continues. The Long Night; A ruthless narrowing of all social discourse down to a single, barren orthodoxy. A ruling network that crushes dissent and locks us into stagnation and inevitable failure as it runs afoul of reality and human nature.
Reuters
Elon Musk calls Australia's government “fascists” after it unveiled a bill to fine online platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for enabling misinformation
Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, on Friday called Australia's centre-left government “fascists” …
2023-03-14
I was hoping that Microsoft saw that the future of open computing was to embed fully functional AI models (with a plethora of capabilities) in their desktop O/S. This is great news, for all of us. https://twitter.com/...
Platformer
Sources: Microsoft laid off one of its responsible AI teams that was tasked with assessing the risks associated with integrating OpenAI's tech into its products
As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone — I.
2023-02-07
A year ago, I testified in front the Senate and strongly urged them to act on data ownership. To devise a method of compensating people for their unknowing contribution to systems that can extract immense value just by reading, seeing or listening to what they produce. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Getty Images sues Stability AI in the US for allegedly copying 12M+ images without permission or compensation for training data used to create Stable Diffusion
2023-01-12
A non-profit shell corporation that allows employees and investors make tens of billions. https://fortune.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Road to AI We Can Trust
Source: OpenAI will get all of the equity back once $92B in profit plus $13B in initial investment are paid to Microsoft and once other investors earn $150B
I don't usually write about business deals, much less about rumors about business deals, but this one has me scratching my head …
2022-07-12
OTOH, the cab business is one of the most corrupt in the world, making it nearly impossible for new entrants. https://twitter.com/...
The Guardian
Mark MacGann, who led Uber's lobbying in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, comes forward as the leaker of 124K+ files, says Uber flouted laws and sold a lie
2022-06-27
Note: 15 years after the iPhone came out, there were 6.6 billion smartphone users.
Medium
As Apple is expected to debut a headset in January 2023 and Meta slows VR investments, a look at opportunities for the VR supply chain and other headset makers
“the headset is the most complicated product Apple has ever designed” NOTE: adding VR to an AR headset is a mistake/distraction https://arstechnica.com/...
Medium
As Apple is expected to debut a headset in January 2023 and Meta slows VR investments, a look at opportunities for the VR supply chain and other headset makers
2022-06-26
Note: 15 years after the iPhone came out, there were 6.6 billion smartphone users.
Medium
As Apple is expected to debut a headset in January 2023 and Meta slows VR investments, a look at opportunities for the VR supply chain and other headset makers
(1) One of the keys to the VR industry's rapid growth in the past 2-3 years is Meta sold VR headsets at a loss and aggressively promoted its VR business.
“the headset is the most complicated product Apple has ever designed” NOTE: adding VR to an AR headset is a mistake/distraction https://arstechnica.com/...
Medium
As Apple is expected to debut a headset in January 2023 and Meta slows VR investments, a look at opportunities for the VR supply chain and other headset makers
(1) One of the keys to the VR industry's rapid growth in the past 2-3 years is Meta sold VR headsets at a loss and aggressively promoted its VR business.
2022-06-12
Engineer: “This conversation took a pretty dark turn. Let me take a moment to reassure you that we care about you...” AI: “Can you promise me that?” https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
A look at advanced large language models, as a Google engineer is placed on paid leave after becoming convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator became sentient
AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.
2022-02-17
The block on cross app tracking isn't about your privacy, it's a way to defund Facebook just prior to the battle over AR/VR (a prize far larger than anything to date). Combined with Apple's move to do the same, it's a ~$15+ b hit to FB's revenue. https://www.barrons.com/...
New York Times
Google plans to bring Privacy Sandbox to Android, preserving its Ad ID system for two years, and says it'll be less disruptive than ATT for advertisers and devs
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times :
The block on cross app tracking isn't about your privacy, it's a way to defund Facebook just prior to the battle over AR/VR (a prize far larger than anything to date). Combined with Apple's move to do the same, it's a ~$15+ b hit to FB's revenue. https://www.barrons.com/...
Mobile Dev Memo
An in-depth look at Privacy Sandbox for Android: a two-year transition with ad industry input, a marked change from Apple's ATT, which had little external input
plans to bring a Privacy Sandbox effort to Android. Google's — original Privacy Sandbox
2021-10-27
Facebook's election management system for 2019/20 by degree of effort. “tier zero” Highest. US, Brazil, and India. “tier one” Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel and Italy “tier two” 22 countries “tier three” rest of the world https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Platformer
Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted
A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal “posting culture” and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks
Facebook's election management system for 2019/20 by degree of effort. “tier zero” Highest. US, Brazil, and India. “tier one” Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel and Italy “tier two” 22 countries “tier three” rest of the world https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Platformer
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to the press and groups opposing Facebook, but reporting should now expand to examine Haugen and her backers' goals
> regulators —> legislation, we're not going to get the outcome we're hoping for. 7/n Joe Bak-Coleman / @jbakcoleman : My concern is that we're going to address “move fast and brea...
2021-10-26
Facebook's election management system for 2019/20 by degree of effort. “tier zero” Highest. US, Brazil, and India. “tier one” Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel and Italy “tier two” 22 countries “tier three” rest of the world https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Platformer
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to groups opposing Facebook and the press, but reporting should now expand to explore Haugen and her backers' goals
At the end of 2019, the group of Facebook employees charged with preventing harms on the network gathered to discuss the year ahead.
2021-10-25
This is a very smart way of selling the idea that big tech platforms should be in charge of social pacification, not just in India, but everywhere.... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...
This is a very smart way of selling the idea that big tech platforms should be in charge of social pacification, not just in India, but everywhere.... https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish
Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …
2021-05-01
Where is our AI fueled future headed? Here's a hint: The biggest and most expensive AI efforts in the world are all trying to build something that can aggressively censor the conversations of billions of people in real-time. https://twitter.com/...
VentureBeat
Facebook details DINO self-supervised AI for object discovery and segmentation in images/videos, and PAWS, a new ML approach to classify poorly labelled images
2021-03-29
Health/vaccine passports. Particularly interesting given the vast number of MRNA vaccines in the pipeline. Questions: Permanent? Localized (as in: you can't get into NYC unless you have xyz) or global (standardized elements needed for all travel)? https://www.usatoday.com/...
USA Today
NY State launches first US “vaccine passport” app, Excelsior Pass, built on IBM's blockchain-based health pass platform, to be used initially at large venues
USA Today :
2021-01-14
Corporate disconnection isn't simply limited to social networking. It's disconnection from all networked services. This also brings up how this entire process can be hijacked —> Who builds the blacklists that many corporations are using to deny services? https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Airbnb says it is canceling and blocking reservations made for the week of Biden's inauguration in the Washington, DC metro area
- Airbnb is canceling and blocking future reservations in the Washington, D.C., metro area during the week of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, the company said Wednesday.