#ethics #internet #socialmedia

This video, viewed nearly 400,000 times, falsely claims to show Palestinians at Al-Aqsa mosque celebrate Iranian retaliatory strikes against Israel tonight.

The video is from last week, and shows Palestinians praying at Al-Aqsa on the last Friday of Ramadan.

Seeing plenty of old videos from the Middle East plus some video game footage going viral tonight, mostly posted by accounts seeking clout and engagement during a major news event by spreading misinformation and fear.

Double-check everything you see online tonight.

'User Research Report into #AI for Access to Justice: Legal Question & Answers'--highlighting, among other things, the need for 'algorithmic literacy': medium.com/legal-design-a… #ethics #law #tech #AI #chatbots #research #education

Apple has notified people in 150 countries that they were infected with mercenary spyware (Intellexa, NSO...).

We knew spyware was global but this is next level. The market has grown tremendously since 2004, when Hacking Team was getting started.

support.apple.com/en-us/102174

It’s cliche at this point to say “data is the new oil” but my brain was screaming it as I read this astoundingly well-reported piece on OpenAI, Google and Meta looking between the internet’s couch cushions and everywhere else to find new training material. nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

#ethics #Twitter #contentmoderation #democracy h/t Ryan Calo

'It turns out, there’s an entire army of Dakota [ #Twitter #bot ] accounts injecting #AI -generated chaos into local politics across the country... There’s a 'Utah' Dakota, a 'Montana' Dakota, a 'Denver' Dakota and a 'Tampa' Dakota': inlander.com/news/elons-spa… #ethics #internet #gov

#ethics #internet #socialmedia #contentmoderation #business #democracy #tech #Twitter

Some gold in here for would-be LLM red teamers.

#ethics #internet #data

A ''very serious concern—particularly for those whose only #access is through sites that are controlled by the school,' whether that access is limited because they can’t afford it at home or simply can’t get it.' #ethics #law #internet #education #business #tech

Which websites fall into particular categories is 'information that the filtering companies consider proprietary.' #ethics #internet #education #access #business #tech

USA TODAY How we logged more than 1.9 billion blocks by web filters in merely 16 districts over the course of a single month—and compiled one of the most comprehensive datasets showing U.S. schools’ online censorship. ⬇️ themarkup.org/show-your-work…

'Virtually all school districts buy web filters from companies that sort the internet into categories. Districts decide which categories to block, often making those selections without a complete understanding of the universe of websites under each label': themarkup.org/digital-book-b…

AI v Access to the Internet

'The bill is retroactive and would... [require] anyone who creates or alters a training set... to list [copyrighted] works referenced by the dataset, but also to provide a URL to the dataset within 30 days before the #AI system is released to the public': arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#ethics #AI #LLMs #tech

'Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a firewall product from Palo Alto Networks, researchers said Friday': arstechnica.com/security/2024/… #ethics #internet #cybersec #business

'The update also expanded #GPT4 's knowledge cutoff to April 2024, although some people are reporting it achieves this through stealth web searches in the background, and others on #socialmedia have reported issues with date-related confabulations': arstechnica.com/information-te… #ethics