Huge from our friends at Profluent!

Introducing OpenCRISPR: the world’s first ever open-source AI-generated gene editor.

This is a huge milestone in personalised medicine...

Devastating piece in The New York Review of Books by Omar al-Najjar, a young doctor in Gaza. Omar and I have been in touch over the months, and I remain incapable of understanding the weight he bears. nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

Training data transparency is an unambiguous win for society, but all the incentives are against companies doing it right now. We need to fix this as soon as possible.

So I sit in Midjourney and watch what comes out just t keep abreast (pun intended) of what kind of images it creates based on various random prompting.

The training corpus of this type of software is problematic. A woman using avocados results in a nude (sweaty?) woman.

Austen Allred, founder of BloomTech (formerly Lamba School), a coding bootcamp that offered 'income share' on future salaries in lieu of tuition is banned from student lending for 10 years and BloomTech must let students currently under contract withdraw. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsr…

I asked an AI for LinkedIn profile shots for women working in Finance

I've been wanting to do this story for years and am thrilled it's finally out: inside the surprisingly small, highly specialized industry that repairs the internet cables on the bottom of the ocean theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

This week, while I was boarding a plane, two men at the front of the line started screaming at each other.

One was in biz class, the other in economy. Halfway through the flight, the guy in biz came down the aisle to take a photo of the person he’d fought with. (1/5)

must-read feature from Pranshu that digs into the evolution of social media as a weapon twitter.com/pranshuverma_/…

new: 100s of regular ppl who criticized Israel's actions in Gaza had personal details revealed by StopAntisemitism. ~ 3 dozen were fired after being featured on its Twitter feed. 'The intent here is not just to punish but also to have a chilling effect'
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Friends, I'm happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres (Dr. Émile P. Torres), The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday.
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

NEW: Sen. Maria Cantwell is closing in on an elusive data privacy law. But for years, she's been one of the biggest obstacles to a deal, according to interviews w/ over a dozen current & former aides. My inside look at years of past failed talks: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

🚨Scoop from me and Brody Ford: Adobe has touted Firefly as a safe and ethical alternative to competitors like Midjourney… but it also quietly trained Firefly on Midjourney images.

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

BREAKING—This morning TIME confirmed that Google lied to its own workers, consumers & the press for years, and is in fact providing direct cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli Occupation Forces time.com/6966102/google…

A 🧵 on my favorite, influential works on 'Data Measurements'

🚂 Datasets drive AI progress
📚 But... massive datasets remain impenetrable & poorly understood for *years*
🔍 Data forensics uncover their mysteries

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I'm so thrilled to announce the launch of The AI Spotlight Series, a program I designed with the Pulitzer Center to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting over the next two years. All trainings will be FREE & mostly virtual. Register now to join us! pulitzercenter.org/focus-areas/in…

great headset design

Darryl Cook Jr. I have already delved into this contentious and exuberant dialogue, resulting in new found insights on the cultural weaponization of language dynamics. The back and forth has produced a persistent sense of fatigue.

Here's a fun little story I wrote yesterday after seeing a houseboat in the middle of the bay. sfstandard.com/2024/04/09/san…