Nitasha Tiku
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Tech culture reporter @washingtonpost in SF [email protected], Signal: 917-318-7531 (she/her)
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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…
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…
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/…
🚨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/…
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…
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.