Disgraceful. Imagine being the poor soul expected to do 2D illustration, animation, and graphic design work all while betraying every artist across all 3 disciplines just to help Treyarch shovel out more content gruel

Will das Deutschland wirklich? Dass das Vertrauen in den Rechtsstaat verloren geht? Da wird jedes Mal der Finger anderen Staaten gegenüber erhoben, sie werden sanktioniert und hier? Exklusiv-Interview: Cum-Ex Chefermittlerin spricht über ihre Kündigung

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Extremely important research.

It's not possible to understand the state of BigTech, or its pathologies at the moment, without understanding these companies' transformation into defense contractors, in addition to their central role as surveillance providers to the state. 👇

Eventually there won't be any more physical media and you'll have zero reassurance that your digital purchases will still be available to you years from now when they all live in the cloud and are impacted by licensing agreements, mergers, and greed. Super depressing.

Unchecked monopolies can use their power to inflate prices, cut pay, and bully small businesses.

Thanks to Robert Costa for spotlighting FTC’s work tackling corporate abuse across markets, from prescription drugs to groceries.

Very unwise to use LLMs for this. Use instead a carefully designed algorithm that is developed for this specific purpose with a transparant specification that is legally validated and provably correct.

This entire framing is a bait & switch—few artists feel threatened by generative AI due to its ability to create quality work. They're threatened because too many clients don't care about the quality of the output, and AI will erode rates for creative work across the board.

New paper 📣 'Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints from the special theme on Digital Resignation and Privacy Cynicism' by Christian Hoffmann; Christoph Lutz; Giulia Ranzini: buff.ly/3VfA2fe
#privacy #intersectionality #agency #surveillance

Eine Meldung über einen Minister, der „fordert“, was 27 EU-Mitgliedstaaten schon eingetütet haben: Die Einordnung des Buschmann-Zitats als „Forderung“ ist grob irreführend netzpolitik.org/2024/kennzeich…

“Companies such as Meta, which owns Facebook & Instagram and provides large language models are prime examples. Their revenue model is driven by content that goes viral and evokes strong emotions. They do not sufficiently address and mitigate the harm they cause,”: The Law Technologist

NYC's 'AI' 'weapon scanners' produce 85% false positives!!1!!

AKA they don't detect weapons-- they give cops a pretext to harass ppl while lining the pockets of vendors. In the meantime, NYC is shutting libraries on weekends citing budget constraints.

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How do you investigate a dataset containing 5.8 billion images – a size too large to make sense of? In this visual story by Knowing Machines, we follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its contents, implications, and entanglements. knowingmachines.org/models-all-the…

You need to understand that the technical capability behind such killings is becoming increasingly easy to achieve—and increasingly automated. Soon enough, an official will drag their finger across a map, and anyone judged by a crude algorithm to have crossed that line will die.

🇩🇪Urteil: EU-Verordnung zur Fingerabdruckpflicht in Personalausweisen ist mit Wirkung ab 2027 ungültig! Ein Etappensieg - danke @[email protected]!
Auch wenn der Gerichtshof die Abnahme der Fingerabdrücke der gesamten Bevölkerung leider nicht in der Sache beanstandete, hat der…

The rise of #AI generated content comes with a gamut of questions, with one of the most consistent being, how can we trust what we're seeing?

Sr. Mozilla Researcher The Law Technologist shares her thoughts on trust, media and AI imagery with CBS cbsn.ws/3TJUvaZ

Auf der Suche nach Ladendieben sollen schon 50 Geschäfte in Deutschland das Verhalten ihrer Kunden insgeheim per KI überwachen. Solche Systeme sind unzuverlässig und m.E. auch illegal. Golem berichtet: golem.de/news/start-up-…

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Biometrische Massenüberwachung: Deutscher Juristinnenbund fordert ein Verbot automatischer #Gesichtserkennung im öffentlichen Raum, denn sie ist eine permanente heimliche Personenüberwachung djb.de/presse/pressem…

When shocking AI-generated imagery goes viral, the media tend to focus on the content itself. 'But that fact obscures the reason the images are relevant: They spread on social-media networks,' Nathaniel Lubin writes. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

This was posted unironically, what a world 😂

I'm definitely biased but feels like FTC, DoJ antitrust, and CFPB have emerged as the star agencies of the Biden Administration measured by the metric of (1) doing their job and (2) addressing problems that truly concern all Americans