'I would say that Brianna was totally addicted to her smartphone'

Esther Ghey, mum of murdered schoolgirl Brianna, talks about the negative impact of social media on children's mental health #Newsnight

My son is 18 — the age that is being preyed on by gangs of criminals in Nigeria etc. The gangs get, or pretend to have obtained, nude photos of them, and demand cash not to send the pics to all their contacts. 91% of UK victims last year were male. Several committed suicide.

Teachers warned to be on lookout for victims of sextortion in UK schools theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has issued an alert as number of young people targeted in sextortion scams doubles.

Nine out of 10 (91%) UK cases dealt with by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in 2023 concerned male victims, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. standard.co.uk/news/uk/childr…

BBC to invest £6m in AI to help transform its education services dlvr.it/T5pKJY

Immigrant communities are particularly impacted by misinformation.

That’s why educating our elders can be so important.

What that looks like in Lam Thuy Vo’s Vietnamese immigrant community: themarkup.org/languages-of-m…

Life as a YouTube creator was great, but 12 years in, I felt like I was trapped on a hamster wheel | Hannah Witton theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'Roughly 13 percent of American jobs are writing-intensive, and they earn more than $675 billion a year. Many of these jobs are likely to evaporate'
Samanth Subramanian tangles with AI and its threat not only just to writing but to thinking:
newrepublic.com/article/180395…

'Eventually, people may stop writing, stop filming, stop composing—at least for the open, public web.'

Superb essay by Schneier Blog & Judith Donath @[email protected] about the risks from LLMs, and LLMOs, to the open web. And the choices that we and the platforms need to make now.…

Deepfakes are getting good. Like really good. I cloned myself for this story on Synthesia. It's soon going to be impossible to distinguish what is made by AI and what is not, and that raises some big questions about a world where we can’t tell what’s real. technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/109…

📖 New CETaS research commissioned by the Joint Intelligence Organisation & GCHQ examines how AI-enriched intelligence should be effectively communicated to senior government decision-makers.

➡️Read the full report here: bit.ly/3xKSAdr

#AI #AI Intelligence #GCHQ

BREAKING: TikTok might not be around much longer in the US. The Senate just passed a bill that included an ultimatum for the company: divest or be banned altogether. The next stop is President Biden’s desk. wired.trib.al/kobQ3FH

Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort them, says charity theguardian.com/technology/202…

What’s driving the youth mental health crisis? We asked 1,400 clinicians. ow.ly/jAjf105p2Rw

Editorial: Google's hardball tactics against California news outlets show why it should be regulated (via L.A. Times Opinion ) latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Some parents struggle with whether to allow their child to own a smartphone. Here is what research says about the relationship between social-media screentime and young people’s mental health econ.st/442T4I8 👇

The best defense against deepfakes is common sense, says professor Siwei Lyu, who has spent decades developing deepfake detection tools.

Some precise tips from him in our latest newsletter: themarkup.org/hello-world/20…

10 years in 10 posts. When we did the first Children's Media Lives for Ofcom a decade ago, some of the children in this year's research weren't yet born. A🧵on the changes we've seen since 2014 and what children are seeing, doing & sharing online in 2024. revealingreality.co.uk/the-difference…

i asked SARAH, the World Health Organization's new AI chatbot, for medical help near me, and it provided an entirely fabricated list of clinics/hospitals in SF. fake addresses, fake phone numbers.
check out Jessica Nix's take on SARAH here:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg