Ana Prieto

At this stage, however, I’m just keen to get the toy out of my house, because it’s creeping me out. While Curio says it doesn’t sell children’s personal information, all the conversations are sent to third parties to transcribe the speech to text for the app. The transcripts aren’t that sensitive because Emma is only four, but it still feels invasive. With unknown entities involved, it’s impossible to say where my kid’s conversations are ending up.

What.

The premise of AI as a business model is that no matter who you are, at any walk of life, anything about you can be appropriated by the billionaires and simulated for their profit

Exclusive | First lady Melania Trump will head effort to teach next generation about AI First lady Melania Trump will lead the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field.

"In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project: leading the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field."

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It New research has uncovered a paradoxical relationship between AI literacy and receptivity: Individuals with lower AI literacy are more likely to embrace AI, despite perceiving it as less capable and m...

"The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it. ... People in countries with lower average AI literacy tended to be more open to adopting AI compared to those in countries with higher literacy levels."

We wake today still shaken, scared, enraged.

The August 8 shooting at CDC did not happen in a vacuum--it grew from years of attacks on public health by people like RFK Jr. and Russell Vought, who are 'putting us in trauma' ...just like they promised.

Dune, 1965

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

Rural Colombia was sheltered from AI thanks to its remoteness, and the fact that few students can afford high-end smartphones. That changed when Meta added AI bots into WhatsApp and IG. Now AI-generated papers are prevalent, and test scores are dropping.

Full story: restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

Pichai Claims AI Drives Traffic Despite concerns, Pichai maintained an optimistic outlook on how AI will affect the web ecosystem in the long run. He tells The Verge: “I remain optimistic. Empirically, what we are seeing throughout these years is that human curiosity is boundless.” The Google CEO claimed that the company’s internal data shows increased user engagement with AI overviews, including higher click-through rates on links within these previews compared to regular search results. Pichai stated: “When you give the context, it also exposes people to various branching off, jumping off, points, and so they engage more. So, actually, this is what drives growth over time.” Unfortunately, Picahi didn’t provide specific metrics to support this assertion.

Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results

Remember when Google's CEO argued last year that people would actually click through AI links more, despite that not making any sense or being supported by any data? Turns out he was wrong

2024: www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ceo-a....

Today: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.

The instant, gleeful doxing of people now includes the utterly benign (dancing weird at a concert; standing in public; etc). It is incredibly unsettling that people feel it is worthwhile to dig into the lives of random ass people with little to no public interest www.404media.co/the-astronom...

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

watching people on x who have invested heavily in supporting both musk and trump try to navigate the cognitive dissonance and some of the results are just objectively funny

Estoy sorpresa.

Disinformation Is Dead, Long Live Disinformation | TechPolicy.Press Michael Khoo is the Climate Disinformation Program Director at Friends of the Earth and policy co-chair at Climate Action Against Disinformation.

Así como alguna vez se reemplazó “calentamiento global” por “cambio climático”, hoy se debate sustituir “desinformación” por alguna expresión algo menos “politizada”, como si no definiera un fenómeno con responsables claros y sus esfuerzos por acaparar poder.
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Apple Readies Its Biggest Push Into Health Yet With New AI Doctor Apple is preparing its biggest health care push to date with a revamped app and AI doctor service. Also: The company is testing an M5 iPad Pro for release as early as this year, its 2025 developers co...

“The initiative is called Project Mulberry, and it involves a completely revamped Health app plus a health coach. The service would be powered by a new AI agent that would replicate — at least to some extent — a real doctor.”

“to some extent”

WHO warns “measles is back” as virus spreads across Europe, America, and Afghanistan Measles cases are at a 25 year high in Europe, while North America and Afghanistan are also dealing with major outbreaks and children dying from the preventable disease. Over 127 000 cases were repor...

La OMS advierte que “el sarampión ha vuelto” mientras el virus se propaga por Europa, América y Afganistán

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Musk and Milei’s chainsaw bromance - Coda Story Argentina’s president and Donald Trump’s chosen oligarch are self-styled outsider radicals driven by an ideological desire to cut government down to size

Javier Milei and Elon Musk are self-styled radicals with a mission to cut government down to size, writes @anaprieto.bsky.social . How far will they go to dismantle government and redefine its role?

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Lo agarró Mobi y lo remixó. Nunca me harán odiarte internet.

Queda claro que Javier Milei es a la economía lo que Robert Kennedy Jr. es a la medicina.

Kennedy Jr., flamante secretario de Salud de EEUU, entrevistó en 2020 a una activista antiaborto que decía que las vacunas estaban hechas con fetos "de cinco a seis meses" a los que se extrae del útero y mata con el corazón aún latiendo.

Kennedy Jr. lloró durante la entrevista.

(L-R) CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, US businessman Jeff Bezos, CEO of Alphabet Inc and Google Sundar Pichai and Teska and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony where Donald Trump will sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump prácticamente escoltado por Pichai, Bezzos, Musk, Zuckerberg. Clarísimo todo.

Hoy nos enteramos de que los trabajadores de las direcciones de VIH y vacunas del Ministerio de Salud de Nación tienen contrato sólo hasta el 31 de enero. ¿Qué va a pasar después? Nadie lo sabe.

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Fact-checking en Meta: crónica de una muerte anunciada Al anunciar el 7 de enero de 2024 la culminación de su programa de fact-checking en Estados Unidos y su intención de “deshacerse” de los verificadores, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO de Meta y uno de los hombre...

Escribí sobre todas las señales que dio Zuckerberg antes de cerrar el programa de verificación financiado por Meta.
ijnet.org/es/story/fac...

Se desconoce paradero del director ejecutivo de Espacio Público, Carlos Correa · Espacio Público Se desconoce paradero del director ejecutivo de Espacio Público, Carlos Correa

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"Se desconoce el paradero del director ejecutivo de Espacio Público, Carlos Correa desde este 7 de enero.

No ha sido posible establecer comunicación. Según testigos, fue interceptado en el centro de Caracas por presuntos funcionarios encapuchados."

espaciopublico.ong/se-desconoce...

No todas las libertades de expresión son iguales, claro.