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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten

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I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

Through her eyes: "I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some Gelassenheit for the case of suddenly emerging anxiety caused by a feeling of being too irreversibly geschickt into the Bestellen?

Elon Musk: xAI betreibt Gasturbinen für KI-Rechenzentren ohne Genehmigung in Wohngebieten US-Techfirmen produzieren Strom für ihre Server-Farmen immer öfter mit gebrauchten Gasturbinen auf Lkw-Anhängern. Die Firma xAI von Elon Musk nutzt die Anlagen mitunter ohne Genehmigung. Die Umweltbelastung ist immens.

US-Techfirmen produzieren Strom für ihre Server-Farmen immer öfter mit gebrauchten Gasturbinen auf Lkw-Anhängern. Die Firma xAI von Elon Musk nutzt die Anlagen mitunter ohne Genehmigung. Die Umweltbelastung ist immens.

The Search Engine for OnlyFans Models Who Look Like Your Crush Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes.

Link to article @ Wired website: bit.ly/4c9DNv9

Screenshot of the corresponding Wired article

“The technology matches the user with similar creators who want an audience rather than to deepfake platforms that are nonconsensual and illegal.”

Is this really a potentially problem-mitigating feature, or rather reinforcement of problematic obsession?

www.instagram.com/p/DVEWh1wAUV...

Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. What this means for data privacy For every aspect of a student's life, there's a tech company trying to digitize it.

“For every aspect of a student’s life, there’s a tech company trying to digitize it.“

Immer wieder fragen Journalisten, wo der Widerstand in den USA bleibt. Dabei schafft es dieses Land nicht mal, ein Prüfverfahren für ein mögliches AfD-Verbot einzuleiten.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

One technology offers people something they craved: Human connection. The other offers people the appearance of human connection without any actual human connection. You see the difference, right tech bros? You see the big, gaping, philosophical problem here? Right in front of your face?

If I hadn't already written a book about nihilism and technology, this quote definitely would've inspired me to write a book about nihilism and technology...

The US will send Tech Corps members to foreign countries in its latest push for AI dominance The Tech Corps will send its volunteers to participating countries, aiming to use American AI to address critical issues.

“The Peace Corps' latest proposal will recruit STEM graduates or those with professional experience in the artificial intelligence sector and send them to participating host countries.”

*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*

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Listen in: Viral Justice Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police…

Viral Justice by @ruha9.bsky.social offers an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time.

Listen to a sample chapter of this powerful work: press.princeton.edu/ideas/listen...

#Sociology #SocialJustice #WorldDayofSocialJustice

A modern Luddite tale. Be inspired, my restless friends.

Der UK-Korrespondent der FAZ nennt Opfer sexueller Gewalt "minderjährige Gespielinnen". Vielleicht muss man Männern einfach mal 1 Jahr lang das Schreiben verbieten.

Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was "meant for greatness"—then came psychosis AI Injury Attorneys" target the chatbot design itself.

The case “marks the 11th such known lawsuit to be filed against OpenAI that involves mental health breakdowns allegedly caused by the chatbot. Other incidents have ranged from highly questionable medical and health advice to a man who took his own life…”

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Je mehr ich Social Media Kommentare über den Fall Epstein lese, desto mehr bin ich der Überzeugung, es braucht mehr gesellschaftliche Aufklärung zum Thema „Grooming“. So oft schreiben vor allem nicht-FLINTAs „Warum ist sie freiwillig mitgegangen?“ oder „Warum ging sie nicht direkt zur Polizei?“

The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i... i wouldn't call this "directionally correct" as much as i'd call it uninterested in confronting the left critiques of the AI industry that the right has no objection to: the amorality of its leaders, its model of theft, and its environmental damage

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

We've just rolled out ambient AI listening in our hospital, and my colleagues are really, really excited about it (more time doing things other than note writing). They're so excited that things like patient concerns/autonomy are lost.

We're just making up ethics as we go along with AI right now.

ZDF entfernt KI-Bilder aus Beitrag über ICE-Einsatz Im »heute journal« waren am Sonntag Bilder zu sehen, die mit einer künstlichen Intelligenz erstellt wurden. Das Problem: Dies war nicht gekennzeichnet. Also entfernte der Sender die Passagen nachträglich.

Im »heute journal« waren am Sonntag Bilder zu sehen, die mit einer künstlichen Intelligenz erstellt wurden. Das Problem: Dies war nicht gekennzeichnet. Also entfernte der Sender die Passagen nachträglich.

Er: „Wenn es Männer nicht gäbe, wer würde Euch Frauen dann beschützen?“
Sie: „Beschützen? Vor wem?“

Dieser Take, der gefühlt schon seit 100 Jahren auf TikTok viral geht, ist immer noch einer der besten Diskussionshilfen zum Thema toxische Männlichkeit. 💁🏻‍♀️

OK! I collected much of what I @spookyachu.bsky.social @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (and other collaborators not on here) have said on the Turing test (from critical, gendered, etc. angles) as it keeps being relevant: olivia.science/turing — hope it's useful for others too. Happy Sunday! 🤖💭

"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

Ministerium für Homeland Security jagt ICE-Kritiker in sozialen Netzwerken Das Ministerium hat Google, Meta und Co. laut »New York Times« Hunderte Auskunftsanforderungen geschickt, um Daten von Nutzern zu erhalten, die die Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde ICE kritisieren. Die ...

fReE sPeEcH!!!!1!

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“The document is from last May and reportedly describes the new “Name Tag” feature that would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people using Meta’s built-in AI assistant. The New York Times reports that Meta initially planned to launch the feature during a conference for the blind before releasing it more widely, but that never panned out. Meta, which makes smart glasses with Ray-Ban and Oakley, reportedly plans to launch the feature as soon as this year. Sources tell The Times that the facial recognition technology wouldn’t allow people to identify everyone they see. Instead, Meta is reportedly considering using the feature to detect people that the wearer is connected with on one of Meta’s platforms. It’s also exploring “identifying people whom the user may not know but who have a public account on a Meta site like Instagram,” according to The New York Times.”

Mass deletion of Facebook and Insta accounts, yes? www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...

As a Hamburgerin living in the city centre of a small NRW town since half a year, I am experiencing my first carnival here. My ear plugs fail to do their job and I start questioning all my life choices… quite an interesting background to read Dreyfuß on Heidegger, and Marcuse, though.