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Privacy matters because it empowers us all | Aeon Essays Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it, or you disempower us all

If you haven't already read this essay from @carissaveliz.bsky.social, what are you doing? One of the best articles on privacy written in recent years - check it out:

aeon.co/essays/priva...

19.11.2024 18:59 — 👍 31    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

Google tests AI to detect scam phone calls. Privacy advocates are terrified. Google said this week it was testing software that would monitor phone calls for suspicious activity, such as fraud.

#Google, further wanting to erode our #privacy.

There are "numerous ways the software could be abused by private #surveillance companies, government agents, stalkers or others who might want to eavesdrop on other people’s phone calls."

www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

26.05.2024 18:42 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads Google is set to start mixing ads into its new AI-generated search answers. It’s a test of how the company’s biggest revenue stream can adapt to the age of generative AI.

Because serious confabulation is not bad enough, #Google's AI Overviews will soon have ads. #AIEthics
www.wired.com/story/google...

29.05.2024 18:58 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

reuters.com

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday, accusing them of using millions of the newspaper's articles without permission to help train chatbots to provide information to readers.

reut.rs/3vlXX1u

27.12.2023 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our perspective paper "Machine Culture" is out in Nature Human Behavior.

Free access version: rdcu.be/drzoS

20.11.2023 21:30 — 👍 35    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2

📢 App Version 1.61 is rolling out now (1/3)

There's now an in-app video and music player for links! YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitch embeds now play in the app.

This will only trigger after a tap. (No autoplay.)

26.12.2023 19:08 — 👍 8064    🔁 2253    💬 279    📌 581

Instagram apparently rolling out AI chat bots for people to speak with over messenger? Really at the “monetize the societal rot” phase of the alienation produced in no small part by Instagram itself

27.12.2023 18:02 — 👍 263    🔁 45    💬 26    📌 43

Plus it references loads of interesting additional material (podcasts, YouTube videos etc) and has an accompanying podcast series of its own hosted by Sven and @johndanaher.bsky.social technologyethicspod.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/1...

01.11.2023 08:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Do you trust AI to write the news? It already is – and not without issues The Guardian has accused Microsoft of reputational damage, after it displayed one of its articles alongside an inappropriate AI-generated poll.

Using systems that are not truth-tracking and have no common sense to write the news. What could go wrong? #AIEthics #PhilTech

theconversation.com/do-you-trust...

07.11.2023 22:33 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Autumn tree

Nothing much to share - just thought this tree looks amazing on this sunny autumn morning.

07.11.2023 08:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello, BlueSky!

04.11.2023 16:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! Trying to build my community here 😁

04.11.2023 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0