Mastodawn

Matthias Streitz Jan 20, 2023

netzpolitik.org Jan 20, 2023

Arbeiter:innen in Kenia sollten teils traumatisierende Texte lesen, um ChatGPT zu optimieren. Ihr Stundenlohn: bis zu zwei US-Dollar. Eine Recherche des Time Magazines zeigt: Hinter dem Hype um die Künstliche Intelligenz steckt auch eine Geschichte von Ausbeutung im globalen Süden.

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/globaler-sueden-prekaere-klickarbeit-hinter-den-kulissen-von-chatgpt/

Matthias Streitz Jan 6, 2023

Evan Greer 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 6, 2023

faster! faster! https://www.wired.com/story/meta-surveillance-capitalism/

The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun

A European Union ruling against Meta marks the beginning of the end of targeted ads.

WIRED

Matthias Streitz Jan 6, 2023

Stef Walter Jan 5, 2023

"It’s not just the training data that is to blame. Companies developing these make active choices about how they use the data (...) someone has to choose training data, decide to build the model, decide to take steps to mitigate those biases or not” Yup. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/13/1064810/how-it-feels-to-be-sexually-objectified-by-an-ai/?utm_source=stephaniewalter.design&utm_medium=weeklylinks

How it feels to be sexually objectified by an AI

Plus: How US police use counterterrorism money to buy spy tech.

MIT Technology Review

Matthias Streitz Jan 6, 2023

Kevin Beaumont Jan 4, 2023

If you’re outraged about Adobe sending your pictures off their servers (you should be), please know other vendors do this too. That horse has already bolted.

Eg Microsoft Edge automatically sends your key presses in Edge to MS - enabled by default https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/how-to-disable-writing-assistance-via-group-policy/td-p/3648422

Microsoft Office 365 sends every photo and screenshot you add in Word, PowerPoint etc (including in emails) to Microsoft 365 Intelligent Services without prompt https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/everything-you-need-to-know-to-write-effective-alt-text-df98f884-ca3d-456c-807b-1a1fa82f5dc2

How to disable writing assistance via Group Policy

Hello, new Edge version 106 has got settings "Use writing assistance". I look for matching settings in group policy for Edge but with not succes. I use the latest adml and admx files. Group setting Disable spellcheck will help but only for Edge 104 (and lower). Edge 106 has replaced settings Spel...

TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM

Matthias Streitz Jan 6, 2023

Mike Amundsen Jan 5, 2023

The lawsuit that could rewrite the rules of AI copyright https://b.mamund.com/3tlYI6K

“AI systems are not magical black boxes that are exempt from the law.”

#api360 #API

The lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI that could change the rules of AI copyright

Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued for allegedly violating copyright law in the creation of GitHub Copilot — an AI coding assistant trained on open-source code. In an interview with The Verge, the lawyers filing the suit explain their motivations and the future of AI copyright.

The Verge

Matthias Streitz Jan 6, 2023

How "Der Spiegel" uses machine learning to identify its most valuable potential subscribers 👇 .
https://wan-ifra.org/2023/01/how-der-spiegel-uses-machine-learning-to-identify-its-most-valuable-potential-subscribers/

How Der Spiegel uses machine learning to identify its most valuable potential subscribers - WAN-IFRA

Der Spiegel's approach used to predict lasting subscriptions and enables the segmentation of readers according to their affinity to subscribe

WAN-IFRA

Matthias Streitz Jan 6, 2023

Dominic Tyer Jan 6, 2023

Google and DeepMind share work on medical chatbot Med-PaLM

https://pharmaphorum.com/news/google-and-deepmind-share-work-on-medical-chatbot-med-palm/

#AI #chatbot #Google #DeepMind #pharma #healthcare

Google and DeepMind share work on medical chatbot Med-PaLM -

Google and DeepMind develop artificial intelligence-powered chatbot tool called Med-PaLM designed to generate "safe and helpful answers"

Matthias Streitz Jan 6, 2023

Datenbasierte Personalisierung bei Publishern? Leseverhalten schlägt Demografie als wichtigster Faktor. (Bisschen älterer Text, scheint mir trotzdem noch sehr zutreffend.) https://digiday.com/media/digiday-research-how-publishers-are-using-ai-to-enhance-reporting-personalize-content-and-provide-customer-service/

Digiday+ Research: How publishers are using AI to enhance reporting, personalize content and provide customer service

In this third installment of a research series on emerging technologies, Digiday+ Research looks at how publishers are — and aren't — using NLP and data-driven personalization.

Digiday

Matthias Streitz Jan 5, 2023

"It occurs to me that we will probably soon be teaching the skill of prompt writing: how to get what you want out of a machine." Interessante, kontraintuitive Perspektive von @jeffjarvis. https://medium.com/whither-news/writing-and-exclusion-16d4d98a27a

Writing and Exclusion - Whither news? - Medium

In The Gutenberg Parenthesis (my upcoming book), I ask whether, “in bringing his inner debates to print, Montaigne raised the stakes for joining the public conversation, requiring that one be a…

Whither news?

Matthias Streitz Jan 5, 2023

"Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move that may mark the beginning of the end for human narrators. "
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-audiobooks

Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash

The Guardian