Want to say false stuff without being liable for defamation? Here is a court-provided roadmap:

"Defendant frequently disclaims her commentary as a conspiracy theory, refers to herself as a conspiracy theorist, uses signals such as "I believe" & "I think", & makes commentary on her social media page which is titled "Legal Edutainer", all of which point to unactionable opinions rather than defamatory statements"

https://bit.ly/3QxHdNq 🤪

Worldcoin wants to scan the irises of every person on the planet to build a global ID network to bring crypto to the masses and ensure we’re not AI — or that’s what it claims.

Behind the grand vision, there’s a history of exploiting people in the Global South for biometric data and tech that doesn’t actually work very well. Maybe it’s just a means to pump a crypto token, but there’s good reason for regulators to shut it down now.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/dont-look-into-the-orb

#tech #ai #crypto #worldcoin

Here, a sample of the magical thinking justifying the UK's anti-privacy crusade

AGAIN: IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO DEVELOP TECH THAT BOTH SURVEILLS ALL EXPRESSION & MAINTAINS E2E ENCRYPTION, NOW OR EVER

Expert consensus doesn't bend to wishes or spell casting.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66455616

This can't end well. I've already sent emails to our exec and data security departments about this.

Zoom terms of service now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

§10.4(ii): 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content:(ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof

#zoom #machinelearning #llm #ai

Meta has reinstated Trump on all of its platforms without consulting with its Oversight Board. So that's fun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/25/trump-facebook-reinstated-meta/

RT @[email protected]

People in California and New York pay 20% of federal taxes and have 4 Senators. People in 21 states--AK ID UT MT WY ND SD NE KS OK IA MO AR LA MS AL TN KY IN WV SC--pay 15% of federal taxes and have 42 Senators.

What's that old saying? Oh yeah, taxation without representation.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KBAndersen/status/1610748512810967043

Happy New Year to everybody except for Florida prison officials who decided this week to permanently ban my book.

I hope you are hungover for like two weeks.

#florida #bannedbooks #correctionsinink #journalism #criminaljustice