Evan Edinger challenged @tomscott and I to a race across London and the video Premieres on YouTube in one hour!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8rlXAT1RHQ

New Video!
The Secrets of the Apple Creator Studio
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In this one I take a look at the new Apple Creator Studio and dive deep into the NEW features of Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Pages, Keynotes, Numbers, and more!

NEW: Researchers secretly ran a massive, unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit in a large debate sub. The bots' answers mined the original posters' identity and post history to 'personalize' answers & created identities such as "rape survivor"

https://www.404media.co/researchers-secretly-ran-a-massive-unauthorized-ai-persuasion-experiment-on-reddit-users/

A team from the University of Zurich manipulated people on a subreddit for months with their AI bots to see "if they could change people's minds". Their bots pretended to be victims of sexual assault, pretended to be black people against the Black lives matter movement etc. massively maipulative shit. And they did not inform anyone. Nobody on that subreddit consented to being experimented on.

Their excuse "psychological manipulation of OPs on this sub is justified because the lack of existing field experiments constitutes an unacceptable gap in the body of knowledge".

When I say that I don't believe that academia is a huge help in us curbing the negative effects #AI will have, this is what I mean. The thing went through ethics boards and shit. Disgusting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/

The EU is introducing an energy label for phones, together with mandatory requirements for phones sold in the EU;

- 5 years of software updates (AFTER they stop selling the device in the EU)

- providing important hardware parts (during sale and for 7 years after), including free software (if needed), to every repair shop, within 5-10 business days

- batteries have to make 800 charging cycles and still be above 80% original capacity

And on top of that, phones and tablets need this energy label (which also includes a fall damage durability and repairability score), and abide by the above requirements, from 20 June 2025.

(https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en)