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I asked an AI about complex systems development and used the term “do they”.
The entire response was about “duvet” and the history of bedding.
We must ask: do your tools work as well as your duvet?
Never underestimate the meditative powers of 3 quarters of basketball.
Forget the heatwave. Basketball is kinda back. Go Dubs.
It's time to celebrate a win!
Some of you may have heard that Zoom changed their Privacy Policy, claiming the right to use private meetings ("Customer Content") to develop AI models. People were angry, and Zoom doubled-down saying that users gave "consent" by continuing to use the service. This is ridiculous as students, medical patients, and workers have no choice at all.
Yesterday, Zoom backed down! They changed their Privacy Policy. Private meetings will stay private, because of us.
Some more 🔥 from the FTC, this time laying out how their authority pertains to squirrely (or worse) practices around digital content:
Of note: "When offering a generative AI product, you may need to tell customers whether and the extent to which the training data includes copyrighted or otherwise protected material."
Let’s say someone walks into an old-fashioned record store looking for the Bright Eyes song “False Advertising.” Upon finding and buying the album, she’d have little reason to fear that store employees might sneak into her house later and take it back from her. She’d also have no cause to think that the album was counterfeit and not by the band at all. Now let’s say instead that the same song inspires an artist to create a mural depicting the FTC’s greatest false ad cases, and the mural gets displayed in a local gallery. The artist might be surprised if the gallery later shuts its doors and refuses to return the mural . . . or if some other company secretly reuses bits of it to make something else.
Anyone using Twitter to get info on #HurricaneHilary is bound to be misinformed right now. The hashtag is littered with fake videos and reports. There are also a ton of conspiracy theory and climate change denier posts. And of course these are all accompanied with the usual screaming and fighting you see on Twitter now. Toxic. Useless. Misleading.
Mastodon is far better than Twitter for knowing what is truly happening on the ground and why.
Ian Linkletter
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
Mike McCue
Railmaps