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PhDing at Oxford Internet Institute. User Experience Researcher. Interested in all things #Gender and #DigitalTechnology related. African.
Sometimes writer/poet.
Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.

6/ “Hood did work for the subsidiary, Note Printing Australia, but was the person who notified authorities about payment of bribes to foreign officials to win currency printing contracts, and was never charged with a crime, lawyers representing him said.”
#TedoexTopFive

https://www.reuters.com/technology/australian-mayor-readies-worlds-first-defamation-lawsuit-over-chatgpt-content-2023-04-05/

Australian mayor readies world's first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content

A regional Australian mayor said he may sue OpenAI if it does not correct ChatGPT's false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery, in what would be the first defamation lawsuit against the automated text service.

Reuters
5/ Those labels were introduced after some #UserExperienceResearch was done. slapping inaccurate labels like this could suggest that NPR’s reporting is not entirely credible. Additionally, NPR may not be amplified by the recommendation algorithm. This is not good.

4/ #TedoexTopFive

“The designation puts NPR, which has 8.8 million followers on the site, in the same category as propaganda outlets like the Russian-government-owned RT and the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily newspaper. Both are also “state-affiliated media,” according to Twitter.”

This is becoming a pattern.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/05/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-musk-media/

Twitter slaps NPR with a dubious new tag: ‘State-affiliated media’

NPR has protested the latest decision by Elon Musk targeting media organizations, which lumps it into a category with several notorious propaganda outlets.

The Washington Post

3/ “Charlie Javice, the 31-year-old founder of financial aid startup Frank, has been charged by federal prosecutors with financial fraud after JP Morgan Chase & Co. alleged in a civil suit last year that Javice had faked millions of Frank customers to convince the bank to buy her company for $175 million.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-javice-frank-criminal-charges-financial-fraud-jpmorgan-chase-2023-1

Frank founder Charlie Javice criminally charged with financial fraud

The charges against Javice include bank fraud and conspiracy, with a maximum sentence of 30 years. The Frank founder was arrested Monday night.

Insider

2/ “Another concern is that large language models, which underlie chatbots such as ChatGPT, are known to “hallucinate” — make false statements as if they were facts — and can be used for nefarious purposes such as spreading disinformation and cheating in exams.”

https://www.ft.com/content/26372287-6fb3-457b-9e9c-f722027f36b3

Big tech companies cut AI ethics staff, raising safety concerns

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Financial Times
1/ @shonatiger suggested I bring #TedoexTopFive here… where I used to have 5 interesting articles from the interwebs. Threading here is not that easy, but I’ll try do this anyway. So I’ll try this one out today. May take all day to develop. But here we go…

Yes, we need regulation. But as we said:

"It is indeed time to act: but the focus of our concern should not be imaginary "powerful digital minds." Instead, we should focus on the very real and very present exploitative practices of the companies claiming to build them, who are rapidly centralizing power and increasing social inequities."

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

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Last week I attended the launch of the #BTech project led by the UN. The project aims to centre human rights in discussions of digital tech business on the African continent. There is a lot of work that needs to be done beyond policy and stakeholder engagement.

@timnitGebru we need a lot more truth-telling about the underlying theft of other people’s IP that’s powering all of OpenAI’s product as well as the role of the fawning press so eager to be on the good side of a bunch of billionaires they’ll write hagiographies so luridly obsequious that they’re just a few sentences shy of something you’d find in a teen’s crush diary.

It’s all just so over the top, it’s hard not to think we’re in a tele-novella …