Mastodawn

Ujjwal Acharya Jan 23, 2024

Electronic Frontier Foundation Jan 21, 2024

Research into adversarial watermarking for AI is just beginning, and while there’s no strong reason to believe it will succeed, there are some good reasons to believe it will ultimately fail. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ai-watermarking-wont-curb-disinformation

AI Watermarking Won't Curb Disinformation

Generative AI allows people to produce piles upon piles of images and words very quickly. It would be nice if there were some way to reliably distinguish AI-generated content from human-generated content. It would help people avoid endlessly arguing with bots online, or believing what a fake image...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Ujjwal Acharya May 21, 2023

IFEX May 20, 2023

Pakistan government urged to immediately lift restrictions on social media platforms

Media Matters for Democracy said that the restrictions affected nearly 125 million people and caused billions of losses for local livelihoods.

https://ifex.org/pakistan-government-urged-to-immediately-lift-restrictions-on-social-media-platforms/

Pakistan government urged to immediately lift restrictions on social media platforms - IFEX

Media Matters for Democracy said that the restrictions affected nearly 125 million people and caused billions of losses for local livelihoods.

IFEX

Ujjwal Acharya Apr 24, 2023

Social media - as we know them now - are businesses that drives on profits so to expect them do good to society always is like expecting an ice-cream parlour to always give away free ice-creams to all during summer!

Ujjwal Acharya Apr 24, 2023

Losing blue tick on #Twitter was ok; but so many fake accounts getting paid verified batch will definitely bring down it.

Ujjwal Acharya Apr 1, 2023

Dream!

Ujjwal Acharya Mar 12, 2023

Global Voices Mar 12, 2023

‘Third World’ and ‘Developing World’ not our chosen identity: Interview with photojournalist Shahidul Alam
https://globalvoices.org/2023/03/12/third-world-and-developing-world-not-our-chosen-identity-interview-with-photojournalist-shahidul-alam/

‘Third World’ and ‘Developing World’ not our chosen identity: Interview with photojournalist Shahidul Alam

"Stereotypes of my people as poor were created blindly by white Western photographers — we can't shift that unless storytellers change their stories." - Shahidul Alam

Global Voices

Ujjwal Acharya Mar 11, 2023

Dan Gillmor Mar 11, 2023

How did Facebook convince every journalist to go along with the renaming of the company to "Meta" while almost all journalists call Alphabet "Google"?

Ujjwal Acharya Mar 10, 2023