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Rogue actors are creating bioweapons using AI – report(machinesociety.ai)
1 points by mikelgan 5d ago|2 comments
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by mikelgan 5d ago
Terrorists and other shady characters are already creating advanced weapons using everyday AI chatbots.
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Why AI-generated slopaganda works(machinesociety.ai)
18 points by mikelgan 8d ago|12 comments
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by mikelgan 8d ago
The fact that AI can create convincing fakes is not why it’s such a powerful tool of disinformation. Other attributes matter more.
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by mikelgan 11d ago
Great piece and interesting data. The rate of LLM-based writing rejection among developers is even higher than I thought it would be. To me, the glaring question is: What are we doing? The act of writing exists to 1) externalize and organiz
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Why AI doesn't make companies more productive(computerworld.com)
3 points by mikelgan 19d ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 19d ago
Artificial Intelligence can make individual workers more productive. But what does that mean for the larger organization?
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by mikelgan 28d ago
This seems obvious and predictable. of course people with flexibility, comfort, privacy, and convenience are better off than people forced into a grueling commute, a sick office, an exposed cubicle and toxic office politics
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Nielsen is leaning more on wearables to hear what people are watching(theverge.com)
5 points by mikelgan 28d ago|2 comments
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by mikelgan 28d ago
Because the streaming era has made it harder to capture reliable viewership data.
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OpenAI built a safer ChatGPT, just not for you(machinesociety.ai)
3 points by mikelgan 29d ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 29d ago
OpenAI’s new “teen” version is an admission by the company that it knows its chatbot is harmful and knows how to make it less harmful. It also knows harms are profitable.
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Protein Slop Took over the Supermarket(thedailyunemployed.com)
3 points by mikelgan 29d ago|3 comments
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by mikelgan 29d ago
Protein has escaped the shaker bottle. It is now in cereal, coffee, pastries, pasta and almost every other corner of the supermarket as food companies scramble to keep up with the latest version of “healthy.”
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by mikelgan 29d ago
Tech Transparency Project’s report shows whenever governments mull platform regulations, company recruits influencers to promote its safety features
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Meta pays pro-Meta influencers when countries look into teen safety on Instagram(theguardian.com)
39 points by mikelgan 29d ago|5 comments
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Instagram blocked the search terms. Its algorithm serves the videos anyway(thenextweb.com)
3 points by mikelgan 1mo ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 1mo ago
Instagram said in July it would remove the harassment videos filmed on Meta glasses. Business Insider went looking a month later and found dozens still up. The more revealing finding came next. Interacting with a few of them was enough for
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by mikelgan 1mo ago
A German regulator accused Apple of giving the pop-ups a design that favored its own apps over third-party apps.
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Apple ordered to change app data consent prompts on iPhones and iPads(theverge.com)
4 points by mikelgan 1mo ago|1 comments
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AI 'productivity pollution': the hidden tax on everyone(machinesociety.ai)
3 points by mikelgan 1mo ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 1mo ago
One person's AI-fueled productivity causes extra work for everyone else. It's time to stop the delusional thinking about AI.
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by mikelgan 1mo ago
Shrinking portion sizes for junk food is probably the best thing we could do. Some 37% of Americans are obese. Back in the 40s and 50s, a normal amount of, say, Coca-Cola was a tiny-ass little bottle. Now you can get a half-gallon at the mo
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by mikelgan 1mo ago
I'm thrilled someone has attempted to quantify the lies, fraud and deception that has been the norm here in Silicon Valley for decades. I've worked at startups, have friends who are entrepreneurs, everyone in my family has worked
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Apple's war on OpenAI is about who owns the Attachment Economy(machinesociety.ai)
3 points by mikelgan 1mo ago|1 comments
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by mikelgan 1mo ago
Both Apple and OpenAI want to demo desktop robots this year and ship early next year. It's a race between Apple engineers who stayed and Apple engineers who left.
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A Chatbot-Free Childhood Will Be a Status Symbol(theatlantic.com)
3 points by mikelgan 1mo ago|2 comments
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by mikelgan 1mo ago
AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains.
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Texas blocks data centers from connecting to grid unless they reveal impacts(arstechnica.com)
9 points by mikelgan 1mo ago|3 comments
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by mikelgan 1mo ago
Less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers—at least until developers provide more information about their proje

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