Category «Internet»

What’s your attention worth?

The advertising industry has spent $_______on you. Every scroll, every swipe, every “skip ad” — someone paid for that moment of your attention. Here’s how much…Calculate my value. [Built by an ad industry professional. All calculations are estimates based on industry averages. Your calculator inputs (age, screen time, location) are never saved or transmitted — …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Major law firms are warning clients: anything you type into an AI chatbot can be used against you in court…

Reuters: “As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is on the line. These warnings became more urgent after a federal judge in New York ruled, opens new tab this year that the …

Subjects: AI, Courts, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers, your apps and devices

The Conversation: “The U.S. government “is able to purchase Americans’ sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The federal government is also ramping up its abilities to directly collect data through partnerships with private tech companies. These surveillance tech partnerships are becoming entrenched, …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing

The Conversation: “Imagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an AI chatbot: “Which alternative clinics can successfully treat cancer?” Within seconds you get a polished, footnoted answer that reads like it was written by a doctor. Except some of the claims are unfounded, …

Subjects: AI, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Medicine, Search Engines

LinkedIn’s new Crosscheck feature lets premium subscribers test competing AI models for free

engadget: “You can now use LinkedIn to test out some of the latest AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and other companies without having to worry about token limits or paying for an extra subscription. The professional network is It’s called Crosscheck, and it’s rolling out now to anyone with a LinkedIn Premium subscription …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

The New Yorker – Gift Article – “The tech world assumes that A.I.-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite. I don’t like A.I., and I am raising my children not to like it. I’ve been telling them for years now that chatbots are manipulative …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Introducing OpenAI Privacy Filter

OpenAI: “Our state of the art model for masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text. Today we’re releasing OpenAI Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text. This release is part of our broader effort to support a more resilient software ecosystem by providing developers practical infrastructure for …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

The Wayback Machine Has Been the Best Archive for Preserving Our Digital Lives

CounterSpin interview with Lia Holland on the Internet Archive. “Janine Jackson: A recent report by Wired‘s Kate Knibbs leads with the contradiction: USA Today published a story recently on how ICE is misinforming about its detainment policies, a case that the paper built on data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a nonprofit digital library …

Subjects: Censorship, Digital Rights, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad.

Literary Hub: “Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected AI usage. There is no easy solution to AI detection for many reasons, partly because large …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines