Category «Internet»

What If Google’s Biggest Problem Isn’t AI?

New York – Intelligencer [unpaywalled]: “Let’s say you represent the most powerful government on Earth and would like to convey some information to the citizens of your country in a moment of crisis. We’re talking pretty basic stuff: How to apply for federal assistance after a series of massive natural disasters, the general state of …

Subjects: AI, E-Government, Internet, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 12, 2024

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 12, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Health Care, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.

The Atlantic [no paywall]: ” I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis. By Charlie Warzel. The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. As Hurricane Milton …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Internet, Legal Research, Social Media

LLMs don’t do formal reasoning and that is a HUGE problem

Marcus on AI: “A superb new article on LLMs from six AI researchers at Apple who were brave enough to challenge the dominant paradigm has just come out. Everyone actively working with AI should read it, or at least this terrific X thread by senior author, Mehrdad Farajtabar, that summarizes what they observed. One key …

Subjects: AI, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes

404 Media: “A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

AALL-SIS White Paper on Continuing Status and Tenure of Law Librarians

Osborne, Caroline and Davidson, Stephanie and Haight, Iantha and Hirsch, Cindy and Lohmeier, Kerry and Quigley, Brian and Whytock, Jessica, AALL-SIS White Paper on Continuing Status and Tenure of Law Librarians (April 15, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4938369 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4938369. “This work provides information to members and prospective members of the law librarian profession on …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

DOJ considering Google breakup following monopoly ruling

CNBC: “The Department of Justice late Tuesday made recommendations for Google’s search engine business practices, indicating that it was considering a possible breakup of the tech giant as an antitrust remedy. The remedies necessary to “prevent and restrain monopoly maintenance could include contract requirements and prohibitions; non-discrimination product requirements; data and interoperability requirements; and structural …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines