Category «Internet»

Your phone’s Bluetooth is broadcasting more than you think – here’s how to limit it

MakeUseOf: “I treat Bluetooth like a light switch. I turn it off when I don’t need it, and assume it’s gone. You did too, right? Turns out, we’re wrong. When you’re not actively connected to anything, your phone is still talking, constantly, to anyone nearby set up to listen. Your Bluetooth signal isn’t really turned …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Privacy

What Happens to Your Photos When You Die and What to Do About It Now

Fstoppers: “Most photographers spend years building an archive worth protecting, but very few have a plan for what happens to it after they die. Copyright, physical media, cloud accounts, and stock licensing don’t sort themselves out automatically, and without a plan, decades of work can vanish or get tied up in legal chaos. Coming to …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Transparency Hub

“The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the release of Transparency Hub, a user-friendly tool that aggregates policy documents and associated data of technology and social media companies allowing both researchers and users to  search, compare, and analyze how policies have changed …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

404 Media – “After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia. “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content …

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

Anything Counter

What is AnythingCounter? A live dashboard that shows real-time estimates of what happens every second in the digital world. You see numbers for AI hallucinations, deepfakes, phishing, e-waste, jobs lost to automation, and more. We take global statistics and turn them into counters that update continuously so you can watch digital activity in real time. …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Gizmodo: “Siri has gone from in a relationship with OpenAI to in an open relationship. According to Bloomberg, Apple has decided to forgo an exclusive deal with OpenAI to allow Siri to run queries through ChatGPT and will instead opt to open the platform up to competing chatbots, including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. Per …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

A Legal Decision That Could Change Social Media

The Atlantic No Paywall – “After deliberating for nine days—and emerging at one point to tell the judge that it was having a difficult time reaching a decision—a jury in Los Angeles finally returned its verdict today, finding both Meta and Google liable for creating addictive products that caused a young woman’s mental-health problems. The …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Health Care, Internet, Social Media

How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian

Via LLRX – How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – Hana Lee Goldin is a expert “human” pathfinder who shares her extensive knowledge with an expanding cadre of people seeking to adopt AI in all facets of work and life. In her article, Goldin deftly illuminates one of the major risks of ChatGPT. …

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