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Wired via PodMust: “Misinformation lives everywhere. False accounts of events, doctored photos, and purposely misleading news stories are quickly shared and passed around on social media, usually by well-meaning people who don’t know they’re sharing incorrect information. It’s a big problem in the best of times, but the stakes become much higher during a heated …
Tech Republic: “…SGE allows Google users to generate AI images and text by typing a prompt into the Google Search bar, working much in the same way as AI-powered text-to-image generators like Midjourney and DALL-E 2 and acting as a rival to Microsoft’s GPT-4 powered Bing Chat. Google said SGE could help in situations where …
Lifehacker: “Over the past several years, countless websites have added paywalls: If you want to read their articles, you have to sign up and pay a monthly fee. Some sites have a “metered” paywall—meaning you can read a certain number of articles for free before they ask for money—and others have a hard paywall, where …
Washington Post [read free]: “Google is changing how you log into your account, but don’t worry — it’ll make your life easier. This month, Google said it’s making “passkeys” the default log-in option for Google accounts. That means that instead of typing in a password, you’ll log into your Google account and Google apps with …
The MarkUp: “One of the first things I did upon moving into a new apartment last November was get a better deal on my broadband internet. To discover what other internet service providers (ISPs) offered service to my building, I used a handy resource that the Federal Communications Commission had just released to the public …
palewire – Ben Welsh: “In total, 546 of 1,149 news publishers surveyed by the homepages.news archive have instructed OpenAI, Google AI or the non-profit Common Crawl to stop scanning their sites, which amounts to 47.5% of the sample. The three organizations systematically crawl web sites to gather the information that fuels generative chatbots like OpenAI’s …
MakeUseOf: “Looking for medical information online is a gamble at best. You key in a symptom, a disease, a medical term or two, and you’re quickly presented with a bunch of matching results at random. You take one look at them, add two and two, and come up with five. Searching for and relying on …
CareerFair-Shikhar Sachdev: “Applying to jobs online is like navigating a maze. Amidst the special torture that is resume parsing software, the inability to reuse information across different application tracking systems (ATS), and the existence of a certain company that rhymes with every day of the week, it can get pretty frustrating. I wanted to explore …
ABA Journal – Generative AI and Guidance on Abusiveness May Illuminate a New Focus on “Dark Patterns” for Enforcement and Related Consumer Research: Consumer Protection enforcement authorities are showing a new interest in “dark patterns” which they describe as manipulative design practices that subvert consumer choice, particularly in digital settings. This interest likely stems from …
Popular Information: “Scholastic, the popular publisher of children’s books, is a big business. It is a publicly-traded company with a market capitalization of $1.15 billion. Its CEO, Peter Warwick, collected a total compensation of $3,300,361 in 2023, and at least four other executives were paid over $1.3 million. Since 1981, Scholastic has hosted book fairs …
Washington Post [free to read]: “…Apple, Samsung and other phone manufacturers keep remotely fixing the security flaws in their phones’ software for years. That keeps your old phone safer from hackers. It isn’t easy to tell exactly how old is too old to be secure. Digital security experts told me that generally, an Android phone …
@The_AI_Skeptic – Long Post: Why Generative AI is Currently Doomed We’re so used to technology getting better. Every year there’s a new iPhone with a faster processor. It’s the way of the world… or so it seems. Sometimes, bigger doesn’t mean better. Take, for example, LLMs like ChatGPT. If you keep scaling them up, they …
