Category «Internet»

Misinformation Is Soaring Online. Don’t Fall for It

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 …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines, Social Media

Google Brings Generative AI to Search: Here’s What SGE Can Do

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 …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

How to Get Past a Paywall to Read Some Articles for Free

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 …

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

Google just changed how you log in to your account

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 …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Internet, Privacy

How to Search for a Better Deal on Broadband

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 …

Subjects: Internet

Who blocks OpenAI, Google AI and Common Crawl?

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 …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Generative AI and Guidance on Abusiveness

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 …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Scholastic’s “bigot button”

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 …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

AI Skeptic – Why Generative AI is Currently Doomed

@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 …

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