@benwinters
director of AI and privacy at Consumer Federation of America | teaching tech policy law/reg @udclaw | formerly EPIC (the privacy one not the bad ones), and DOJ Civil Rights division| ⚫️⚪️+🗽 | 🐦 🐿 | he/him contact: bwinters@consumerfed.org
you'll notice there's absolutely no depth of bad judgement that's disqualifying for treating these guys like hybrid philosopher geniuses provided they still retain the immense wealth they backed into ass first
Jack Dorsey is fundamentally not a very bright man
Using AI to narrate a story about how AI is sucking up the energy of the entire city of Edmonton is some bleak irony
A fake ai prompt where i have written draw a capybara having a relaxing bath and am waiting on a human pretending to be an ai to respond
The response to the prompt, a basic drawing (from a human) of a capybara in water with a little heart above him
Oh my god
Lmao
youraislopbores.me
Maybe stop making TikToks and doing AI crimes
Yeah, I've had that error frequently when reporting scams. Just one of many issues
every 'pledge' is a lie that hasnt been revealed yet
regulate aggressively and clearly now, with the help of @ainowinstitute.bsky.social's amazing policy toolkit: ainowinstitute.org/publications...
to make matters worse, when i reported the same post with a different reason (bullying), it immediately worked.
it is genuinely hard not to sound all tinfoil hat, but Meta has famously boasted that reports of scams on their platforms has gone down
it doesnt feel coincidental that multiple times recently there has been a mysterious error when reporting scams
When i reported it as scam, there was a "technical problem" with no option for recourse for information
the last several times i've done this on different posts ive gotten the same error
facebook is truly a scam cess-pool - on the official Apple TV page with 31M there is a weird crypto scam being pushed and shared
a constant failure of moderation, standards, safety, and security
seems bad
say what you will about Elon Musk, but he always has his finger on the cultural zeitgeist
the FTC loves fake reviews as long as they are generated by AI www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
“Resistance is futile,” a thing famously said by history’s good guys
Wow: In the early vote, it's a blow-out *so far*.
Rodney Sadler, the progessive pastor and activist, leads state Representative Carla Cunningham 75% to 18%.
(Stay tuned as we see how the Election Day vote compares, but that's an ominous start for the incumbent.)
Context:
the reddest of all possible flags
Workers at the Thomson Reuters' Eagan campus pressed their concerns to executives, including over potential misuse of license plate data, during Twin Cities immigration surge.
🙏🙏🙏
will yall have some sort of stream or live-tracker as the results come in for these?
In their book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation, Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn argue society is over-fixated on disruptive innovation and needs to adopt an “upgrader’s mindset,” which should be applied whenever “disruptive changes would pose the greatest social risk.”
thankfully it seems that it is not the same as the CNN arrangement where they are integrating flashing lights with Kalshi odds into newscasts, but rather AP providing (better?) access to data for Kalshi to integrate into their market offerings (?)
that is...allegedly...for now...it?
*sighs*
bro what
*has passed a ban on the sale of
the original wording relies on governor signature, which is hopefully coming soon
I've repeatedly said this in the past: the end goal of all AI is surveillance, specifically to influence and control
The Virginia legislature has banned the sale of precise geolocation data through a simple amendment to their otherwise bad privacy law!!!
lis.virginia.gov/bill-details...
it's an extraordinarily commonsense move that is unreasonable not to adopt nationwide -- the bar is low but gotta take the W!!
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.
