A little-known nonprofit has been lying to news publishers while funneling millions of paywalled articles to tech companies for AI training. Read my investigation in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Check in if you're interested in my thoughts about what open source AI should aspire to be in relation to proprietary AI

"The update is yet another signal that payment processors...are currently the ultimate arbiter of what kind of content can be made easily available online, or not."

The key questions we always should ask when people talk about AI: What is being automated and why? @alexhanna.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

"AI is a labor disciplining device" @alexhanna.bsky.social

“The reporter is a man of critical value. No amount of money or effort spent in fitting the right men for this work could possibly be wasted, for the health of society depends upon the quality of the information it receives.” — Walter Lippmann [a century later, I’d swap “man” for “person” though]

New Release! Most AI deepfakes aren't political. 90% of deepfakes are non-consensual intimate imagery. 99% of victims are women. Max Hoppensted, @rechercheur.bsky.social, @romanhoefner.bsky.social, and I uncover a deepfake community and the business behind undress apps www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web...

"brainstorming and iteration is...a crucial everyday part of game development...and is not a problem to be solved...I have had many discussions with other game developers who interact with AI engineers and savants who believe our industry pipelines need 'fixing' by them and them alone"

Die Union will das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen. @arnesemsrott.bsky.social: „Öffentliche Kontrolle &Transparenz sind der Union offenbar ein Dorn im Auge. Sie will unbehelligt durchregieren. Rechte der Öffentlichkeit stören dabei offenbar." Pressemitteilung: fragdenstaat.de/newsletter/a...

«By moving fast and breaking things, DOGE forces a collapse of the system where unanswered questions are met with technological solutions. Shifting the conversation to the technical is a way of locking policymakers and the public out of decisions and shifting that power to the code they write.»

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

“AI is fake and sucks” vs “AI is real and dangerous” is a Twitter argument. In reality I think the debate also has a lot of “AI is real but not for how you’re using it,” to “AI is fake and that is dangerous,” to “things are happening to real people because of AI hype and that should stop.”

My reading for this week, delivered to me by the great @aschrock.bsky.social themself! Thank you, looking forward to reading :-)

Labelers training AI say they're overworked, underpaid and exploited by big American tech companies

Dieser Report gibt Hoffnung! Immer mehr neue, ambitionierte Medien haben sich in Deutschland und Europa gegründet. Medien mit dem Ziel, die Öffentlichkeit hochwertig zu informieren. @netzwerkrecherche.org hat für den „Journalism Value Report“ 174 Medien in 31 Ländern befragt und kann zeigen:

I have a new piece out with @aisvarya17.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social in which we test how OpenAI's new search feature surfaces and attributes news content. Our findings were not promising for news publishers (1/9) www.cjr.org/tow_center/h...

“Without facts, you can’t have truth, and without truth, you can’t have trust”. - Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

Most #generativeAI models were trained on Common Crawl, a massive archive of web crawl data. Yet most people never heard of it. My new research studies Common Crawl in-depth and highlights its influence on LLM research and development foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/... (1/10)

me and @zeerak.bsky.social wrote about if decolonial AI is at all possible https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803928562/book-part-9781803928562-16.xml

Generative AI is shaped by the values, practices and objectives of people. I wrote an explainer showing how to help demystifying the tech and focus on questions of accountability https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/the-human-decisions-that-shape-generative-ai-who-is-accountable-for-what/