🚨 Microsoft's new "Recall" feature is a privacy nightmare. Always-on screenshot capture, closed-source AI analysis, invasive data collection with questionable controls - all impossible for researchers to independently audit.
Users should avoid Recall entirely until it allows 3rd-party audits. This could drive many to switch to Linux.
What are your thoughts on the privacy implications of invasive AI features like Recall?
Oppressive regimes control & selectively remove media coverage, SM..., that keep them accountable. Netanyahu may be covering up more war crimes:
Israeli officials seize AP EQP & take down live shot of northern Gaza, citing new media law. The QA satellite channel is among 1000s of clients that receive live video feeds from the AP & other news orgs. The AP denounced the move.
A cabal of notorious and/or legendary #european#legislative#transparency orgs and people is looking for someone who can build an #online#platform. Are you made of the material that is worthy of joining this Oceans eleven of democratic badassery? Do you know someone? Pls boost #fedihire#development
U.S. #airlines are suing to block the #Biden administration from requiring greater #transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information during the ticket-buying process.
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Prominent academic publishers agreed that #ChatGPT and Co. should not be listed as the author of a scientific paper, as AI is not responsible for the content. Did everyone listen? We conducted a search in WoS and Scopus and found 14 papers with ChatGPT as the "author":
National Security threat assessment leads to protection visa cancellation:
“What risk does an 68-year-old Palestinian woman with diabetes, reliant on the care of others, pose to our national security?” questions Australia Palestine Advocacy Network.
🇬🇧 We call for #transparency in the EU Commission's #DigitalServicesAct enforcement actions against internet platforms - do they respect fundamental rights and freedom of speech or do they encourage censorship and #uploadfilters? Let's guard the guards! #Pirates
Federal Judge Rules That ProPublica’s Lawsuit Over #Military Court Access Should Move Forward
The U.S. government lost its bid to dismiss part of the #lawsuit, which would force the military to comply with a #law meant to make the military justice system more transparent.
'... as work done by my team of chemistry researchers suggests, up to 90% of tattoo inks in the U.S. might be mislabeled. This isn't just a case of a missing pigment or a minor discrepancy. These inks contained potentially concerning additives that weren't listed on the packaging.'
Electoral Bonds legalised a route for political parties to secretly funnel unaccounted money from India and abroad into their coffers. But, no one is punished. No one expected they would be. We have been trained by experience to expect so little of democracy and its institutions. Nitin Sethi writes.
A year ago he released the promised algorithm for determining content pushed upon you (if you use twitter).
Perhaps more surprisingly, He admitted that even internally, that the #spaghetti_code comprising it isn't even fully understood internally by their staff. That's more #transparency than was expected.
But now, just a few hours ago, he released the source for #xAI's #Grok chatbot too, under the #Apache_license:
They seek to obtain #research access to internal #Microsoft data to check whether and how the company is making sure its not-so-intelligent #AI#Copilot isn't bullshitting around in dangerous ways.
Today we are publishing our transparency report 2023, in which we disclose the type and scope of official requests for information made to us as a provider.
👉 We did not respond to over a third of the requests.
Standardization is promoted as a solution to achieve ethical AI. I attend to the tension between standardization and AI transparency. Overall, this article stresses the complexity of governing sociotechnical AI principles by standardization.
A disappointing judgment from the UPC Court of Appeal, ruling that the act of requesting access to a document filed at the Court requires representation by a UPC Representative. It will be onerous for journalists, for example, to have to instruct a UPC Representative to get to even ask to see a document, such as a statement of claim or defence. Does the UPC really want to lack transparency to this extent? (short post by me)