Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood (theconversation.com)
Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It can be used in the workplace, for hiring, etc. Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are...
On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm | Vulnerable teens are blackmailed into degrading and violent acts by abusers who then boast about it (wapo.st)
TikTok prepares to challenge Instagram with 'TikTok Photos' (www.androidauthority.com)
Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
Russia ‘ready’ for nuclear war, Putin claims (www.politico.eu)
The plundering of America's hospitals: When hospitals sold off their land, investors got rich. Patients paid the price. (www.businessinsider.com)
In community after community, the hospitals keep closing. In 2018, it was Northside Regional Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio....
House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate (www.nbcnews.com)
Do you like to be ridiculously cold for five months, surrounded by a horrible smell the whole time? Have I got a job for you! (www.smithsonianmag.com)
As Ramadan begins, Israeli settlers increase attacks on Palestinian villages in occupied West Bank (www.newarab.com)
The Messy Reality Behind a Silicon Valley Unicorn (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Denmark wants to conscript more people for military service - including women, for the first time (apnews.com)
Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions (www.404media.co)
An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.
Monthly inflation slows to 13% as Milei’s cuts bite | Buenos Aires Times (batimes.com.ar)
Intel staves off AMD and China critics to keep exclusive export license to Huawei — Intel sells 90% of CPUs used in the company's laptops (www.tomshardware.com)
Methane emissions from energy sector remain at historic highs, fueling climate crisis (english.elpais.com)
China stone tool find suggests ancient humans in area not as cut off as thought (www.scmp.com)
Chinese-made metro trains celebrate 100 days of safe operation in Portugal (www.chinadaily.com.cn)
Petah explain the joke (lemmy.today)
A community where you can get your jokes, memes, reference etc explained by the one and only petah. I intially created this because i was not getting a lot of things and wabted a community for things like that on lemmy like on reddit but everyone should join because it will only work then.
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (www.technologyreview.com)
From the article: “In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is...
Media coverage of UN report on 7 October challenged for ‘inaccurate’ portrayal of sexual violence (www.middleeasteye.net)
Africa: 'Historic Milestone' As Child Mortality Hits Record Low of 4.9 Million in 2022 (allafrica.com)
This year people in prison also elect president (article in Spanish) (elpais.com)
Japan court orders government to hand over AUM founder remains to daughter (english.kyodonews.net)
A Japanese court ordered the government on Wednesday to hand over the hair and cremated remains of the executed AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara to his second daughter after a top court ruled in 2021 that she can take them into her possession....