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AI is a "tragedy of the commons." We’ve got solutions for that. (www.vox.com)

"Arms race" is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.

Threads: Ten million join Meta's Twitter rival, Zuckerberg says (www.bbc.com)

Twitter refuses to pay for arbitration for ex-employees (arstechnica.com)

Pornhub cuts off more US users in ongoing protest over age-verification laws (arstechnica.com)

Pornhub now blocks access to users in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT privacy violations - The Register (www.theregister.com)

Microsoft and OpenAI were sued on Wednesday by sixteen pseudonymous individuals who claim the companies’ AI products based on ChatGPT collected and divulged their personal information without adequate notice or consent....

“Lying” in computer-generated texts: hallucinations and omissions (blog.oup.com)

There is huge excitement about ChatGPT and other large generative language models that produce fluent and human-like texts in English and other human languages. But these models have one big drawback, which is that their texts can be factually incorrect (hallucination) and also leave out key information (omission)....

Aubrey Plaza Refuses to Use Streamers Because They Make Her ‘Really Angry,’ Buys Films and TV Series on iTunes Instead (variety.com)

Warner Bros. Discovery is on the eve of launching Max, its new streaming service that combines the already-existing platforms of HBO Max and Discovery+. But don’t expect Aubrey Plaza to be am…

Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)

Twitter owner Elon Musk may have had an influence on Reddit’s CEO ahead of changes to the website that have resulted in a user-led rebellion on the platform....

AI means everyone can now be a programmer, Nvidia chief says (www.reuters.com)

Twitter's Bluesky app for a decentralized protocol for Twitter, will use the AT protocol (www.theverge.com)

Yes, progress with Bluesky has been super slow (a bit like Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid) but at least we now know what protocol it will use, which will help explain a bit more about what could be expected....

Global security alliance warns of Russian disinformation campaign using Meliorator AI software allowing for the creation of authentic appearing fictitious personas to post content on X (www.cyber.gc.ca)

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Highlighting journalism on Mastodon (blog.joinmastodon.org)

It looks like it will require a manual review process for now but it could be automated down the line.

Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever (www.404media.co)

Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers (www.wired.com)

Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem) (samcurry.net)

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says (www.propublica.org)

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France, Germany, Poland facing ‘permanent’ Russian disinformation attacks, EU warns (www.euractiv.com)

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Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper | Coffeezilla (yt.elonego.com)

Is the LAM a Scam? Down the rabbit hole we go

RSS and OPML (libranet.de)

Can somebody explain me how OPML works for RSS? Are these files usually imported into the RSS reader apps or are they used where they are? If I import multiple OPML files with multiple feeds, will the feeds from the first OPML be overwritten by those in the second one or will they add up? Will article read/unread status be...

EU says three Chinese electric vehicle makers have not supplied sufficient information for its anti-subsidy investigation, warns it would "use evidence available elsewhere to compute tariffs" (www.euractiv.com)

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Popular social media apps TikTok and Instagram use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors (news.wisc.edu)