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Using bigger AI training data sets may produce more racist results (archive.is)

Contrary to Silicon Valley wisdom, training AIs on larger data sets could worsen their tendency to replicate societal biases and racist stereotypes

AI-powered companion robots could end loneliness in older adults (interestingengineering.com)

New study reports companion robots with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate loneliness epidemic. Surgeon General says loneliness may be as pernicious as cigarettes.

New EU regulations mandate user-replaceable batteries in iPhones (appleinsider.com)

Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Is a Nightmare (gizmodo.com)

SAG-AFTRA said that AMPTP’s AI plan included scanning background actors and using their likenesses “for the rest of eternity.”

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200 (www.theregister.com)

Union prez Fran Drescher thinks Hollywood’s digital desires have no style or flair

Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos (www.theverge.com)

Remember that old BSOD screensaver from back in the day? TIL it's actually published by Microsoft (learn.microsoft.com)

I remember installing this or a similar one on a friend’s laptop, just setting it as the screen saver for later chaos. Must have been around Vista era....

Opinion: After Microsoft defeat, ‘toothless’ FTC needs to pick better battles if it wants to rein in Big Tech (www.marketwatch.com)

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s defeat as it sought to block Microsoft Corp.’s acquisition of videogame maker Activision Blizzard is yet another setback for an increasingly toothless regulator that needs to pick better battles with Big Tech.

Deepfake voices improving kidnapping scams (www.cnn.com)

“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.

CEO lays off 23 of 26 of support staff in favor of AI (www.businessinsider.com)

In similar case, US National Eating Disorder Association laid off entire helpline staff. Soon after, chatbot disabled for giving out harmful information.

Elon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk. (www.mirror.co.uk)

FTC says it will appeal to block Microsoft-Activision deal (www.cnbc.com)

The world's most-powerful AI model suddenly got 'lazier' and 'dumber.' A radical redesign of OpenAI's GPT-4 could be behind the decline in performance. (www.businessinsider.com)

Users of OpenAI’s GPT-4 are complaining that the AI model is performing worse lately. Industry insiders say a redesign of GPT-4 could be to blame.

An e-commerce CEO is getting absolutely roasted online for laying off 90% of his support staff, after an AI chatbot outperformed them (www.businessinsider.com)

Suumit Shah, the CEO of Bengaluru-based Dukaan, said the chatbot answered customer queries in 2 minutes — a task that took the humans over 2 hours.

Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds (www.cnn.com)

Some of America’s largest tax-prep companies have spent years sharing Americans’ sensitive financial data with tech titans including Meta and Google in a potential violation of federal law — data that in some cases was misused for targeted advertising, according to a seven-month congressional investigation.

CEO replaces 90% of support staff with AI, praises the system on Twitter (www.techspot.com)

Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says (techcrunch.com)

Google hit with lawsuit alleging it stole data from millions of users to train its AI tools | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Asus Confirms MicroSD Card Reader On The Rog Ally Is Prone To Failure (twistedvoxel.com)

Musk claims Meta hired dozens of Twitter employees to build Threads. (www.law360.com)

A top lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk says the platform has “serious concerns” that Facebook parent Meta hired “dozens of former Twitter employees” in order to build its new “copycat” Threads app — accusations that Meta denies....

A Proposed Massachusetts Law Would Ban the Sale of Cell Phone Location Data | Data brokers can sell your location data to any paying customer but a Massachusetts bill designed to protect abortion-s... (gizmodo.com)

Data brokers can sell your location data to any paying customer but a Massachusetts bill designed to protect abortion-seekers would outlaw such sales.

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